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The Barbarian Invasions [VHS]  

The Barbarian Invasions [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands
Director: Denys Arcand
The intriguing Denys Arcand (director of Jesus of Montreal and Stardom) returns to the lusty, cantankerous intellectuals of his first film, The Decline of the American Empire. Remy (Remy Girard), a history professor, is dying of cancer, and his estranged and financially successful son Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau) returns to care for the old man. With the power of money, Sebastien cuts through bureaucracy and the law to give his father some comfort--comfort that Remy accepts with reluctance, because in his eyes the unintellectual Sebastian has betrayed all of Remy's principles. Old friends arrive and soon the conversation turns to sex, religion, history, sex, academia, sex--The Barbarian Invasions isn't very focused, but the very breadth of its ideas makes it wo...
 

A Single Girl [VHS]  

A Single Girl [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Virginie Ledoyen, Benoît Magimel, Dominique Valadié, Michel Bompoil, Véra Briole
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Next to the blandly flawless feminist heroines played by Demi Moore and Meg Ryan in American movies, Valerie (Virginie Ledoyen), the protagonist in Benoît Jacquot's excellent French film A Single Girl, boasts a whole catalog of shortcomings. Yes, she is young and beautiful (movies are movies, even in the French realist tradition), but she is also selfish, uncertain, irresponsible, and occasionally cruel. Moore's example to the contrary, it's hard to be a saint when you're about to become a single mom, when your boyfriend has been languishing on unemployment, when your own mother behaves more like a dependent child, and when the first job you've been able to find in a year is as a room-service waiter in a luxury hotel.

Valerie's indoctrination at the hotel is her indoctrinatio...

 
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The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares)  

The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares)

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Dorothee Berryman, Isabelle Blais, Markita Boies, Denis Bouchard, Toni Cecchinato
Academy Award(R) winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003, THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS is a provocative look at the many ties that bind a group of friends and lovers. It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor (Rémy Girard) to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confront their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life! Winner of the Best Actress (Marie-Josée Croze) and Best Screenplay awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival -- critics everywhere hailed this outstanding motion picture as one of the year's best!
 
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A Single Girl  

A Single Girl

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Virginie Ledoyen, Benoît Magimel, Dominique Valadié, Michel Bompoil, Véra Briole
Director: Benoît Jacquot
A day in the life of a young Parisian woman, Valerie, shot in real time. Follow Valerie around as she meditates on the paths of human nature she crosses, sometimes comic, sometimes hostile, which lead her to make important decisions about her future.
 
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The Barbarian Invasions  

The Barbarian Invasions

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands
Director: Denys Arcand
The intriguing Denys Arcand (director of Jesus of Montreal and Stardom) returns to the lusty, cantankerous intellectuals of his first film, The Decline of the American Empire. Remy (Remy Girard), a history professor, is dying of cancer, and his estranged and financially successful son Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau) returns to care for the old man. With the power of money, Sebastien cuts through bureaucracy and the law to give his father some comfort--comfort that Remy accepts with reluctance, because in his eyes the unintellectual Sebastian has betrayed all of Remy's principles. Old friends arrive and soon the conversation turns to sex, religion, history, sex, academia, sex--The Barbarian Invasions isn't very focused, but the very breadth of its ideas makes it wo...
 
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Mina Tannenbaum [Region 2]  

Mina Tannenbaum [Region 2]

Staring: Romane Bohringer, Elsa Zylberstein, Florence Thomassin, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Eric Defosse
Director: Martine Dugowson

 

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