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1) Violette
Author
Language
Français
Description
Violette is a finely nuanced portrait of Violette LeDuc, one of the foremost French writers of the 20th century. Superb performances by Emmanuelle Devos (Coco Before Chanel) and Sandrine Kiberlain (Mademoiselle Chambon) make this gorgeously shot and directed life story an engrossing and memorable cinematic achievement.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Maintaining a household and stoically submitting to conjugal duty are the skills Paulette Van Der Beck teaches with fervor in her homemakers institute. Her certainties are shaken when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is she rattled by the return of her first love or the wind of freedom in May ’68? What if the good wife finally became a free woman?
3) Séraphine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Français
Description
Follows the life of French painter Séraphine Louis as her work is discovered and she finds success through the help of her patron, Wilhelm Ude.
4) The midwife
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
An unlikely friendship develops between Claire, a devout and compassionate midwife, and Béatrice, her father's mistress, who unexpectedly shows up after thirty years of absence and reveals that she has a brain cancer.
5) The Midwife
Author
Language
Français
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together in this sharp character...
6) Seraphine
Author
Language
Français
Description
Séraphine is the true story of Seraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis, a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41 - self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel - began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912 Wilhelm Uhde, a German art critic and collector, discovered her paintings while she worked for him as a maid in his lodgings in Senlis outside Paris.
7) Violette
Publisher
Adopt Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Violette LeDuc's extraordinary life, from her low beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. Violette LeDuc is determined, obsessed even, to make something of her life. Writing is her ticket out of misery, and with the encouragement and mentorship of Simone de Beauvoir, she achieves renown.