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If you don't know much about French cinema, this is a list that might interest you馃┓
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My basics in French films馃┓
Mauvais Sang
Leos Carax 路 1986
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
The Double Life of V茅ronique
Krzysztof Kie艣lowski 路 1991
V茅ronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to V茅ronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with V茅ronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.
Juliet in Paris
Claude Miller 路 1967
A young student, alone in Paris, is engaged in strange and bloody experiences of which she is both the authorizer and the victim.
C茅line and Julie Go Boating
Jacques Rivette 路 1974
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets C茅line, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.
The Piano Teacher
Michael Haneke 路 2001
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
A Woman Is a Woman
Jean-Luc Godard 路 1961
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
Pierrot le Fou
Jean-Luc Godard 路 1965
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Belle de Jour
Luis Bu帽uel 路 1967
Beautiful young housewife S茅verine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, S茅verine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Band of Outsiders
Jean-Luc Godard 路 1964
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in caf茅s or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.
