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Synopsis. Set in October 1920, it tells the story of Major Delaplane, a man whose job is to find the identities of unknown dead soldiers after World War I. He encounters two women looking for their lost men: Irène, an aristocrat, and Alice, a country girl. The movie is a sensitive examination of the deep psychological scars left behind by the ...
Language. French. Budget. $16 million [1] Box office. $30.5 million [2] C'est la Vie! ( French: Le Sens de la fête) is a 2017 French comedy film written and directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. It was screened in the Gala Presentations section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
La Comédie humaine ( French: [la kɔmedi ymɛn]; English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac 's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–30) and the July Monarchy (1830–48). La Comédie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels, or ...
The Things of Life ( French: Les Choses de la vie) is a 1970 romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, based on the 1967 novel Intersection by Paul Guimard. The film centers around a car accident experienced by Pierre ( Michel Piccoli ), an architect, and the events before and after it. [ 2] The film won the Louis Delluc Prize, and had ...
Marcel Rouff (May 4,1877 in Carouge ( Geneva) – February 3, 1936 in Paris) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and gastronomic writer. With Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) he wrote the multi-volume work La France gastronomique, guide des merveilles culinaires et des bonnes auberges françaises (Gastronomic ...
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t maʁi də la mɛʁ], also Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, lit.: " (the) Saint Marys of the Sea", locally Les Saintes, Provençal Occitan: Li Santi Mario de la Mar ), is the capital of the Camargue ( Provençal Occitan Camarga) in the south of France. It is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône ...
Scenes of Bohemian Life. Scenes of Bohemian Life (original French title: Scènes de la vie de bohème) is a work by Henri Murger, published in 1851. Although it is commonly called a novel, it does not follow standard novel form. Rather, it is a collection of loosely related stories, all set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s ...
François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac ( French: [fʁɑ̃swa d (ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published.