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This harrowing family tale about illness and grief is directed by the commanding Patrice Chereau (QUEEN MARGOT, INTIMACY). Captivating at every moment, the film thrives on the emotional intensity of its characters. Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) has been diagnosed with a strange blood disease, and he calls on his brother Luc (Eric Caravaca) for help. Though they both live in Paris, they are not close, using Luc's homosexuality as the barrier between them. Stereotypes are dissipated through these characters--Luc is gay yet self-assured and healthy; Thomas is straight yet self-defeating and sick. The chronology jerks forward months at a time--February, July, March, and so forth--as if time is on pause, and it might just stop. Thomas's illness is unpredictable, and his hospital stays happen unexpectedly, keeping everyone--parents, Thomas' girlfriend Claire (Nathalie Boutefeu), and Luc's boyfriend Vincent--in a state of constant anxiety. With painful-to-watch hospital scenes and moments of tortured emotional outpouring, SON FRERE is a poignant portrait of coping with human mortality.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English
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Robert Bresson won a Best Director Award at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Grand Prize for Creation, for this contemporary revision of Leo Tolstoy's short story. The tragedy tells of how an innocent prank goes wrong and becomes the definitive moment in a man's life. When a young man passes a forged 500-franc note at a photography shop, the photographer passes it along to an unsuspecting victim. It eventually lands in the hands of Yvon Targe (Christian Patey), an innocent man who is detained when he tries to use it to pay for a meal. Hiring an attorney to hopefully bring the truth to light, Yvon is shocked to discover that the photographer will not budge from his story. To make matters even worse, he has goaded his assistant into lying along with him. This causes Yvon to lose his job and self-respect, triggering a downward spiral that results in a murder. BressonAes final film is a haunting commentary that condemns materialism and its sinful offspring, exploring universal themes that only continue to grow in importance in modern society. Proving that not all filmmakers weaken as they age, LAeARGENT remains as profound a work of art as the directorAes early masterpiece, A MAN ESCAPED.
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Travernier's thematic follow-up to his 1989 WWI film Life and Nothing But in which a desensitized guerrilla platoon pillages and plunders the Balkan front for an entire year after the armistice. Script based on Roger Vercel's 1934 autobiographical novel. Awarded 2 Cesars (French Oscars) for best director-- Travernier, and best actor-- Phillipe Torreton.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseAdditional Release Materials: Documentary - 1. UN FILM SUR BERTRAND TAVERNIER (54 min.)Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Redemption is more than the name of the Argentine town where Daniel (Luis Luque) returns to after his life of crime. It is also a fitting metaphor for his character as he attempts to reconcile his past and reclaim his youthful paradise. Troubles from his past will not lie silently, though, as two cars arrive searching for Daniel, who once betrayed a colleague in the Argentine underworld.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen
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An Italian/French production in which a rocket collides with the sun and sends a shower of deadly asteroids over Earth - the solution prefigures the ending of Meteor by 21 years.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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