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1) France
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Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling new film, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont (The Life of Jesus, NYFF35) casts Seydoux as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, homelife, and psychological stability are shaken after...
2) Z
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Criterion collection volume 491
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A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
3) Elles
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A journalist researching an article on student prostitution for the French edition of ELLE magazine finds herself drawn to two young women. The stories these seemingly well-adjusted girls share force the middle-aged writer to examine her own life, family and sexuality.
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Manon 70: A woman worships the luxurious lifestyle she has attained by sleeping with wealthy men until she falls in love with a poor reporter.
Le choc: A hired killer determined to retire flees to the country to hide from his bosses. There he succumbs to a beautiful woman.
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Cheyenne is a journalist who decides to leave Paris after being laid off and settles down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she has to leave Sonia, her true love, behind. Sonia is a teacher who loves her job and refuses to give up everything, including her comfort, to follow her. Sonia makes all the efforts in the world to forget Cheyenne, whether in the arms of Pierre, a charming anarchist, or in those of...
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Somewhere in Kurdistan, Bahar, commander of the battalion, is preparing to liberate her hometown from the hands of extremists, hoping to find her son who is held, hostage. A French journalist, Mathilde, comes to cover the attack and bear witness to the story of these exceptional warriors. Since their lives have been turned upside down, they find themselves fighting for women, life, and liberty.
9) Tout va b!en
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Criterion collection volume 275
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Français
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The story of a wildcat strike at a sausage factory, as witnessed by an American reporter and her has-been New Wave film director husband. Culminates in a free-range assault on consumer capitalism and ineffective leftists. A caustic critique of society, marriage, and revolution in post-1968 France.
11) The third lover
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Albin Mercier, a failed and disillusioned journalist, is sent to Germany to cover an event. There, he meets a successful writer who's happily married to a Frenchwoman named Helene. Bitterly jealous, yet besotted with the beautiful Helene, he decides to ruin the couple's lives.
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Pocket volume 11687
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Le lendemain des obsèques de sa mère, Kate Malone reçoit l'appel d'une certaine Sara Smythe, qui dit être une amie de ses parents. Face au scepticisme de Kate, elle lui confie un manuscrit. L'histoire de plusieurs vies entremêlées un demi-siècle auparavant. 1945. L'Amérique se remet de la guerre. Mais, très vite, les heures noires du maccarthysme résonnent, avec leur cohorte de trahisons et de lâchetés conformistes. Et dans la tourmente,...
13) Quadrille
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A Parisian magazine editor plans on proposing to his actress girlfriend, but she becomes intrigued with an American movie star. Meanwhile a woman reporter watches from the side.
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