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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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007  PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow, Isaach De Bankole, Emma de Caunes, Gerard Watkins, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Based on French "Elle" editor Jean-Dominique Bauby's best-selling memoir, this story shows how Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) suffers a stroke and the psychological torment he endures when he suffers "locked-in syndrome" in which his brain is working, but he is not able to speak nor move his body. The one thing Bauby can do is blink one eye, and, with help from speech therapist Henriette (Marie-Josee Croze), he is able to form sentences by blinking when she calls out a letter in the alphabet. As a result, Bauby is able to author a manuscript revealing what it is like to be trapped inside one's body and relating fantasies that he has imagined. The film received four Academy Award nominations including Best Director.
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Post Coitum, Animal Triste 1997  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: After Sex
Director: Brigitte Rouan
Cast: Francoise Arnoul, Patrick Chesnais, Jean-Louis Richard, Brigitte Rouan, Nils Tavernier, Boris Terral, Emmanuelle Bach, Carmen Chaplin, Gaelle Le Fur, Elodie Pong, Roberto Plate, Olivier Lechat
Diane Clovier (Brigitte Rouan), a Parisian book editor in her mid-40s, is happily married to an attorney, Philippe (Patrick Chesnais), and together they are raising their young sons. But when Diane meets young stud Emilio Pessi (Boris Terral), she throws caution to the wind and risks both her professional and personal lives for the sake of a torrid love affair.
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| 1. The Children of the Century (1999)
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
3. Post Coitum, Animal Triste (1997)
aka: After Sex
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