Claude Berri
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
Français
Description
A comically bittersweet coming of age story, THE TWO OF US is also a poignant drama of identity and heritage. When an 8-year-old Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied France is sent by his parents to live in the country with the Catholic parents of their friends, he is faced with a culture clash both religious and generational. Winner of three prizes, including Best Actor (Michel Simon) at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** *"A lovely, sentimental...
2) Germinal
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
Français
Description
During the Second Napoleonic Empire, Etienne Lantier finds employment as a coal miner in the northern French town of Montsou. He immediately encounters misery and degradation in the appalling conditions of the mine. There he meets men as unscrupulous as Chaval and, conversely, as generous as Maheu. In fact, a whole range of suffering humanity, laboring under the curse of capitalism.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Français
Description
Camille (Audrey Tautou. Amelie, The Da Vinci Code) works evenings as an office cleaning woman and makes graceful drawings in her free time while living in the attic of a Parisian apartment block. Philibert (Laurent Stocker) is a young, aristocratic history buff living - temporarily - in an apartment lower down, part of the estate of his late grandmother. He has let out part of it to up-and-coming cook, Franck (Guillaume Canet), a gruff young loner...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Nominated for Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards and Best Foreign Film at the Cesar Awards THE LOVER is an acclaimed period romantic drama. In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.