Language Laboratory Film Collection Wagner College, Campus Hall ...

The Witnesses/ Les Témoins (2007) Andre Téchiné. France
A dramatic relationship between four characters: a homosexual police inspector who crosses paths with a
doctor, a writer and an opera singer.
Women/ Elles (1998) Luís Galvão Teles. Luxembourg
Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and
sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.
Xavier Lombard et Le fils perdu/ The Lost Son (1999) Chris Menges. France
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is
Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a
businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their
daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery. He guesses
that the lost son is dead and shifts his focus to finding and breaking this lucrative business of child
trafficking. He involves a reluctant Nathalie to hunt "the Austrian," the shadowy head of the business.
Violence erupts quickly, and Xavier soon has little more to lose.
The Young Girls of Rochefort/ Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) Jacques Demy. France
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange
composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon
owns a music shop, he left Paris once month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are
looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close... A film
whose scenario is much less important than its feeling of euphory, according to the director Jacques Demy.
Zéro de conduite (1933) Jean Vigo. France
After the holidays, Caussat and Bruel are going back to the boarding school, where their life is sad, dull,
and akin to imprisonment. But there is plot setting up for a revolt... A caricature of power, authority and
religion, with elements of surrealism and cinematic experimentation, this is a prime example of poetic
realist film.