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Four former prostitutes attempt to rebuild their lives and run a respectable restaurant, only to find society unwilling to forgive or forget.

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A 4K Restoration of the Original 128-Minute Director’s Cut! From Jean-Pierre Melville, the legendary director of Bob Le Flambeau, Le Deuxième Soufflé, Army of Shadows and Un Flic. Screen legend Jean-Paul Belmond (Le Doulas) dons clerical robes and delivers a subtly sensual performance as the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, a devoted man of the cloth who is the crush object of all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow—played by Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima Mon Amour)—a borderline heretic whose relationship with her confessor is a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Léon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema’s towering virtuosos. Gloriously shot in black-and-white by Henri Decay (The Sicilian Clan, Viva Maria! ). Special Features: -Interview with Assistant Director Volker Schlöndorff -Audio Commentary by Filmmaker and Historian Mike Siegel -Master Class with Philippe Labor & Remy Grumbach -Theatrical Trailer

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Product Description Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon s signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona s (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha (Academy Award®-nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won t leave her alone. LOST IN PARIS is a wondrously fun and hectic tale of peculiar people finding love while lost in the City of Lights. Review In a world where comedy has gone raunchy, we ll always have Paris which has seldom been funnier or more charming than as seen through burlesque duo Abel and Gordon s eyes. --Variety It s like a Jean-Pierre Jeunet farce on Xanax, with a soothing dose of Wes Anderson whimsy for good measure. --LA Times

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Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter, in this first film from Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy. But Blue is more than just a blistering study of grief; it’s also a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. Shot in sapphire tones by Sławomir Idziak and set to an extraordinary operatic score by Zbigniew Preisner, Blue is an overwhelming sensory experience. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES High-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Cinema lesson with director Krzysztof Kieślowski Video essay by film studies professor Annette Insdorf Interview with Three Colors composer Zbigniew Preisner Selected-scene commentary featuring actor Juliette Binoche Reflections on “Blue” and Kieślowski: The Early Years, featuring Binoche, Insdorf, film critic Geoff Andrew, filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, cinematographer Sławomir Idziak, actor Irène Jacob, and editor Jacques Witta The Tram (1966), a student short by Kieślowski, and The Face (1966), a short starring Kieślowski Trailer English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by film critic Nick James