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A genuinely funny book is one of life's simplest pleasures, but finding the real stand-outs is never as easy.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
his record-breaking comedy smashed the box office in France, where it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Cesar Awards. Although living a comfortable life in a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, her husband Philippe tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town on the French Riviera, at any cost. When Philippe is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector he is immediately...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 105 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Writer-director Yvan Attal (My wife is an actress) takes a "funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire" (Jami Bernard, NY Daily News) in Happily ever after, a bittersweet comedy about the battle of the married sexes. Starring Attal and real-life amour Charlotte Gainsbourg (21 Grams), Happily ever after uncovers a web of marital deceit and sexual combustion connecting a handful of Parisian friends, spouses and lovers.
4) Amelie
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Amelie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amelie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Amelie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude. After a fellow agent is murdered Hubert is ordered to take his place.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Rene is the boss of a chocolate factory and Angelique is a talented chocolate maker. They are both emotionally challenged people. Drawn together through a shared passion for chocolate, Jean-Rene and Angelique fall in love, but neither is able to express how they feel. Sadly, their crippling shyness is driving them apart. But eventually, they manage to overcome their lack of self-confidence, and risk baring their true feelings.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Using her sister Lena's love life as well as her own for inspiration, Ariane writes romantic stories for a popular magazine. But for these love-struck sisters, the lonely millionaires of the fiction world are miles away from the commitment-phobic boyfriends that live in their reality.
8) Let it rain
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Feminist writer Agathe returns to France to help her sister, Florence, sort out their deceased mother's affairs. While there, Agathe decides to test the political waters and run in a local election. She also agrees to be interviewed for a documentary about successful women by two blundering reporters. As romantic entanglements, class resentments, and the uncooperative weather intrude, Agathe's life hysterically unravels, and the bumbling filmmakers...
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious classical pianist who is at odds with his manager/wife as to...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Tati portrays the endearingly eccentric character, Hulot, whose presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one outrageous catastrophe after another.
11) The rose maker
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When horticulturalist Eve Vernet's family business of breeding and growing roses is in danger of bankruptcy, her secretary hires three employees from a prison rehabilitation program who don't have any gardening experience, but together they try to save the business.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When a hired killer crosses paths with a suicidal shirt salesman, the resulting calamity makes for one of the funniest, most original films ever. Ralf Milan has come to Montpellier to fulfill a "contract" that a powerful crime organization has placed on a man about to testify against the mob at an upcoming trial. As Ralf waits for the man in his hotel room with gun in hand, he notices something very strange in the attaching room next door: Franöis...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The Man in the Hat journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroen Dyane. Why are they chasing him and how can he shake them off?
14) The sweet escape
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Middle-aged graphic artist Michel is seized by a sudden crazy impulse and orders a canoe and paddles, everything he needs for an adventure. His wife Rachelle encourages him to set out alone on his escapades. So what if he's never rowed a boat in his life? Adventure is adventure. His big trip on the water turns out to be full of surprises and unexpected encounters.
16) The French way
Publisher
Kit Parker Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A farcical romantic comedy set in contemporary WWII France, about young lovers forbidden to marry by their respective families.
17) Parade
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The director himself serves as master of ceremonies at a circus. Focusing on the spectators, this stripped down work is a testament to the communion betwen audience and entertainment.
18) Trafic
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The bumbling Monsieur Hulot, outfitted with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris's highways and byways.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside down when they hire Maria, a Spanish maid who introduces Jean-Louis to an alternative reality a few stories up on the sixth floor. Befriending a group of sassy Spanish maids, the women teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds, and their influence on the house...
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