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René Magritte (2007 Video)

aka: Monsieur RenÉ Magritte

Director

Adrian Maben

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 51 minutes), £17.99

Profiles Belgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967) and shows the recurring influence of certain themes and places on his work. Visits the various towns where he lived and which were a source of inspiration...

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Panique

Director

Julien Duvivier

Subject

Film studies; French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 98 minutes), £17.99

Proud, eccentric and anti-social, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town, discovers...

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Signé Chanel (2008)

aka: House of Chanel, The

Director

Loïc Prigent

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 142 minutes), £24.99

Originally made as a 5-part television series, the programmes go behind the scenes to follow the creation of Chanel’s Fall/Winter 2004-2005 Haute Couture collection, from Karl Lagerfeld’s first drawings...

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MoliÈre (2007)

Director

Laurent Tirard

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £19.99

A disarmingly shameless French hommage to Shakespeare in Love, Laurent Tirard’s elegant and witty seventeenth-century comedy constructs a similar romantic contrivance around alleged events from the life of...

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