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100% ARABICA
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In this light-hearted musical comedy with a message, a North African pop group called Rap Oriental uses music to triumph over the bigotry and violence in their housing project on the outskirts of Paris. The band and their devoted fans are pitted against religiously conservative elders who want to stop the music. The film features Khaled and Cheb Mami, two real-life stars of rai music--a combination of North African sounds and western-style rap. The pair offers a message with a beat as they rock, groove, and ultimately soothe their 'hood with their unique sound. In French with English subtitles. Mahmoud Zemmouri---France/Belgium/Switzerland---1997---85 mins.
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13 TZAMETI
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With the festival success of this slick black-and-white crime thriller, writer-director Gela Babluani has become the Georgian filmmaker to watch. 13 Tzameti tensely tracks Sebastien (Georges Babluani), a poor twenty something immigrant from the steppes, who overhears his French neighbors talking about a package that will bring them riches. Intercepting the parcel, Sebastien's life is thrown into utter chaos as he follows cryptic clues that lead him to a world of depraved gambling, where millions are won and lives are lost. "Playfully wicked. As a brutal metaphor for the global economy, 13 Tzameti takes care of business" (Village Voice). Winner at Sundance, the European Film Awards, and the Venice Film Festival. In French with English Gela Babluani---France/Georgia---2005---90 mins.
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2/ TWO DAYS IN PARIS
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Julie Delpy, the female lead in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, returns to similar territory with 2 Days in Paris , a romantic comedy she wrote, directed, and stars in alongside Adam Goldberg. Attempting to salvage their relationship by going on a European vacation, the quirky pair spends their two remaining days in Paris, where they fight over jealousy issues, politics, and culture, then make-up and repeat. Instead of the short, dreamlike romances in Linklater's movies, 2 Days in Paris shows the harsh (and humorous) results of long exposure to an incompatible mate. "What [Delpy] has done here is avoid all temptation to recycle the usual lovers-in-Paris possibilities" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). In English and French with English subtitles. Julie Delpy---France---2007---100 mins.
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4 MUSKETEERS
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This is Pierre Aknine's dark reworking of Alexandre Dumas' tale of three musketeers and their recklessly romantic compatriot, D'Artagnan, played here by Vincent Elbaz. As aired on French TV, this production is quite possibly the most sinister of the Musketeers adaptations, ripe with evil, supernatural forces all the swashbuckling. With Emmanuelle Beart, Tcheky Karyo, and Heino Ferch. In French with English subtitles. Pierre Aknine---France---2005---190 mins.
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A LA MODE
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An adorable French romantic comedy tells the rags-to-riches tale of a talented young fashion designer who turns Paris on its ear at the same time that he's winning the hearts of the city's loveliest women. French with English Remy Duchemin---France---1993---89 mins.
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A NOS AMOURS (CRITERION)
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Winner of France's Cesar Award for Best Film of 1983, A Nos Amours is a powerful, moving study of a working-class girl of 15 who enters a series of casual sexual relationships while looking for the love she has been denied at home. Sandrine Bonnaire immediately established herself as one of the top talents in French cinema with her performance in this raw and affecting masterpiece. In French with English subtitles. Maurice Pialat---France---1983---102 mins.
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A TOUT DE SUITE/ RIGHT NOW
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In this intrepid drama by Benoit Jacquot (The Disenchanted, The School of the Flesh), Isild Le Besco plays Lili, a young, beautiful, bored art student who impetuously falls in love with a small-time hood, Bada (Ouassini Embarek). After a botched bank robbery that ends in murder, Lili agrees to flee Paris with her wanted boyfriend. Disentranced and on the lam, she soon finds herself in compromising situations, both physical and metaphysical. This adaptation of Elisabeth Fanger's memoir When I Was 19 is partly a tale of youthful naivety gone awry, but also, with its plot and setting in mind, an homage to the French New Wave, especially Elevator to the Gallows, Les Bonnes Femmes, and Breathless. "Gorgeous black-and-white photography lends the movie a chilly documentary realism . . . Small, nearly perfect film" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times). In Benoit Jacquot---France---2004---95 mins.
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ACCIDENTAL HERO, THE
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A troubled teen copes with tumultuous life changes in this coming-of-age story from the acclaimed French TV movie series The Rebel Years. Tom Maillard (Alexandre Hamidi, Code Unknown) is prone to angry outbursts that overwhelm his harried single mother. But when one of their arguments leads to a horrible car accident, their lives will forever be changed. Laurent Jaoui's intricate drama hews closely to themes of identity, memory, and family. With Anne Coesens (Ma Vie en Rose) and Isabelle Renauld (Monsieur Ibrahim). In French with English subtitles. Laurent Jaoui---France---2002---90 mins.
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ACCOMPLICES (2009)
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Told in flashback, this erotic crime thriller stems from the meeting of Vincent (Cyril Descours) and Rebecca (Nina Meurisse) in a cybercafe. The twentysomethings hit it off, but soon she discovers why he was online in the first place: setting up dates as a gigolo. Instead of recoiling, Rebecca, a girl of privilege, gets turned on, so much so that they become partners in crime. As the film opens, we find Vincent's body floating in the Seine, and Rebecca is missing. Two detectives (Gilbert Melki and Emmanuelle Devos) with a long personal history are assigned to the case. As they move backwards from the dead body in the present, Vincent and Rebecca's tragic back story unfolds. An Official Selection at the Locarno Film Festival. In French with English subtitles.
Frederic Mermoud---France---2009---95 mins.
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ADVENTURES OF FELIX
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The directors of Jeanne and the Perfect Guy present this warm, humane road film, described as "a gentle response" to Gregg Araki's The Living End by Onion critic Scott Tobias. A French dock-worker of Arab descent, who happens to be HIV-positive, sets off in search of the father he's never met. "...poignant, funny and clear-eyed about some tough topics" (Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer). In French with English subtitles. Olivier Ducastel/Jacques Martineau---France---2000---95 mins.
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ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
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Daniel Defoe's classic tale of a shipwrecked man's struggle to survive and battle loneliness on a desert island comes to life in this version starring Pierre Richard, Nicholas Cazale and Jean-Claude Leguay. Thierry Chabert---France---2003---193 mins.
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ALIAS BETTY
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From the underrated Claude Miller comes this intricately plotted film (based on a novel by Ruth Rendell) in which the tragic death of a single woman's son leads her unstable mother to kidnap another child to take his place. Several unexpected twists and turns lead the film into thriller territory, but Miller never sacrifices the emotional reality of his characters to the plot. Great performances from Sandrine Kiberlain and Nicole Garcia, who shared Best Actress honors at the Chicago International Film Festival. A.k.a. Betty Fisher and Other Stories. French with English subtitles. Claude Miller---France---2001---101 mins.
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ALIVE (VIVANTE)
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No to be confused with the one about Ethan Hawke cannibalizing a soccer team, this Alive tells of a 19-year-old Parisian girl (Vahina Giocante) who is tragically gang raped. Instead of telling the authorities, she spirals downward--dropping out of school, engaging in promiscuous sex, and abusing drugs. Will anyone help keep her alive? In French with English subtitles.
Sandrine Ray---France---2002---95 mins.
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ALMOST PEACEFUL
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In the era immediately following WWII, a group of Parisian Jews attempt to restart their lives and rediscover some possibility for happiness. The diverse cast of characters in Michel Deville's 2002 drama is brought together by a shared set of tragic experiences, and together they search for a way to escape the horrors of an unspeakable past. With Simon Abrkaryan, Zabou Breitman, Denis Podalydes, Stanislas Merhar, and Vincent Elbaz. "Unlike any other film I have seen about the Holocaust" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). In French with English subtitles. Michel Deville---France---2002---94 mins.
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AMELIE
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet creates a world of color, movement, romance and whimsy in a film about a waitress determined to help those around her find love.
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AN AFFAIR OF LOVE
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Nathalie Baye (The Return of Martin Guerre, Godard's Detective) and Sergi Lopez (Western) star in this intelligent account of erotic fantasy turning to emotional attachment. What begins as a deliberately anonymous sexual affair becomes more complex and meaningful as the participants realize the growing love between them. "...so much of Affair's understated power is derived from its mastery of small details, its grasp of how seemingly insignificant gestures and comments can have life-altering ramifications" (Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club). French Frederic Fonteyne---France---1999---78 mins.
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AND NOW LADIES & GENTLEMEN
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A lush mixture of mystery, romance, adventure and music from the director of A Man and a Woman. An English jewel thief (Jeremy Irons) suffering an existential crisis meets a lonely Parisian jazz singer (Patricia Kaas) at a doctor's office in Morocco, where each is seeking treatment for severe blackouts and amnesia. They find in each other no need for recollections of the past. Originally released as Valentin. In French, Italian, Arabic and English with French subtitles. Claude Lelouch---France/Great Britain---2002---128 mins.
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ANGEL-A/ ANGEL A
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In another of Luc Besson's patented visual feasts, Jamel Debbouze (Amelie) plays a lowly grifter on the verge of committing suicide by jumping off a bridge. When a mysterious blond woman (Rie Rasmussen) beats him to the punch, he rushes to her aid. Together, they set off across Paris collecting money for his debts in a series of screwball adventures. He comes to realize that he does have something to live for, and her name is Angel-A. An Official Selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Filmed in lush black-and-white by Thierry Arbogast. In French with English subtitles. Luc Besson---France---2005---145 mins.
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APRES LUI
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Catherine Deneuve delivers an intense performance as a divorcee reeling from the loss of her 20-year-old son in a car accident.
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ARMY OF CRIME, THE
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"Similar to Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 masterwork The Army of Shadows, Gallic wartime fresco The Army of Crime is a less thrilling and more academic take on the doomed efforts of the French Resistance. Based on the actual plights of a WWII underground immigrant brigade..." (Jordan Mintzer, Variety).
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