Dominique Blanc
2) Indochine
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Français
Description
Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, Éliane's...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
As the 1987 trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie unfolds on television, Victor Bastien reviews old family documents and finds a distressing "Aryan declaration" authored by his late father. This new discovery throws Victor's conception of his family's history into darkness. His mother, Rivka, keeps a stubborn silence about the past, while Tania, his sister, defends their father's declaration. At the same time, Victor's wife and children grow concerned...
4) The trilogy
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2002
Language
Français
Description
Three films by Lucas Belvaux about people, how they perceive the world around them, and the consequences of their actions.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
At the start of the new college semester, Eloi and Alexandre encounter André, the most brilliant student in the lecture hall. Fascinated by his ease and charisma, they quickly fall under his spell. André then offers them his friendship in exchange for complete loyalty to him. Lost in admiration, Eloi and Alexandre devotedly submit to his rigorous discipline. Then André abandons them. Eloi and Alexandre have no other choice than to stand on their...