Name: Agatha and the Limitless Readings
Director: Marguerite Duras
Released: 1981
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Cast: Bulle Ogier, Yann Andréa

Bulle Ogier

Yann Andréa

A dialogue-driven drama about a woman and her brother who meet at a deserted seaside hotel to deal with their passionate incestuous feelings for each other and reminisce about their happy childhood.

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Agatha and the Limitless Readings

Français

OV - SD

Delphine Seyrig

Michel Piccoli

Fernando Rey

Stéphane Audran

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Paul Frankeur

Julien Bertheau

 Muni

Milena Vukotic

Claude Piéplu

Pierre Maguelon

Luis Buñuel

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

french - SME

VF - HD

Ingrid Caven

Peter Kern

Peter Chatel

Jérôme-Olivier Nicolin

A love story between a &quot;demi-mondaine&quot; kept by various lovers, suffering from tuberculosis, and a young provincial bourgeois. Adaptation from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, &quot;The Lady of the Camellias&quot;.

La Paloma

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean Yanne

Mathieu Kassovitz

Christine Pascal

Jean-Guy Blats

Yvon Back

Yves Verhoeven

Marc Citti

Roger Mollien

Philippe du Janerand

Rywka Wajsbrot

Pierre Guillemin

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon&#x27;s story is related with Marx and Johnny&#x27;s one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.

France, Generation 90

See How They Fall

FR - SD

Dominique Labourier

Juliet Berto

Marie-France Pisier

Philippe Clévenot

Nathalie Asnar

Marie-Thérèse Saussure

Barbet Schroeder

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

Céline and Julie go boating

VF - SD

Michèle Moretti

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Dennis Berry

Josée Destoop

Célia

Françoise Godde

During the rehearsals for the production of the tragedy Andromaque, the leading actress and her director, a couple behind the scenes, can&#39;t find a way to leave their personal problems at home. And life imitates fiction, creating a real tragedy for this couple when the man finds comfort with other women while the actress prefers to stay focused on her work, as if nothing is happening with her partner.

Nouvelle Vague

L'Amour fou

Xavier Beauvois

Emmanuel Salinger

Jean Douchet

Chiara Mastroianni

Roschdy Zem

Cédric Kahn

Pascal Bonitzer

Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive.

Don't Forget You're Going to Die

Dominique Sanda

Mathieu Carrière

Marguerite Duras

Benoît Jacquot

Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other.

Le Navire night

Deutsch

OV - HD

Jean-François Stévenin

Mathieu Schiffman

Pierre Clémenti

Pascale Ogier

Benjamin Baltimore

Steve Baës

Joe Dann

Young unhinged female ex-con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to.

Le Pont du nord

french-SME

Jacques Dutronc

Kurt Raab

Virgilio Teixeira

Carlos César

To-Zé Martinho

Robby Müller

Exploring themes of addiction, sexual power games, and compulsive behavior, Barbet Shroeder&#x27;s Tricheurs is a powerfully impudent look into the world of gambling addicts, Bulle Ogier is cast among a stylish milleu of gamblers on a Portuguese island.

Tricheurs

Fejria Deliba

Laurence Côte

Benoît Régent

Bernadette Giraud

A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette&#x27;s work as a whole.

Band of Four

Madeleine Renaud

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Yves Gasc

An old lady, settled in the colonies, comes to Paris to visit her son, a man of fifty, whom she has not seen for ten years.

Entire Days in the Trees

Nicole Garcia

Jean Babilée

The Queen of the Night battles the Queen of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris.

Duelle

VF - HD - CARLOTTA

Guillaume Depardieu

Jeanne Balibar

In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he&#x27;s captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?

The Duchess of Langeais

FR - SDD

Jean-Luc Bideau

Véronique Alain

Jacques Denis

Marblum Jequier

Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde, a young working-class woman whom they meet because they&#x27;re writing a teleplay about a minor but curious event in which either her uncle was wounded while cleaning his rifle or she shot him. Pierre is a free-lance journalist hired to write the script; he&#x27;s short of time so he asks a Bohemian novelist friend, Paul, to help. Pierre wants facts and tracks down Rosemonde for interviews that lead to other explorations; Paul only wants to imagine her and needs little more than her name to do so. But he does meet her, and she entangles him, too. Did she cause the shooting? Is she venomous or innocent?

The Salamander

FR - HD

Frédéric Pierrot

Bernard Cuau

Omar Bekhaled

Marie and her mother Jeanne live alone. Jeanne finds a job for Marie. Near her new workplace, Marie discovers a motorbike circuit and meets Alexandre, a motorcyclist. She starts to ride, and to neglect Jeanne. Jeanne&#x27;s only interest was her daughter, so she suffers a lot... The film is an analysis of the two women and their relationship.

Circuit Carole

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Bernadette Lafont

Maaïke Jansen

Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.

Nobody Loves Me

Emmanuelle Devos

Bruno Todeschini

Lambert Wilson

Michael Lonsdale

Fontaine Leglou is an anesthesiologist in a psychiatric clinic. She loves her job and she loves Michel, her companion with whom she has lived for several years. So why, when he asks for her marriage, Fontaine does not know what to answer?

Gentille

Gérard Depardieu

C'est quoi Gérard Depardieu ?

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In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That&#x27;s all -- there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else. The script itself tells about an encounter between a blank-slate of a woman hitchhiker, and a communist truck driver. As the reading progresses, Duras comments bitterly about the failed ideals of communism and the glorious revolution that will probably never happen.

Le Camion

Freebox - VF - SD

The one who writes the text evokes her parents who died in deportation: her mother died giving her birth, her father was hanged for stealing soup for her, and sometimes she seems to speak to this father, sometimes to a young person. sailor to whom she offers herself.

Aurélia Steiner

Yann Gonzalez

Vernon Dobtcheff

Claude Mann

Françoise Lebrun

Jean-Claude Biette

Didier Flamand

Satasinh Manila

Maria de Medeiros

C'était quoi Delphine Seyrig ?

Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.

India Song

Freebox - VF - HD

Claudine Gabay

Noëlle Chatelet

Claude Aufort

Nathalie Nell

Marguerite Duras à propos de la musique

Pour le cinéma

n response to a new friend&#x27;s queries, Vera recounts her life, starting with her no-good husband Jean, who has been using her to keep his failing building business afloat - up to the present affair she&#x27;s having with Cayre.

Baxter, Vera Baxter

Radu Jude

From the end of a night to dawn. An uninterrupted traveling shot. From Bastille to the Champs-Elysees, by way of the Boulevard des Italiens, Avenue de l&#x27;Opera, and Rue de Rivoli, a depopulated Paris offers itself to Marguerite Duras&#x27; mysterious and profound voice.

The Negative Hands

Pierre Richard

Corynne Charbit

Michel Robin

André Valardy

Michel Fortin

Robert Dalban

Gérard Depardieu "la concentration et les acteurs"

Ciné regards

Pierre Richard à propos du tournage de La Chèvre de Francis Veber

Les dossiers de l'écran

Ciné regards 29/04/1979 : Gérard Depardieu "la concentration et les acteurs"

President Bens&#x27; daughter has disappeared somewhere in South America. Campana, a private detective, comes back empty handed from an extensive search of the continent. There is only one thing left for Bens to do: send Fran&ccedil;ois Perrin, a man as jinxed as his daughter, to find her! So the unlikely pair starts off on their mission: the straight-laced Campana and Perrin with his burden of bad luck and his truckload of unflappable optimism.

La Chèvre

László Szabó

Isabelle Huppert

Hanna Schygulla

Jerzy Radziwilowicz

Hommage an Jean-Luc Godard

Piccoli Trois heures du mat...

Cinéma Cinémas

Jean-Luc Godard en 9 minutes

C’est quoi Isabelle Huppert ?

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Jean-Luc Godard par Thierry Jousse

In a provincial factory, a war of attrition takes place between the manager and a female worker who wants to set up a union group. At the local hotel, a similar confrontation opposes the local population and a film crew.

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