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More Foreign Films
July list by Xiaolian Deng
Vivre Sa Vie
VIVRE SA VIE FRENCH rated NR

Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution. Features include: interviews, featurettes, commentary, stills gallery, theatrical trailer, and booklet.

Tale of Two Donkeys
TALE OF TWO DONKEYS MANDARIN rated NR

A young student, Ma Jie, is sent to a tiny Beigao village in Shanxi Province with the mundane task of watching over livestock during the Great Cultural Revolution. Surrounded only by extreme boredom, he initiates a war against two donkeys.

Polytechnique
POLYTECHNIQUE FRENCH rated NR

Based on true events that occurred on December 6, 1989 at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, an engineering school affiliated with the French-language Universite de Montreal, the film documents that specific day through the eyes of two students, Valerie and Jean-Francois, whose lives were forever changed when a young man entered the school with one idea in mind: kill himself and take with him as many women as possible. Bonus disc contains special features in French.

One Week
ONE WEEK FRENCH, rated nr

When a young man is confronted with his mortality, he takes a cross-country road trip from Toronto to Vancouver Island on a vintage motorcycle. In search for himself, he finds out what makes this country, and his life, so beautiful.

One Deadly Summer
ONE DEADLY SUMMER FRENCH, rated nr

Eliane, a beautiful young woman, settles into a small town in France with her introverted mother and physically handicapped father. Traumatized by the knowledge that her mother was raped before she was born, Eliane thinks she is on a trail of vengeance when she is courted by a young garage mechanic whose father has the only clue to the identity of her mother's aggressors. But as the story unfolds, the tale becomes increasingly complex and leads inexorably to a stunning conclusion.

Touch of Spice
A TOUCH OF SPICE GREEK, rated nr

Fanis, a forty-year-old astrophysics professor, journeys back to his childhood home. In affectionate, uplifting scenes, it portrays Fanis' relationship with his beloved grandfather, the pain he suffered from being thrown out of Turkey at an early age, and the difficulties his family faced as they adjusted to life in Greece.

Toi & Moi
TOI & MOIFRENCH, rated nr

Using her sister Lena's love life as well as her own for inspiration, Ariane writes romantic stories for a popular magazine. But for these love-struck sisters, the lonely millionaires of the fiction world are miles away from the commitment-phobic boyfriends that live in their reality.

Babine
BABINE FRENCH, rated nr

This is the story of a man called Babine and his fellow villagers: Toussaint Brodeur, the fly-tamer, a blacksmith in love with a widow from St. Barnabe who cheats on him with the priest; Meo the hairdresser whose love for the bottle gives his customers strange hairdos; Madame Gelinas, who has been pregnant for the last two decades and who can't seem to make her cakes rise up anymore.