The Children of the Century 1999 N/R, 110 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Diane Kurys Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci, Karin Viard, Isabelle Carre, Patrick Chesnais, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Denis Podalydes, Olivier Foubert, Michel Robin, Ludivine Sagnier
This film reveals moments from the torrid love affair of early 19th-century French novelist George Sand (Juliette Binoche) and gifted poet Alfred de Musset (Benoit Magimel) in which they came close to destroying each other.
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Delicatessen 1991 R, 99 min. Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro Cast: Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Ticky Holgado, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Karin Viard, Anne-Marie Pisani, Howard Vernon, Pascal Benezech, Rufus, Dominique Zardi, Jean-Francois Perrier, Marc Caro, Boban Janevski, Mikael Todde, Edith Ker
In a future world, after the "Big One," life is not easy, and food is in short supply. But the tenants of an old apartment complex get meat from time-to-time when the butcher provides human cutlets for his tenants. Now, along comes a young man who falls in love with the butcher's daughter. Believe it or not, this original-thinking comedy is interesting.
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Diary of a Seducer 1995 N/R, 95 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Daniele Dubroux Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Hubert Saint-Macary, Serge Merlin, Mathieu Amalric, Daniele Dubroux, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Micheline Presle, Karin Viard, Jacques Nolot
This entertaining, philosophical romance revolves around the copy of one of Gregoire's (Melvil Poupaud) books–actually Soren Kierkegaard's "Diary of a Seducer." The book's treatise on love casts a love spell on an assortment of not-quite-"normal" characters and provides the catalyst for an entertaining storyline.
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La Separation 1994 N/R, 88 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama aka: The Separation
Director: Christian Vincent Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil, Jerome Deschamps, Karin Viard, Laurence Lerel, Louis Vincent, Nina Morato, Jean-Jacques Vanier, Christian Benedetti, Frederic Gelard
Anne (Isabelle Huppert) and Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) are in the middle of a relationship breakdown when Anne confesses that she is in love with another man. Although past the point of reconciliation, the couple is still reluctant to part.
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The New Eve 1999 N/R, 94 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Catherine Corsini Cast: Karin Viard, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Catherine Frot, Sergi Lopez, Mireille Roussel, Nozha Khouadra, Laurent Lucas, Valentine Vidal, Francois Caron, Frederic Gelard
A French woman, Camille (Karin Viard), leaps from one reckless liaison to another–lost in a depraved world of drugs, sex, and alcohol–in this film reflecting the style of new French realism.
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Time Out 2001 PG-13, 132 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Laurent Cantet Cast: Aurelien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet, Jean-Pierre Mangeot, Monique Mangeot, Nicolas Kalsch, Marie Cantet, Felix Cantet, Maxime Sassier, Elisabeth Joinet
Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) loses his job as a financial consultant but does not tell his family; instead, he keeps up his routine of leaving the house each morning to go to work. To bring in needed money, Vincent concocts a phony investment scheme in which he cons his friends. Slowly, as Vincent tells one lie after another, the story turns into one of terror.
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| 1. The Children of the Century (1999)
2. Delicatessen (1991)
3. Diary of a Seducer (1995)
4. La Separation (1994) aka: The Separation
5. The New Eve (1999)
6. Time Out (2001)
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