The Comedy of Innocence 2000  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Charles Berling, Edith Scob, Nils Hugon, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Denis Podalydes, Chantel Bronner, Bruno Marengo, Nicolas de La Baume
Camille (Nils Hugon) feels neglected and, thus, frequently lives in his own fantasy world. On this ninth birthday, he announces that he in not really Camille, but Paul, a boy who had drowned two years previously. He even takes his mother (Isabelle Huppert) to Paul's home and demonstrates his detailed knowledge of the place–including Paul's mother (Jeanne Balibar). Has Paul really come back and taken over Camille's body?
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Genealogies of a Crime 1997  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Melinand, Hubert Saint-Macary, Jean-Yves Gautier, Mathieu Amalric, Camila Mora
Less-than-successful attorney Solange (Catherine Deneuve) is appointed to defend Rene (Michel Piccoli) who is accused of killing his Aunt Jeanne (also played by Catherine Deneuve). Jeanne was a psychoanalyst, and the plot follows the psychiatric vein of contemporary France–deep and boring to those not into French philosophy.
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Shattered Image 1998  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Anne Parillaud, William Baldwin, Graham Greene, Lisanne Falk, Billy Wilmott, O'Neil Peart, Leonie Forbes, Bulle Ogier, Peter Hanlon, Alwyn Scott
Jessie (Anne Parillaud) is honeymooning in Jamaica when she dreams she is a hired assassin in Seattle. Is this nightmare for real, or is she dreaming of the Jamaican honeymoon?
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Three Lives and Only One Death 1996  N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Arielle Dombasle, Feodor Atkine, Jean-Yves Gautier, Jacques Pieiller, Pierre Bellemare
In a series of stories Marcello Mastroianni plays an ex-husband, a professor-turned-beggar, a killer, and a wealthy industrialist. The stories seem to come together (or do they?) at the end when the industrialist discovers members of the family that he has invented for himself are coming for a visit.
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Time Regained 1999 N/R, 165 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Marie-France Pisier, Arielle Dombasle, Dominique Labourier, Marcello Mazzarella, Chiara Mastroianni
This film, based on Marcel Proust's autobiographical novel about a dying novelist, revolves around Marcel (Marcello Mazzarella) who associates tastes and smells to remember people and moments of his past. Boredom and arrogance highlight Marcel's trips back to the World War I era where he, once again, encounters the lovers of his past.
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| 1. The Comedy of Innocence (2000)
2. Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
3. Shattered Image (1998)
4. Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
5. Time Regained (1999)
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