Cohen Film Collection (Firm)
62) My Son
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Français
Description
In the middle of the night, a 7-year-old boy has gone missing. The crisis has drawn the child’s father Julien (Guillaume Canet) back to a small, snowy town in eastern France in an effort to help. Julien travels abroad for work and has been essentially absent from his son’s life since splitting with his wife (Mélanie Laurent) a few years earlier. Fueled by his sense of guilt about neglecting his family, Julien is determined to do whatever it takes...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Léa Seydoux plays Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress, must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur, and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph. Backtracking past the fetishism of Buñuel's version to Octave Mirbeau's original 1900 novel,...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
In a small French town, a man considered to be the village idiot by his friends at the local bistro, takes a walk to the park one day and happens to sit beside Margueritte, a little old lady who is reading excerpts from her novel aloud. Germain is lured by Marguerite’s passion for life and the magic of literature from which he has always felt excluded. As Margueritte broadens his mind via reading excerpts from her novel, Germain realizes that he...
65) Hester Street
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Gitl (Carol Kane in her Acadamy Awatd nominated role) and her son arrive on the lower East side of New York in 1896 to join her husband Jake (Steven Keats), as they struggle to assimilate while remaining true to their old country ways. (Cannes Film Festival, 1975.)
66) Tel Aviv on Fire
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
עברית
Description
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Français
Description
Legendary French New Wave director Jacques Rivette’s intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard’s fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an immersive...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
Marking the return of acclaimed director Benoît Jacquot (*A Single Girl*), FAREWELL, MY QUEEN brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the full-scale outbreak of the Revolution. Based on the best-selling novel by Chantal Thomas, this film stars Léa Seydoux (*The Lobster*) as one of Marie’s ladies-in-waiting, quietly...
69) In the Courtyard
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Middle-aged musician Antoine (Gustave Kervern) suddenly decides to end his career. After several days of aimless wandering, he is hired as the caretaker of an old residential building in Paris. Mathilde (Catherine Deneuve) is a recently retired resident, generous-spirited and deeply involved with the management of the building. Through a maze of misfires and anxieties, the two develop an awkward friendship. Nominated for an Best Actress at the **César...
70) The Other Son
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
עברית
Description
A moving and provocative tale of two young men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families. Winner of the Tokyo Grand Prix Award and the Award for Best Director at the **Tokyo International Film Festival.** "*Levy handles with aplomb what could easily have been a messy mix of emotions and politics.*"- John Anderson, ***Newsday***...
71) Heat and Dust
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Cross-cutting between two generations, James Ivory’s sprawling epic of self-discovery is also a lush evocation of the prismatic and sensuous beauty of India. As she searches for answers to the mystery surrounding a long-ago affair between her aunt Olivia and an Indian prince, Anne (Julie Christie) becomes immersed in the local culture, the pull of the past simultaneously leading her into a clearer view of her own future. Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay...
72) Love Street
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
73) Godard Mon Amour
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
With his romantic and slyly funny GODARD MON AMOUR Academy Award-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (*The Artist*), once again affectionately transports moviegoers back to a unique time and place in cinematic history: France, in the late 1960s. Actress Anne Wiazemsky finds herself juggling political protests and artistic challenges in her married life with renowned filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. As her country undergoes enormous cultural change, so...
74) Mademoiselle C
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Carine Roitfeld ran French Vogue for 10 years, building a reputation as one of fashion's most influential movers. Her inner circle of friends includes Donatella Versace, Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld, Diane von Fürstenberg and Alexander Wang. Yet few people outside the fashion world have heard of her...until now. MADEMOISELLE C chronicles Carine's launch of her new magazine "CR Fashion Book." It gives a rare inside glimpse at the inner workings not only...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
Français
Description
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**, UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN tells the story of Donissan, a mediocre seminarist haunted by Evil and the failure of his divine mission. He mortifies his body and is unable to establish any rapport with his parishioners, until the day the abbot meets young Mouchette who has just committed a mortal sin. Based on Georges Bernanos's novel of the same name and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Gérard...
76) The Europeans
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A pivotal film for Merchant Ivory, who demonstrate great intelligence and wit with their faithful adaptation of Henry James' story of an encounter between a family or pre-Civil War New Englanders and their European cousins.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic thriller. As the son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession, the young man emulates his father by strangling young women. He then meets and falls in love with a woman, but can he suppress his urge to kill her?
78) Terraferma
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set on and around a summer tourist island off the coast of Sicily, TERRAFERMA tells the story of two struggling, yet disparate families, whose members become fatefully intertwined. A well-intentioned, but illegal rescue of immigrant "boat people" forces the individuals of the indigenous family to choose between their economic survival and doing the morally right thing.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
Français
Description
During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre? Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best Foreign Language Film. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Paris 1830. Betrayed by his mistress, Octave falls into despair and debauchery. The death of his father takes him to the country where he meets Brigette, a young widow ten years his elder. Octave falls passionately in love, once more. But will he have the courage to believe in it? Nominated for the Un Certain Regard Award at the **Cannes Film Festival**.