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Antoine de Saint-Exupery et Le Petit Prince
A consideration of the book and its importance, which reaches far beyond that of a children's fable, interwoven with dramatic readings from it and with details of the author's life and his search for spiritual meaning in flight. (French, 33 minutes, ...(more details) |
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Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
A vivid, compelling film dramatization of Hugo's great novel, which provides students with an excellent historical and social portrait of France-and particularly Paris-at mid-19th century, as well as an insightful treatment of one of the greatest of ...(more details) |
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Alfred de Musset: Lorenzaccio
This historical drama, by one of the pillars of the French Romantic movement, is concerned with the psychological voyage of the young Lorenzo de' Medici, who, to gain the confidence of the ruling despot, adopts-and soon discovers he enjoys-the excess...(more details) |
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Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi
Satirical, farcical, absurd, surrealistic... Almost any word that describes the opposite of the Sarah Bernhardt image is appropriate for Jarry's magnum opus. A generation before the Dadaists, Jarry was outrageous by profession. Ubu Roi , famous by na...(more details) |
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Victor Hugo: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne
In protest against the inhumanity of the penal system of his day, and particularly against the death penalty, Victor Hugo created this image of a man on his way to the scaffold, who confides his last thoughts, describes life in prison, and imagines t...(more details) |
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