Berling, CharlesOverview
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Charles Berling
Ridicule
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28 editions published between 1996 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 852 libraries worldwide Fish-out-of-water drama has a minor country aristocrat enter the depraved world of the 18th century court at Versailles.
L'heure d'été
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9 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in French and English and held by 700 libraries worldwide The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.
Les destinées sentimentales Sentimental destinies
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3 editions published between 2002 and 2005 in French and held by 225 libraries worldwide A sweeping epic spanning three decades and a world war. The film follows the life and loves of Jean Barnery, a provincial gentleman and reluctant heir to his family's porcelain empire.
Comment j'ai tué mon père My father and I
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4 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in French and held by 195 libraries worldwide Jean-Luc's father suddenly reappears after decades of practicing medicine in Africa. IN the face of a father who charms, disgusts and rejects him, Jean-Luc can no longer avoid confronting his own past.
Comédie de l'innocence The comedy of innocence
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8 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in French and held by 172 libraries worldwide Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille the reincarnation of Isabella's dead son?
Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train Those who love me can take the train
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2 editions published in 2000 in French and held by 139 libraries worldwide Jean-Baptiste is a French painter who has requested to be buried in his hometown of Limoges. When he dies, his friends take the train from Paris to Limoges to attend his funeral. During this journey, they all review their lives and relationships.
Un pont entre deux rives The bridge
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5 editions published between 2000 and 2007 in French and held by 105 libraries worldwide Story about the consequences of adultery upon a marriage.
Stardom
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9 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and French and held by 88 libraries worldwide A naive, hockey playing tomboy, gets pulled from obscurity to become the super model of the media-mad world. Her rise and fall from stardom is captured by the paparazzi that hound her night and day. Along the way she uses man after man, until one day fate gives her a reality check and she finds herself asking the question - is it possible to be beautiful, rich, famous and happy too?
Demonlover
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4 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in French and English and held by 84 libraries worldwide Demonlover takes us deep into the underbelly of the illicit and financially lucrative world of 3D animated pornography. Diane is hired into a high stakes game of espionage, which leads her to the twisted world of The Hellfire Club, a torture website.
L'Ecole des femmes
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3 editions published between 1988 and 2002 in French and held by 84 libraries worldwide A plot of young lovers, a manipulative older man, innocent trust misplaced, and the discovery of a wealthy father.
Love, etc
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8 editions published between 1996 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 63 libraries worldwide Marie meets Benoit through a personal ad. Touched by his shyness and the photo of his best friend Pierre that he sends with his response, Marie meets, courts and marries Benoit. During the wedding Pierre realizes that he too is in love with Marie. What follows is a tragic, sometimes outlandish tale of two people trying to behave properly as the wreck the happiness of the other person most dear to them.
A matter of taste Une affaire de goût
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3 editions published between 1999 and 2004 in French and Undetermined and held by 63 libraries worldwide Frédéric Delamont is an industrial magnate in his fifties. He is at the peak of his success, refined, original and phobic, when, in a restaurant, he meets Nicolas Rivière, a young man, prone to odd jobs and adversity. Frédéric thus offers Nicolas a large salary to become his personal food taster. That which started as a light, unusual gastronomic adventure, will soon reveal itself to be a much more dangerous game for both men.
Demonlover
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2 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in French and held by 57 libraries worldwide Demonlover takes us deep into the underbelly of the illicit and financially lucrative world of 3D animated pornography. Diane is hired into a high stakes game of espionage, which leads her to the twisted world of The Hellfire Club, a torture website.
Nettoyage à sec Dry cleaning
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2 editions published between 1999 and 2005 in French and held by 54 libraries worldwide "Jean-Marie and Nicole Kunstler, a hard-working French couple ... run a dry-cleaning establishment in the provincial town of Belfort. There is frission, the whiff of excitement that clings to the danger of crossing the boundaries that separate the conventional from the forbidden"--Container.
L'ennui
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2 editions published in 2000 in French and held by 54 libraries worldwide "Martin, a 40-something philosophy teacher [is] in the throes of a mid-life crisis. This takes a turn when he begins an affair with Cécilia, a young woman half his age. At first, the relationship is purely physical, however, Martin soon finds himself driven to the brink of insanity when he realizes that he can not posess her. When Cécilia admits to another lover, Martin's jealousy erupts and his life spirals out of control."--Container.
L'homme de sa vie The man of my life
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1 edition published in 2007 in French and held by 42 libraries worldwide A strong bond develops between a married man and his gay neighbor after they stay up all night discussing their radically different views on love.
An inconvenient truth
by Davis Guggenheim
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 40 libraries worldwide
Les destinées sentimentales
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2 editions published in 2002 in French and held by 35 libraries worldwide A small protestant community minister marries a young girl from his congregation and moves to Switzerland. When they return to France so he can take over his family's porcelain business, they face the pressures of an increasingly modern world.
Les joueurs : entretiens
by Charles Berling
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4 editions published in 2001 in French and held by 30 libraries worldwide
Ridicule
by Patrice Leconte
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15 editions published between 1995 and 2008 in French and No Linguistic content and held by 28 libraries worldwide In a desperate quest to save his hometown, a young man quickly learns that a sharp wit is the key to open any door in the Versailles court of Louis XVI, circa 1780. The ever-fluid pecking order is determined by the quality and rapidity of one's rejoinders, and a man can be driven to suicide by the one thing that must be avoided at all costs: being the object of ridicule. Compassionate, upright engineer Gregoire Ponceludon de Malavoy is baron of an estate where the peasants are dropping like flies, felled by diseases that breed in the fetid waters where they fish. Broke, but determined to drain the murderous swamps, Gregoire sets out from the provinces to plead his case at Versailles. His mission is complicated when he finds himself in a triangle with two very seductive ladies--a sophisticated older woman who can help him, and an innocent beauty with nothing to offer but her love. more
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Absentee fathers Aristocracy (Social class) Artists' models Balland, Philippe Brothers and sisters Comedy films Comedy films Courts and courtiers Drama Drowning victims Espionage Families Fathers and sons Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Films for the hearing impaired Food--Sensory evaluation Foreign films France France--Versailles French drama (Comedy) Historical films History Inheritance and succession Interpersonal relations Italy--Rome Jealousy Man-woman relationships Medical drama Men Middle-aged men Modeling Moravia, Alberto,--1907-1990 Mothers and sons Motion pictures Motion pictures, French Paparazzi Political science Pornography Protestants Railroad travel Reincarnation Thrillers (Motion pictures) Thrillers (Motion pictures) Torture Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Web sites
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German (36) English (20) Undetermined (18) No Linguistic content (6) Multiple languages (6) Spanish (4) Turkish (1) Rajasthani (1) Arabic (1) Covers
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