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Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard returns to the screen with Film socialisme, a magisterial essay on the decline of European civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean (with Patti Smith among its guests), Godard embarks on a state of the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes, historical revelations and pure cinematographic beauty.
2) Faat Kine
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In Faat Kine, Ousmane Sembene, the unquestioned father of African cinema, calls his fellow Africans to a reckoning of the post-independence era at the beginning of a new century. At 77, he sums up 40 years of path-breaking filmmaking with a penetrating analysis of the interplay of gender, economics and power in today's Africa. Sembene accomplishes all this through the deceptively light domestic drama of Faat Kine, a gas station operator born, significantly,...
3) Film socialisme ; produced by Ruth Waldburger, Alain Sarde ; written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard presents a magisterial essay on the decline of European civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean, Godard embarks on a filmic essay on the state of contemporary Europe, international politics, and Western history. In the tradition of his acclaimed political and essayistic films, Godard explores a wide range of contemporary cultural, political and historical themes with his distinctive and innovative cinematic...
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Criterion collection volume 270
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In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of the ladies, Marie, meets Manda, who is a carpenter by trade. Marie's man Roland is a jealous sort and does not like the idea of Marie and Manda becoming friendly, and Leca himself has his eye on Marie. What follows is a story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque.
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Vive le tour!: "An energetic evocation of The Tour de France"--Container.
Humain, trop humain: "A meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant"--Container.
Place de la republique: "An entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris"--Container.
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American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city of the film's title where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff co-star in this cockeyed fusion of science fiction with pulp characters and surrealist poetry. Godard's irreverent journey to the mysterious city remains one of the least conventional films of all time.
8) Le royaume
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"À un moment de ma vie, j'ai été chrétien. Cela a duré trois ans. C'est passé. Affaire classée, alors? Il faut qu'elle ne le soit pas tout à fait pour que, vingt ans plus tard, j'aie éprouvé le besoin d'y revenir. Ces chemins du Nouveau Testament que j'ai autrefois parcourus en croyant, je les parcours aujourd'hui en romancier? en historien? Disons en enquêteur."--Page 4 of cover.
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L'auteur a suivi sa compagne pendant quatorze mois en Birmanie alors qu'elle y collaborait avec Médecins sans Frontières. Il raconte son expérience du pays et comment il a fini par apprivoiser son environnement. Il présente aussi la réalité politique, sanitaire et sociale de ce pays dominé par un groupe de militaires soutenu par de puissants groupes industriels.
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