France
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On the run after a political attack Damien and Yvonne wake up at their hiding place in Paris. When they find out that Damien was filmed by a surveillance camera and is now wanted by the police, they have to make a choice.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg (Nymphomaniac) and Chiara Mastroianni (Augustine) star as two sisters entangled by a twist of fate into loving the same man. Marc, a tax inspector, misses his train back to Paris and meets a beautiful stranger, Sylvie (Gainsbourg). After just a few hours together, they know they are meant to be together forever. But fate intervenes, and their connection is cut short. Later, Marc has met and fallen in love with Sophie (Mastroianni) - without realizing that she is Sylvie's sister.
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Jean Vigo was a genius of cinema, and LAtalante is his masterpiece. The story is fairy-tale simple, yet told with implications that are absolutely modern...a romance set against the iron and smoke of an industrial corridor, on the banks of a canal.... Jean, the newly married barge captain, takes his bride Juliette aboard LAtalante to join the rest of the crew....
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Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace) stars in director Anne Fontaines (Coco Before Chanel) charming reimagining of Gustave Flauberts classic Madame Bovary. Martin Joubert flees Paris for the idyllic Normandy countryside to take over the family bakery. Village life isn't quite the expected peaceful living when young British couple, Gemma (Arterton) and Charles Bovery, move in across the street. Martin, a devotee of Flaubert's work, notes the couple's curious, uncanny resemblance, both in name and behavior, to the characters of his much-beloved novel.
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"For it to be a crime, there has to be a personal motive." Two Parisian high school students have murdered a woman they chose as a victim from a chance encounter. They had no motive, other than to prove they could do it. Pierre wrestles with his conscience and is haunted by the crime, while Damien, a golden boy with a psychopathic bent, constructs his justifications and gleefully flirts with discovery. Zoe, a young woman who saw them leave the scene of the crime, is strangely attracted to the erotic power of the event and drawn into their web of danger and deceit.
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A tiny seasonal river island, an old man and his granddaughter, the cycle of life - a miracle of cinema. In the Inguri river on the Georgia-Abkhazia border, tiny islands form in the spring, only to vanish later with the onset of winter storms. On one of these spots of arable land an old man and his granddaughter struggle to raise a crop to see them through another winter. Though there is almost no dialog, this timeless Everyman's rough hands, his calm weathered face, and piercing gaze speak with an elegance of dignity that transcends language and culture.
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Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Chocolat), Chloë Grace Moretz (Kickass), and Kristen Stewart (Twilight) mesmerize in this complex drama about the private lives of starlets. Prolific director Olivier Assayas' (Irma Vep, Paris, je t'aime) latest richly explores the female psyche through an impressively multi-layered tale of the interwoven lives of three women at various stages of life. Veteran actress Maria (Binoche) is offered a role in the revival of the play that launched her career twenty years ago.
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Part of Shorts Program 2: On The Edge Of Adulthood - Having just turned thirteen, Leo sets himself a personal challenge and decides to jump off the highest diving board. As he waits his turn amongst adults, he looks back on the childhood he is leaving behind and his dive takes on a deeper meaning.
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A penitentiary parlor. A mother and her son meet for the first time since the young rebel took part in a bloody robbery. Part of Shorts Program 1: The Battles We Fought