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Montreal
A portrait of Mount Royal and why its French name stuck: its evolution from supply depot to French explorers and farmers to its development as one of the world's principal cities. This program examines the characteristics and character of the origina...(more details) |
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Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write
She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others-and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France's greatest femme de lettres. In this interview, the late novelist and filmmaker talks openly about the hardship and the romance of her child...(more details) |
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary offended 19th-century sensibilities with its acerbic societal observations and candid depiction of female sexuality. This program examines Flaubert's masterpiece in its historical context, deftly interweaving film excerpts and dramatize...(more details) |
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Colette: Bella Vista
A very stylish production, based on Colette's novel, and set in a country inn where the author is herself a visitor. The focus is less on what happens than on how, and with what, and to whom, all seen through the discerning eye of France's greatest w...(more details) |
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Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
Withdrawing from the glittering high society he had so avidly courted, Marcel Proust spent the last decade of his life in virtual isolation, writing and revising Remembrance of Things Past. This program focuses on an intriguing dramatization of part ...(more details) |
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