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No Way Back (2025)
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other title: Aux jours qui viennent / Pompéï …
After years of toxic relationship with Joachim, Laura is raising their daughter on her own. Joachim's new partner, Shirine, shows up at Laura's door in trouble. Laura realizes that they are both under the same harmful influence. The two women try to help each other find a path out of the toxic relationship.

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Memory Lane (2010)
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other title: 记忆的小巷
The events of an ordinary summer in the Paris suburbs, but given a melancholy, dream-like eeriness in this superb ensemble piece by new director Mikhaël Hers. Mikhaël Hers has been one of France's most hotly-tipped new directors ever since his medium-length ensemble pieces Primrose Hill and Montparnasse - films largely about young people walking and talking, but with a magical contemplative atmosphere all their own. Stretching out to full length, Memory Lane confirms Hers's utterly distinctive signature. Very loosely resembling a slacker take on the Eric Rohmer tradition, Hers's film follows the events - or spaces between events - of one summer in Paris and its outskirts, experienced by a group of young people and remembered melancholically at a couple of months' distance. Two sisters worry about their father's illness; a young man quietly unravels; other characters fall in love, or rehearse their indie band in a school courtyard. Little happens, except the quiet moments of togetherness that are Hers' speciality, and yet Memory Lane somehow creates a uniquely haunting sense of things being somehow out of time while profoundly in the present. An appealing cast - including one-time Rohmer player Marie Rivière - enhance the minor-key distinctiveness of this superb debut feature.

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The Duchess of Warsaw (2015)
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other title: 华沙女公爵 / La duchesse de Varsovie …
一位年轻的画家瓦伦汀,迷失于虚构的世界,偶遇其祖母尼娜。在相聚的几天中,他们漫步于梦幻巴黎的各个街头。瓦伦汀告诉她,他对爱的力不从心。然而,尼娜不愿叙述她痛苦的过去。但为了减轻瓦伦汀的精神负担,她最终谈及了她被关押在集中营的悲惨遭遇。在清晨的阳光下,瓦伦汀试图在他的画作上增加新的色彩,并开始真正的生活。

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The Guitar Lesson (2006)
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Martin Rit actor: 塞尔日·里亚布金 / Sébastien Morin …
other title: 吉他初体验 / La leçon de guitare …
A man with nothing to do all day decides to take guitar lessons. He falls for his music teacher’s flatmate who flirts with him slightly and even has the same name as the Serge Gainsbourg chanson he’s struggling to learn “Laetitia”. Not so much a passionate love story as a finely woven, laconic film about what it’s like to be just that little bit in love.

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Love Like Poison (2010)
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卡黛儿·基耶维蕾 actor: 克拉拉·奥加德 / 莉雅 …
other title: 爱情毒药 / Un poison violent …
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?