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1) Un secret
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A young boy who has a vivid imagination dreams up a brother for himself and a better past for his family. On his 15th birthday he finds his dreams shattered when he uncovers a shocking secret that ties his family to the Holocaust.
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The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyère region of Switzerland lasted a whole year, from July 1989 to July 1990. A year of work and festivities in the family of Conrad and Louise Bapst, their children and grandchildren who live in La Roche (canton of Fribourg).
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Criterion collection volume 492
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When steely French matriarch Junon (Catherine Deneuve) learns she has leukemia, she asks her children and grandchildren at the family Christmas gathering to see if they are eligible to become bone marrow donors. This causes deep friction in the family, especially between Junon's daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) and son Henri (Mathieu Amalric), who already have a tumultuous relationship. Their mother's sickness also recalls the traumatic loss of...
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Mozart's Sister is a re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Once the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French Revolution Europe. Approaching marriageable age and now forbidden to play the violin or...
5) La pianiste
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The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments.
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This book looks at words for different family members in French. Main text on each page is provided only in French, with simple, labeled photographs providing support. A "dictionary" spread at the end of the book features all the vocabulary words in both French and English, and also includes a pronunciation guide.
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Le magazine des familles souriantes et engagées ! Marie Claire Enfants accompagne tous les parents. Pensé en pensant à VOUS, à vos goûts et vos envies, à vos centres d’intérêt : de la mode pour les enfants d’aujourd’hui, vivante, souriante et colorée, des papiers brillants, des sujets engagés…
8) Trésor
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"Dans ce livre superbement illustré, un frère et une sœur explorent leur environnement à la recherche d'un trésor."--
10) Madame Bovary
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Une édition de référence de Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Emma ressemblait à toutes les maîtresses ; et le charme de la nouveauté, peu à peu tombant comme un vêtement, laissait voir à nu l'éternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les mêmes formes et le même langage. Il ne distinguait pas, cet homme si plein de pratique, la dissemblance des sentiments...
11) Towards zero
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When Guillaume has the idea of inviting his ex-wife to the family reunion at the estate of his Aunt Camilla, his new wife Caroline becomes filled with rage. Guillaume hopes they will become friends but the two women hate each other. Things turn really ugly when Camilla is found dead in her bedroom, and only inspector Bataille can put together the pieces. As the inspector untangles her mysterious death, he also begins to unearth dark family secrets...
12) Un secret
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L'exploration d'un lourd secret de famille et l'histoire d'une passion, à travers le voyage intérieur de François, un enfant solitaire qui s'invente un frère et imagine le passé de ses parents. Le jour de ses quinze ans, une amie de la famille révèle au jeune François une vérité boulversante, mais qui lui permet enfin de se construire.
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Gregoire, a Parisian film producer, has it all, a beautiful wife, three adorable daughters, wealth and a buzzing career. On the surface he seems invincible, maintaining humor and charm as he tirelessly juggles the demands of his production company with his family's needs. But when Gregoire's reserves, both financial and emotional, reach a dramatic breaking point, his family's love and resilience is tested and their world is forever changed.
14) Dark diamond
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Pier Ulmann blames his extended diamond-dealer family for his father's tragic life, and death. To take revenge, he insinuates himself back into the family enterprise, with an elaborate caper in mind. Caught up in the power dynamics between his uncle Joseph and his cousin Gabi, who have very different ideas about the company's future, he finds himself increasingly attracted to his cousin Louisa.
15) Come undone
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In a seaside town near western France, Mathieu, a quiet 18-year-old spending the summer with his troubled family, meets the handsome and aggressive Cedric who takes an interest in the younger man. Mathieu quickly becomes enraptured by his mature lover, who offers him a different world view, as well as an escape from his family: a frequently absent father, an emotionally-ailing mother weighed down by a tragedy, and a distant and bitter sister, all...
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Criterion collection volume 894
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Academy Award winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically...
17) Zombi child
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Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at a prestigious all-girls boarding school, Melissa, a young Haitian teenager, confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends, never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
18) Violette
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"The daughter of a respectable middle-class couple, Violette Nozière leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent young girl her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the Latin Quarter of Paris. To acquire money for her latest lover, Violette resolves to commit an unthinkable crime."--Container.
19) Mafia Inc
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The Gamache tailors, from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generations. Vince works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince seeks to earn his stripes by impressing the godfather.
20) Astrakan
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When Samuel, a young orphan, is sent to live with foster parents Marie and Clement, he is gradually forced to face the demons that exist both internally and within his new family. Swept up in the motions of coming of age for the first time falling in love with the girl next door, exploring hobbies, and indulging in childhood passions he also learns of the secrets his foster family is keeping, leading him to question everything around him. As these...
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