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Boyfriends and Girlfriends (DVD)
BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS, the sixth film in Eric Rohmer`s Comedies and Proverbs series, is an amusing illustration of the proverb Les amis de mes amies sont mes amis, or The friends of my friends are my friends. The story focuses on two young women living in a quaint suburb of Paris called Clergy-Pontoise. Although the area--an architecturally sleek campus for young professionals replete with a cafi-filled central square, modern condominiums, and a beautiful man-made lake for windsurfing--is teeming with single people, neither woman is satisfied with her social life. Sharing lunch breaks and an occasional swim at the pool, Lia (Sophie Renoir) and Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet) become fast friends. That is, until they inadvertently become involved with each other`s love interest. Blanche lusts after Alexandre (Frangois-Eric Gendron), a handsome and self-assured engineer who believes himself to be out of her league. But when Lia leaves town on summer vacation, Blanche finds herself quickly falling into an affair with Lia`s live-in lover, Fabien (Eric Viellard). Lia, in the meantime, is trying to figure out a way to break up with Fabien, a task that`s made easier when she begins to warm up to Alexandre. Consistent with Rohmer`s portrayal of dreamy, self-reflective characters and calm, dialogue-intensive relationships, BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS easily captures the unsettled emotional energy of twentysomethings looking for love.PG"
Director: Eric Rohmer
ACTORS: Emmanuelle Chaulet, Eric Viellard, Sophie Renoir, Frangois-Eric Gendron
Great Battles of World War II - Battle of Britain (DVD)
R.J. Mitchell and the Spitfire Aircraft are the major subjects in this documentary on the air battles over England during World War II. Using archival footage and exclusive interviews, this second part of the Great Battles of World War II series is an incredibly well researched volume on the Battle of Britain. Included is a 50th anniversary celebration of the battle with aircrafts saluting the courage of the British Air Force by flying over Buckingham Palace.NR"
Dark Shadows - V. 55 (VHS)
Episodes 271-275. Adam the artificial man jumps off Widow`s Hill. Angelique plots.NR"
ACTORS: Jonathan Frid
La Rupture (DVD)
Bohemia and the bourgeoisie clash in Claude Chabrol`s harrowing tale of a young mother fighting for her child and her sanity. Helene (Stephane Audran) awakes one morning to her husband`s incoherent ravings and physical assaults, and, fearing for her life, decides to leave him. She takes her seriously wounded child to the hospital, then moves to a seedy boarding house close to her son`s hospital and files for divorce. But, in response, her husband`s wealthy and arrogant parents begin a campaign of slander, eventually hiring a down-and-out and slightly shady family friend, Paul Thomas (Jean-Pierre Cassel), to find or plant evidence of Helene`s depravity. Helene`s world spins out of control as Thomas insinuates himself into her life and manipulates all of her friends to turn against her. Chabrol paves a path towards panic with vertiginous cinematography and claustrophobic art direction as Thomas` schemes to incriminate Helene become more outlandish and increasingly dangerous. Despite her questionable past as a barmaid and stripper, Helene maintains her righteousness, sidestepping Thomas at every turn. The downtrodden boarding house owner and fellow boarders get sucked into the web of deceit and destruction, as Chabrol concocts a shocking and compelling climax to Helene`s ordeal.NR"
Director: Claude Chabrol
ACTORS: Stiphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet
Hyper Police: Episodes 21-25 (DVD)
Five more adventures from the futuristic crime fighters are presented here: THE GOOD SUNNY SIDE OF THE VERANDAH see`s Natsuki acting childishly towards Batanen; PO`S DEPRESSION features an exhausted Po, tired out after repairing too many space holes; SAKURA BECOMES INSANE involves Sakura drawing on her father`s mind power to tamper with her husbands thoughts; THE DAY OF CATASTROPHE is a tale when monsters and people began to coexist; and WHICH DO YOU LIKE? offers Natsuki the chance to become a human being.NR"
