Films with: Bonnaire, Sandrine

4 by Agnès Varda

La Ponté Courté. A film about a fishing town and a couple who are evaluating their changing relationship. Varda juxtaposes the two tales to create a unique perspective on life. Cléo from 5 to 7. A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers. Le bonheur. Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. Vagabond. Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom.

DVD 5617

A nos amours

A fifteen-year-old Parisian girl embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother.

DVD 6634

Au coeur du mensonge The color of lies /

A police inspector investigates the rape and murder of a young girl in a provincial Breton town.

DVD 5707

Cérémonie

Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.

DVD 3507

Est-ouest East-West /

Follows the plight of a young couple and their child as they choose to go back to the Soviet Union in 1946.

DVD 1942

Intimate strangers

William Faber became a tax accountant like his father and resolved himself to a life where nothing much ever changed. At least until the beautiful Anna walked in one day and mistook his office for the therapist's down the hall. Unsolicited, Anna begins to reveal intimate details of her life which include how she is seeking security by attempting to save her tumultuous marriage. William and Anna find a bond developing between them, one that only true strangers can have, even after she finds out who he really is ... or is not!

DVD 5851

Jeanne la Pucelle

Film tells the story of Joan of Arc. Battles describes her early life, hearing the voices, and the victory over the English. Prisons describes her capture, imprisonment, trial, and execution.

DVD 2108

Joueuse Queen to play /

"Lovely and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène ... comes upon a couple ... engaged in an intensely sensual chess match and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor ... a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives"--Container.

DVD 8282

Monsieur hire

In a provincial French apartment block, Monsieur Hire endures a solitary life of dulling work as a tailor and vitriolic scorn from his neighbors. Hire becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation.

DVD 5227

Sans toit ni loi Vagabond /

An aimless drifter wandering through the wintry French countryside encounters violence, hunger, fear and cold, yet touches the lives of the people she meets with her own ideas of freedom.

DVD 664

Secret défense

A young scientist discovers, from her brother, that their father's death wasn't an accident, but that he was killed by his business partner and friend.

DVD 1412