drama
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THE BIG PICTURE aka L’HOMME QUI VOULAIT VIVRE SA VIE
Paul seems to have everything. He’s a partner in a successful Law Firm in Paris. Beautiful smart wife and two young children he adores. Stunning house in the country. And he’s as handsome as hell (well he’s played by Romain Duris, need I say more). Then suddenly it all starts to fall apart. His wife…
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LITTLE WHITE LIES aka LES PETITS MOUCHOIRS
After visiting one of their best friends in intensive care unit at the hospital after he had a near fatal motorbike accident a despondent tight knit group of friends gather outside. Their big dilemma is do they hang around in Paris waiting for Ludo to be well enough to have visitors or just go on…
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SIDE EFFECTS
A chronically depressed young woman attempts suicide just days after her new husband has been released from prison after he served a sentence for insider trading. The Psychiatrist on duty in the ER room prescribes different regimes of drugs which do not shake off the ‘poisonous fog bank’ she is immersed in until she persuades…
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NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET
Chilean Raul Rutz was a prolific experimental filmmaker who worked mainly in France, and is probably best known to US audiences for movies such as ‘Mysteries of Lisbon’ and ‘Marcel Proust’s Time Regained’. This is his very last film made when he was dying and I think is best described as his personal…
