Moulin Rouge
This may very well be our favorite movie of all time. Baz Luhrmann’s ode to La Boheme is a pop culture wonderland set just before the turn of the 20th century in Pari. Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman star as a penniless writer and the object of his desire (a beautiful courtesan), and they sing and dance their way through an ultimately tragic romance. The set design is lush, the characters colorful and the music recognizable.
Paris Je T’aime
Fall in love with the most romantic city in the world…Paris, the City of Light. This critically acclaimed, box-office smash combines visions from the world’s top directors — the Coen brothers (Fargo), Alexander Payne (Sideways), Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) — and some of America’s top stars — Natalie Portman (Closer), Elijah Wood (The Lord Of the Rings), Juliette Binoche (Chocolat) — who together create a panoramic portrait of this photogenic city. Find yourself transported and maybe transformed by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic and beautiful stories. Paris Je T’Aime goes beyond the “postcard” view of Paris to portray aspects of the city rarely seen on the big screen, revealing its Parisian heart and soul and leaving you with a vision that will last long after the film is over.
A Very Long Engagement
The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl. It tells the story of this young woman’s relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man’s land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.
