#553 – Melancholia, 2011, Lars von Trier
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Tag: France
#555: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
#555 – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, (Le scaphandre et le papillon), 2007, Julian Schnabel
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.
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#573: La Haine
#573 – La Haine, 1995, Mathieu Kassovitz
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said – a Jew, African, and an Arab – give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point.
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#584: The Young Girls of Rochefort
#584 – The Young Girls of Rochefort, (Les demoiselles de Rochefort), 1967, Jacques Demy
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. They are both looking for love, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close…
#592: The Sacrifice
#592 – The Sacrifice, (Offret), 1986, Andrei Tarkovsky
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
#600: Diabolique
#600 – Diabolique, (Les Diaboliques), 1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo – his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle’s corpse mysteriously disappears.
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#611: La Notte
#611 – La Notte, 1961, Michelangelo Antonioni
Set during a single day and night in a Milan where steel and glass skyscrapers are going up and old buildings being pulled down, it opens with a disillusioned novelist and his embittered wife visiting their dying friend, a leftwing critic.
#612: Vivre Sa Vie
#612 – Vivre Sa Vie, (Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux), 1962, Jean-Luc Godard
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
#616: That Obscure Object of Desire
#616 – That Obscure Object of Desire, (Cet obscur objet du désir), 1977, Luis Buñuel
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies – the very building blocks of love.
#619: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
#619 – O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000, Joel Coen
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer’s ‘Odyssey’.
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