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The Piano (1993)
, 2h1Directed by Jane Campion
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Piano, Films about disabilities, Political films, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill, Kerry Walker, Ian Mune
A mute Scotswoman named Ada McGrath is sold by her father into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman named Alisdair Stewart, bringing her young daughter Flora with her. The voice that the audience hears in the opening narration is "not her speaking voice, but her mind's voice". Ada has not spoken a word since she was six years old and no one, including herself, knows why. She expresses herself through her piano playing and through sign language, for which her daughter has served as the interpreter. Flora later dramatically tells two women in New Zealand that her mother has not spoken since the death of her husband who died as a result of being struck by lightning. Ada cares little for the mundane world, occupying herself for hours every day with the piano. Flora, it is later learned, is the product of a relationship with a teacher with whom Ada believed she could communicate through her mind, but who "became frightened and stopped listening," and thus left her.
Secrets & Lies (1996)
, 2h15Directed by Mike Leigh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Liz Smith
The film tells the story of Hortense Cumberbatch, a successful black middle class optometrist in London, who is adopted and has chosen to trace her family history after the death of her adoptive mother. After being warned by public officials about the troubles she could face by tracking her birth mother down, she continues her investigation and is baffled to learn that her birth mother is white but does not resent her and wants to know more about her past. Her birth mother, Cynthia Purley, is working class and downwardly mobile. Hortense meets her and later meets Cynthia's brother, Maurice Purley, a photographer, his wife Monica, and Cynthia's daughter Roxanne, a street cleaner.
The Big Picture (2010)
, 1h55Directed by Éric Lartigau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Assassinat, L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie, Photographie
Actors Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup, Catherine Deneuve, Branka Katić, Éric Ruf
A successful Paris lawyer with a seemingly perfect life discovers that his wife is having an affair and accidentally kills her lover in a moment of madness. He escapes the law by faking his own death, assuming his victim's identity, and making a fresh start on the Adriatic coast as a photographer. This eventually leads him to realise what was missing in his life before: he finally sees the big picture.
My Life Is Hell (1991)
, 1h48Directed by Josiane Balasko
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Psychologie, Films about religion, Films about dogs, Films about pigs, Demons in film, Psychanalyse, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Richard Berry, Catherine Hiegel, Catherine Samie, Jean Benguigui
Leah Lemonnier (Josiane Balasko), 35 years ols, leads a dreary and depressing life between her work as secretary of a dentist who spends his time in scolded, her analyst (Richard Berry) who sees in it only a source of income, her neighbor, Mr. Schpil, sexually obsessed and party animal (Jean Benguigui) and his mother (Catherine Samie) nymphomaniac, selfish, greedy, narcissistic and contemptuous. But one day, she unwittingly invokes the devil. He have the face of a handsome devil, Abargadon says "Abar" (Daniel Auteuil), who offers her a deal: he starts her service until her death in exchange of her soul.
The Straight Story (1999)
, 1h52Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Transport films, Vieillesse, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Everett McGill, Kevin P. Farley, John P. Farley
Alvin Straight has not shown up to his regular bar meeting with his friends. He is eventually found lying on his floor at home, although he insists that he "just needs a bit of help getting up". His daughter Rose takes her reluctant father to see a doctor, who sternly admonishes Alvin to give up tobacco. He also tells Alvin that he should start using a walker. Alvin refuses, and does not tell Rose. Alvin then learns that his brother Lyle has suffered a stroke. Longing to visit him, but unable to drive, Alvin gradually develops a plan to travel to Mount Zion on his "ancient" riding lawn-mower and towing a small homemade travel-trailer, to the consternation of his family and friends.
Little Buddha (1993)
, 2h3Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism
Actors Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Chris Isaak, Jo Champa, Bhisham Sahni, Anupam Shyam Saikia
Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan, led by Lama Norbu (Ruocheng Ying), are searching for a child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje (Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen). Lama Norbu and his fellow monks believe they have found a candidate for the child in whom Lama Dorje is reborn: an American boy named Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger), the young son of an architect and a teacher who live in Seattle. The monks come to Seattle in order to meet the boy.
D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
, 2h9Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Riccardo Freda
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about sexuality, Transgender in film, Histoire de France, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Gigi Proietti
In the autumn of 1654, an escaped slave seeks refuge at a convent in southern France. After the nuns take him in, his pursuers break into the convent and assault the nuns, searching for the slave. After wounding the mother superior (Pascale Roberts), they close in on their prey. One feisty novitiate, Eloise (Sophie Marceau)—the daughter of the renowned swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret) of the famed Three Musketeers—stands up to the intruders, but is shoved aside as they ride off after the frightened slave, who escaped from the evil Duke Crassac de Merindol. Eloise finds a blood-stained piece of paper (a simple laundry list) that the slave used to stop a bleeding wound, and believes it holds some secret code. Later, Eloise is with the mother superior when she dies from her wound. Swearing a sacred oath to avenge her and dressed in men's clothes, Eloise sets out for Paris to elicit the help of her father in tracking down the murderers.
Une Époque Formidable… (1991)
, 1h37Directed by Gérard Jugnot
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Gérard Jugnot, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Ticky Holgado, Roland Blanche, Chick Ortega
Michel Berthier is a qualified employee in a company specialized in sale of mattresses, until he is laid off. Absolutely wanting to have a child with his wife Juliette, who already has two children from her first marriage, he tells nothing, and quickly finds himself in a situation to leave the family home. After a few misadventures, Michel Berthier meets Crayon, Le Toubib and Mimosa, who will become his unfortunate companions among the homelesses.
Seven Years of Marriage (2003)
, 1h37Directed by Didier Bourdon
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Didier Bourdon, Catherine Frot, Jacques Weber, Jacques Herlin, Claire Nadeau, Yan Duffas
Pour tenter de sauver son couple à la dérive tant sexuellement que sentimentalement après 7 ans de mariage, Alain, qui est médecin urgentiste dans une clinique parisienne, consulte un ami sexologue. Celui-ci, à force de grandes théories pseudo-freudiennes sur le point D (le point du Désir qui ne doit pas devenir le point de la Déprime) le persuade que la solution ne passe que par la réalisation des fantasmes refoulés et la libération des mœurs (sex-shops, échangisme, films porno...), et lui conseille de mettre ses fantasmes à exécution avec sa femme, Audrey, employée de banque, femme devenue froide et ayant totalement cessé d'aimer son mari, ne maintenant sa vie de couple que par habitude installée au fil des années et pour l'éducation de leur fille Camille.