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Balzac: A Life of Passion (1999)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 01:06
Balzac: A Life of PassionGenres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Italy
Directors: Josée Dayan
Actors: Gérard Depardieu | Jeanne Moreau | Fanny Ardant | Virna Lisi | Katja Riemann | Claude Rich | Gert Voss | Sergio Rubini | François Marthouret | Marianne Denicourt | Gottfried John | Pascal Vannson | Hervé Briaux | Didier Lesour | Enguerran Demeulenaere
Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationship with his mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unsuccessful attempts to make money out of printing and publishing books. Balzac never gives up, however - even though his dissolute lifestyle keeps landing him in trouble with his creditors. To finally gain acclaim for his works and to earn enough money to survive, Balzac works like a man possessed, day and night, to the brink of exhaustion, drinking liter upon liter of coffee to keep himself awake. The passionate author also tends to go to excess in affairs of the heart - he has several woman friends at the same time, all of them very different from each other. They include the kind, caring and elderly Madame de Berny, and the egotistical, ambitious Laure d'Abrantès, who introduces Balzac to the salons of upper-class society. Balzac's heart belong to just one person alone, however: Eve Hanska, a married Polish woman living in Russia. At first she and Balzac simply have a passionate exchange of correspondence, but then they meet each other for the first time in Switzerland. On his return to Paris, Balzac is mortified to learn of the death of Madame de Berny. It comes as all the more of a shock to him because she was the only person who loved him as a man, rather than as a literary idol. Balzac then has a series of unlucky experiences in his work too: whatever he tries to do it always turns out to be a naive and unrealistic dream. Even though his new works are being well received socially, and do start to bring him a small income, Balzac's financial situation becomes ever more desperate because of his dissolute and excessive lifestyle. When Eve Hanska's husband dies, Balzac finally wants to fulfill his greatest wish, and marry the woman he has loved for so many years. Eve has a miscarriage and loses their child. Balzac is totally shaken by this event, while Eve is strangely unconcerned. Does she, too, only love him for his artistic reputation? The long-awaited marriage does finally take place in Russia, after years of delay - but Balzac doesn't have long to enjoy marital bliss. He goes blind, and dies a slow and agonizing death just four months later. His friend Victor Hugo is the only person to remain by his side until the very end...

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Monsieur Gangster (1963)

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 07:06
Monsieur GangsterGenres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Directors: Georges Lautner
Actors: Lino Ventura | Bernard Blier | Francis Blanche | Claude Rich | Pierre Bertin | Robert Dalban | Jean Lefebvre | Horst Frank | Charles Régnier | Mac Ronay | Venantino Venantini | Sabine Sinjen | Jacques Dumesnil | Yves Arcanel | Philippe Castelli
Ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receives a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The Mexican". The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and looking after his soon-to-be-married daughter. When a longtime mobster heavy, Volfoni takes exception to Fernand for being an outsider, they come after Fernand who is equal to the task. He defends himself in a series of comical killings from the onslaught of the mob.
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Adieu, poulet (1975)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010 04:06
Adieu, pouletGenres: Crime | Drama
Countries: France
Directors: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Actors: Lino Ventura | Patrick Dewaere | Victor Lanoux | Julien Guiomar | Pierre Tornade | Françoise Brion | Claude Rich | Michel Peyrelon | Claude Brosset | Gérard Hérold | Gérard Dessalles | Jacques Rispal | Patrick Feigelson | Henri Lambert | Jean-Yves Gautier
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 16:02
Asterix & Obelix: Mission CleopatraGenres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: France | Germany
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Actors: Claude Berri | Joël Cantona | Gérard Depardieu | Christian Clavier | Jamel Debbouze | Monica Bellucci | Alain Chabat | Claude Rich | Gérard Darmon | Edouard Baer | Dieudonné | Mouss Diouf | Marina Foïs | Bernard Farcy | Jean Benguigui | Michel Crémadès | Jean-Paul Rouve
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three months. Since all her architects are either busy otherwise or too conservative in style, this ambivalent honor falls to Edifis. He is to build the palace and be covered in gold or, if not, his fate is to be eaten by crocodiles. Edifis calls upon an old friend to help him out: The fabulous Druid Getafix from Gaul, who brews a fantastic potion that gives supernatural strength. In order to help and protect the old Druid, Asterix and Obelix accompany him on his journey to Egypt. When Julius Caesar gets wind of the project succeeding, he has the building site attacked by his troops in order to win the bet and not lose face. But just like the local pirates, he hasn't counted on Asterix and Obelix.
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