Search Results: Returned 15 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 15
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-- Love2013., General, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Amour Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Insightful. Original. Exquisite. Georges and Anne have known a lifetime of love within their intimate marriage. Though their bond has survived time's test, it's about to meet its greatest challenge. Acclaimed director Michael Haneke brings a performance tour-de-force to the screen in a film that exalts the beautiful, compassionate and courageous within us all."--Container.
![Amour [DVD] (2012). Directed by Michael Haneke.](/Library/images/~imageCT75920.JPG "Amour [DVD] (2012). Directed by Michael Haneke.")
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-- Karen Blixen's Babettes gaestebud.2001, p1988., General, 103, MGM Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Babette Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: World films (MGM Home Entertainment Inc.)Summary Note: With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread--a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure?.
![Babette's feast [DVD] (1988). Directed by Gabriel Axel.](/Library/images/~imageCT69122.JPG "Babette's feast [DVD] (1988). Directed by Gabriel Axel.")
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-- Belle and Sebastien2014, p2013., General, eOne Call No: DVD Fic Belle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
![Belle et Sebastien [DVD] (2013). Directed by Nicolas Vanier.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Belle et Sebastien [DVD] (2013). Directed by Nicolas Vanier.")
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-- Coco avant Chanel.[2010]., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Coco B Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
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[2000]., Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Crouching Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.
![Crouching tiger, hidden dragon [DVD] (2000). Directed by Ang Lee. : Wo hu cang long](/Library/images/~imageCT84833.JPG "Crouching tiger, hidden dragon [DVD] (2000). Directed by Ang Lee. : Wo hu cang long")
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-- Hérisson2010., General, distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Films Call No: DVD Fic Hedgehog Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set in an upper-class Parisian apartment building, The Hedgehog is the story of an unexpected encounter, that of Paloma Josse, an exceptionally intelligent and suicidal 11 year old girl, of Renee Michel, a discrete and solitary porter, and of the enigmatic Mr. Kakuro Ozu."--Container.
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-- Summer hours2009,p2008., General, IFC Films ; manufactured and distributed by Séville Pictures, a division of E1 Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic L'heure Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Widely hailed by critics as 2009's best film, Summer Hours is the great contemporary French filmmaker Olivier Assayas's most personal film to date. Three siblings, played by Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jeremie Renier, must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they've inherited from their mother. From this simple story, Assayas creates a nuanced, exquisitely made drama about the material of globalized modern living. Naturalistic and unsentimental yet suffused with genuine warmth, this is that rare film that pays respect to family by treating it with honesty."--DVDEmpire.com (Criterion Collection ed.)
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-- Hussard sur le toit2003., Adult, distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis Call No: DVD Fic Horseman Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche (Chocolat, The English Patient, Best Supporting Actress) highlights this rousing, passionate adventure! In a world ravaged by revolution and violence, two strangers-a handsome renegade (Olivier Martinez-Unfaithful) and a beautiful countess (Binoche)-find their only chance for survival is each other! Together they undertake a perilous cross-country journey where they will also discover unmatched danger, excitement...and passion! Universally praised by critics and moviegoers, The Horseman on the Roof is another extraordinary film from the creators of the Academy Award winning Cyrano de Bergerac!"--Container.
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-- Jules & Jim2005, p1961., General, Aliance Atlantis Vivafilm Call No: DVD Fic Jules Edition: Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, legendary director François Truffaut's early masterpiece Jules and Jim charts the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession over the course of twenty-five years. French film icon Jeanne Moreau stars as Catherine, the alluring and willful young woman whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty and the fortitude of love, Jules and Jim was a worldwide smash upon its release in 1962 and remains as audacious and entrancing today."--Container.
![Jules and Jim [DVD] (1961). Directed by Francois Truffaut](/Library/images/~imageCT72343.JPG "Jules and Jim [DVD] (1961). Directed by Francois Truffaut")
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-- Tihyeh ve-tihyeh2005., Adult, Menemsha Films Call No: FR DVD Fic Live Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 'The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets. He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother's parting request that he 'go, live, and become.' Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love - both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother - he ultimately finds an identity and a happiness all his own."--Container.
![Live and become [DVD] (2005). Directed by Yorick Kalbache.](/Library/images/~imageCT72881.JPG "Live and become [DVD] (2005). Directed by Yorick Kalbache.")
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-- New girlfriend2015., Adult, Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic Nouvelle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend in this mischievous comedy by French master François Ozon."--Container.
![Une nouvelle amie [DVD] (2014). Directed by François Ozon](/Library/images/~imageCT80064.JPG "Une nouvelle amie [DVD] (2014). Directed by François Ozon")
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-- Portrait de la jeune fille en feu2020., Adult, 121, Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Fic Portrait L Edition: Director-approved special edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse's first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and a testament to their love.
![Portrait of a lady on fire [DVD] (2019). Directed by Céline Sciamma : Portrait de la jeune fille en feu](/Library/images/~imageCT101509.JPG "Portrait of a lady on fire [DVD] (2019). Directed by Céline Sciamma : Portrait de la jeune fille en feu")
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-- Reine Margot.1995., Miramax Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Queen M Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
![Queen Margot [DVD] (1994) Directed by Patrice Chereau : le Reine Margot](/Library/images/~imageCT74743.JPG "Queen Margot [DVD] (1994) Directed by Patrice Chereau : le Reine Margot")
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2004., LifeSize Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic River Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This ingeniously structured film flows between a dozen well-etched characters covering every conceivable age group and class. Interwoven with the skill of a master tailor, The River carries us in and out of the lives of these fascinating characters as each of them forced to consider significant and courageous leaps of faith. A festival favorite, film has appeared at Toronto (2001), Karlovy Vary (2001), Copenhagen (2001), and Guttenberg (2002).
![The river [DVD] (2004). Directed by Jarmo Lampela.](/Library/images/~imageCT69418.JPG "The river [DVD] (2004). Directed by Jarmo Lampela.")
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[2010]., Music Box Films Call No: DVD Fic Seraphine Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
![Séraphine [DVD] (2008) Directed by Martin Provost.](/Library/images/~imageCT81046.JPG "Séraphine [DVD] (2008) Directed by Martin Provost.")