Mathieu Amalric

  • Julian Schnabel – Le scaphandre et le papillon AKA The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

    2001-2010DramaFranceJulian Schnabel

    Synopsis:
    Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby – Jean-Do to his friends – awakens not knowing where he is. He is in a Berck-sur-Mer hospital, where he has been for the past several weeks in a coma after suffering a massive stroke. Although his cognitive facilities are in tact, he quickly learns that he has what is called locked-in syndrome which has resulted in him being almost completely paralyzed, including not being able to speak. One of his few functioning muscles is his left eye. His physical situation and hospitalization uncomfortably bring together the many people in his life, including: Céline Desmoulins, his ex-lover and mother of his children; Inès, his current lover; and his aged father who he calls Papinou.Read More »

  • Nicolas Klotz – La question humaine AKA Heartbeat Detector (2007)

    2001-2010DramaFranceNicolas Klotz

    Quote:
    Paris today. Simon works as psychologist in human resources department of petrochemical corporation. When Management gets him to investigate one of the factory’s executives, Simon’perception goes disturbingly chaotic and cloudy. The experience affects his body, his mind, his personal life and his sensibility. The calm assurance that made him such a rigorous technician starts to falter.Read More »

  • Sophie Fillières – Arrête ou je continue (2014)

    2011-2020DramaFranceSophie Fillières

    Their grown-up son has left home, the draw in her office desk is full of ants, and her husband runs off after the bus leaving her standing on the street. Pomme’s life has become a series of disappointments. Over the years, Pomme and Pierre have drifted apart and their relationship, though not yet dead, is no longer really alive. Even their attempt to drink champagne together fails when the bottle explodes in the freezer. They are out hiking together one day when Pomme suddenly decides to stay behind in the forest, alone …Read More »

  • Arnaud Desplechin – Jimmy P. (2013)

    2011-2020Arnaud DesplechinDramaFrance

    At the end of World War II, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas – an institution specializing in mental illness. Jimmy suffers from numerous symptoms: dizzy spells, temporary blindness, hearing loss… In the absence of any physiological causes, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture.Read More »

  • Arnaud Desplechin – Un conte de Noël aka A Christmas Tale (2008)

    2001-2010Arnaud DesplechinComedyDramaFrance

    Criterion wrote:
    In Arnaud Desplechin’s beguiling A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. That simple family reunion setup, however, can’t begin to describe the unpredictable, emotionally volatile experience of this film, an inventive, magical drama that’s equal parts merriment and melancholy. Unrequited childhood loves and blinding grudges, brutal outbursts and sudden slapstick, music, movies, and poetry, A Christmas Tale ties it all together in a marvelously messy package.
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  • Benoît Jacquot – À jamais AKA Never Ever (2016)

    2011-2020ArthouseBenoît JacquotDramaFrance

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    Quote:
    A girl who is a body artist fall in love with a director. But the man had a traffic accident and dead. This film express the feeling of love and lose.Read More »

  • Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu – Un homme, un vrai (2003)

    2001-2010Arnaud LarrieuComedyDramaFranceJean-Marie Larrieu

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    While they did not know, Boris, shy apprentice filmmaker and Marilyne, dynamic executive, fall madly in love at a Parisian evening. Five years later, Marilyn, accompanied by Boris and their children went to the Balearic Islands for a business trip. At the same time Boris, tired of his role as man at home, getting ready to leave, Marilyn made ​​a elopement and disappears … Five years later, Marilyne reappears deep in the Pyrenees. Came with a U.S. discover the mysteries of mating grouse group, she realizes that the mountain guide who accompanies is none other than Boris. (Source: after TV5)Read More »

  • Arnaud Desplechin – Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse AKA My Golden Days (2015)

    Drama2011-2020Arnaud DesplechinFranceRomance

    Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother’s madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.Read More »

  • Jean-Claude Biette – Trois ponts sur la rivière (1999)

    1991-2000ArthouseFranceJean-Claude Biette

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    IMDB:
    The life of Arthur, a professor living in Paris, changes when Frank comes to live on the same floor of the building where he is residing.Read More »

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