Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father. But David isn’t attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.Read More »
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Quentin Dupieux – Le deuxième acte AKA The Second Act (2024)
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Julien Duvivier – Poil de carotte (1925)
Julien Duvivier1921-1930FranceSilentThe suffering and rebellion of 12-year-old François Lepic, nicknamed “Poil de Carotte” by his mother, who hates him. Occupied with the council elections, his father appears unaware that the young boy is increasingly tempted by suicide.Read More »
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Pierre Léon – Biette (2011)
Pierre Léon2011-2020DocumentaryFranceQuote:
A portrait of Jean-Claude Biette (1942-2003), a filmmaker as confidential as he was essential, author of Théâtre des Matières and Saltimbank, critic for Cahiers du cinéma, founder with Serge Daney of the magazine Trafic, but also an actor, music lover, entertainer and friend.Read More » -
Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol – Une vie de chat AKA A Cat in Paris (2010)
Jean-Loup Felicioli2001-2010Alain GagnolAnimationCrimeFranceA thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.Read More »
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Gilles Perret & François Ruffin – Debout les femmes! AKA Those Who Care (2021)
François Ruffin2021-2030DocumentaryFranceGilles PerretIn this new journey, Ruffin and Perret embarks us across France to meet caretakers at the front lines during the current Covid-19 crises.Read More »
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Guillaume Nicloux – Thalasso (2019)
Guillaume Nicloux2011-2020ComedyDramaFranceProvocative French writer Michel Houellebecq meets Gérard Depardieu at a sea water therapy center. Together, they try to survive the health regime to which they are subjected by the establishment. But events quickly derail their routine.Read More »
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Benoît Jacquot – Les Mendiants (1988)
Benoît Jacquot1981-1990CrimeDramaFranceThis symbolic drama underscores the human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while women steal other women’s men just to prove they can. Drug smuggling, clandestine love affairs, and two lovers involved with the production of Shakespeare’s Othello carry on their own off-stage tragedy.Read More »
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Jean-Charles Tacchella – Travelling avant (1987)
Jean-Charles Tacchella1981-1990ComedyDramaFranceSynopsis
In post-WWII France, three friends are intent on starting a film club for different reasons. Nino (Thierry Fremont), a rich playboy, thinks that it would be amusing to become a director. He hooks up with Donald (Simon de la Brosse), a young man from the countryside who is a serious student of film and hopes to become more urbane by getting involved in cinema. They join forces with Barbara (Ann-Gisele Glass), a young woman who knows how to get into a film warehouse. Their plan is to steal old prints from the warehouse and start their own enterprise…Read More » -
Bruno Podalydès – L’enterrement de mémé AKA Granny’s Funeral (2012)
2011-2020Bruno PodalydèsComedyDramaFranceGranny is dead. Berthe is no more. Armand’s grandmother had sort of slipped his mind… Armand runs a pharmacy in the Paris suburbs with his wife, Helene. In a medicine cabinet he hides his magical equipment – he’s secretly preparing a show for the daughter… of his lover, Alix. And Granny? Should she be buried or cremated? Who was Berthe?Read More »