The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?Read More »
Audrey Dana
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Claude Lelouch – Roman de gare AKA Tracks (2007)
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Benjamin de Lajarte – Les jeux des nuages et de la pluie AKA Games of Clouds and Rain (2013)
2011-2020Benjamin de LajarteDramaFranceLi Qin leaves her tempestuous husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has been, for months, secretly devoted to her. In the wake of their one-way chase, a Chinese business man wanders around town – hoping for relief and distraction, a pair of magicians trying to overcome a crisis, and a waitress who is in desperate need of stability. Some will find what they’re looking for, some will find each other, and some simply won’t.Read More »
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Philippe Lioret – Welcome (2009)
2001-2010DramaFrancePhilippe LioretA young Kurdish refugee finds friendship from an unlikely source in Welcome, writer-director Philippe Lioret’s dramatic (chronicle of intersecting lives. The tale unfurls in Calais, a seaside community in the north of France where one can glimpse the white cliffs of Dover, England with the naked eye. Vincent Lindon stars as Simon, a local swimming instructor privately reeling in turmoil because he dreads an imminent divorce from his wife (Audrey Dana). Soon, his path unexpectedly criss-crosses with that of Bilal (Firat Ayverdi), a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee with two aspirations: swim the English Channel, and join his girlfriend in England following a lengthy separation. Despite their differing ages, the two men discover that they have a fair amount in common, and soon forge a tight bond marked by similar goals.)Read More »