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Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.

Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.

Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.

Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.

A shell-shocked veteran and a lonely girl at a boarding school, and a town that misreads them.

Strange punishments in a German village in 1913, in black and white; Haneke on the roots of fascism.

A Montmartre waitress rearranges the lives of strangers, in green and red.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.