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Browse 4 movies from Le Centre National De La Cinematographie
Célimène, a beautiful young widow, chooses to keep her many suitors hoping in order to preserve her freedom, even though she is drawn to one of them, Alceste. An idealist, Alceste refuses to play the social game; he seeks to persuade the young woman to abandon her strategy and give herself over to an exclusive love. Theater play "Le misanthrope" played by the "Comédie française" in 2000. Rather than a simple recording of a live theater performance, this version was explicitly structured as a television movie. It blended cinematic camera work with the theatrical script.
Nov 2000
The staging of Béla Bartók's opera Bluebeard's Castle at Opera national de Paris, a collaboration of La Fura dels Baus and Jaume Plensa.
Jan 2007
Meet the Christian community that survived Roman persecution, Byzantine rule, and has successfully co-existed with Islam for 14 centuries.
Jan 2015
Laura Pesce presents the story of a rooster that travels from the countryside to Mexico City, where through images, she is showing the daily life of the inhabitants of this city, the tianguis, the nightlife, the periphery of the city and the fairs.
Jan 1986