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French Language Feature Films in the Library
Battaglia di Algeri = Battle of AlgiersCall Number: PN 1997 .B38 B38 2004 (Faculty collection)ISBN: 0780028872Publication Date: 2004Reenactment of the events which occurred during the revolution in Algeria between 1952-1957, using no newsreel or archival footage.
Chorus, The (Les Choristes)Call Number: PN 1995.9 .F67 C46 2005Drama, Foreign Language Video, Music/Dance
In French with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. Unemployed music teacher Clement Mathieu becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors. Dismayed by the repressive administration, he works to positively transform the students' lives through music.
De rouille et d'os = Rust and boneCall Number: PN 1997.2 .R87 2013Publication Date: 2013A homeless father and street boxer struggling to support his son and a severely injured killer whale trainer's lives intersect and form an intensifying bond that fractures the considerable defensive armor each is accustomed to wearing.
Entre les murs = The ClassCall Number: PN 1997.2 .C53 2009Drama
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Goodbye, Children (Au Revoir Les Enfants)Call Number: PN 1997 .A85 1989Drama, Foreign Language Video, War
In French, with English subtitles. Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
L'artiste = The ArtistCall Number: PN 1997.2 .A75 2012 (Reserve desk)ISBN: 9780101040419In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon = The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Call Number: PN 1995.9 .B55 S33 2008ISBN: 0788884573Publication Date: 2008The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg = The Umbrellas of CherbourgCall Number: M 1527 .L42 P3 1997ISBN: 1572520922Publication Date: 1997Catherine Deneuve plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic in this musical.
WhiteCall Number: PN 1997 .W4474 1994Comedy, Foreign Language Video, Romance
The mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her! French and Polish with English subtitles.
