Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
La Vie de Jesus (Life of Jesus) (1997)
- Dir. Bruno Dumont
- Virtuoso bleakness from the dir. of TWENTYNINE PALMS, in his debut study of alienated existence for a group of unruly skinheads in rural Flanders who…
Le Bonheur Est Dans Le Pre (Happiness Is in the Field) (1997)- Dir. Etienne Chatiliez
Feat. Michel Serrault, Carmen Maura - The director of TATIE DANIELLE puts a sly new twist on that most reliable of French film conceits – the 'imposter' genre. Grouchy…
Le Bossu (On Guard) (1997)- Dir. Phillipe De Broca
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Fabrice Luchini - A classically composed swashbuckler in the Dumas tradition (THE THREE MUSKETEERS), in which a wittily vengeful fencing master (Auteuil) disguises…
Live Flesh (1997)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal - Five aggrieved characters get wrapped in a sticky web of consequence after a fateful incident leaves one paralysed and another in jail. Dir.…
Locked-In Syndrome (1997)- Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Heart–rending look at the life of Jean–Dominque Bauby whose autobiography was filmed as THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY.
Lucie Aubrac (1997)- Dir. Claude Berri
Feat. Carole Bouquet, Klaus Barbie - French Resistance true–story from the period–eye of dir. Claude Berri (JEAN DE FLORETTE), offering a romantic sub–plot between…
Ma Vie En Rose (1997)- Dir. Alain Berliner
Feat. George Du Fresne, Michele Laroque, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey… - Confusion envelops an idyllic French suburban household when their youngest son starts believing he is a little girl. Solemn regard for themes of…
Ma Vie Sexuelle (1997)- Dir. Arnaud Desplechin
Feat. Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger - Ponderous study of Parisian twentysomething ennui centering around a typically amoral, self–obsessed Frenchman who has few problems bedding…
Marius et Jeannette (1997)- Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Ariane Ascaride, Gerard Meylan - A laidback yet buoyant slice–of–ordinary–life set on the low–rent side of Marseille, where two wounded fortysomethings strike…
Masterworks of Abbas Kiarostami, The (Taste of Cherry; The Wind Will Carry Us; Ten) (1997-2002)- Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
- Three features from acclaimed Iranian dir. Abbas Kiarostami in a single box–set.
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