Jane Birkin
Author
Language
Français
Description
Official selection Cannes Film Festival and New York Film Festival. With the tremor of time passing by, Charlotte Gainsbourg started to look at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, both overcoming a shared sense of reserve.
Through the camera lens, they expose themselves to one another, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship to unfold.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little is integrated into the circus...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
Français
Description
A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs. (Nominee: Golden Lion, Jacques Rivette - Venice Film Festival, 1984; New York Film Festival, 1984.)
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Français
Description
Legendary French New Wave director Jacques Rivette’s intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard’s fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an immersive...
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, LA FEMME ET LE TGV is about a lonely woman who kept a secret routine every morning and evening -- for years, she's been waving at the express train that passes by her house. Inspired by true events and starring legendary actress Jane Birkin, Elise finds a letter from the train conductor in her garden and her lonely life is turned upside down. She engages in a promising correspondence...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
4K Restoration. Cult icon Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and scored this tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) and a gay, hunky garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro), whose boyfriend (Hugues Quester) becomes increasingly jealous of the two. Sharing the title with Gainsbourg and Birkin’s sexually-explicit 1969 hit pop song, JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS is an equally provocative depiction of sexual gratification told...
9) Initials SG
Author
Publisher
Mercury Records
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
23 tracks spanning the years 1958 to 1980, Initials S.G. is for fans of Jarvis Cocker, Beck, David Holmes, Momus. It's all laid out here the brisk postwar jazz-pop of 1964's'Couleur Cafe' to the pornography of 1971's 'Ballade de Melody Nelson'.
14) La piscine
Series
Criterion collection volume 1088
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"The bright sun of the French Riviera is deceptive in this alluring work of slow-burn suspense from thriller specialist Jacques Deray and legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. Formerly one of European cinema's most iconic real-life couples, Alain Delon and Romy Schneider reunited for this film, bringing a palpable erotic chemistry to their performances as the bronzed and beautiful vacationers whose summer vacation on the Côte d'Azur is interrupted...
15) Blow-up
Series
Criterion collection volume 865
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.