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RESTORED CLASSICS
LA CHIENNE
Jean Renoir’s masterpiece and first sound feature
HD Remastered – 1931/2014 – France - 100mn – Black & White - Drama
Directed by Jean Renoir
Cast: Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamand, Magdelaine Berubet
Original Language: French
Married to a shrewish war widow, Mr Legrand (Michel Simon) is a Sunday painter. One night, he becomes entranced with Lulu, a young prostitute. She and her pimp play on his gullibility and bring about his decline.
Produced by Ets Braunberger-Richebé
About the movie
“A sarcastic and tender movie at the same time. The individuals lie to one another and run after each other without ever finding what they are looking for. Jean Renoir depicts a world of puppets where the characters are imprisoned in their mental and social condition.”
Jacques Doillon, Liberation, October 21st 1975.
This film was restored by Les Films du Jeudi and the Cinémathèque Française with the support of the CNC and the help of the Fond Culturel Franco-Américain (DGA – MPA – SACEM – WGAW). Restoration made by Digimage Classics and sound restoration by Diapason.
Distributed by Solaris, La Chienne was released on September 17th 2014
DAY IN THE COUNTRY
The legendary romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant
HD Remastered – 1936/2014 – France - 40mn – Black & White - Comedy
Directed by Jean Renoir
Cast: Sylvia Bataille, J.B Brunius, Jeanne Marken, Georges Saint-Saens, Gabriello, Paul Temps, Jean Renoir, Jacques Borel, Georges D’Arnoux, Henri Cartier-Bresson
Original Language: French
One Sunday, Mr. Dufour, the hardware dealer, his mother, his wife, his daughter Henriette and his assistant, Anatole, go picnicking in the country. The men go fishing, and two young people charm Henriette and her mother and take them out boating. There is a sudden clap of thunder; they must rush back home. A few years later, Henriette, now married to Anatole, returns to the country, where she meets her first love.
The film exemplifies the collaboration between Renoir and the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was his assistant director and here appears as a young priest mesmerized by the beauty of Henriette.
Produced by Les Films du Panthéon
This film was restored by Les Films du Jeudi, Les Films du Panthéon and La Cinémathèque française, with the support of the CNC and the help of the Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain (DGA - MPA - SACEM - WGAW).
Distributed by Solaris, Partie de Campagne was released in France on May 28th 2014.
A WOMAN KILLS
A thrilling classic rises from the ashes
DCP- HD - 1968-2014 - France - 69mn – Black and White - Drama
Director: Jean-Denis Bonan
Cast: Claude Merlin, Solange Pradel, Myriam Mézières
Original Language: French
Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes trouble the tranquility of the city. Hélène Picard is finally found guilty of the murders of fellow prostitutes and sentenced to death. On March 22th 1968, two years after her trial, she is put to death by executioner Louis Guilbeau. A few days after the execution violent crimes similar to Hélène’s start occurring again. At the same time, Louis G. has an affair with the police officer, a woman, in charge of the investigation.
What are the dark links hidden behind the relationship between the executioner and this mysterious police officer? Who is this obscure man in reality?
Produced by Luna Park Films
WARTIME DRAMAS
SUMMER SOLSTICE
Beginning of summer, end of innocence.
POST PRODUCTION
DCP - HD - 2014 – Poland/Germany - 95min – Drama/Historical
Directed by Michal Rogalski
Cast: Filip Piotrowicz, Jonas Nay, Urszula Bogucka, Maria Semotiuk, Steffen Scheuman, Gerdy Zint, Bartłomiej Topa, Agnieszka Krukówna
Original Language: Polish, German
When love, friendship, and fate connect a simple Polish country boy, the daughter of a local farmer, a young German soldier, and a Jewish girl from Warsaw.
1943. The Polish countryside. After the great defeat of Stalingrad, Germany begins sending younger and younger recruits to war. That is how GUIDO, a sensitive seventeen-year-old, finds himself fighting in Poland. While serving near a small village, he tries to escape the brutality of the war and the simplistic point of view of his much older fellow soldiers. He has a secret hideaway in the attic of the post where he listens to forbidden jazz records and dreams of better times. At the same time, ROMEK (17), tries to help his single mother by working as an assistant rail engine operator. He dreams of two things: to captain his own train like his father before he went missing, and to win the heart of FRANKA, the daughter of well-to-do farmer.
The ill-fated and unlikely connection of these four, in the context of a horrific war, leads to a series of tragedies. Who will survive is not entirely up to them.
Produced by Prasa & Film
CALM AT SEA
This authentic story recounts the events which led up to the early death of the 17-years-old resistant, Guy Môquet
DCP - HD – Germany & France – 90min – Drama
Directed by Volker SCHLÖNDORFF
Original language: French
Cast : Léo Paul Salmain, Marc Barbé, Ulrich Matthes Jean-Marc Roulot
Volker Schlöndorff comes back with a drama film dealing with the « Hostage Question” paying a moving tribute to the French citizens who were shot dead during the Occupation. The film questions Death as it comes as a form of an administrative act when human beings are at stake, like puppets dangling on the strings of an inexorable machine. While the hostages refuse to wear a blindfold and that the rifleman are looking them right in the eyes, we can’t help getting deeply caught by the dreadful reality of wartime.
Produced by LES CANARDS SAUVAGES, ARTE France, 7e APACHE FILMS, PROVO BIS FILM
Awards
Golden Fipa for Best Actor: Léo Paul Salmain for his interpretation of « Guy Môquet »
Utopia Award - Bellinzona Film Festival
Fersehfilmpreis der Deutschen Akademie der Darstellende Künste, Baden-Baden
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FEAR OF THE DARK
THE MAN IN THE ORANGE JACKET
You are your own worst enemy
DCP - HD - 2014 - Latvia - 71min - Thriller
Directed by Aik Karapetian
Cast: Maxim Lazarev, Anta Aizupe, Aris Rozentals
Original Language: Latvian
A collective rage boils within. He and hundreds of employees have just lost their jobs because their boss selfishly decided to sell his haven, proving once again that the poor pay the price while the rich reap the rewards. But not this time. Dressed in his uniform and armed with his tools, he stealthily infiltrates his boss’s house and kills him in cold blood. His boss’s breathtaking girlfriend knows a similar fate. Justice has been served.
With the bodies safely tucked away in the basement, the man in the orange jacket can finally celebrate his victory—time for the high life of classy restaurants, escorts and fancy cars. All he needs is to appropriate his victim’s identity. The good times will be short-lived, however. Just when he’s beginning to enjoy his new life, strange sounds start to trouble his sleep. His peace of mind is also affected by the intrusion of a strange character, not to mention this menacing silhouette that spies from afar, a silent observer that scrutinizes his every move.
A nerve-wracking frenzy begins when paranoia invades the man with the orange jacket. Music!
"Aik Karapetian’s THE MAN IN THE ORANGE JACKET is this year’s most ground breaking dramatic horror picture"
"Inspired by Lars Von Trier, the student surpasses the master with an audacious slasher that intelligently criticizes the economic class struggle."
Produced by Locomotive Production
Festivals:
Fantasia Film Festival 2014 - Competion - Camera Lucida Section
Fantastic Fest 2014 – Competition – Horror Section
BFI London Film Festival 2014 - Cult
Mile High Horror 2014 - Official Selection
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CRUEL
DCP - HD - 2014 - France - 108min - Thriller
Directed by: Eric Cherriere
Cast: Jean-Jacques Lelte, Magalie Moreau, Maurice Poli, Hans Meyer
Original language: French
A large French city, these days ... Pierre Tardieu is a temporary worker. He lives in an old house with his ill father. No one is aware of his existence. Pierre falls in love. Pierre is a serial killer. His victims are normal individuals. Ordinary people with ordinary lives. Men and women living, working and suffering side by side but never really together, forming a crowd lost in a big city.
CRUEL is the story of a man who has grown up poorly, of a woman who could have saved him and of a city that is an invisible prison.
Produced by De Pure Fiction
Festival
Busan International Film Festival 2014 - Flash Forward
ROSEVILLE
It's too late to be afraid
DCP - HD - 2014 - Bulgaria - 120min – Horror Thriller
Directed by Martin Makariev
Cast: David Chokachi, Elena Petrova, Kalin Vrachanski, Lydia Injova, Plamen Manassiev
Original Language: English/Bulgarian
On November 18th 1985, the police found four bodies in an isolated mountain hut in Roseville, Bulgaria. One of the guests, a man named Vasil, was missing and his whereabouts remain unknown as of today. The case is still labeled "unsolved crime."
The film is an artistic interpretation, a mix of horror and paranormal, based on direct and indirect police information.
Produced by Forward Pictures Ltd., Promotis Ltd., Camera Ltd., Dream Team Ltd. , Modo Bulgaria, Band of Friends
Awards
Bulgarian Film academy awards:
- Best actor in a leading role (Plamen Manassiev)
- Best actress in a leading role (Lydia Injova)
- Best production design
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HOSTILES
Love and hate like you have never seen
DCP - HD - 2014 - France - 71mn - Psychological Thriller
Directed by Robin Plessy
Cast: Ludovic Mollé, Helen Sénot, Elise Diamant, Brigitte Lucas, Romain Deroo, YoannDenaive, Marie Coulangeon, David Ravet, Romane Portail
Original Language: French
Bastien has become cynical and dark. His relationship with Sarah is based on voyeurism and sadomasochism. One night, by continually pushing their experiences farther, the young woman is shocked and decides to distance herself from her lover. She will try to get rid of him but will be perplexed and fascinated by Bastien’s intentions of holding
her back.
Produced by Marty est une entreprise
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THE CRADLE OF SHADOWS
In the heart of Darkness.
DCP - HD - 2014 - France - 80min – Thriller/Fantastic
Directed by Jerôme Jacob
Cast: Matthias Pohl, Jérôme Jacob, Aurore Sellier, Jonathan Riggio, Laurette Scarlata, Marcos Adamantiadis, Daniel Dargau
Original Language: French
A man who works in an old bunker of World War II disappears under mysterious circumstances. Lacking evidence the police decided to close the case. Following this a private detective is hired to continue the investigation. Teamed up with scientists he will try to find new evidence and especially prove that there is no paranormal phenomenon. For their research the team will be locked in the bunker to investigate. After discovering a former Nazi lab, they will realize they are not alone. A struggle for survival will begin...
Produced by Black Owl Prod
WHEN THE NIGHT FALLS
WASP
Love matures in Provence.
DCP - HD - 2014 - UK - 72min - Drama
Directed by Philippe Audi-Dor
Cast: Simon Haycock, Elly Condron, Hugo Bolton
Original Language: English
Having left England for a romantic escapade in the south of France, Olivier and James invite Caroline along at the very last minute. She was just left by her long-time boyfriend and is in need of a change of scenery.
The trio arrives in a little Provencal village, somewhat cut off from the world. Though everything seems calm between the pool, sunshine and a village visit, Olivier finds himself more and more intrigued by Caroline.
A tension of sexual jealousy and possessiveness will escalade between the three. The next day, all is silence. The three leave the house. Not one word is exchanged. The house stands still, quiet, empty.
Produced by BLUE SHADOWS FILMS
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4.48
Exploring the life and sexuality of a passionate young actress
DCP - HD - 2014 – France – 88min - Erotic
Directed by: Jacky Katu
Cast: Aurélie Hougeunade, Jean-Marie Galey, Ynda Rouya, Marie Menges
Original language: French
A young actress Anaïs is so invested in her new role of Sarah Kane in the play “Psychose 4:48” that her relationship with her mentor and director of the play gets difficult. One night, after a fight, she leaves for London following Sarah Kane’s steps. After returning to France, she breaks up with him and falls in love with a woman. She starts to act as Sarah Kane and rewrite “Psychose 4:48”. Two days before the Premiere, the director changes his stage direction and asks Anais to recite the text completely naked.
Produced by Jacky Katu (LES ILLUMINATIONS)
Festival:
Montréal World Film Festival 2014 - World Cinema
EVA BRAUN
Sex. Scandals. Politics. An Italian story
DCP - HD - 2014 – Italy – 82min - Erotic
Directed by: Simone Scafidi
Cast: Andrea Riva De Onestis, Susanna Giaroli, Federica Fracassi, Adele Raes, Giulia Martina Faggioni
