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2) El Cid
Series
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand...
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
"Structured as an absurdly hilarious nightmare, BUFFET FROID has logic that is both twisted and stark: a husband befriends his wife's murderer, a high-ranking official plans his own assassination, a lost knife is found in the belly of a subway passenger. Together with the Chief of Police and a murderer who is afraid of the dark, [the protagonist] is drawn into an inescapable complicity of murder, treachery and paranoia which draws him closer and closer...
4) Buffet Froid
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
Français
Description
Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovers his casual subway acquaintance dead with his penknife sticking out of his belly. When he tries to report the crime to his neighbor, a police inspector (Bernard Blier), he refuses to listen. Later, Alphonse’s wife is killed, and her hapless murderer (Jean Carmet) confesses to Alphonse, but neither Alphonse nor the police inspector seem shocked. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the **Cesar Awards.**...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A truck driver arrives in New York City intent on making it as a writer. Aided by a friendly editor, Jeanne Green, Hawke's star is on the rise, both among the intelligentsia and the jet set. Hawke inevitably succumbs to the lures of high society, breaking Jeanne's heart and eventually seeing his career destroyed by the jealous husband of one of his paramours.
Series
Criterion collection volume 451
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Charming rogue Fanfan flits from one adventure to the other after evading marriage by joining the army in the midst of the Seven Years' War. He's motivated less by patriotism than by a consultation with Adeline, a voluptuous phony fortuneteller who promises that he will find glory in the army, even win the hand of King Louis XV's daughter. Herself the daughter of a recruiting sergeant, Adeline is a charlatan, but the irrepressible Fanfan sets about...
Series
Criterion collection volume 593
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Séverine, a Paris housewife, begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.