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A posh neighborhood in Tel-Aviv: luxury apartments, terraces, palm trees everywhere. This is where the Gruber family lives, people who are anything but ordinary. Amanda, the mother, runs the family business with an iron fist and zero imagination...
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Everyone knows the tragic ending of Emma Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's legendary heroine: hounded by creditors, disappointed by lovers, the young woman kills herself by swallowing arsenic. But have we been told everything about this death? The truth is...
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Another novel hero with an unusual job: nomenclature consultant. He works for an ad agency naming commercial products - cars, diapers, diet yogurt. "If you've got any knack for words at all, you can make a decent living coming up with names..."
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Junon learns she has blood cancer: only a bone marrow transplant can save her. All her children and grandchildren get tested to find a compatible donor. Using this illness as a premise, the film explores a dysfunctional family reuniting at Christmas...
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Northern Chile, in the Atacama Desert: nothing here but mines, saltpeter mines. Each mine has its camp, which packs up when the mine closes. The author takes us to one of these camps, Coya Sur, where only dust, heat, and hard labor reign...
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Monday, September 10, 2001, New York. Corinne and Russell host a dinner party. Across Manhattan, Luke attends a gala where his wife openly flirts with a wealthy businessman. Two couples in crisis, one day before everything changes...
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Baptiste Flamini, whose youth was marked by a series of explosions and who shares his life with a one-armed roommate, has a strange job: he hunts down rare or unusual objects for collectors. "Beware of collectors," he warns...
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Stefano, thirty-five, plays in a third-rate punk band. After a botched concert, he finds his girlfriend with another musician. Disgusted, he grabs his guitar and hits the road. Where to? Why not his family, to get pampered a bit...
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Behind this sadly ironic title hides an improbable encounter between two men with nothing in common. Passing through a dusty spa town oozing boredom, Simon, an aging hitman who's cynical and jaded, meets the gentle Bernard...
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Clarabel first drew my attention to this novel, but I'm not sure I'd have tackled this thick tome if I hadn't discovered accidentally that its author, Germaine Beaumont, had been the producer of a radio show I used to love...
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