René Gilson

Against a background of music and songs by Charles Trenet, the hesitant love of Clara, a painter, and a walker, who meet on the Pont des Arts. A tribute to Trenet, a tribute to love but above all to "the city seen in its most magnificent beauty".

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This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the resistance is simply a continuation of their prior activities. After the war, some of them continue to have a "resistance" mind-set. One of the stories concerns a love relationship between a Polish boy and a French girl who are thrown together because of their war efforts. After the war, they get together and reminisce.

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Four high school students in Paris question the education system and try to provoke a dialogue with their teachers. A portrait of the French youth after 1968.

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This somewhat talky French-language film concerns a goofy bunch of military types and involves them in encounters with a variety of late '60s radicals who spout off a bit. It is notable chiefly because it was about to be subjected to severe censorship for its political content but was saved by the incoming Culture Minister Jacques Duhamel.

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The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.

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In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed feelings, and the most difficult thing about the divorce, besides understanding why it is taking place at all, is deciding what will happen with the couple's numerous pets.

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Four high school students in Paris question the education system and try to provoke a dialogue with their teachers. A portrait of the French youth after 1968.

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A young, unscrupulous director hires an actress and uses the story she tells him of her life to write his screenplay, but fires her and entrusts the leading role to someone else.

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Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.

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Against a background of music and songs by Charles Trenet, the hesitant love of Clara, a painter, and a walker, who meet on the Pont des Arts. A tribute to Trenet, a tribute to love but above all to "the city seen in its most magnificent beauty".

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This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the resistance is simply a continuation of their prior activities. After the war, some of them continue to have a "resistance" mind-set. One of the stories concerns a love relationship between a Polish boy and a French girl who are thrown together because of their war efforts. After the war, they get together and reminisce.

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Four high school students in Paris question the education system and try to provoke a dialogue with their teachers. A portrait of the French youth after 1968.

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