Piscine. Swimming pool. Diaboliquement votre. Diabolically yours. Veuve Couderc. Widow Couderc. Gitan. Gypsy. Notre histoire. Our story.
Notes:
La Piscine: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet. Diaboliquement votre: Alain Delon, Senta Berger, Peter Mosbacher, Claude Pieplu, Albert Augier, Sergio Fantoni. La veuve Couderc: Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Pierre Collet, Francios Valore, Andre Rouyer. Le gitan: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Paul Meurisse. Notre histoire: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye. Collective title from container. Originally released as a motion pictures, 1967-1984. La Veuve Couderc based on the novel by Georges Simenon.
Contents:
disc 1. La piscine = Swimming pool (121 min. ; 1969) -- disc 2. Diaboliquement votre = Diabolically yours (93 min. ; 1967) ; La veuve Couderc = The widow Couderc (89 min. ; 1971) -- disc 3. Le gitan = Gypsy (102 min. ; 1975) ; Notre histoire = Our story (111 min. ; 1984).
Summary:
La Piscine: Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. After a visit Marianne invites former lover Harry and his teenage daughter Penelope to stay. Tension between the grown-ups rises especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope. The consequences are deadly. Diaboliquement votre: George Campo searches desperately for his sanity after a near-fatal car crash and three weeks in a coma, when he awakes to a strange new life and can't remember a thing. He becomes convinced that someone wants him dead. La veuve couderc: While hiding from the police, Jean meets the Widow Couderc, a farmer's widow, and becomes her servant and lover. At the end the police discover his hide-out, encircle the farm and start moving in on him. Le gitan: A long-suffering gypsy sets out to steal from the rich to provide sustenance to his fellow gypsies, all of them desperate and treated like trash by French society. Constatly outwitting the authorities as he moves deftly from place to place with the help of accomplices, this king of beggars ultimately cannot break the chain of displacement. Notre histoire: A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)277168984
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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