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(0)Olivier Assayas
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English
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At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked to step into the older role. With her assistant Maria prepares to play opposite a young Hollywood starlet and finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an unsettling reflection of herself.
3) Clean
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English
Description
Emily Wang is a woman whose past is riddled with drugs and regrets. As a result, her husband, Lee, is found dead in a desolate motel room in Hamilton, Ontario, and landed Emily with a six-month jail sentence. The only thing that she desires for the future is a loving relationship with her son Jay, who is being cared for by Lee's parents, Albrecht and Rosemary. While Rosemary blames Emily for Lee's death, Albrecht recognizes the importance of the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Language
English
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way one mourn those they love.
7) Summer Hours
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Français
Description
The divergent paths of three forty-something siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle’s exceptional 19th century art collection dies. Adrienne, a successful New York designer, Frédéric, a university professor in Paris and Jérémie, a dynamic businessman expanding into China, are left to confront the end of childhood, their shared memories and separate visions of the future.
9) Carlos
Series
Criterion collection volume 582
Language
English
Description
An epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century's most wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East.
11) Personal Shopper
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English
Description
A young psychic is plunged into a dangerous game of cat and mouse when she makes contact with a sinister spirit. Kristen Stewart stars in this seductive thriller.
12) Boarding Gate
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Language
English
Description
From director Olivier Assayas comes this erotic thriller starring Asia Argento as Sandra, a former prostitute, and Michael Madsen as Miles, her onetime pimp-turned-high powered businessman.
13) Boarding gate
Language
English
Description
An ex-prostitute is forced to leave her home after an encounter with an ex-lover ends in violence. When she becomes involved with a young couple, nothing is what is seems when she is caught up in a game of manipulation.
14) Rendez-vous
Series
Language
Français
Description
Nina moves to Paris to become an actress where she has a profound impact on three men.
15) Personal shopper
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Language
English
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way one mourn those they love.
16) Irma vep
Language
Français
Description
A Cantonese actress copes with a demented director and eccentric crew on a Parisian film shoot. This is the remastered version.
Series
Criterion collection volume 822
Language
English
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Description
A film star comes face to face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.
18) Irma Vep
Series
Criterion collection volume 1074
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A Hong Kong action-movie star arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade's classic silent crime serial Les vampires. What she finds is a behind-thescenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director drives himself to the brink to realize his vision.
19) Cold water
Series
Language
Français
Description
The acclaimed early film by Olivier Assayas about teenage lovers in the outskirts of Paris in the early '70s, whose rebellions against family and society threaten to tear them apart. With memorable party sequences and a rock soundtrack evoking the period, it is a heartbreaking tale of the emotional tumult of being young.
Language
English
Description
In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scene in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting, used to produce the mythical book, Hitchcock/Truffaut-this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock's incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by today's...