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Revenge of the Musketeers
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Passion of Beatrice
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Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate)
:Description:Surrounded by corruption, a seemingly incompetent police chief (Philippe Noiret, Cinema Paradiso, The Judge and the Assassin) decides to wipe the slate clean with a killing spree of his own. This Oscar®-nominated black comedy ranks with the best film adaptations of Jim Thompson's pulp fiction (The Grifters, The Getaway). By changing the locale of Thompson's Pop. 1280 from the American South to Africa circa 1938, acclaimed director Bertrand Tavernier (Round Midnight, A Sunday in the Country) doubles the decadence. The blazing Senegal sun sheds a blistering light on the French colonials' small-minded cruelties ...
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Capitaine Conan
: :A rueful epic, Bertrand Tavernier's superb French-language feature, Capitaine Conan, is about a secret war that took place after World War I, when French troops were ordered to stay behind in the Balkans to continue patrolling the unstable borders. Conan, played in solitary fury by Philippe Torreton, is a merchant's son from Normandy who has come alive in the war and finds in himself a shrewd and ruthless guerilla fighter. His elite unit--a unit of 'warriors,' he says, rather than soldiers--operates outside the regular army, and is sent by the uncaring, aristocratic officers ...
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It All Starts Today
: :A rueful epic, Bertrand Tavernier's superb French-language feature, Capitaine Conan, is about a secret war that took place after World War I, when French troops were ordered to stay behind in the Balkans to continue patrolling the unstable borders. Conan, played in solitary fury by Philippe Torreton, is a merchant's son from Normandy who has come alive in the war and finds in himself a shrewd and ruthless guerilla fighter. His elite unit--a unit of 'warriors,' he says, rather than soldiers--operates outside the regular army, and is sent by the uncaring, aristocratic officers ...
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Round Midnight
: :Like the music it celebrates, Round Midnight is long on atmosphere, short on formal structure, alert and open to improvisation, making this 1986 drama the most authentic glimpse of jazz yet filmed. Its subject, Dale Turner (played by Dexter Gordon), is a composite of brilliant but bruised jazz warriors who left America behind for self-imposed European exile, finding a more tolerant and appreciative audience while never completely eluding their private demons. Drugs and drink have battered the tall, laconic saxophonist, whose diffident, somewhat distracted manner only partly conceals a deeper exhaustion as he ...
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L.627
: :Like the music it celebrates, Round Midnight is long on atmosphere, short on formal structure, alert and open to improvisation, making this 1986 drama the most authentic glimpse of jazz yet filmed. Its subject, Dale Turner (played by Dexter Gordon), is a composite of brilliant but bruised jazz warriors who left America behind for self-imposed European exile, finding a more tolerant and appreciative audience while never completely eluding their private demons. Drugs and drink have battered the tall, laconic saxophonist, whose diffident, somewhat distracted manner only partly conceals a deeper exhaustion as he ...
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Life And Nothing But
: :Like the music it celebrates, Round Midnight is long on atmosphere, short on formal structure, alert and open to improvisation, making this 1986 drama the most authentic glimpse of jazz yet filmed. Its subject, Dale Turner (played by Dexter Gordon), is a composite of brilliant but bruised jazz warriors who left America behind for self-imposed European exile, finding a more tolerant and appreciative audience while never completely eluding their private demons. Drugs and drink have battered the tall, laconic saxophonist, whose diffident, somewhat distracted manner only partly conceals a deeper exhaustion as he ...
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Daddy Nostalgia
: :Like the music it celebrates, Round Midnight is long on atmosphere, short on formal structure, alert and open to improvisation, making this 1986 drama the most authentic glimpse of jazz yet filmed. Its subject, Dale Turner (played by Dexter Gordon), is a composite of brilliant but bruised jazz warriors who left America behind for self-imposed European exile, finding a more tolerant and appreciative audience while never completely eluding their private demons. Drugs and drink have battered the tall, laconic saxophonist, whose diffident, somewhat distracted manner only partly conceals a deeper exhaustion as he ...
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Mississippi Blues
: :Like the music it celebrates, Round Midnight is long on atmosphere, short on formal structure, alert and open to improvisation, making this 1986 drama the most authentic glimpse of jazz yet filmed. Its subject, Dale Turner (played by Dexter Gordon), is a composite of brilliant but bruised jazz warriors who left America behind for self-imposed European exile, finding a more tolerant and appreciative audience while never completely eluding their private demons. Drugs and drink have battered the tall, laconic saxophonist, whose diffident, somewhat distracted manner only partly conceals a deeper exhaustion as he ...
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