François Villiers — Director (5)

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Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice (1989)
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other title: Manika, une vie plus tard / 馬尼卡的輪回 …
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former life as a Brahman wife in Nepal. Her parish priest, Father Daniel is under orders to convince her otherwise, as reincarnation does not accord with official Catholic doctrine. Instead, he agrees to journey with her to the site of her dreams of a previous life. Once there, they discover that all is just as she had dreamed it, and her former husband has remarried despite promising not to. Her arrival on the scene does not disturb the man, but it really upsets his new wife, who departs with her baby. Manika decides that it helps no one for her to remain there in Nepal, and returns to her home in the south. However, all this has caused a genuine crisis of faith for the priest who, witnessing all this, has had to grapple with some irreconcilable issues.

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La Pomme de son œil (1970)
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Quel père ne tient pas à sa fille de manière inconditionnelle? C’est une vraie question pour Roland de Mailly, père divorcé, qui subit bien malgré lui les extravagances de sa fille chérie. Tour à tour religieuse, hippie, extra-lucide, artiste de cirque, aura-t-elle raison de l’amour paternel?

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Three Faces of Sin (1961)
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other title: Die drei Wahrheiten / Le Puits aux trois vérités …
Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.

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Girl and the River (1958)
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other title: L'eau vive / 小溪的呼唤 …
The heroine in L'Eau Vive is the unwilling heir to a fortune. Young Hortense (Pascale Audret) has always known that her family was greedy, but until she inherits her father's hidden millions she has no idea how loathsome her relatives could be. Surrounded on all sides by grubby, outstretched hands, Hortense takes some comfort in the fact that her legacy is still missing. When the money is finally recovered, our heroine does the "right thing" with her windfall, leaving her mercenary family empty-handed. Throughout the film, Hortense's dilemma is likened to a government dam project not far from her home; as the bridge grows in size, so too does Hortense's resolve to rise above the nastiness all around her.

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妈妈,你不要哭 (1959)
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other title: Green Harvest / La verte moisson
1943年,一群中学生决定采取行动对付纳粹占领军。表现出的勇气和想象力,他们设法炸毁司令部和释放人质。但是在杀死一名德国士兵之后,纳粹的警察机关反击了。年轻者被逮捕,他们中的两个被判死刑。