Baise-moi = Rape Me

cover image Barcode: 58957079 Call Number: V-FRE 187 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 73 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 Language: French Creator: Directed by Virginie Despentes Description: "Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences." - IMDB Rating Audience (Video Only): BBFC rating: 18 Collection: Language Resource Center

Baise-moi = Rape Me

cover image Barcode: 58994400 Call Number: DV-FRE 187 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 73 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 Language: French Creator: Directed by Virginie Despentes Description: "Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences." - IMDB Rating Audience (Video Only): BBFC rating: 18 Collection: Language Resource Center

Baisers volés = Stolen Kisses

cover image Barcode: 58946851 Call Number: V-FRE 073 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 90 min. System Requirements: Region 1 DVD Region: Language: French Creator: Directed by François Truffaut Description: The third in the Antoine Doinel series, (first told in the film The 400 blows) and in many respects the autobiography of François Truffaut. After his dishonorable discharge from the army, Antoine embarks on a series of ill-fated jobs, finally settling on an amusing stint as a private dectective. In his ever-turbulent love life, he finds himself torn between an attractive, serious-minded young violinist and a glamorous, older married woman. Collection: Language Resource Center

Baisers volés = Stolen Kisses

cover image Barcode: 58964771 Call Number: DV-FRE 073 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 90 min. DVD Region: Language: French Creator: Directed by François Truffaut Description: The third in the Antoine Doinel series, (first told in the film The 400 blows) and in many respects the autobiography of François Truffaut. After his dishonorable discharge from the army, Antoine embarks on a series of ill-fated jobs, finally settling on an amusing stint as a private dectective. In his ever-turbulent love life, he finds himself torn between an attractive, serious-minded young violinist and a glamorous, older married woman. Collection: Language Resource Center

Balzac: A Life of Passion

cover image Barcode: 58925549 Call Number: V-FRE 040 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 200 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: French Creator: Directed by Josee Dayan Description: A bio-pic about the passionate life of the great French novelist, Honore de Balzac, who was ignored by critics and harassed by debt-collectors and sustained by the Russian countess whom he loved his entire life. Rating Audience (Video Only): MPAA rating: not rated Collection: Language Resource Center

Bamako

cover image Barcode: 58958749 Call Number: V-FRE 212 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 117 min System Requirements: Region 1 DVD Language: French AND Bambara Creator: Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Description: "An historic trial is taking place in a residential courtyard in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. African citizens have taken proceedings against such financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for perpetuating Africa's debt crisis. As numerous trial witnesses (schoolteachers, farmers, writers, etc.) air bracing indictments against the global economic machinery that haunts them, life in the courtyard presses forward. Bar singer Melé ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Bambi

cover image Barcode: 58958842 Call Number: V-FRE 210 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 58 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 Language: French Creator: Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz Description: "From her earliest childhood in Algiers, Marie-Pierre only wants to wear dresses and refuses stubbornly her birth first name: Jean-Pierre. His life falls apart at seventeen when he discovers a review about a transvestites cabaret on tour, "le Carrousel de Paris". In a few years, he becomes Bambi, mythical figure of the Parisian cabarets in the fifties and sixties. By collecting the testimony of one of France's first transsexuals, Sébastien Lifshitz pursues the work started ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Bande de filles = Girlhood

cover image Barcode: 58958850 Call Number: DQ-66165 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 113 min. Language: French Creator: Directed by Celine Sciamma Description: "A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier." -- IMDb Collection: Language Resource Center

Bangalore

cover image Barcode: 58962409 Call Number: FR-FRE Lam Material Type: Print-Graphic Novel Language: French Creator: Simon Lamouret Description: In Bangalore, we find almost everything in the street ... Treats, fruits and vegetables, cigarettes and tea, shoeshine or hairdressers ... And sometimes also, a French designer, who draws what seduces him in this modern Babylon. Collection: Language Resource Center

Beau travail = Good Work

Barcode: 58965198 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 92 min. Language: French Creator: Directed by Claire Denis Description: "This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Djibouti." -IMDb Rating Audience (Video Only): Unrated Collection: Language Resource Center

Being Jewish in France (Parts I & II)

cover image Barcode: 58994475 Call Number: DV-FRE 297 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 185 min Language: French Creator: Yves Jeuland Description: "Yves Jeuland’s extraordinary documentary captures centuries of Jewish life in France in two episodes broadcast on French television to critical acclaim. French Jews have always had a complex relationship to their Frenchness and their Judaism. From revolutionary cries of “Vive la France!” in Yiddish through Vichy’s betrayal of Jewish citizens to the absorption of Mizrahi Jews in the 1960s, French Jews have remained staunchly French. But with the influx of Arab immigrants into France ...

Being Jewish in France (Parts I & II)

cover image Barcode: 58994579 Call Number: V-FRE 297 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 185 min System Requirements: NTSC; all? Language: French Creator: Yves Jeuland Description: "Yves Jeuland’s extraordinary documentary captures centuries of Jewish life in France in two episodes broadcast on French television to critical acclaim. French Jews have always had a complex relationship to their Frenchness and their Judaism. From revolutionary cries of “Vive la France!” in Yiddish through Vichy’s betrayal of Jewish citizens to the absorption of Mizrahi Jews in the 1960s, French Jews have remained staunchly French. But with the influx of Arab immigrants into France ...

Bel-Ami

cover image Barcode: 58961669 Call Number: FR-FRE Mau Material Type: Print Language: French Creator: Guy de Maupassant Description: Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in 1903. The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy women. Collection: Language Resource Center

Belle de jour

cover image Barcode: 58958463 Material Type: Video -Digital Language: French Creator: Directed by Luis Buñuel Description: A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. Rating Audience (Video Only): R Collection: Language Resource Center

Bérénice

cover image Barcode: 58947268 Call Number: V-FRE 076 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 100 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: French Creator: Directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe Description: Antiochus, best friend and comrade-in-arms to Titus, has come to bid Berenice farewell before returning to Palestine. She obliges him to reveal the reason for his sudden departure. He confesses that he has loved her for the past five years. Swearing him to silence, she accepts his departure. For it is on this very day that Titus must render official their relationship and ask her to be his empress. But the loyal Arsace reveals to Titus that under Roman law, he cannot wed a non-Roman woman. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz Basic French Workbook

Barcode: 58954857 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Print Language: French, English Description: Twenty-four fast-paced units, packed with a wealth of challenging and entertaining activities, help reinforce and improve your grammar and vocabulary knowledge, increase proficiency, and build confidence. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz Basic French Workbook

Barcode: 58954858 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Print Language: French, English Description: Twenty-four fast-paced units, packed with a wealth of challenging and entertaining activities, help reinforce and improve your grammar and vocabulary knowledge, increase proficiency, and build confidence. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz DJ French

Barcode: 58954862 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Language Kit Language: French, English Description: Audio CD and listener's guide A rockin' radio show that'll help you get down with French Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz French Business Dictionary

Barcode: 58954771 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Print-Reference Language: French Description: The Berlitz French Business Dictionary is the ideal companion for anyone doing business internationally. This bilingual dictionary features terms used in all aspects of daily business usage: sales, banking, insurance, finance, travel, and more. More than 5,000 essential business terms Convenient pocket-size book is ideal for the business traveler Bilingual format helps you locate the right word in either French or English Includes sample business letters Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz French Business Dictionary

Barcode: 58954772 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Print-Reference Language: French Description: The Berlitz French Business Dictionary is the ideal companion for anyone doing business internationally. This bilingual dictionary features terms used in all aspects of daily business usage: sales, banking, insurance, finance, travel, and more. More than 5,000 essential business terms Convenient pocket-size book is ideal for the business traveler Bilingual format helps you locate the right word in either French or English Includes sample business letters Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz French Guaranteed

Barcode: 58954788 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Language Kit Language: French Description: 4 audio CDs Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz French Guaranteed

Barcode: 58961099 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Language Kit Language: French Description: 4 audio CDs Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz Hide this French CD

Barcode: 58954860 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Language Kit Language: French, English Description: CD and phrasebook Wanna talk the talk - in French? This CD's got all you need to: - say hi & bye - make your way by plane, train or car - use a French ATM - get a room - order your fix of French food - drink up - party with the locals - pick up a hottie - shop 'til you drop - surf the web - in French - recognize words you can't blurt out in front of your mother Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz Intermediate French

Barcode: 58954798 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Language Kit Language: French Description: Contains: 6 audio CDs Course book Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz Pocket Dictionary: French

Barcode: 58954774 Call Number: IL-FRE Ber Material Type: Print-Reference Language: French, English Description: Modern vocabulary with many idioms and new words and expressions Contains extra grammar information to help you improve your French Collection: Language Resource Center