Als de hoofdredacteur van de Franse Elle Jean -Dominique Bauby door een beroerte volledig verlamd raakt, ziet hij kans door met zijn oog te knipperen te communiceren en een boek te schrijven. The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world,...

Juliette Fontaine is an ex-doctor who is a frail and haunted woman. She is a shell of her former self. She has just been released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. Now she is in on the "outside" with no where to go. She ends up living with her loving but estranged younger sister Léa. Together the two sisters embark on a painful but redemptive journey to bring Juliette back from life's darkest edge. A shell-shocked Juliette...

A dramatic retelling of the life of Edith Piaf, considered one of the great performers of France. Raised in a brothel, taken to work in a circus by her father, and eventually abandoned by her parents, she spent her teen years on the streets. Eventually "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, she makes her way to international success, despite recurring frailty, illness, wild moods, drug and alcohol problems.

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....

Romantic fantasy set in Mexico during the early 20th century. A young couple is blocked from marrying by the demands of the young woman's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love, the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.

A New York advertising executive travels to a small Southern town to collect an inheritance but finds he must create a gospel choir and lead it to success before he can collect. Un responsable de la publicité à New York se rend dans une petite ville du sud pour récupérer un héritage, mais constate qu'il doit créer une chorale de gospel et le mener au succès avant de pouvoir collecter.

New Hampshire is home to a variety of musical traditions. This recording presents some of New Hampshire's families, friends, and solo artists sharing a sampling of tradition-based songs and instrumental tunes presented as a seasonal jo