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Emmanuèle Riva
Series
Criterion collection volume 588
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel. The first of a trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski, followed by 'White' and 'Red.'
3) Amour
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Georges and Anne have known a lifetime of love within their intimate marriage. Though their bond has survived the test of time, it's about to meet its greatest challenge.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Français
Description
"Georges and Anne are a couple of retired music teachers enjoying life in their eighties. However, Anne suddenly has a stroke at breakfast and their lives are never the same. That incident begins Anne's harrowingly steep physical and mental decline as Georges attempts to care for her at home as she wishes"--IMDb.
Series
Criterion collection volume 572
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Life during wartime is not simply men shooting at one another, but also women tending to their children. The widow Barny is one, an office worker in a rural village in occupied France, whose child's father was a Jewish man. When genial Italians occupy the village, all is well. Then the Nazis arrive, round up and shoot the Italians, and get down to the business of rounding up Jews. Barny has her daughter baptized as a Catholic for legal certification--and...