Philippe de Broca

32 Films That Begin With Leaving a Mental Institution
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32 Films That Begin With Leaving a Mental Institution

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 / 13 March 2020

"Crazy" movies for crazy times. These 32 films make the case for the recently-escaped-or-released-mental-patient narrative as its own subgenre, replete with a language of recurring themes, plot devices, and character archetypes.

Down with Pleasure: The Lost Films of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
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Down with Pleasure: The Lost Films of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin

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 / 19 February 2018

Arrow Films and Kino-Lorber offer hard-to-find works of Godard and Gorin.

‘Five Day Lover’ and ‘On Guard’ in Dapper Double-Feature of Romance and Swashbuckling
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‘Five Day Lover’ and ‘On Guard’ in Dapper Double-Feature of Romance and Swashbuckling

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 / 7 September 2016

Director Philippe de Broca’s brain is ruled by a French heart in this odd but gorgeous pairing of his films, Five Day Lover and On Guard.