Bresson, Robert
Summary: Tells the story of Balthazar, a donkey whose grim life reflects the human nature around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AUBresson, Robert.
Contents: Mouchette / Robert Bresson -- Aquarelle / Dominique Delouche -- Shakespeare Wallah / James Ivory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: L'Avant scene 1968
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUSummary: In 1943 a French Resistance fighter is sent to an infamous Lyon prison, where 7,000 of the 12,000 prisoners died either by natural means or by execution. Lt. Fontaine, certain that execution awaits him, meticulously plans his escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: Lancelot is a ruthless and ignoble opportunist who returns from his impossibly futile mission to locate the Holy Grail, only to callously rekindle his affair with the Lady Guinevere. A non-romanticized portrait of the knights of the round table.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANGuilbert, Jean-Claude
Summary: Teenaged Mouchette finds solace in nature and routine as she takes care of her baby brother while her mother lies dying and her alcoholic father is absent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOUSummary: A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his country diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and God.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: Realizing that her lover Jean is losing interest in her, a society lady Helene gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute Agnes. After the wedding Helene tells a stunned Jean about his wife's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMSummary: Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005