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Comment créer un Univers ? Comment rêvent les Dauphins ? Comment réussir une Mayonnaise ? D'où viennent les Légendes ? D'où viennent les signes du Zodiaque ? Quel lien entre Spiritualité et Astrophysique ? Quel lien entre Tarots et Alchimie ? Que représentent réellement la forme des Chiffres que nous utilisons ? Le paradoxe de la Reine Rouge ? La civilisation d'Harappa ? Les mystères d'Éleusis ? Qui étaient réellement Archimède, Néron, Conan Doyle, Pythagore, la papesse Jeanne ?... La Nouvelle encyclopédie du savoir relatif et absolu répond à toutes les questions étranges que vous ne vous êtes peut-être jamais posées !

Quelque part, loin, très loin, se trouve une île que ses habitants appellent Aeden. Là, perchée sur un haut plateau, une ville : Olympie. Dans son coeur, une étrange institution, l'école des Dieux, et ses professeurs : les douze dieux de la mythologie grecque, chargés d'enseigner l'art de gérer les foules d'humains pour leur donner l'envie de survivre, de bâtir des cités, de faire la guerre, d'inventer des religions ou d'élever le niveau de leur conscience.La nouvelle promotion ? Cent quarante-quatre élèves dieux qui vont devoir s'affronter à travers leurs peuples, leurs prophètes, chacun avec son style de divinité. Mais la vie sur Aeden n'est pas le paradis. Un élève essaie de tuer ses congénères, un autre est tombé fou amoureux du plus séduisant des professeurs, Aphrodite, déesse de l'amour, et tous se demandent quelle est cette lumière là-haut sur la montagne qui semble les surveiller...

"We didn't inherit the land from our ancestors, we have it on loan from our children."Or something like that.I admit, though I finished this book two months ago, it took me a while to review it. At first, I thought of it as an Alice-in-Wonderland-esque romp in the speculative fiction genre, one where the great ideas were hamstrung by the need of a plot. Little did I know, I had Thoughts on this book.Yeah. I'm a slow burner.So what is "Cassandra's Mirror", you ask? Well, it's about a girl who lost both her parents to a terrorist attack, who doesn't remember her childhood and who has the uncanny ability to predict terrorist attacks in modern-day Paris. Much like her Trojan counterpart, however, Cassandra Katzenberg has a hard time getting people to believe her (it doesn't help that she's something of a stuck-up little bitch). After the director of her boarding school tries to get sexual with her and she goes all Mike Tyson on his ass (no really) she goes off to become homeless, gather a following, and try to prevent her visions from coming true, all while trying to uncover the mystery of her past and understand the reason as to why she is the way she is.Now, out of that plot description, guess which part takes on the most of the book. Go on...I can wait...If you guessed the latter, great. If it sounds like a book you'd like, stop reading this review and go off to find a copy - if this is enough to interest you, you don't need to read any further.For those of you who are interested in my Thoughts, get comfortable, cause this is gonna be a long one."Cassandra's Mirror" is one of those metaphysical stories that is way more interested in subtext than the actual text. As such, the characters and overarching plot are pretty underdevelopped, to the point where none of the things that actually happen matter. Violence, sexual violence, murder and suicide are treated so breezily, the reader just takes them for granted and carries on. One might argue that, since the point of the story is different, that character and plot don't matter. However, as the actual point of the story is to raise Important Questions, I believe it would help if the reader could actually see the characters as human, and not convenient mouthpieces for Werber to use.See, "Cassandra's Mirror" talks a huge deal about the long-term consequences of our actions. Pollution, over-population, exhaustion of natural resources, all that lovely stuff. There's even a point in the book where our titular character dreams about being taken to court (in the year 3000) for the crimes of our own "selfish generation". ARE YOU GETTING THE SUBTEXT YET? ARE YOU? ARE YOU? SHALL I GET MY HAMMER OUT TO GET THE POINT ACROSS?Sarcasm aside, "Cassandra's Mirror" does actually carry some pretty solid ideas about people being too focused on immediate gratification and how hatred breeds hatred and how people are not what they seem to be. I especially liked the part where a disillusioned cop tells Cassandra how his terrorism-prevention unit got closed off because the ones in charge decided they were not worth the money, which I felt was realistically explained and a fairly organic as far as set-up went. However, no matter how tasty the ideas are, it doesn't change the fact that Werber gets them across in the laziest way possible - getting his characters to monologue about it, while barely twisting the story so that the overall conversation would make some contextual sense. I told you some details about the surface plot, but the truth is, I can barely remember how it resolved itself, or if resolved itself at all - I think it sort of fizzled out in the end, because the author ran out of deep subjects to talk about. The characters aren't very helpful either, even if they're given enough complicated backstory to fill a small house. Their deeper conflicts and relationships with one another are barely developped past the necessary in order for them to discuss the secrets of the universe, and that would have been well and dandy if Werber didn't want people to actually take something away from his book. Let me tell you - lecturing is not effective if the lecturer doesn't resound with his audience. And no, having them murder people on occasion does not make them any more of a cardboard cutout. Werber seems to think that, by simply doing something morally ambiguous (like sending a poisonous snake after the leader of a human trafficking ring) a character gains depth. Um, no. Since this review is already longer than I intended, I'll end on one final note, before my brain derails completely. Even if you disregard everything I've said about this book to date, even if those descriptions are exactly up your alley, there is no getting around the fact that this book is too much up its own arse to be taken seriously. The "science" used to explain Cassandra's ability to see the future is dubious at best and the way the book discusses autism makes me distinctly uncomfortable. Oftentimes, I had the feeling Werber couldn't decide himself what his book was - magical realism? speculative fiction? science fiction? - so he mashed together everything in the hope that the reader wouldn't notice.There is also the fact that he seems a little bit too smug about his own work, in a way that really ticks me off. In one of Cassandra's dream sequences, she is actually transported in a scene from a book she read, a book whose description matches one of Werber's own works, Le papillon des étoiles. Though Cassandra refers to the book in rather negative terms, this little self-insertion was a bit jarring, almost as much as the afterword of the book where Werber talks about a real-world event which matches the inciting incident of his own book, which took place as he put the final dot in the manuscript.I get it, okay, Bernie? I get it. You want to root your work in reality, even if its science fiction, so that the reader would take the themes close to their heart and learn important life lessons. That doesn't exempt you from making your plot and characters acessible to others.

Ils sont là parmi nous, jamais où tu regardes, à circuler dans les angles morts de la vision humaine. On les appelle les furtifs. Des fantômes ? Plutôt l'exact inverse : des êtres de chair et de sons, à la vitalité hors norme, qui métabolisent dans leur trajet aussi bien pierre, déchet, animal ou plante pour alimenter leurs métamorphoses incessantes.Lorca Varèse, sociologue pour communes autogérées, et sa femme Sahar, proferrante dans la rue pour les enfants que l'éducation nationale, en faillite, a abandonnés, ont vu leur couple brisé par la disparition de leur fille unique de quatre ans, Tishka - volatisée un matin, inexplicablement. Sahar ne parvient pas à faire son deuil alors que Lorca, convaincu que sa fille est partie avec les furtifs, intègre une unité clandestine de l'armée chargée de chasser ces animaux extraordinaires. Là, il va découvrir que ceux-ci naissent d'une mélodie fondamentale, le frisson, et ne peuvent être vus sans être aussitôt pétrifiés. Peu à peu il apprendra à apprivoiser leur puissance de vie et, ainsi, à la faire sienne.Les Furtifs vous plonge dans un futur proche et fluide où le technococon a affiné ses prises sur nos existences. Une bague interface nos rapports au monde en offrant à chaque individu son alter ego numérique, sous forme d'IA personnalisée, où viennent se concentrer nos besoins vampirisés d'écoute et d'échanges. Partout où cela s'avérait rentable, les villes ont été rachetées par des multinationales pour être gérées en zones standard, premium et privilège selon le forfait citoyen dont vous vous acquittez. La bague au doigt, vous êtes tout à fait libres et parfaitement tracés, soumis au régime d'auto-aliénation consentant propre au raffinement du capitalisme cognitif.

A classic Enlightenment tale accompanied by 18 other pieces, including "Plato's Dream" and "Memnon" — all in a new translation.Micromegas is a 650-year-old, 39-kilometer-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak 1,000 languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a heretical tract. On Saturn he befriends the local secretary of the Academy of Sciences—a comparative dwarf, being only two kilometers high—and the two decide to travel to earth together, where they will make startling discoveries about human nature.

A Montmartre vivent deux chats extraordinaires. Bastet, la narratrice qui souhaite mieux communiquer et comprendre les humains. Pythagore, chat de laboratoire qui a au sommet de son crâne une prise USB qui lui permet de se brancher sur Internet. Les deux chats vont se rencontrer, se comprendre s’aimer alors qu’autour d’eux le monde des humains ne cesse de se compliquer. A la violence des hommes Bastet veut opposer la spiritualité des chats. Mais pour Pythagore il est peut être déjà trop tard et les chats doivent se préparer à prendre la releve de la civilisation humaine.

Bernard Werber nous entraîne à la découverte du continent ultime, au-delà de notre imaginaire. En suivant les Thanatonautes, vous connaîtrez des rêves et des terreurs insondables, vous subirez les lois d'un univers étrange, où se cache l'énigme qui hante les hommes depuis toujours… Jamais personne n'est allé aussi loin que les Thanatonautes. Ils ont exploré la vie après la vie. L'odyssée la plus stupéfiante de tous les temps.

Paru en 1887 avec d'autres récits, Le Horla est incontestablement le plus original et le plus effrayant de tous les contes fantastiques de Maupassant. Pour l'écrire, l'auteur s'est documenté auprès du docteur Charcot, célèbre spécialiste des névroses et des hystéries. Mais surtout, il s'est probablement inspiré des troubles nerveux qui commençaient alors à le détruire et qui allaient bientôt l'empoter. Sans doute est-ce la raison pour laquelle cette histoire, qui évoque la possession de son unique personnage par une puissance invisible, est racontée sans aucun des artifices habituels de la fiction, mais avec une sécheresse presque clinique. À cet égard Le Horla rompt radicalement avec les traditions romantiques ou symboliste, et ressorti à ce que l'on pourrait appeler un "Fantastique objectif", voire "naturaliste". Ce recueil contient une autre nouvelle fantastique. L'Auberge, et des récits procédant de la veine réaliste habituelle de leur auteur, avec cet impitoyable mélange de cruauté psychologique et de pessimisme social qui caractérise l'ensemble de son œuvre.

The Immortals is the story of a couple separated by an extraordinary event only to be reunited by exceptional circumstances that no man or woman ever knew. It is also the story of a mystery that, since 1955, secretly brought together the leaders of the most powerful nations.It is this "secret" that put an end to the Cold War, that led to Kennedy's assassination, that makes Charles de Gaulle's behavior in May 1968 understandable, that makes Nixon's trips to Moscow and Beijing indispensable.It is the secret of both the greatest fear and the greatest hope in the world...

When a French expedition in Antarctica reveals ruins of a 900,000 year old civilization, scientists from all over the world flock to the site to help explore &amp; understand. The entire planet watches via global satellite tv, mesmerized, as they uncover a chamber in which a man &amp; a woman have been in suspended animation since, as the French title suggests, 'the night of time'. The woman, Eléa, is awakened. Thru a translating machine she tells the story of her world, herself &amp; her husband Paikan &amp; how war destroyed her civilization. She also hints at an incredibly advanced knowledge her still-dormant companion possesses, knowledge that could give energy &amp; food to all humans at no cost. But the superpowers of the world are not ready to let Eléa's secrets spread, &amp; show that, 900,000 years &amp; an apocalypse later, humankind has not grown up &amp; is ready to make the same mistakes again.

Réunir tous les savoirs de son époque : telle a été l'ambition du professeur Edmond Wells. Mêlant science et spiritualité, physique quantique et recettes de cuisine, ce savant singulier et solitaire a accumulé tout au long de sa vie des informations étonnantes. Un seul point commun à tous ses textes : donner à réfléchir, «faire pétiller les neurones». Le professeur Edmond Wells était un homme plein d'humour qui accordait une grande importance à la notion de paradoxe. Mais de tous les paradoxes, le plus étonnant est certainement le statut même de ce personnage puisqu'il n'est, on le sait maintenant, que le fruit de l'imagination fertile de Bernard Werber.

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the “insane” and the rest of humanity.

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way readers and philosophers view the world around them.Our age is a triumph of codification. We own devices that bring the world to the command of our fingertips. We have access to boundless information and prodigious quantities of stuff. We decide to like or not, to believe or not, to buy or not. We pick and choose. We think we are free. Yet all around us, in pop culture, politics, mainstream media, and advertising, there are codes and symbols that govern our choices. They are the fabrications of consumer society. They express myths of success, well-being, and happiness. As Barthes sees it, these myths must be carefully deciphered, and debunked.What Barthes discerned in mass media, the fashion of plastic, and the politics of postcolonial France applies with equal force to today's social networks, the iPhone, and the images of 9/11. This new edition of Mythologies, complete and beautifully rendered by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, critic, and translator Richard Howard, is a consecration of Barthes's classic—a lesson in clairvoyance that is more relevant now than ever.

In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest ‘intellectual virtuosos,' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwin—and their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning,This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book and produced by the National Geographic Society was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.

Imaginez une Terre poncée, avec en son centre une bande de cinq mille kilomètres de large et sur ses franges un miroir de glace à peine rayable, inhabité. Imaginez qu’un vent féroce en rince la surface. Que les villages qui s’y sont accrochés, avec leurs maisons en goutte d’eau, les chars à voile qui la strient, les airpailleurs debout en plein flot, tous résistent. Imaginez qu’en Extrême-Aval ait été formé un bloc d’élite d’une vingtaine d’enfants aptes à remonter au cran, rafale en gueule, leur vie durant, le vent jusqu’à sa source, à ce jour jamais atteinte : l’Extrême-Amont.Mon nom est Sov Strochnis, scribe. Mon nom est Caracole le troubadour et Oroshi Melicerte, aéromaître. Je m’appelle aussi Golgoth, traceur de la Horde, Arval l’éclaireur et parfois même Larco lorsque je braconne l’azur à la cage volante. Ensemble, nous formons la Horde du Contrevent. Il en a existé trente-trois en huit siècles, toutes infructueuses. Je vous parle au nom de la trente-quatrième : sans doute l’ultime.

Un petit livre qui se lit très rapidement, en à peu près une heure. L'introduction est attirante : le livre s'adresse au lecteur en le tutoyant, en lui demandant de s'installer confortablement, de tourner les pages à son propre rythme, de se laisser aller à l'aventure, au voyage, d'ouvrir son esprit, d'oublier les voisins, le quotidien, la routine ... J'ai beaucoup aimé ces premières pages.Mais dès que le voyage débute, on s'ennuie, on tourne les pages sans grande conviction. On suit le chemin en se demandant quelle sera la prochaine étape : continuer ou arrêter.

Alain Damasio nous invite à la rencontre de grands "vivants", c'est-à-dire de grands claustrophobes, amoureux de l'air et de l'Ouvert. Champions de toutes les aérations, celles de l'espace, du son, des mots, du collectif, et de ce fait totalement libres, entrés en un jeu d'échos fou avec les mouvements du monde, ils tracent et suivent leurs lignes de fuite, tel le surfeur qui n'existe et ne consiste que dans la furtivité.Dix nouvelles par l'auteur de La Zone du Dehors et La Horde du Contrevent.

2084. Orwell est loin désormais. Le totalitarisme a pris les traits bonhommes de la social-démocratie. Souriez, vous êtes gérés! Le citoyen ne s'opprime plus : il se fabrique. À la pâte à norme, au confort, au consensus. Copie qu'on forme, tout simplement. Au cœur de cette glu, un mouvement, une force de frappe, des fous : la Volte. Le Dehors est leur espace, subvertir leur seule arme. Emmenés par Capt, philosophe et stratège, le peintre Kamio et le fulgurant Slift que rien ne bloque ni ne borne, ils iront au bout de leur volution. En perdant beaucoup. En gagnant tout. Premier roman ici réécrit, La Zone du dehors est un livre de combat contre nos sociétés de contrôle. Celle que nos gouvernements, nos multinationales, nos technologies et nos médias nous tissent aux fibres, tranquillement. Avec notre plus complice consentement. Peut-être est-il temps d'apprendre à boxer chaos debout contre le swing de la norme?

320pages. poche. broché.  De l'autre côté de la Seine une coulée de quintessence enflammée atteint, dans les sous-sols de la caserne de Chaillot, ancien Trocadéro, le dépôt de munitions et le laboratoire de recherches des poudres. Une formidable explosion entrouvre la colline. Des pans de murs, des colonnes, des rochers, des tonnes de débris montent au-dessus du fleuve, retombent sur la foule agenouillée qui râle son adoration et sa peur, fendent les crânes, arrachent les membres, brisent les os. Un énorme bloc de terre et de ciment aplatit d'un seul coup la moitié des fidèles de la paroisse du Gros-Caillou. En haut de la Tour, un jet de flammes arrache l'ostensoir des mains du prêtre épouvanté. De l'autre côté de la Seine une coulée de quintessence enflammée atteint, dans les sous-sols de la caserne de Chaillot, ancien Trocadéro, le dépôt de munitions et le laboratoire de recherches des poudres. Une formidable explosion entrouvre la colline. Des pans de murs, des colonnes, des rochers, des tonnes de débris montent au-dessus du fleuve, retombent sur la foule agenouillée qui râle son adoration et sa peur, fendent les crânes, arrachent les membres, brisent les os. Un énorme bloc de terre et de ciment aplatit d'un seul coup la moitié des fidèles de la paroisse du Gros-Caillou. En haut de la Tour, un jet de flammes arrache l'ostensoir des mains du prêtre épouvanté.

Reload, rev up and ride out. The new Tournament is faster, higher and meaner. Land and air based vehicles take combat to a new level; while an arsenal of new we...

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The education of a princess wrapped in a love story. A king and queen live happily until her sudden death. The king decides to marry his lovely daughter. She's willing, but the Lily Fairy serves as a social conscience, intent on thwarting incest. She instructs the princess to request a series of dresses impossible to make; however, the king's tailor succeeds. So the fairy plots the princess's escape, wearing the skin of the king's prize donkey. She's spirited away to be a scullery maid dressed in the noisome skin. A wandering prince sees her in the woods and is smitten. Can love find its course, and does the princess learn a lesson of life's hardships?

1970 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy

16-year-old Genevieve and 20-year-old Guy are very much in love. Her kind mother, who runs an umbrella shop, won't hear of her marrying, particularly as Guy has yet to complete his compulsory military service. Genevieve is heartbroken when he leaves for his army service in colonial Algeria and is upset to have received only one letter from him in two months. Her mother's solution to this situation is kind diamond-merchant Roland Cassard, who has helped them in the past.

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris once month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close... A film whose scenario is much less important than its feeling of euphory, according to the director Jacques Demy.

Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. They reach unparalleled success, but in an unexpected turn Freddie, surrounded by darker influences, shuns Queen in pursuit of his solo career. Having suffered greatly without the collaboration of Queen, Freddie manages to reunite with his bandmates just in time for Live Aid. While bravely facing a recent AIDS diagnosis, Freddie leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. Queen cements a legacy that continues to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day.

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo (

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect. Groundbreaking interaction between the live and animated characters, and lots of references to classic animation.

In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader,

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age.

Several legal suits have been brought against McDonald's Restaurants that they are knowingly selling food that is unhealthy. Some of the court decisions have stated that the plaintiffs would have a claim if they could prove that eating the food every day for every meal is dangerous. As such, documentarian

2004 documentary film on the fast food industry directed by Morgan Spurlock

The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker

2002 documentary film directed by Michael Moore

Odile Deray est attaché de presse pour le film "Red is Dead". Mais au festival de Cannes, personne ne veut regarder un tel navet. Pourtant, les gens changent d'avis au moment où les projectionnistes meurent les un après les autres, assassiné par le méchant de "Red is Dead". Serge Karamazov est envoyé sur place pour protéger la victime suivante. Quelques jours plus tard, la salle est comble et même le gratin de Cannes est sur place.

Through a quirk in the space time continuun the three magi (the director Didier Bourdon as Balthazar, Bernard Campan as Melchior, and Pascal Legitimus as Gaspard) find themselves in various parts of the modern world in their quest for the christ child. Their paths merge in Paris. On their quest they touch people's lives where their reactions to values and technology give rise to much humour. Their identity is guessed by a canny marketer who recognises their commercial potential, takes advantage of their naivette, and ruthlessly exploits them. They become instant celebrities, but soon become jaded and disillusioned. They opt out, resuming their quest with a reluctant assistant Macha (Virginie de Clausade),who has problems of her own. Eventually they return to their own era.

Chouchou has just arrived in Paris from his home in North Africa. He is scatty and unworldly, and tries to get a bed for the night by spinning an implausible line about being a refugee from the Chilean dictator Pinochet. He is fortunate, because a kindly priest (Father Leon) in a working class suburb has some sympathy for him, and takes him in for a few nights. Father Leon also gets him a job with a lady psychoanalyst, Dr Milovavich, and the job is as receptionist and cleaner. Chouchou does the cleaning in a woman's dustcoat and when Dr Milovavich asks him what he would most like in the world, he replies that he would love to be a woman from head to toe. Dr M. is unabashed by this revelation, and tells him that from tomorrow he can come to work as a woman, Mlle Chouchou. He takes her at her word, and is startlingly convincing the next day, with good female body language, although let down by a marked dark beard shadow. Soon the doctor has to go away for a couple of days on business, and Chouchou is alone in the practice when an enraged client comes banging at the door; when he is let in, it turns out he is Inspector Gregoire of the police, having serious mental difficulties, due to the violent nature of his work. Chouchou has been reading the doctor's textbooks and tries a bit of amateur psychoanalysis but Gregoire becomes even angrier and storms out. When Chouchou leaves later on, Gregoire is waiting and Chouuchou only just escapes violence, ending up on the Metro and getting out at Clichy, the centre of the red light district in Paris. By coincidence Chouchou bumps into her cousin in the street, there. The cousin is male but is working at a bar called the Apocalypse, where he does an act as Vanessa. That night Chouchou goes with Vanessa to the bar; there are a couple of bouncers on the door, and as everyone kisses everyone else twice on each cheek, just getting past the door takes some time. There is also a customer (Stanislas de la Tour-Maubourg) hovering near the door, and he is evidently attracted to Chouchou. Chouchou starts work as a waitress in the club, and after some days, Stanislas comes in and approaches her. After some preliminaries, he takes her out for a meal, treating Chouchou as a girl. He is a perfect gentleman and very soon wants to take Chouchou to introduce her to his parents. Chouchou is a bit taken aback at this and consults Father Leon, but the kindly priest is not against it. So Chouchou goes with Stanislas to a seriously expensive hotel dining room where the parents are waiting to meet her. Stanislas has told his parents that Chouchou is herself a psychoanalyst, and Chouchou has to bluff her way out of it. Work at the club continues apace for Chouchou, but when she is back at the dcotor's consulting rooms, Gregoire turns up again, mad as ever. This time Doctor Milovavich is present; Gregoire is getting violent, so Chouchou knocks him out by hitting him with a large vase, that Milovavich told her earlier was of irreplaceable sentimental value. Chouchou now has to go on the run from Dr Milovavich because of the vase, and from Gregoire because of assaulting a policeman. Where and how will it all end?

Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.

1980 film by Louis de Funès, Jean Girault

A womaniser, the titular big mouth, helps his introvert best friend find true love.

Three brothers are reunited on the occasion of the death of his mother. The three are in a difficult stage of their lives due to economic difficulties: Bernard is a failed actor, Didier pretends to be a professor of philosophy when, in fact, is selling sex toys and Pascal lives off a rich sexagenarian. Accompanied by Sara, the teenage daughter of Bernard, they live surprising encounters while new problems appear.

To amuse themselves at a weekly dinner, a few well-heeled folk each bring a dimwit along who is to talk about his pastime. Each member seeks to introduce a champion dumbbell. Pierre, an avid participant of the game, runs into one problem after another that devilishly compromises his secrets, turning the tables on him and his objective, which diverges as the movie progresses. Firstly, wishing to be certain he has selected a winner, he invited his guest, Mr. Pignon, to meet him at home before setting off; but night of all nights, Pierre has put his back out and it is questionable whether he can manage to get to the dinner. The blundering Mr. Pignon will continually spring forward to help relieve Pierre of his troubles, which have drastically compounded, pointing in the direction of friends, taxes and women, and Pierre's dimwit Pignon accordingly will prove his substance to the end.

Auntie Danielle, supposedly in ailing health but in reality just a nasty old bitch, lives with a paid housekeeper who she regularly abuses. When the housekeeper dies falling off a ladder, Danielle moves in with her great-nephew and his family. She continues using her nastiness to manipulate everyone into doing things her way until the family goes on vacation to Greece. The young housekeeper they hire to watch after her knows what Auntie is doing, and deals with her accordingly, and they begin forming respect for each other.

Deux beaux-frères, Didier et Bernard se lancent un défi: chacun ne doit pas fumer pendant quatorze jours. Ce pari, qui se prolongera ultimement sur beaucoup plus longtemps, bouleversera leurs vies professionnelles, personnelles et sentimentales.

1997 film by Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan

Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, she takes refuge at "SOS Distress", run by two neurotics, Thérèse and Pierre.

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1863 preserved tenement building brings Lower East Side immigrant stories to life with guided tours.

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Two New Zealander friends experience life, love, friendship, all the usual stuff, while trying to make their lives as a rock band. A rock band that can only schedule a performance at the local aquarium, is run by an eager and overambitious New Zealand buddy, and has only one fan.

The world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone. Soon they join a group of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life. Set free from their collective past and societal rules the group has the freedom to be who they want to be. In their struggle for survival, they discover that even in a post-apocalyptic world there's still love, jealousy, coming of age, and many of the problems they thought they'd left behind with the disappearance of the world they once knew.

Living among the citizens of the infamous New Mexico city of Roswell are some who are not there by choice. They are there to follow a destiny given to them by the members of their dying race, a race that they are someday destined to save. This is the background behind the WB series "Roswell". Max Evans, Isabel Evans and Michael Guerin are teenage humans with extraordinary gifts - gifts that are "not-of-this-earth". They are human/alien hybrids, sent here to complete their destiny. Their counterparts have already perished in a war of attrition, thus one day, they will return to their home planet and save their race. Before a fateful day in 1999, the teens hid their gifts. The event that forever changed their lives was when Max healed Liz Parker (a classmate) after she was fatally shot in the stomach in a dispute between two customers at the restaurant where she waitresses. A close relationship then develops between Max and Liz. Central to the first season were the relationships between the hybrids and their human companions. That focus has shifted during the drama's second season. "Roswell" is now distinctly a science-fiction show built on the relationships between humans and aliens.

A shadowy organization uses mind-wiped humans known technically as "actives" and colloquially as "dolls" who are imprinted with false memories and specialized skills for various tasks on behalf of paying clients. When they are not on assignments, they live in an underground "Dollhouse", a facility that protects and provides for their needs, including food, exercise and sleeping pods little bigger than coffins. One of the dolls, a young woman called Echo by her handlers, is slowly becoming aware of herself and what is going on. Meanwhile, at least two different people on the outside are trying to bring down the Dollhouse, one by finding Echo and the other by using her.

Mankind has colonised the stars, yet humanity remains the same desperate and power-hungry species in 2071. A ragtag duo of spacefaring bounty-hunters, Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, struggle to make ends meet living amongst the stars; and things are about to get a hell of a lot more complicated when they adopt the super-dog Ein, persuade the seductive femme-fatale known as Faye Valentine, and the teenage-hacker Edward. These five figures are about to come across things crazier than the crew of the Bebop itself.

1998-1999 Japanese anime television series

1934, America. The Dustbowl. A fugitive named Ben Hawkins finds refuge within a traveling carnival comprised of a tarot card reader and her catatonic/telekinetic mother, a blind mentalist, a bearded lady, and conjoined twins, amongst others. The carnival is owned by the mysterious and unseen Management, who has designs on the young Hawkins, for the boy is concealing an untapped gift: he can heal the lame and raise the dead--at a price. Ben also finds himself disturbed by cryptic and prophetic dreams, which he shares with a Methodist preacher in California, Brother Justin Crowe. Brother Justin, convinced by his dreams he is following God's will, has begun to practice his own extraordinary talents, although the preacher's plans increasingly lead to disturbing and tragic consequences. In this "last great age of magic," Ben Hawkins and Justin Crowe are moving toward a great conflict between Good and Evil, although it not yet clear on which sides these men will stand.

The vampire Angelus, now known as Angel, has a human soul, but committed terrible crimes in the past. Seeking forgiveness and trying to redeem himself, he moves from Sunnydale (and a relationship with Buffy Summers, of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") to Los Angeles, where he helps the downtrodden by thwarting the supernatural creatures that prey on them.

Set in a small coastal, Massachusetts town named Capeside, Dawson's Creek tells the story of four teenagers as they struggle through adolescence. This is particularly true for 15-year-olds Dawson Leery, an introspective dreamer and Joey Potter, a precocious tomboy unaware of her beauty. Best friends since childhood, they are about to enter that confusing time in life where nothing is the way it was and nothing is as it seems.

1998 American teen drama television series

The three Halliwell sisters discover that they are descendents of a line of female witches. Each has a special ability (stopping time, moving objects, seeing the future), and they can also combine their abilities into the "Power of Three" to fight demons, warlocks, and other evils.

American supernatural drama / fantasy television series (1998–2006)

"In every generation there is a chosen one... she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer." Buffy Summers knows this tale by heart, and no matter how hard she tries to be just a "normal girl", she can not escape from her destiny... Thankfully, she is not alone in her quest to save the world, as she has the help of her friends, the hilarious (and surprisingly quite effective) evil-fighting team called "The Scooby Gang". Together, Buffy & co. will slay their demons, survive one apocalypse after another, attend high school and college... and above all, understand that growing up can truly be Hell sometimes... literally.

1997 American supernatural drama TV series

In a world rife with deadly creatures called "youma", a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organization that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability to destroy these creatures. Considered a rogue for picking up a stray child and almost losing herself to her youma side by "Awakening", she is constantly assigned rather dangerous missions.

Taking place 70 years after the events of "Avatar: The Last Airbender," this story follows the adventures of the Avatar after Aang - a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenage girl from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra. With three of the four elements under her belt (Earth, Water, and Fire), Korra seeks to master the final element, Air. Her quest leads her to the epicenter of the modern "Avatar" world, Republic City - a metropolis that is fueled by steampunk technology. It is a virtual melting pot where benders and non-benders from all nations live and thrive. However, Korra discovers that Republic City is plagued by crime as well as a growing anti-bending revolution that threatens to rip it apart. Under the tutelage of Aang's son, Tenzin, Korra begins her airbending training while dealing with the dangers at large.

The world is divided into four elemental nations: The Northern and Southern Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. The Avatar upholds the balance between the nations, but everything changed when the Fire Nation invaded. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, can stop them. But when the world needs him most, he vanishes. A hundred years later Katara and Sokka discover the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. Together they must help Aang master the elements and save the world.

Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, he is greeted by a strange man in the seat next to him. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.

Macgyver is a secret agent with a difference. He is quiet, mild mannered, deeply principled and refuses to carry a gun on his missions. Fortunately, the last detail is unimportant when compared to his astounding mind. Drawing on a vast practical knowledge of science, Macgyver is able to make use of any mundane materials around him to create unorthodox solutions to any problem he faces. The enemies of world peace and justice continually learn that underestimating this man is a fatal mistake for their plans.

Centers on the titular holistic detective who investigates cases involving the supernatural. Based on the "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" novel series, written by Douglas Adams and published by Simon and Schuster in 1987.

A Seattle family takes in an amnesiac teen (Dallas), whom they eventually learn has mysterious powers and psychic abilities, the result of a secret human cloning experiment conducted years earlier. The family helps teach Kyle human behaviors such as anger, joy and love, and guards him against forces who seek to use Kyle for their own nefarious purposes.

The body of a young girl (Laura Palmer) is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

American drama television series from 1990–1991

This show was based on Superman (Dean Cain) being a Generation X man. In his twenties, somewhere Clark Kent (Dean Cain) must experience life as a pre-thirties pupil. Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher), as always, is by his side at the Daily Planet, adding that oh-so-ever romantic side to his life. The relationship between Lois and Clark, is as always, a platonic but on the edge of mad love, type of experience.

Astronaut John Crichton, on an experimental space mission, is accidentally hurled across the universe into the midst of an intergalactic conflict. Trapped among alien creatures wielding deadly technology and hunted by a merciless military race, Crichton is on an epic odyssey more spectacular than anything he has ever imagined.

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Far in the future, The Empire is about to face a reckoning unlike anything else it's faced before: several Millenia of chaos has been predicted by the galaxy's leading psycho-historian: Hari Seldon. But can The Empire offset the disaster before it begins?

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