Louise Chevillotte

  • Lucie Borleteau – À mon seul désir AKA My Sole Desire (2022)

    2021-2030ArthouseDramaFranceLucie BorleteauQueer Cinema(s)

    Synopsis:
    For young PhD student Manon, far from being (just) a last-resort need to engage in sordid activities in order to make ends meet, stripping is also a means to explore her relationship with desire. Just as she thinks, upon entering into the lair of sensuality, that she’s exploring her potential to awaken her desire, she ends up encountering another desire of an overwhelming kind. She who thought she’d be meeting toxic women actually encounters fairies and muses, friends and lovers.

    “Lucie Borleteau’s film de-dramatises the strip-club world, rendering it as tender as it is inflammatory...” ~CineuropaRead More »

  • Nadav Lapid – Synonymes AKA Synonyms (2019) (HD)

    2011-2020DramaFranceNadav Lapid

    In his first screen role, Tom Mercier plays Yoav, a disaffected young Israeli who flees Tel Aviv for Paris to start a new life. Desperate to erase his origins, Yoav sees becoming French as his only hope for salvation. He constantly consults his dictionary in an effort to stop speaking Hebrew, but finds working at the Israeli embassy is a distraction. Preparing for the French naturalisation test also has its pitfalls, while the young couple he befriends have some strange ideas about how to help him. Based on writer-director Nadav Lapid’s own experiences, Synonymes explores the challenges of putting down roots in a new place, as Yoav’s attempts to find himself awaken past demons and open up an existential abyss…Read More »

  • Nadav Lapid – Synonymes AKA Synonyms (2019)

    2011-2020ArthouseDramaFranceNadav Lapid

    Yoav, a young Israeli, turns up in Paris, hopeful that France and French will save him from the madness of his country.Read More »

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