Diane in Foreign DVDs & Videos

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A sweepingly romantic and historic tale about two 19th-century writers and their trials in work, travel, and love, CHILDREN OF THE CENTURY is a daring period piece from director Diane Kurys. The love affair between George Sand (Juliette Binoche) and Alfred de Musset (Benoit Magimel) is brought to life in fits and bursts of creative impulses, passionate interludes, and emotional blowouts. Writers who met in 1833, Sand and de Musset were both well-established in their careers. Sand's feminism, masculine style of dress, and boldness rendered her works utterly readable for their controversy if not their quality. Likewise, de Musset's poetry was highly regarded in literary circles. Unfortunately, Sand was married (to Casimir Dudevant, who she left when she moved to Paris alone) with two children, and so her affair with de Musset--like her fierce independence, liberalism, and frequent romantic trysts--was considered a scandal. But as the story unfolds, Sand remains committed to de Musset even as his words and actions spin rapidly and frightfully out of control. CHILDREN OF THE CENTURY depicts an artistic bloom in Paris and Venice in the mid-1800s, colored by the changing hues of love and grief shared between these two major creative figures.

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Guillaume Canet's (TELL NO ONE) wicked comedy follows Bastien (played by Canet himself), an ambitious assistant, as he tries to climb a treacherous entertainment industry career ladder. Thrilled when he learns that his big-shot producer boss, Jean-Louis Broustal (Francois Berleand, TRANSPORTER) has taken a liking to him, Bastien soon learns (upon joining Berleand for a weekend in the country) that he's desired for a little more than just his on-air talents.

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THE SETTING SUN recounts the epic romance between a soldier (Masaya Kato) and a rebel leader (Diane Lane) during the 1930s Sino-Japanese opium wars.

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Isabelle Huppert stars as Lola, a novelist in her mid-30s who is involved with two men, her long-term lover, David (Bernard Giraudeau), an architect, and Tom (Hippolyte Girardot), a rock musician. David is married to the unstable Marianne (Lio), with whom he has two children, and Tom is married to Elisabeth (Laure Killing), who is unaware of his relationship with Lola, and they also have children. Lola struggles to keep her heart and her sanity intact as everyone involved in this roiling quagmire of love and need begins to seek out some kind of solid ground. Director Diane Kurys (PEPPERMINT SODA, ENTRE NOUS), who shares with her protagonist a reputation for drawing heavily on personal experience in the creation of her art, makes LOVE AFTER LOVE a daring exploration of the consequences of survivors of the 1960s and 1970s living out the values of their youth.

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It is the summer of 1958 when Lena (Nathalie Baye) sends her two daughters to a seaside resort. The girls, Frederique (Julie Bataille) and Sophie (Candice Lefranc) take advantage of their time away from their parents by playing practical jokes and making rascals of themselves. When Lena returns she brings a man (Vincent Lindon) with her. She hides this affair from her husband (Richard Berry) who arrives shortly until the affair becomes too obvious. Lena opts to go on with her affair, choosing her freedom regardless of the consequences. The sun-soaked memories of this tumultuous vacation are seen through the eyes of the troublemaking elder daughter in Diane Kurys' (ENTRE NOUS) bittersweet drama.

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In France in the mid-20th century, two women, Lena (Isabelle Huppert) and Madeleine (Miou-Miou), meet at a Christmas concert at their children's school and feel an instant rapport, sharing their war experiences and their unhappiness with stifling marriages. Lena married to keep from getting deported for being Jewish during the German occupation of France in World War II. Madeleine, after her first husband was killed by the French secret police, wed Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri) in a similarly loveless marriage of convenience. As the women grow closer, each giving the other the strength they need, Lena's husband, Michel (Guy Marchand), becomes jealous of their relationship. Madeleine, who has become increasingly less tolerant of Costa's chronic womanizing, finally leaves him and moves to Paris, believing that Lena will eventually join her there. Director Diane Kurys, who mined her own life story to great effect in her first two films, PEPPERMINT SODA and COCKTAIL MOLOTOV, here builds an eloquent, elliptical narrative based on her mother's experiences. Buoyed by superb ensemble acting and Kurys's sure-handed touch with period detail, ENTRE NOUS is a subtle, moving depiction of both the painful deterioration of two marriages and the transformative power of friendship.

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Isabelle Huppert stars as Lola, a novelist in her mid-30s who is involved with two men, her long-term lover, David (Bernard Giraudeau), an architect, and Tom (Hippolyte Girardot), a rock musician. David is married to the unstable Marianne (Lio), with whom he has two children, and Tom is married to Elisabeth (Laure Killing), who is unaware of his relationship with Lola, and they also have children. Lola struggles to keep her heart and her sanity intact as everyone involved in this roiling quagmire of love and need begins to seek out some kind of solid ground. Director Diane Kurys (PEPPERMINT SODA, ENTRE NOUS), who shares with her protagonist a reputation for drawing heavily on personal experience in the creation of her art, makes LOVE AFTER LOVE a daring exploration of the consequences of survivors of the 1960s and 1970s living out the values of their youth.

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In France in the mid-20th century, two women, Lena (Isabelle Huppert) and Madeleine (Miou-Miou), meet at a Christmas concert at their children's school and feel an instant rapport, sharing their war experiences and their unhappiness with stifling marriages. Lena married to keep from getting deported for being Jewish during the German occupation of France in World War II. Madeleine, after her first husband was killed by the French secret police, wed Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri) in a similarly loveless marriage of convenience. As the women grow closer, each giving the other the strength they need, Lena's husband, Michel (Guy Marchand), becomes jealous of their relationship. Madeleine, who has become increasingly less tolerant of Costa's chronic womanizing, finally leaves him and moves to Paris, believing that Lena will eventually join her there. Director Diane Kurys, who mined her own life story to great effect in her first two films, PEPPERMINT SODA and COCKTAIL MOLOTOV, here builds an eloquent, elliptical narrative based on her mother's experiences. Buoyed by superb ensemble acting and Kurys's sure-handed touch with period detail, ENTRE NOUS is a subtle, moving depiction of both the painful deterioration of two marriages and the transformative power of friendship.

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In France in the mid-20th century, two women, Lena (Isabelle Huppert) and Madeleine (Miou-Miou), meet at a Christmas concert at their children's school and feel an instant rapport, sharing their war experiences and their unhappiness with stifling marriages. Lena married to keep from getting deported for being Jewish during the German occupation of France in World War II. Madeleine, after her first husband was killed by the French secret police, wed Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri) in a similarly loveless marriage of convenience. As the women grow closer, each giving the other the strength they need, Lena's husband, Michel (Guy Marchand), becomes jealous of their relationship. Madeleine, who has become increasingly less tolerant of Costa's chronic womanizing, finally leaves him and moves to Paris, believing that Lena will eventually join her there. Director Diane Kurys, who mined her own life story to great effect in her first two films, PEPPERMINT SODA and COCKTAIL MOLOTOV, here builds an eloquent, elliptical narrative based on her mother's experiences. Buoyed by superb ensemble acting and Kurys's sure-handed touch with period detail, ENTRE NOUS is a subtle, moving depiction of both the painful deterioration of two marriages and the transformative power of friendship.

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A sweepingly romantic and historic tale about two 19th-century writers and their trials in work, travel, and love, CHILDREN OF THE CENTURY is a daring period piece from director Diane Kurys. The love affair between George Sand (Juliette Binoche) and Alfred de Musset (Benoit Magimel) is brought to life in fits and bursts of creative impulses, passionate interludes, and emotional blowouts. Writers who met in 1833, Sand and de Musset were both well-established in their careers. Sand's feminism, masculine style of dress, and boldness rendered her works utterly readable for their controversy if not their quality. Likewise, de Musset's poetry was highly regarded in literary circles. Unfortunately, Sand was married (to Casimir Dudevant, who she left when she moved to Paris alone) with two children, and so her affair with de Musset--like her fierce independence, liberalism, and frequent romantic trysts--was considered a scandal. But as the story unfolds, Sand remains committed to de Musset even as his words and actions spin rapidly and frightfully out of control. CHILDREN OF THE CENTURY depicts an artistic bloom in Paris and Venice in the mid-1800s, colored by the changing hues of love and grief shared between these two major creative figures.

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The sequel to the Diane Kurys's autobiographical PEPPERMINT SODA, COCKTAIL MOLOTOV stars Elise Caron as a restless French teenager, Anne, roaming through Europe during the politically tumultuous spring and summer of 1968. The film opens with Anne leaving her home in Paris after a violent argument with her ambitious mother (Genevieve Fontanel) over Anne's working-class boyfriend, Fred (Philippe Lebas). She plans to travel to Israel with Fred to work on a kibbutz, but Fred backs out at the last minute and Anne sets off by herself. After she's gone, Fred has second thoughts, and, joined by his friend, Bruno (François Cluzet), he catches up to her in Venice. While there, they hear news accounts of the massive student-led political demonstrations in Paris. The trio wants to be part of the upheaval, and the same desire for meaningful, world-expanding experience that drove Anne from Paris in the first place now points her and her companions back home. While setting COCKTAIL MOLOTOV during one of the most cataclysmic eras of the 20th century, Kurys never allows the film's acute focus on the yearnings and disappointments of her young, searching protagonists to waver, resulting in a film that is both an engagingly free-spirited account of being on the periphery of world-altering political events and a universal tale of youth seeking adventure.

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Diane Kurys's auspicious directorial debut is a sensitive, sharply observed autobiographical account of a year of her early adolescence. Eleonore Klarwein stars as Kurys's fictional alter ego, Anne Weber, who, in the fall of 1963, is living with her divorced mother (Anouk Ferjac) and older sister, Frederique (Odile Michel), in Paris. Anne relies heavily on her sister for clues on how to behave in an increasingly confusing world. Both sisters rebel against the excessively rigid discipline imposed by their lycée, where Anne is unsocial, moody, and an indifferent student. The more outgoing Frederique has begun to test her mother's boundaries by staying out late with her boyfriend, Martine (Valerie Stano). Anne is so involved with her sister's life that when the romance ends, she's hurt as much, if not more, than Frederique. Both girls strongly experience the absence of their father, which is possibly what leads Frederique into a romance with an older man. For her part, Anne is content with cajoling her father (Michel Puterflam) into taking them on trips during vacations despite feeling awkward with him. Through the graceful accretion of a wealth of details, Kurys's perceptive, humorous, and nostalgic film offers rare insight into a young girl's coming of age.

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In France in the mid-20th century, two women, Lena (Isabelle Huppert) and Madeleine (Miou-Miou), meet at a Christmas concert at their children's school and feel an instant rapport, sharing their war experiences and their unhappiness with stifling marriages. Lena married to keep from getting deported for being Jewish during the German occupation of France in World War II. Madeleine, after her first husband was killed by the French secret police, wed Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri) in a similarly loveless marriage of convenience. As the women grow closer, each giving the other the strength they need, Lena's husband, Michel (Guy Marchand), becomes jealous of their relationship. Madeleine, who has become increasingly less tolerant of Costa's chronic womanizing, finally leaves him and moves to Paris, believing that Lena will eventually join her there. Director Diane Kurys, who mined her own life story to great effect in her first two films, PEPPERMINT SODA and COCKTAIL MOLOTOV, here builds an eloquent, elliptical narrative based on her mother's experiences. Buoyed by superb ensemble acting and Kurys's sure-handed touch with period detail, ENTRE NOUS is a subtle, moving depiction of both the painful deterioration of two marriages and the transformative power of friendship.

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In France in the mid-20th century, two women, Lena (Isabelle Huppert) and Madeleine (Miou-Miou), meet at a Christmas concert at their children's school and feel an instant rapport, sharing their war experiences and their unhappiness with stifling marriages. Lena married to keep from getting deported for being Jewish during the German occupation of France in World War II. Madeleine, after her first husband was killed by the French secret police, wed Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri) in a similarly loveless marriage of convenience. As the women grow closer, each giving the other the strength they need, Lena's husband, Michel (Guy Marchand), becomes jealous of their relationship. Madeleine, who has become increasingly less tolerant of Costa's chronic womanizing, finally leaves him and moves to Paris, believing that Lena will eventually join her there. Director Diane Kurys, who mined her own life story to great effect in her first two films, PEPPERMINT SODA and COCKTAIL MOLOTOV, here builds an eloquent, elliptical narrative based on her mother's experiences. Buoyed by superb ensemble acting and Kurys's sure-handed touch with period detail, ENTRE NOUS is a subtle, moving depiction of both the painful deterioration of two marriages and the transformative power of friendship.

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A scared 12-year-old boy thinks he's seen something he shouldn't and no one will believe him. But when the game becomes real, and the people start to vanish, sooner of later people will have to believe him.