Jean-Claude Carrière
Also Known As: Jean-Claude François Carrière, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean Claude Carriere, Жан-Клод Каррьер
Biography: Jean-Claude Carrière (17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later conferred an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in The Return of Martin Guerre (1983). Carrière was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and was president of La Fémis, the French state film school that he helped establish. He was noted as a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of the latter's late French films.
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
Birthday: September 17, 1931
Deathday: February 08, 2021
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Gender: Male
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Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Overview: The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Genres: Drama Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Fifty Years Later
Overview: Agnès Vincent-Deray, the widow of director Jacques Deray, made this short documentary on the production of LA PISCINE in 2019, on the occasion of that film's fiftieth anniversary. It features interviews with actors Alain Delon and Jane Birkin as well as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean-Emmanuel Conil, who wrote the novel on which the screenplay was based. Released in the US in 2021 as a special feature on the Criterion release of La Piscine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-31
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The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Overview: Made a year after Luis Buñuel's death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and visionary director, featuring clips, archival interviews, and commentary from scholars and contemporaries including Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Jeanne Moreau. Directed by Anthony Wall with readings from Buñuel's autobiography by Paul Scofield. Six trims to meet copyright restrictions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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Certified Copy
Overview: In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-19
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Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Overview: Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by Marguerite Duras, she played in 34 films for cinema, 13 films for television and 33 plays. Jacqueline Veuve, filmmaker and friend of Delphine Seyrig, wanted to break the silence that has fallen on her memory by making a documentary that traces with emotion and subjectivity the life of the mythical actress, the fierce feminist but also the simple friend.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-01
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The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel
Overview: A loosely chronological visual “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Luis Buñuel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Overview: A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
Overview: The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he appear in public. How did he become a legendary author? What is so unique about his books?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Carrière, 250 Meters
Overview: A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière. Carrière predicts that between the house he was born in and the cemetery in which he will end there is a life journey of just 250 meters. "Carrière: 250 Meters" follows him as he reflects on the wealth of global traditions of storytelling, travelling through past and present, across countries and cultures from Paris to New York, Mexico and India and joined by his family, friends and collaborators. A testament to the life and work of an extraordinary man and a key architect in contemporary cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-24
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Speaking of Buñuel
Overview: Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Buñuel in Hollywood
Overview: This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Aragonese filmmaker stays in the U.S., the characters he met, the films he made and he could never do. The program also includes new material-unpublished until 2012 - the Aragonese director filmed in the U.S. in the early 1940s and where he can be seen playing one of their children or enjoying a short holiday in a cottage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-22
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The Night and the Moment
Overview: The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes her through his time in prison where he was unknowingly incarcerated in the cell beside hers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-05
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These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Overview: When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
Overview: French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-21
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Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
Overview: Milan Kundera's rambling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, though greatly admired, was thought by Hollywood studio executives to be "unfilmable." Director Philip Kaufman and producer Saul Zaentz proved them wrong. Emotional History follows Kaufman and Zaentz as they enlist the help of screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and legendary film editor Walter Murch to turn the Kundera novel into an imaginative exploration of politics and eroticism, set against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Our documentary goes in-depth to discover how indelible moments in the film - Lena Olin kneeling on a dressing mirror; Russian tanks invading Prague; Juliette Binoche photographing her boyfriend's nude mistress; became a part of cinematic history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-07
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Gala
Overview: Tour of the life of Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova Gala from Kazan Russia, where she was born, to Davos, where she met Paul Éluard, and continues in Paris and New York down to Cadaqués, where she died.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-04
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The Wedding Ring
Overview: A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-15
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Surprise Sock
Overview: Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-06-14
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The Associate
Overview: An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-22
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And the blue sky
Overview: An intimate documentary shedding light on the life of veteran Iranian actor, Ezzatollah Entezami.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-02-07
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The Secret Book
Overview: The search for the Secret Book of the Bogomils brings Guy Chevalier (Thierry Fremont) to Macedonia. There, he is haunted by the spirit of the Gardian of the book and followed by unknown forces. Little by little, he starts loosing his mind and his identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Vive les femmes !
Overview: The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-07
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The Arbitrariness of Desire
Overview: a doc on Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
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A Little Sun in Cold Water
Overview: Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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The Mystery of the King of Kinema
Overview: In 1914, Max Linder (1883-1925) was a great star of silent cinema, the King of Cinema. But then World War I broke out, in which Max participated, and the whole world, and his life in particular, was changed forever. His daughter Maud has fought for seventy years to regain his legacy. This is his story…
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-27
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Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
Overview: A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Borsalino City
Overview: The history of the birth of an icon, the Borsalino hat. From the factory where it was conceived in a small Italian town, to the glamorous world of Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-04-13
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Il était une fois... « King Kong »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-20
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Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Overview: "Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-03-09
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Avida
Overview: The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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The Garden of Torment
Overview: The story of a Antoine, a physician who was exiled to China in the 1930's due to his drug habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-05
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Madame De...
Overview: The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed cash. She decided to sell the family jeweler Remy earrings — a gift from her husband…
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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Diary of a Chambermaid
Overview: Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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Miloš Forman
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-06
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Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
Overview: Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Bunuel’s close friends and collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-14
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Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Overview: Featuring previously unissued photographs and video archives as well as interviews of his friends and partners in crime, this documentary tells how the kid from the poor suburbs turned superstar photographer. It draws the intimate portrait of the life and work – being so closely interwoven – of and artist fiercely determined to be purveyor of happiness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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Los chicos de la foto
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Overview: Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence Garret travels in the footsteps of Buñuel, from Calanda to Zaragoza, Madrid to Toledo, Spain to Mexico.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-13
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The Game of Solitaire
Overview: A psychiatrist takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stabbed to death. All the evidence points to a young orphan boy as the real murderer. Why is the psychiatrist claiming the murder as his own?
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-11-24
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The Associate
Overview: An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-22
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Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Overview: Why did Milos Forman have to make certain films the way he did? Where does his inner strength come from? What is the story of his life?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-10-08
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Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Overview: A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-07-12
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L'Amour nu
Overview: An educated woman ,with good prospects falls in love with an oceanographer .But breast cancer strikes : will she remain a true woman ,in spite of a mastectomy?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
Overview: In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than man's quest for the secret of life. Since then, the Creature became a pop culture icon, overshadowing the novel and Doctor Frankenstein himself.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-22
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Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves
Overview: Based on unpublished interviews with the family, Jean-Claude Carrière, his writer and biographer, family archives, mini-fictions that dramatize the memories evoked and in constant echo with the upcoming films whose images seem to crystallize over the narrative, we wish to reinterpret Luis Buñuel's work through these decisive years, revealing hidden coherence, originality and beauty.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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The Collection
Overview: Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging to Jewish collectors. Informed by a concierge, he manages to enter the apartment of Mr. Klein who apparently has a fabulous collection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-13
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Un Ange dans les marécages
Overview: Documentary about Diary of a Chambermaid
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Photo-souvenir
Overview: This film in the popular French television series Cinéma 16 stars Jean-Claude Carrière as a surgeon who becomes obsessed with decrypting a series of mysterious Polaroid snapshots
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-31
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Professor Goudet's Lessons
Overview: Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he conclude the disc with a half hour lecture that concludes the themes and methods of the filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-04-06
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Scenes from A Separation
Overview: Scenes from A Separation
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-10-04
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Rituals
Overview: Documentary about Buñuel's Tristana.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-22
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The Milky Way
Overview: Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-05-15
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Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
Overview: French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-01
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The Suitor
Overview: Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
Overview: A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-03
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Une promenade parmi les ombres
Overview: Analysis and interview with the screenwriter of Luis Buñuel's movie 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-14
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The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Overview: A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-06-17
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Bouvard et Pécuchet
Overview: Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-17
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Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
Overview: Notes on the movie Passion
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-05
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