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Actors: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frederic Pierrot
Synopsis: Their relationship fractured when older sister Juliette is sentenced to 15 years in prison, two siblings wage an emotional battle to rebuild their relationship, overcome the secrets that keep them apart, and finally express the thoughts that have lain dormant for well over a decade. The moment Read More
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: Gilbert Melki, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Cruveiller, Christophe Odent, Nathalie Akoun-Cruveiller
Synopsis: In this Kafkaesque look at the injustices of modern life, Tres Bien, Merci follows an accountant named Alex who catches the eye of authorities for the minor infraction of lighting up his cigarette just a few feet shy of the smoking area near the subway. Guards force him to pay an exorbitant fine Read More
Actors: Déborah François, Frederic Pierrot, Arthur Jugnot, Julie Gayet, Claire Johnston
Synopsis: A sixteen year-old girl living with her widowed father in the Ardennes forest befriends a twenty-two year old orphan whose manipulative aunt contrives to keep him immature in the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Stéphan Carpiaux. A tragic accident has claimed the life of Alex's mother, and Read More
Actors: Aurélien Recoing, Frederic Pierrot, Bruno Todeschini, Maryline Canto
Synopsis: With the controversial 2007 docudrama Operation Turquoise, French director Alain Tasma (October 17, 1961) travels back in time by thirteen years to revisit the fateful events wrought by his country in April 1994. That month, France undertook the U.N.-backed "Operation Turquoise" - ostensibly a Read More
Actors: Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant, Jay Rodan, Elsa Zylberstein, Roschdy Zem
Synopsis: Antoine de Caunes' second feature, Monsieur N. is a historical mystery thriller about Napoleon. Sir Hudson Lowe (Richard E. Grant) is assigned to guard Napoleon (Philippe Torreton) while the latter is in exile in Saint Helena. A local girl, Betsy (Siobhan Hewlett), has a crush on the exiled Read More
Actors: Isild Le Besco, Émilie Dequenne, Grégoire Colin, Anémone, Frederic Pierrot
Synopsis: Tensions arise in the household of a bourgeois architect and his young wife when they hire a young peasant girl as a wet nurse for their newborn daughter, and a friendship blossoms between the two women despite class differences. Set in 1877, A Song of Innocence opens to find Julien (Gregoire Read More
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Thomas Kretschmann, Linda Hardy, Frederic Pierrot, Thomas M. Pollard
Synopsis: The year is 2095 and the ancient Egyptian gods have returned to Earth to cast judgment on the falcon-headed god Horus in this epic fantasy from comic-book creator Enki Bilal. Given only one week by the gods to preserve his immortality, Horus must search New York City and find both a human host Read More
Actors: Grégoire Colin, Julie Ordon, Brigitte Catillon, Laurent Grévill, Etienne Chicot
Synopsis: Bruno (Grégoire Colin of Beau Travail) is a troubled art student fascinated with pristine white walls and empty space. A squalid, unhappy childhood has left him angry, reclusive, and obsessive. When his brutish uncle (Etienne Chicot), fed up with Bruno's eccentricities, threatens to kick him out Read More
Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Carré, Lara Guirao, Bruno Putzulu, Frederic Pierrot
Actors: Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccaï, Frederic Pierrot, Victor Garrivier, Catherine Samie
Synopsis: The recently dead return to life in They Came Back, but they are surprisingly uninterested in feasting on the living. Many of them are, naturally enough, elderly, and they seem content merely to go back to their former lives, but their return causes a myriad of complications. Robin Campillo Read More
Synopsis: Arnaud Viard's 2003 French-language feature Clara et Moi chronicles the eccentric romance between the 33-year-old struggling actor Antoine (Julien Boisselier of Le Convoyeur) and Clara (Julie Gayet Les Menteurs), a girl he happens to meet on the subway. Clara happens along at exactly the right Read More
Actors: Josiane Balasko, Eric Caravaca, Ange Rodot, Aurélien Recoing, Frederic Pierrot
Synopsis: Directed by Guillaume Nicloux, Cette Femme-La (That Woman) follows divorced police captain Michele Varin (Josiane Balasko), whose grief comes to a head with the swiftly approaching anniversary of her young son's death. Alone except for her late son's sick rabbit, Michele is dealing with crippling Read More
Actors: Michel Serrault, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Frederic Pierrot, Marc Berman
Synopsis: Can a thirtysomething gal from the city find happiness with a goat farm and its aging overseer? Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner) is a computer expert who has successfully pursued a career in business; however, her career path was chosen to please her family more than herself, and Sandrine has decided Read More
Actors: Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Frederic Pierrot, Fele Martínez
Synopsis: Renowned actress Maria de Medeiros directs this sweeping historical drama set in Portugal about the heady days leading up to April 25, 1974, when that country was finally freed from 40 years of Fascist rule. The film opens with a series of grisly black and white photographs of Portuguese war Read More
Actors: Juliette Andres, Lolita Chammah, Jean-Pierre Gos, Isabelle Huppert, Robert Kramer
Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Laurence Ferreira Barbosa directs this loosely-structured triptych about a trio of unconnected people who struggle through the loneliness of their lives. Impetuous 17-year-old Marguerite (Lolita Chammah), who feels cut off from both her family and classmates, passes the time Read More
Actors: Grégoire Colin, Anouk Grinberg, Xavier Beauvois, Frederic Pierrot, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
Synopsis: Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. The film opens just as the Soviet Empire crumbles in 1989. As Louise (Brigitte Catillon) mourns the death of her lover, she discovers the journal of Alfred Katz (Gregoire Colin), an earnest Jewish Read More
Actors: Muriel Mayette, Frederic Pierrot, Vincent Deneriaz, Cedric Vieira, Julien Charpy
Synopsis: This French comedy-drama about a dysfunctional family won France's Jean Vigo award. In the tightly-knit Ducret family, farmer Luc (Frederic Pierrot) is married to Jeanne (Muriel Mayette), who regrets they abandoned their deformed firstborn to an institution -- an event the couple has kept secret Read More
Actors: Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlovic, Luca Zingaretti, Brigitte Catillon
Synopsis: This historical drama is based on the true story of Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman to achieve success as a painter. In 17th century Italy, noted artist Orazio Gentileschi (Michel Serrault) is a portrait artist enjoying a certain degree of success and acclaim. His 17-year-old daughter Read More
Actors: Jean-Yves Dubois, Nathalie Boutefeu, Christophe Odent
Synopsis: A doctor learns some things he never expected to know as he searches for a friend on a mission of mercy in this drama. Pierre Feldman (Jean-Yves Dubois) is a French physician who visits the African nation of Port Djema in hopes of finding a close friend and colleague. Port Djema is being torn Read More
Actors: Frederic Pierrot
Synopsis: American independent filmmaker Rob Tregenza, who includes Jean-Luc Godard among his admirers, directed this deliberately paced, minimalist drama about Jean Hammett (Frederic Pierrot), a French artist who has been committed to a mental institution in the United States. One of the female inmates Read More
Actors: Frederic Pierrot, Catherine Baugue, Jalil Lespert, Marc Adjadj, Nathalie Bensard
Synopsis: One of eight medium-length films sponsored by France's Channel 7 television network designed to commemorate or comment upon the upcoming millennium, Laurent Cantet's Les Sanguinaires represents France. It is set in December, 1999 and centers upon Francois, a Parisian travel agent who decides to Read More
Actors: Madeleine Assas, Bérangère Allaux, Ghalia Lacroix, Vicky Messica
Synopsis: For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France. Director Jean-Luc Godard presents stories about Read More
Actors: Philippe Torreton, Catherine Rich
Synopsis: Bertrand Tavernier directed this hard-hitting anti-war drama. In November of 1918, just as World War I had come to a close, Capt. Conan (Phillippe Torreton) and his men await new assignments in Bucharest. Conan regards himself as a warrior, not a soldier: while a soldier will fight in a war, it Read More
Actors: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martinez
Synopsis: A reflective look at an idealistic young man's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom combines wartime drama with impassioned political debate. Director Ken Loach, better known for his intimate portraits of working-class British life, begins on familiar turf in the present day Read More
Actors: Bulle Ogier, Laurence Côte, Frederic Pierrot
Synopsis: The quiet agony of a mother whose daughter grows up to pursue her own life is chronicled in this realistically presented French drama. The Circuit Carole of the title refers to a motorbike racetrack. Jeanne and her 20-year old daughter Marie share a small apartment in a working-class Parisian Read More
Actors: Natacha Lindinger, Frederic Pierrot, Jean-Michel Tinivelli, Beata Nilska, Frédéric Pellegeay
Actors: Frederic Pierrot, Maite Maille
Actors: Frederic Pierrot, Elsa Zylberstein, Sandrine Kiberlain, Marc Citti
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, Francois Perrot
Synopsis: The grim post-World War I era in Europe is grist for director Bertrand Tavernier's mill in Life and Nothing But. Philipe Noiret portrays a French major who is supervising the gruesome task of counting and identifying the corpses still strewn over the battlefield. Noiret is obsessed with the Read More
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