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Le Jeu de la Mort (The Game of Death) is a French/Swiss television documentary broadcast by the French public television channel France 2.It was presented as a social commentary on the effects of obeying orders and humiliation in reality television, and its broadcast was followed by a studio discussion on the programme.
Nothing to Hide (French: Le Jeu, lit. 'The Game' French pronunciation: [lə ʒø]) is a 2018 French dramatic comedy film written and directed by Fred Cavayé, adapted from the 2016 Italian film Perfect Strangers by Paolo Genovese.
The Raid, a 2011 Indonesian film, was influenced by Game of Death. It has a similar plot structure, set in a single main location, a grungy high-rise building, with grunts at the bottom and the big boss at the top. [42] [43] This Game of Death formula was also used in the film Dredd (2012) and appeared in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. [44]
The title refers to the last two lines of the French game of Effeuiller la Marguerite (Fr., "to pluck the daisy") of pulling petals off a flower, in which one seeks to determine whether the object of their affection returns that affection and to what extent: un peu ("a little"), beaucoup ("a lot"); passionnément ("passionately"): à la folie ...
The Memory Game Author Nicci French Language English Genre Psychological thriller Publisher William Heinemann Publication date 1997 Followed by The Safe House The Memory Game is a psychological thriller by London journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French under the pseudonym Nicci French. It was their first novel (followed by The Safe House) and originally published by William Heinemann in 1997 ...
First English edition cover (publ. Grove Press) Exit the King (French: Le Roi se meurt) is an absurdist drama by Eugène Ionesco that premiered in 1962. It is the third in Ionesco's "Berenger Cycle", preceded by The Killer (1958) and Rhinocéros (1959), and followed by A Stroll in the Air (1963).
Tarpon is a French private detective, a former cop responsible for the death of a protester, eaten up by grief, with a wry and weary outlook on the world, who gets mixed up in very tangled cases à la Raymond Chandler, another of Manchette's favorite writers. Out of 1976 came "Le Petit Bleu de la Côte Ouest" (3 to Kill / West Coast Blues). In ...
The Chips Are Down (French: Les jeux sont faits [le ʒø sɔ̃ fɛ]) is a screenplay written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1943 and published in 1947. The original title translates literally as "the plays are made", an idiomatic French expression used mainly in casino gambling meaning "the bets have been placed", as well as the French translation of alea iacta est.