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2) Bluebeard
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Controversial director Catherine Breillat retells the grisly fairytale of a child bride who is married to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives.
3) Mrs. Hyde
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A late night laboratory accident transforms an unpopular science teacher (Isabelle Huppert) into the dangerously unpredictable MRS. HYDE.
4) Car Cemetery
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Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal’s outrageous adaptation of his infamous 1958 stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia.
5) Jumbo
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Jeanne, a shy young woman, works in an amusement park. Fascinated with carousels, she still lives at home with her mother. That's when Jeanne meets Jumbo, the park's new flagship attraction.
6) Mandibles
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When two simple-minded best friends find a giant fly trapped in the trunk of a stolen Mercedes, they decide to train it in the hope of striking it rich.
7) Ricky
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When Katie, an ordinary woman, meets Paco, an ordinary man, something magical and miraculous happens: they fall in love. Out of their love comes an extraordinary baby: Ricky.
9) Petite Maman
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From acclaimed filmmaker Céline Sciamma (PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) comes a tender tale of childhood grief, memory and connection. Eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her parents to her mother’s childhood home following her beloved grandmother's death. As Nelly explores the house and nearby woods, she is immediately drawn to a neighbor her own age building a treehouse.
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A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs. (Nominee: Golden Lion, Jacques Rivette - Venice Film Festival, 1984; New York Film Festival, 1984.)
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Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of sixteen. When three fairy sisters discover this, they hatch a plan to alter the curse: rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years and live in a world of dreams. Through her active dream life, Anastasia will find love, loss, and possibly a waking life.
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A collection of newly restored short films from the imagination of Paul Grimault, an icon of French animation. Le Marchand de notes (The Note Seller), 1942, 10 min L’Épouvantail (The Scarecrow), 1946, 10 min Les Passagers de la Grande Ourse, (The Passengers of the Great Bear), 1943, 9 min Le Voleur de paratonnerres (The LIghtning Rod Thief), 1946, 10 min La Flûte magique (The Magic Flute), 1946, 9 min Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier), 1948,...
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Eight-year-old Sophie is the girl on the bus that everyone teases. Julien is the little boy that comes to her rescue. He, too, is an outcast of sorts, struggling to cope with the loss of his dying mother. Together, they invent an outrageous game of "Dare" to keep their spirits alive. Their game becomes a glorious mutual addiction. It binds them together as it tears them apart. As their feelings for each other grow through childhood into adulthood,...
14) Lost Prince
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Everything in Djibi's life revolves around his beloved seven-year-old daughter Sofia. This devoted single father never misses their cherished rite of bedtime stories. Every night as Sofia falls asleep, her father takes her into "Storyland", a fantasy film studio where their extraordinary fairy-tale adventures come to life starring Djibi in the lead role as the heroic Prince Charming. Five years later, pre-adolescent Sofia starts to grow out of her...
15) Metamorphoses
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When Europe skips class to climb aboard an eight-wheel truck with a magnetic young man named Jupiter, little does she know of the journey of initiation that lies ahead of her. Just off the side of the motorway lies a land inhabited by powerful gods who can transform humans into plants or animals in the blink of an eye. Jupiter, Bacchus, Orpheus: Europe watches, listens and plays in this confrontation of gods and mortals, grasping a greater sense of...
16) Phantom Boy
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Leo has a secret. A mysterious illness has transformed him into a phantom boy, able to leave the confines of his body and explore the city as a ghostly apparition. While in the hospital, he befriends Alex, a police officer injured while attempting to capture a nefarious gangster, who has taken control of the city’s power supply, throwing the metropolis into chaos. Now they must form an extraordinary duo, using Leo’s phantom powers and Alex’s...
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In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes from the Devil who, in revenge, deprives her of her hands. So begins her long journey towards the light… but in spite of her resilience and the new protection of a handsome prince’s estate, the Devil devises a plan of his own. THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS is the audacious feature debut from acclaimed short filmmaker Sébastien Laudenbach, whose beautiful and...
18) The Rabbi's Cat
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Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Joann Sfar, THE RABBI'S CAT tells the story of a rabbi and his talking cat – a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi’s voluptuous teenage daughter. Rich with the colors, textures, flavors and music of Mediterranean Africa, the film embarks on a cross continent adventure from the tiled terraces, fountains, quays and cafes of colonial Algiers...
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