Lola Montès

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Max Ophuls - FR - D - 1955 - fiction - color - 110' - OV FR - STT NL

New print of Max Ophuls’ masterpiece put together by the Paris Cinemathèque that restored its original colours, stereophonic sound, editing and cinemascope format. Max’s son Marcel Ophuls helped on the project, with support from the Thomson Foundation and the Franco-American Cultural Funds, as well as several European Film Archives, including the Brussels Archives.

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'Madame de....

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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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'Verboden te zuchten'

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Alex Stockman - B – 2000 – fiction– black&white – 98’ – OV - STT FR / NL

The hero of this  movie by Alex Stockman leaves job, family, friends and girlfriend to escape from a predictable life dominated by the need to produce. He sets up temporary residence in a hotel close to Brussels’s Midi station and meets a number of characters that will change his destiny. A richly humane film, it is directed with a firm hand and uses black and white to great emotional effect.

With: Stefan Perceval, Stefanie Bodien, Senne Rouffaer

Coprod. Flagey / Cinematek

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