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A Sadly Forgotten Gem, 14 October 1999
Author: minstrel
This movie is one of the best films the great Italian director, Ettore Scola has ever made. It also has a fantastic cast, all doing a great job, but, is seems the late Massimo Troisi does outshine them all, with a stunning performance as Pulcinella, a Sancho Panza sort of clown. This fantasy, dream-like tale, is based on the famous book by the same name by Théophile Gautier, the French author. This is actually the 5th movie adaptation of this novel, which must tell you something about its force to attract generations of film makers.
Vincent Pérez plays Baron of Sigognac, a young royal, whose quest for material wealth brings him true love and revelations on the nature of this world. The plot themes are somewhat related to Stoppard's excellent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - both uses the traveling players to explore the nature of the human condition. One might also recall Bergman's Seventh Seal, but Fracassa is more akin of Stoppard's light hearted, witty, approach to those grave subjects.
A truly exceptional, beautiful and entertaining film, a long standing achievement for all involved, surely better than Il Postino, though, sadly, much less known. Surely overdue for re-release?

A woman, a man, a summer in Paris. Passion, break ups, reconciliations. A love story in disarray...

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.

2022 film directed by Mikhaël Hers

罗伯特无疑是法国电影界最爱在女演员身旁打转的粉丝。他在几乎把白天的时间都用在偷偷摸摸地打探他那些喜欢的明星私生活上了。由于他的暗中安排，三位他最爱的女演员在同一部电影中出演，有一天，她们三位发现一个共同的问题——她们拥有同一个粉丝。她们决定联合起来对付罗伯特：她们不再是他的偶像，而成为了他最大的恶梦……

A lawyer hires a call girl after learning his wife has invited her lover to move in; the husband and wife separate and the two new couples live side-by-side without issue - until an ex-boyfriend shows up and things start to go wrong.

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2004 film by Marion Vernoux

Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries, but finds time to see the, by now quite accomplished actress, Nathalie. They fight through the years, La Repetition following them as their friendship comes together and breaks up frequently, while never actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.

卡洛琳（莫妮卡·博洛克 Monica Broeke 饰）、朱利安（Inge Maria Granzow 饰）和伊莲娜（艾曼纽·贝阿 Emmanuelle Béart 饰）是感情十分要好的朋友，年轻而富有活力的她们向往刺激而又富有激情的生活，她们驾驶着游艇飞驰在波涛汹涌的大海之中，谁知道遭遇了暴风雨，游艇被打翻，三人生死未卜。
幸运的是，一个陌生的男孩挽救了三人的性命，并将她们逮到了一个小岛之上。在那里，三个单纯的女孩体会到了灵与肉的激情。伊莲娜和朱利安分别找到了她们的伴侣，享受着爱情带来的滋润和甜蜜。而卡洛琳则陷入了深深的迷惘和纠结里，她爱上了一个神秘的男孩，苦苦的追逐着这个男孩的身影。

Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young woman in underwear on his doorstep: his neighbor Eva! She tells him she locked herself out of her apartment and insists that he helps her. Whilst Yan is trying to enter Eva's apartment via their adjoining balcony, his phone rings. It is Florence, and she is not impressed when a female voice answers the phone. At this point, Eva's rabidly jealous boyfriend Boris returns home. Seeing Yan in his apartment, he deduces that Eva has been having an affair behind his back. Florence then turns up and Yan tries in vain to explain the situation. By chance, Florence's husband suddenly puts in an appearance. After that, it all starts to get a bit complicated.

Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?

Josephine and Iris, sisters with opposite personalities, have their relationship radically transformed while working on a book.

童年的阴影如影随形地伴随着这个家庭的三姊妹苏菲（艾曼纽·贝阿 Emmanuelle Béart饰）、莎莲（嘉莲·维雅 Karin Viard 饰）和安妮（玛丽·吉莲 Marie Gillain 饰）。她们的父亲因为和别人搞同性恋，误把母亲致残，继而自己跳楼身亡。她们带着这个伤口继续着各自的生活。
苏菲怀疑丈夫有了外遇，她费尽心机调查丈夫的行踪，同时对自己的婚姻还仅存一丝希望。然而真相却残酷地摧毁了她的生活。沙莲全心全意照顾瘫痪的母亲，感情一直空白，知道有人，开始追求她，爱护她，为她做浪漫的事儿，可是，这一切都是命运开的一次玩笑。安妮怀着老教授的孩子，可是对方是个不负责任的男人，他只有死去，才能给安妮的恨意消除…捉弄她们的，不止是生活的际遇，还有那个童年的阴影，她们得知了一个意外的真相。

2003 film by Anne Fontaine

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2000 film by Olivier Assayas

Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.

Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn’t know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had fallen in love a year earlier.