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Studio 5

Rail 7: Studio 5 Movies

Max Ophuls - FR – 2002 – fiction – black&white – 99’ – OV

Max Ophuls in top form for a film at once beautiful to look at and emotionally accurate. Adapted from Louise de Vilmorin’s novel about a high society woman secretly in debt and forced to sell the earrings her husband bought her. But the earrings’ trajectory will bring her unexpected woes. The sublime Danielle Darrieux is the heroine of this tragic tale, directed with a master’s touch.   

With: Vittorio de Sica, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer

Flagey / Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique

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'Les damnés de la mer'

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Jawad Rhalib - B – 2008 – Documentaire – color – 71’ – OV – STT FR

First-rate Belgian documentary about Essaouria in Morocco, selected for competition at the prestigious Amsterdam Festival. Formerly known as Mogador, this small coastal town was the world’s first sardine port. But fierce competition from Asia and Europe and a questionable handling of resources have led the local fishermen to have to make do with incomes of less than two euros a day. Jacad Rhalib’s powerful film is an uncompromising look at a harsh reality. 

Flagey / Cinematek

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