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Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze, Pascale Arbillot, Guillaume de Tonquedec
Synopsis: Many regard the satirically inclined writer-director-star Agnès Jaoui (Le Goût des Autres) as a European equivalent of Woody Allen. The cerebral comedy Let It Rain represents Jaoui's third effort in the said capacities, and finds her juggling preoccupations with gender politics and class Read More
Actors: Marilou Berry, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Laurent Grévill, Virginie Desarnauts
Synopsis: A talented woman struggles to get out from under the shadow of her father in this comedy. Lolita (Marilou Berry) is the 20-year-old daughter of Étienne Cassard (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a wealthy and well-known editor and writer, and most of the people she meets seem to be more interested in her dad Read More
Actors: Agnès Jaoui, Sarah Adler, Katia Lewkowicz, Arie Elmaleh, Charles Berling
Synopsis: Richard Dembo's third directorial effort, La Maison De Nina, concerns a group of Jewish children living in an orphanage in Paris at the end of WWII. Soon there is an influx of children at the orphanage whose parents did not survive the concentration camps. Eventually those newcomers and the Read More
Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Agnès Jaoui, Gérard Lanvin, Alain Chabat
Synopsis: Agnes Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is Read More
Actors: Michael Imperioli, John Ventimiglia, Drena De Niro, Nick Sandow, Joaquim de Almeida
Synopsis: An ordinary guy with a crooked friend discovers no good deed goes unpunished in the comedy On The Run. Albert (Michael Imperioli) is having a quiet evening at home when he gets a call from his old pal Louie (John Ventimigila), whom he hasn't heard from in years. There's a good reason for this Read More
Actors: Agnès Jaoui, Serge Riaboukine, Sarah Haxaire, Richard Morgieve
Synopsis: Christophe Blanc directs his nuanced character study of a nurse, wife, and mother of three who is on the verge of a breakdown. After learning that her husband of 15 years is having an affair with his young slatternly secretary, Francoise (Agnes Jaoui) throws her spouse out on his ear and starts Read More
Actors: Alain Chabat, Patrick Timsit, Samuel Le Bihan, Caroline Proust, Marie Trintignant
Synopsis: Alain Corneau directed this French drama about detectives and informants. After a cop's suicide, detective Gerard (comedian Alain Chabat) acquires his late partner's informant (i.e. "cousin"), Nounours (comedian Patrick Timset), a drug-dealing family man. Ironically, Nounours has a happy family Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, André Dussollier, Agnès Jaoui
Synopsis: In this homage to acclaimed TV scripter Dennis Potter (1935-1994), famed 75-year-old French director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad) has actors lip-synch in a manner instantly recalling Potter's Pennies from Heaven (1978 TV serial, 1981 movie) and The Singing Detective Read More
Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Agnès Jaoui
Synopsis: In this black comedy from France, a family gathers in a tavern, ostensibly to celebrate a birthday, but poking each other's sore spots turns out to be the main order of business. Henri (Jean-Pierre Bacri) runs a saloon that he inherited from his father called "The Sleepy Dad," and in the Read More
Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Zabou, Agnès Jaoui, Sam Karmann, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Synopsis: Martine and Jacques (Zabou and Sam Karmann) knew their friend before he became an important television personality, but have not seen him for over ten years. They are hospitable people - witness the fact that they have been putting up with having writer Georges (Jean-Pierre Bacri) be their Read More
Actors: Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi
Synopsis: Since Smoking and No Smoking, though they are separate films, were conceived (and shown) in tandem, and since they are both based on a closely connected set of plays by the English dramatist Alan Ayckbourn, they are considered together here. When the two films were shown in France, viewers Read More
Actors: Laurent Grévill, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Vincent Perez, Laura Benson, Thibault de Montalembert
Synopsis: Noted stage director Patrice Chereau adds his stylistic flair to this drama loosely taken from a story by Anton Chekhov. A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The Read More
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