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1482) Pierrot le fou
Series
Criterion collection volume 421
Language
Français
Description
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anti-consumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent tale of a romantic couple. This is a high point of the French New Wave, and was Godard's last frolic...
1483) Boris sans Béatrice
Language
Français
Description
It is a morality tale with fairy-tale inflections that focuses on Boris Malinovsky, an affluent, successful businessman who comports himself with an extreme degree of pride and arrogance. When his wife, a Minister of the Canadian Government, is rendered nearly catatonic by a mysterious depression, it triggers a series of events that brings Boris to the point of professional, personal, and even existential crisis.
1484) Love letters
Language
English
Description
A tale of forbidden love and obsession, a young woman discovers her recently deceased mother's love letters, revealing a secret double life of love and infidelity. Now she finds herself retracing her mother's emotional footsteps as she becomes involved with a married man.
1485) South mountain
Language
English
Description
Lila is an artist who teaches at a community college and has built a modest rural paradise in New York's Catskill Mountains with her husband, Edgar. Soon after their teen daughters head off on summer adventures and her best friend Gigi begins Chemotherapy, Edgar reveals he's started a new family with another woman.
Language
English
Description
Two women hitchhike a ride home; the sexual entanglements of four people change their lives; a man with a temper finds that his second wife has had an affair with his teenage son; a young high school teacher seduces one of her students; a group of female students and their teacher are threatened by bikers and must defend themselves; two couples go on a cross-country trip in a motor home; two sisters from a middle-class home experiment with drugs and...
1488) El Jefe =: The boss
Language
Español
Description
A black office comedy about a head of human resources who threatens to run away with his wife's best friend to escape the insanity around him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes a weekend at a marquis's countryside château, where the rich and their servants gather, and which exposes some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances in the early days of World War II.
1490) Las amantes de mi marido
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Lucy se entera de que Artie, su encantador e infiel marido, se está muriendo, regreso a su casa, coge la agenda de teléfonos él ... y decide no pasar por ese trance sola. ... Pero cuando telefonea a las mujeres de la agenda de Artie y las invita a que vayan a verlo para despedirse, lo último que espera es que se presenten."-- Back cover.
1491) Not as a stranger
Series
Language
English
Description
An egotistical, aspiring physician who expects perfection from those around him struggles with his own shortcomings.
Series
Criterion collection volume 949
Language
日本語
Description
"[A]n exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death."--Container.
1495) Scum
Author
Language
English
Description
After the death of his seventeen-year old son, Max travels back to Warsaw, while his wife stays in South America. There he begins a series of affairs with different women.
1497) Liebestraum
Language
English
Description
"What begins as a passionate crusade to save a landmark building turns into a passionate love affair with dire consequences. Nick, a professor of architecture who's come home to visit his dying mother, knows he must preserve a cast-iron building marked for demolition by Paul, a ruthless developer and former friend. But when he falls for Paul's wife, Jane, Nick unwittingly tempts fate with his own life. For buried within the walls of the landmark lies...
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