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Publisher
GoDigital
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In this tense thriller from acclaimed director Xavier Dolan (The Death and Life of John F. Donovan), a young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover Guillaume's funeral. Upon arrival, he is quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually-charged game by Guillaume's aggressive brother, Francis.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Raised alone by their authoritarian father in a state of religious conservativism, two siblings without names grow up largely ignorant of the world outside their father's estate. One morning, they find him dead - hanging from a rafter - and must confront their surroundings in order to unravel the mystery of their strange existence. Honorable Mention for Best Canadian Film at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Nominated for Seven Awards,...
3) Transylvania
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Zingarina (Asia Argento) arrives in Transylvania to trace her lover, Milan, a musician who impregnated her and left without explanation. When she finds him, he brutally rejects her and makes her distraught and heartbroken. She survives by following a wandering little girl, and her destiny changes then she meets Tchangalo, a traveling trader.
4) Modern Life
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 84 min.)
Language
Français
Description
Photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon is renowned for his documentation of the French countryside. In Modern Life he casts an affectionate and irreverent eye on a small community of farmers as they are confronted by the problems and challenges the contemporary world brings. Treated with equal suspicion, strangers and women are gradually accepted into the fabric of the farming life so as to sustain a way of life that celebrates the traditions...
5) L'attesa
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
When the seductive Jeanne arrives at her boyfriend's childhood home, she is greeted by his brooding mother Anna (Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche). As the two women await him, a mysterious secret looms over the household, ready to boil over.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Anticipating their father’s imminent death, three siblings reunite at their home in Burgundy to preserve the vineyard that ties them together in this tender and modern tale of familial strife and resilience from director Cédric Klapisch. "*As rich and earthy as a fine French wine...*” - Peter Debrudge, ***Variety*** "*Four stars... Rich and absorbing.*" - G. Allen Johnson, ***The San Francisco Chronicle***
7) Sitcom
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband...
8) Home
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road's construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher).
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Camille (Audrey Tautou. Amelie, The Da Vinci Code) works evenings as an office cleaning woman and makes graceful drawings in her free time while living in the attic of a Parisian apartment block. Philibert (Laurent Stocker) is a young, aristocratic history buff living - temporarily - in an apartment lower down, part of the estate of his late grandmother. He has let out part of it to up-and-coming cook, Franck (Guillaume Canet), a gruff young loner...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Paul de Marseul is the passionate, demanding proprietor of his prestigious family vineyard. But he has no faith in his son, Martin. Paul dreams of a harder-working, successful son - a dream that one day seemingly materializes when he meets Philippe, the son of his dying estate manager. Can Paul turn against his own blood and turn Philippe into the rightful heir of his family estate? Nominated for a **César Award** for Most Promising Actor. *"A strongly...
11) Heat Wave
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
On a sweltering day in the south of France, four characters find themselves on a collision course that ends in tragedy. Nominated for the Golden Camera and the C.I.C.A.E. Awards at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Winner of the Cinema Nouveau Award at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival.**
Author
Language
Français
Description
Ma mère a un nouvel amoureux. Il s'appelle Marc.
Mon ami Rémi et moi, on parle de lui avec des noms de code. Parce que mon beau-père, c'est un agent secret.
Mais chut...c'est un secret!
Rémi et moi, on veut vérifier que Marc travaille vraiment avec James Bond. Et pour cela, on va devoir partir en mission.
Chien de garde, mystères, pièges... nous sommes prêts à tout affronter, même le danger!
Author
Language
Français
Description
Mika cherche des réponses face à la question qui le hante: pourquoi sa mère l'a-t-elle abandonné?
C'est en frappant ses camarades que Mika combat ses démons: sa mère, qui l'a abandonné et don’t il n'a plus de nouvelles. Un jour Mika contraint Cathy, une surveillante de son lycée, à l'emmener en Belgique o il espère trouver la pièce manquante, la raison de l'absence de sa mère. Mais c'est tout le puzzle qui vole en éclat lorsque Mika...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Dans un village dauphinois de moyenne montagne, les destinées de deux familles s'entremêlent : celle de paysans aisés, dont la brillante fille cadette rêve sa vie, à l'ombre de Wagner, au lieu de la vivre ; et celle des anciens seigneurs du village – et toujours employeurs –, dévastés par une tare génétique que trop de consanguinité a rendue très prégnante. Cette longue, longue histoire trouvera-t-elle enfin une issue ?
À PROPOS...
15) A Kid
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
When Matthieu finds out that the father he never knew has died, he decides to go to his funeral in Quebec in order to meet his two siblings. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even interested in it. Nominated for Best Actor (Pierre Deladonchamps) and Best Supporting Actor (Gabriel Arcand) at the **César Awards**. *"A solidly crafted family drama by ace storyteller Philippe Lioret that offers the right amount...
16) Standing Tall
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Abandoned by his mother (Sara Forestier) at the age of 6, Malony (Rod Paradot) is constantly in and out of juvenile court. An adoptive family grows around this young delinquent: Florence (Catherine Deneuve), a children’s magistrate nearing retirement, and Yann (Benoît Magimel), a caseworker and himself the survivor of a very difficult childhood. Together they follow the boy’s journey and try unfailingly to save him. Then Malony is sent to a stricter...
17) Fatima
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Fatima lives on her own with two daughters to support: 15-year old Souad, a teenager in revolt, and 18-year old Nesrine, who is starting medical school. Inspired by a true story and the poetry of the North African writer Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing very little French and slowly taught herself the language. A patient, reflective study of a woman pressured by her children and her neighbors alike to assimilate into a culture of which she's...
18) Jealousy
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
One of the major French filmmakers of the post-New Wave, Philippe Garrel has belatedly been recognized as a master in America, and JEALOUSY may be his most accessible film in nearly 50 years of filmmaking. Shot in lustrous, widescreen black and white, the film opens with a man leaving his wife and daughter and, in a series of brief conversations, observed gestures, chance encounters and impulsive acts, tells the story of the relationships that flounder...
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Description
Dans ce récit poignant, Yves, un père de 64 ans souffrant de problèmes de santé, se retrouve plongé dans un abîme de haine envers ses trois enfants. Deborah, à 32 ans, menace physiquement et insulte verbalement son père, tandis qu'Ilan, marié, l'a exclu de son mariage. Quant à Ruben, 26 ans, il a commis un acte de violence qui a conduit à l'arrestation d'Yves. Les trois enfants refusent catégoriquement de le voir ou de lui parler.
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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A nativity story reboot that gently skewers French cultural pretensions, following a discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and the **New York Film Festival**. *"...builds to a lovely finale that evokes the Bible, the French Resistance and the surreal." - Ben Kenigsberg, **The New York Times*** *"...it's as thrilling as it is ingenious." - Richard Brody, **New Yorker***...
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