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Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution

A play within a play within a play within a play Actors perform a play in a house an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life The line between fiction and reality blurs

A drama following 4 women at stage school Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivettes work as a whole

The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored

Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways Suzannes virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuse

Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead fathers estate When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins

Young unhinged female ex con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to

More than just an abbreviated form of La Belle Noiseuse, Rivette re cut his footage with some important differences in point of view this one being more from Mariannes point of view

Middle aged Julien lives alone with his cat He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date He asks her to move in with him, and she does Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mys

For the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two part study, director and co screenwriter Jacques Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English As Joan, Sandrine Bonnaire gets at the reality behind the legend, showing the matter of fact courage of a teenage girl For both films, costume designer Ch

Sylvie, a 30 year old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background

The Queen of the Night battles the Queen of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris

Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957 Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friends party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation

Adventures of three young women in a hot and lazy Paris in summer

Biopic based on the life of author Raymond Roussel