La Mariée était en noir

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Credits

Country :
France
Year :
1968
Director :
François Truffaut
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
107 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Michael Lonsdale

synopsis

Widowed on the very day of her wedding, Julie methodically eliminates one by one the five men she believes are responsible for her husband’s death. Whether they live in a luxury seaside apartment, a mountain hotel room, or a prison cell, she eventually tracks them down…

 

 

C’est l’apogée de la tentation hitchcockienne de Truffaut. Le film baigne dans un hiératisme irréel, une recherche formelle assez gauche et inhabituelle pour le cinéaste, et l’actrice est presque trop charnelle pour le rôle. Mais c’est justement ce qui rend le film si beau et si poignant, cette volonté désespérée d’y croire, de ressembler au modèle inaccessible. Le syndrome Vertigo.

Les Inrockuptibles

La Mariée était en noire

A revenge thriller that is said to have paved the way for Tarantino’s Kill Bill.

The Guardian

With its summery, Mediterranean surface, Jeanne Moreau as the ultimate femme fatale heroine and a knife-twisting tale of murderous revenge and unexpected romance, The Bride Wore Black is well worth rediscovering.

Salon.com

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Grave of the Fireflies

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Credits

Original title :
Hotaru no haka 
Country :
Japon
Year :
1988
Director :
Isao Takahata
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
99 minutes
Format :
digital 
Age classification :
12+ | Recommended for ages 14 and up
📖 Based on the short story by Akiyuki Nosaka

synopsis

The story of Seita and Setsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.

 

 

Grave of the Fireflies

The movie remains one of the most startling and moving animated films ever. It is also, with the likes of The 400 Blows, Kes, and Vagabond, one of the finest films about being young in an indifferent world.

The New York Times

This animated Japanese masterpiece is a war story as wrenching as any live-action movie.

The Guardian

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Great Restorations

Blind Chance

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Credits

Original title :
Przypadek
Country :
Pologne
Year :
1987
Director :
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
124 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Adam Ferency 
Awards :
Festival de Cannes, 1987
🗣️ 18:15 Introduction to the film (in English) | 18:30 Start of the film

synopsis

In Communist Poland, Witek, a medical student, runs to catch a train to Warsaw. From this single moment, three distinct versions of his future unfold, each shaped by whether he manages to board the train or whether he misses it.

Asks to be read for both its political and its philosophical implications. Kieślowski appears to propose that even in the divisive, paranoid atmosphere of late Communist Poland, a retreat from politics is not the answer. The echo chamber of unhappy endings amounts to a howl of no-win pessimism. But Kieślowski was a pessimistic humanist; his despair over humanity coexisted with a stubborn faith in it.

Criterion Collection

The indelible fulcrum of Kieslowski’s career as a documentarian and his blossoming as a major arthouse auteur.

Slant Magazine

Blind Chance

One of Krzysztof’s best films, perhaps even the best and the most original.

Agnieszka Holland

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Marius

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Credits

Country :
France
Year :
1931
Director :
Alexander Korda
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
127 minutes
Format :
digital | New 4K Restoration
Actors :
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Charpin
📖 Based on the play by Marcel Pagnol 

synopsis

Marseille, the Bar de la Marine. Marius is a young man exhilarated by the sea. He loves his father César, gruff but good-natured, and he also loves little Fanny, who sells seashells in front of his father’s bar. Since childhood, he has been burned by a desire to travel the world. He struggles against his restlessness. He does not want to abandon old César, who might die of grief, nor Fanny, who loves him desperately. And yet, the sea calls to him.

Marius

Il s’agit d’un ‘drame gai’. Le fond de l’histoire est mélodramatique mais les personnages sont si truculents, les comparses si pittoresques, les reparties si drôles, l’interprétation si brillante que l’on oublie l’anecdote au profit du détail. Le film n’a pas vieilli et a fait les délices de toutes les générations qui se sont succédé depuis 1931.

Dictionnaire des films. Éd. Larousse

One of the first great French talkies.

The Retro Set

Marius

Demazis, who had been working with Pagnol in the theater since 1927 (and would give birth to his child in 1933), is extraordinary in all three movies, playing the central female character in a story governed by the desires of men.

Chicago Reader

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Austerlitz

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Credits

Country :
Germany
Year :
2016
Director :
Sergei Loznitsa
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
94 minutes
Format :
digital
Awards :
Nomination Best European Documentary, European Film Awards 2017
In partnership with Zentrum fir politesch Bildung, Luxembourg City Film Festival, Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, SCRIPT and IFEN
🗣️ Followed by a discussion with Gian Maria Tore (Assistant Professor in Film, Art, and Media, Uni.lu) and the audience | in French

synopsis

Placing his camera among visitors wandering through the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps, Sergei Loznitsa invites us to reflect upon the dynamics between history, memory and tourism. 

Austerlitz

Loznitsa shows you the central activity: looking. Everyone is looking, looking, looking. Looking at what? Buildings, walls, yards, enclosures. The victims are not there. The war criminals are not there. The past is not there. Perhaps each new tourist erodes the site further until all that is left is dust. But visiting these sites is not meaningless and not wrong. It is part of human curiosity, which is better than indifference or forgetting.

The Guardian

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To Steal from a Thief

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Credits

Original title :
Cien anos de perdón
Country :
Espagne-Argentine
Year :
2016
Director :
Daniel Calparsoro
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
89 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Luis Tosar, Rodrigo De La Serna, Raúl Arévalo
Awards :
2 nominations, Goya Awards 2017
In collaboration with the Cercle culturel Espagnol Antonio Machado de Luxembourg

synopsis

Thieves rob a bank and make off with several safety deposit boxes, one of which is reputed to contain some politically damaging information.

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The Voice of Hind Rajab

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Original title :
Sawt Hind Rajab
Country :
Tunisie-France
Year :
2025
Director :
Kaouther Ben Hania
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
89 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Clara Khoury, Amer Hlehel Silver Lion 
Awards :
Grand Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival 2025

synopsis

Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. Hind, a 6-year-old girl, is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for help (Hind’s actual voice, preserved as a rescue-call recording, is heard though the volunteers are played by actors). While trying to keep her on the line, the Red Crescent workers do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.

No other film this year will get more people talking, or more people crying.

BBC.com

Proves quite unavoidably devastating: The original audio footage carries a brutal emotional wallop in any context, and there’s value in making a cinema audience captive to it, unable to pause or stop or avert our ears.

Variety

Hania has form in metafiction, however this is a step up even from the queasily gripping Four Daughters. The gravity of the subject has sharpened her storytelling instincts.

Indiewire

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Revenge

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Credits

Country :
France
Year :
2017
Director :
Coralie Fargeat
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
108 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens
Awards :
Toronto Film Festival 2017

synopsis

Three wealthy businessmen, all married and good fathers, gather in a desert area for their annual hunting trip. But this time, one of them has brought along his young mistress, a seductive nymphet who quickly sparks the desire of the other two.

Visuel : Revenge

Radical et gore, ce récit est surtout la révélation d’une réalisatrice à suivre, Coralie Fargeat, qui dénonce sans complaisance les violences faites aux femmes.

Le Journal du dimanche

Un ‘rape and revenge’ sanglant et surréaliste, kaléidoscope de visions gore, avec une nouvelle icône : Matilda Lutz.

Première

Fargeat’s blood-drenched feature debut, Revenge, tapped into the fury of the #MeToo movement and set the tone for the precarious balance between feminism and exploitation that characterises her latest picture, The Substance.

The Guardian

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Bashu, the Little Stranger

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Credits

Original title :
Bashu Gharibeh Kouchak
Country :
Iran
Year :
1989
Director :
Bahram Beyzaie
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
120 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Adnan Afravian, Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Akbar Doodkar
Awards :
Best Restored Film, Venice Film Festival (Venezia Classici) 2025
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film (in English) | 18:30 : Start of the film

synopsis

After his family is killed in a bombing, young Bashu flees southern Iran alone and arrives in a remote northern village. Unable to speak the local language and shunned as a little stranger, he is taken in by a mother of two whose husband is away. A fragile bond slowly begins to grow between them.

 

 

Visuel : Bashu, the Little Stranger

A vital cinematic masterpiece. A reminder that art at any time, in any place, awakens human consciousness and shows us humane paths through friendship, coexistence, and peace.

Jafar Panahi

Four decades later, one can see more clearly than ever how Beyzaie transforms the cinema screen into a window carved from the history and literature of Iran, opening it onto a beautiful and spectacular world.

Mohammad Rasoulof

A pure joy in which there are absolutely no false moves.

Los Angeles Times

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César

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Credits

Country :
France
Year :
1936
Director :
 Marcel Pagnol
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
141 minutes
Format :
digital | Nouvelle restauration 4K
Actors :
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Charpin

synopsis

Panisse married Fanny, who had been abandoned by Marius, and adopted Césariot, the child of their love. He dies with everyone’s regrets. Fanny reveals the truth to her son, who receives his mother’s moving confession with deep concern. He decides to set out in search of his father.

Visuel : César

Le dernier volet de la Trilogie marseillaise comporte quelques-uns des plus beaux dialogues du cinéma français et confirme la singularité de la démarche cinématographique de Marcel Pagnol, réalisateur majeur.

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Le film garde la qualité de cette saga tribale ou se mêlent, s’aiment et surtout s’apostrophent des personnages qui sont à la fois les membres d’un pittoresque folklore régionaliste, et des types humains de valeur universelle.. César conclut dignement le plus grand feuilleton populaire que le cinéma parlant ait apporté a cette époque.

L’Âge classique du cinéma français, Éd.Flammarion

Pagnol’s directed chapter happens to be one of the more visually innovative, utilizing swipe transitions and offering a bit more jaunty energy thanks to shifting locales. Despite its simplicity, Pagnol’s Marseille Trilogy is a richly textured, character-driven triptych of films detailing a certain time, place, and sentiment.

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