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Double bill of Eric Rohmer classics.

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)

The film consists of four episodes in the relationship of two young women: Reinette (Joëlle Miquel), a country girl, and Mirabelle (Jessica Forde), a Parisian. The first episode is entitled 'The Blue Hour' and recounts their meeting. The second centers on a café and a difficult waiter. In the third, the girls discuss their differing views on society's margins: beggars, thieves and swindlers. In the fourth episode, Reinette and Mirabelle succeed in selling one of Reinette's paintings to an art dealer while Reinette pretends to be mute and Mirabelle, acting as if she does not know Reinette, does all the talking.
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)
This is a "political" film with no axe to grind. An election campaign and local zoning decisions simply serve as a backdrop for an ironic reflection on the role of chance in history, starting with the ambitions of a village mayor. Although the portrait of the palce and its inhabitants is realistic enough - sometimes bordering on a documentary - the anecdote is pure ficion. It goes without saying, as the saying goes, that "the events recounted in this film and the characters who appear in it bear no connection, direct or otherwise, with real people or events".

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In Claude Chabrol's superior thriller Ludivine Sagnier plays an independent ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior (Francois Berleand) and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor (Benolt Magimel).

An unspoken past between the two men heightens tensions, and though she's initially certain of her love for one of them, the see-saw demands and whims of both men keep confusing—and darkening-matters. Before long she's encountering emotional and societal forces well beyond her control, inexorably leading to a shocking clash of violence and passion.

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In June 1946 Stalin launches a massive propaganda campaign targeted at Russian emigrants living in the West, offering an amnesty, new passports and the chance to play a crucial role in the reconstruction of the post-war Soviet Union.

Attracted by the promise of a new life, Alexei, a doctor, and Marie, his wife, decide to make the journey from France to the USSR. However, on arrival in Odessa they are horrified to find that their travelling companions are imprisoned or shot on the spot, and that only they are kept alive. Soon it becomes apparent that they have been chosen as a model returnee couple, and are being held in the country against their will. Determined that her family will one day return to the freedom of the West, Marie must find a way to escape the oppression of their new life without alerting the already suspicious authorities

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7 Virgins is a powerful coming-of-age tale about the exploits of sweet-faced Tano (Juan Jose Ballesta), a 16-year-old reform school inmate, who is given a 48-hour pass to attend his brother's wedding. He and his neighbourhood buddies are soon on the prowl for sex, drugs and cheap thrills.

It is during this time that Tano must make some difficult choices - choices that will either force him to grow up or lead him on a spiraling road to tragedy.

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Recovering drug addict Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is given a day's leave from his rehab centre to apply for a job in the city.

Over the course of one day and night, he tries to reconnect with his old friends and family in Oslo, where the ghosts of his past mistakes wrestle with the hope to see some future by morning.

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Bitter and isolated after losing her mother and part of her right arm in a car accident, thirteen year old Alice (Lowena McDonell) lives a secluded life in a futuristic house deep in the woods, with her father, Adam (Julian Nicholson).

Life is altered when Alice and her only friend, a pet wolfhound named Beatrice (voice of Lucy Tillett), stumble upon a mysterious black cube within the forest, through which, Alice receives warning messages from someone who seems to be her future self. Terrifying events are approaching, events that can only be changed by altering the past.

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To escape from his overbearing parents, 14-year-old Lorenzo bunks off a school skiing trip and spends a week hiding out in his building's neglected basement, watching films, reading books and playing with his ant farm.

But when his older half-sister unexpectedly turns up they are thrown into a new, intimate and deeply emotional relationship, forcing Lorenzo to see the world through new eyes.

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Years after Europe was ravaged by the Maze virus, transforming people into cannibalistic monsters, a cure is finally found. In 75% of cases the treatment is successful but the cured remember everything they did while infected.

Amongst them is Senan Browne (Sam Keeley), a man haunted by the memories of his actions. As he returns to the home of his brother's widow, Abbie (Ellen Page), fear and suspicion threaten to plunge the world back into chaos.

Two adolescents meet and cautiously fall in love in beautiful surrounds during the peak of an idyllic Swedish summer. Oblivious to social boundaries, they innocently create their own milieu in contrast to the distorted relationships, disillusionment, and world-weariness of adult life around them.

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The film is set on a remote weather station in the Arctic manned by old hand Sergei and the novice Pavel. When Pavel receives an important radio message, his fear of the older man prevents him telling Sergei the shocking news.

From this deception, lies and suspicions poison relations between the two to such an extent that Pavel is in fear of his life, not just from the polar bears that roam the island, but from Sergei.

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Forty-year-old Edyta (Katarzyna Herman) is a woman in crisis. She drifts from hotel to hotel, and when her money runs out she uses the internet to seek out men looking for sex.

Edyta spends her nights in the homes of these nameless men but, instead of the promised sex, she takes advantage of their involuntary hospitality. Edyta reaches a turning point, however, when she meets a young artist named Patryk (Tomasz Tyndyk).

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Angele (Clotilde Hesme) arrives at a remote Normandy fishing village and meets trawler owner Tony (Gregory Gadebois) via a lonely hearts ad. Finding "true love" is the last thing on her mind, and her crude attempt to seduce Tony fails.

Much to the dismay of his mother, Tony gives Angele a room in their house and a job working on the port. Angele has come to Normandy in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged son, who lives with his paternal grandparents due to her tumultuous past. When the truth is finally revealed, Tony has to decide if he should help her fulfill her dream.

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For her directorial debut, Jessica Hausner has created an honest and revealing portrait of Rita, a wilful and unruly teenager on the verge of womanhood. Her sexual awakening leads her to intimacy with a schoolboy too young and a bus driver, too old.

Her efforts to break out of her solitude and claustrophobic environment isolate her even more, until one day she crosses the line.

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Three teenagers jump 'The Beast' - the infamous train that illegal immigrants board to take them from Guatemala, through Mexico, to the American border. The journey to a better life is fraught with danger.

Facing exploitation at every turn, the only people they can trust on this perilous journey are each other.

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Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman in her late thirties who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship.

But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire.