Released Date:
1962-12-21
Languages:
French, Spanish
Countries:
France, Italy, Spain
Runtime:
76 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (51 Reviews)
Rafael Azcona
Alessandro Blasetti
Hervè Bromberger (screenplay)
Hervè Bromberger (story)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Renè Clair
Frèdèric Grendel (screenplay)
Frèdèric Grendel (story)
Jean de La Fontaine (novel)
"Les quatre vèritès" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments. The first segment "Death and the Woodcutter" about a common organ grinder (street performer who plays mechanical musical instrument called street organ on the street for a living) who is driven to the edge of sanity by bureaucracy was cut from the US release for its serious tone. The second story "The Crow and the Fox" is about a jealous husband who keeps his wife under lock and key since he lives in a town full of single men. Their neighbor is determined however to service the missus. The third story "The Tortoise and the Hare" follows a jealous wife who decides to win her adulterous husband back. The final tale "Two Pigeons" is about a young man and woman who accidentally lock themselves up in a flat and end up falling for each other.
Released Date:
1982-05-25
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (766 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolClaude Chabrol
Georges Simenon (novel)
Released Date:
2002-12-06
Languages:
English, Armenian, French, German, Turkish
Countries:
Canada, France
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (8429 Reviews)
Director:
Atom EgoyanPeople tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on Arshile Gorky (1904?-1948), an Armenian painter who lived through the genocide in Turkey in 1915. A director invites the historian to help him include Gorky's story in a film about the genocide and Turkish assault on the town of Van. The historian's family is under stress: her son is in love with his step-sister, who blames the historian for the death of her father. The daughter wants to revisit her father's death and change that story. An aging customs agent tells his son about his long interview with the historian's son, who has returned from Turkey with canisters of film. Parents and children. All the stories connect.
Released Date:
2006-11-15
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (442 Reviews)
Director:
Laurent HerbietCosta-Gavras (story)
Jean-Claude Grumberg
Laurent Herbiet
Francis Zamponi (novel)
A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria, and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.
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