Luc Barnier Filmography

Summer Hours

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Actors: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Three siblings must come to terms with their mother's mortality as they decide what to do with her valuable belongings in this warm family drama from filmmaker Olivier Assayas. Helene Berthier (Edith Scob) is about to turn 75, and her children are gathering at her home in the country for a party. Read More

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis

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Actors: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoe Felix, Anne Marivin, Philippe Duquesne

Synopsis: A man born and raised on France's Southern coast is exiled to the Northern territories in this comedy from actor, director and screenwriter Dany Boon. Philippe Abrams (Kad Merad) helps run the post office in a picturesque small town in the South of France. Philippe's wife Julie (Zoe Felix) has Read More

Clean

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Actors: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar

Synopsis: A woman throws herself into a last-ditch struggle to conquer her demons in this gritty drama from director Olivier Assayas. Lee Hauser (James Johnston) is a faded rock star who lives with his wife, Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung), the former host of a European music video show, in a small town in Read More

Quartier des Enfants Rouges

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Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lionel Dray

Synopsis: Writer/director Olivier Assayas draws on the themes in his previous film Irma Vep for this short starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lionel Dray. The segment concerns a young drug addicted actress (Gyllenhaal) who senses a burgeoning romance with her dealer (Dray). This film was included in Paris, Je T'Aime Read More

Sir Max

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Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Dominique Blanc, Guillaume Gallienne, Féodor Atkine, Nazim Boudjenah

Synopsis: Abandoned by the world and left to fend for himself as the Nazis continue their march across Europe, one-time bohemian turned Catholic convert Max Jacob finds help coming from the most unlikely of places as he awaits the train that will take him to a Concentration camp. The year is 1944, and as Read More

Dream House

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Actors: Dany Boon, Michèle Laroque, Daniel Prévost, Zinedine Soualem, Laurent Gamelon

Synopsis: A simple cottage in the country becomes an increasingly difficult matter for cash-strapped husband in this French comedy. Charles Boulin (Dany Boon) works for a mortgage company, where he has the unenviable job of overseeing the repossession of homes when owners default on their loans and Read More

Family Hero

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Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Catherine Deneuve, Géraldine Pailhas, Emmanuelle Béart, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A down-and-out sleight-of-hand artist tries to pull off the trick of a lifetime by keeping a decaying cabaret in business in this comedy-drama with music from director Thierry Klifa. Gabriel Stern (Claude Brasseur) has spent over four decades running the Blue Parrot, a Parisian nightclub where he Read More

The Untouchable

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Actors: Isild Le Besco, Bérangere Bonvoisin, Marc Barbé, Parikshit Luthra, Manuel Munz, Louis-Dominique de Lencquesaing

Synopsis: A woman sets out to discover the truth about her heritage in this drama from filmmaker Benoit Jacquot. Jeanne (Isild Le Besco) is a young woman who has begun to enjoy success as an actress. While visiting her mother on her birthday, Jeanne is made party to a long-held family secret -- her father Read More

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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Actors: Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Wang Shuangbao, Chung Zhijun

Synopsis: Dai Sijie directs Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise (The Little Chinese Seamstress), a film adaptation of his own best-selling autobiographical novel. Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who Read More

À Tout de Suite

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Actors: Isild Le Besco, Ouassini Embarek, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Laurence Cordier, Fotini Kodoukkaki

Synopsis: Four nameless people are brought together by crime and circumstances in this visually striking drama. A naïve young woman (Isild Le Besco) who studies art and lives with her wealthy family goes to a nightclub one evening and meets a mysterious young man of Moroccan heritage (Ouassini Embarek). The Read More

Palais Royal!

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Actors: Valérie Lemercier, Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Aumont, Mathilde Seigner

Synopsis: Valerie Lemercier's royal comedy Palais Royal! stars Valerie Lemercier as a commoner who is married to a prince (Lambert Wilson). When the king dies, the queen (Catherine Deneuve) pulls strings to have the Prince jump the order of succession and take control. The wife has little aptitude for being Read More

In His Hands

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Actors: Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Jonathan Zaccaï, Valérie Donzelli, Agathe Louvieaux

Princess Marie

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Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Heinz Bennent, Anne Bennent, Sebastian Koch, Elisabeth Orth

Le Role de Sa Vie

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Bab el Chams

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Actors: Rim Turki, Orwa Nyrabeya, Hiam Abbass, Bassel Khayyat, Nadira Omran

Demonlover

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Actors: Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, Gina Gershon, Jean-Baptiste Malartre

Synopsis: French director Olivier Assayas departs from his usual dramas with Demonlover, a wild thriller about corporate intrigue, hardcore sex Internet sites, and Japanese animé. Wealthy French business man Henri-Pierre Volf (Jean-Baptise Malartre) assigns Diane de Monx (Connie Nielson) to make a deal with Read More

Nowhere to Go But Up

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Actors: Audrey Tautou, Justin Theroux, Jennifer Tilly, Catherine Curtin, Laila Robbins

The Process

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Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Guillaume Depardieu, Julia Faure, Daniel Duval, Sebastien Viala

Synopsis: Filmmaker C.S. Leigh writes and directs his first feature film with the extreme drama The Process. French actress Béatrice Dalle plays an actress trying to kill herself. Through long, uncomfortable takes, the film explores her tortured existence. After a disastrous on-stage appearance with her Read More

Tosca

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Actors: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagana, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi, Sorin Coliban

Synopsis: The tragedy of Puccini's heartbreaking romance comes to life on stage in this production starring Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, and Ruggero Raimondi and directed by Beniot Jacquot. The Royal Opera House - Covent Garden performs Puccini's timeless score as Antonio Pappano conducts. ~ Jason Read More

Les Destinées

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Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas follows up on the international success of Fin Août, Début Septembre and Irma Vep with this sweeping adaptation of the sprawling three-volume tome by Jacques Chardonne. Set in three chapters spanning from the beginning of the 1900s to after WWI, the first Read More

Adolphe

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Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Stanislas Merhar, Jean Yanne, Romain Duris, Jean-Louis Richard

Synopsis: Adolphe, French director Benoît Jacquot's adaptation of Benjamin Constant's novel of the same name, tells the story of a young man's passion for 30-year-old Ellenore (Isabelle Adjani). After much resistance, Ellenore falls for Adolphe (Stanislas Mehrar), only to find out that his love for her has Read More

La Dernière Lettre

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Actors: Catherine Samie

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman makes his second fictional feature with La Dernière Lettre (The Last Letter). Anna Semyonova (Catherine Samie) is locked up in an occupied Ukrainian ghetto in 1941. Adapted from Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate, the film consists of the woman reciting a Read More

Le Libertin

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Actors: Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko, Christian Charmettant, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Gabriel Aghion directs this bawdy period romp about a day in the life of 18th century philosopher and sensualist Denis Diderot (Vincent Perez), who produced the first ever encyclopedia while living a life of delicious decadence. Though the Church immediately banned Diderot's opus, which they Read More

Epouse-moi

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Actors: Michèle Laroque, Vincent Perez, Miki Manojlovic, Arnaud Giovaninetti

Synopsis: In this free-spirited romantic comedy, Oriane (Michele Laroque) has grown tired of her relationship with Hadrien (Vincent Perez), an architect with a habit of climbing tall buildings, a relationship precipitated by her breakup with Hadrien's best friend, who responded by attempting suicide. Read More

Sade

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Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Grégoire Colin

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil stars as the infamous Marquis de Sade, who at the beginning of Sade, is serving a sentence in Paris' grim Saint Lazarde prison. The year is 1794, and Sade is being persecuted for his steadfast atheism, which runs counter to the beliefs of Robespierre, France's terrifying Read More

Late August, Early September

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Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, Jeanne Balibar, Alex Descas, Arsinée Khanjian

Synopsis: Olivier Assayas directed this French drama, examining several relationships over a year's span, capturing varying textures and shades of feeling between people from late August of one year until early September of the next. Gabriel (Mathieu Amalric) and Jenny (Jeanne Balibar) separate, despite the Read More

Belle-maman

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Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Lindon, Mathilde Seigner, Line Renaud, Stéphane Audran, Danièle Lebrun, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: Who is the worst person you could fall in love with, and what would be the worst moment to fall for them? One possible scenario is presented in the comedy of errors Belle Maman. Antoine (Vincent Lindon) has decided to make an honest woman of his girlfriend, pregnant Severine (Mathilde Seigner) Read More

The Lost Son

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Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Katrin Cartlidge, Ciarán Hinds, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: The Lost Son brings together talented British director Chris Menges with a well-known face of French cinema, Daniel Auteuil, who plays a detective in self-exile in London who deals mostly with cases of adultery. At the same time, he is trying to come to terms with the ghosts of his past. While Read More

The School of Flesh

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Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Martinez, Vincent Lindon, Marthe Keller, François Berléand

Synopsis: Benoit Jacquot directed this French drama about an older woman and a younger man, adapted from the novel by Yukio Mishima. When career woman Dominique (Isabelle Huppert) goes out to a nightclub one evening, her attraction to bartender Quentin (Vincent Martinez) is observed by cross-dressing Chris (Vincent Lindon Read More

Place Vendôme

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Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Nicole Garcia directed this French suspense thriller set in the posh Paris square of Place Vendôme, where the jewelers district includes the firm run by Vincent Malivert (Bernard Fresson) with his brother, Eric (François Berléand). Although Vincent has a top reputation in the field, his British Read More

Dry Cleaning

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Actors: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar, Mathilde Seigner

Synopsis: This French-Spanish drama depicts a flat marriage that picks up a few new wrinkles. Nicole (Miou-Miou) and Jean-Marie Kunstler (Charles Berling) have run their small-town dry-cleaning shop for 15 years. When they visit a local night club, they see the brother-sister act of Loic (Stanislas Merhar) Read More

Fred

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Actors: Clotilde Courau, François Berléand, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: Fred lives in a housing project outside of Paris with his lover Lisa and her five-year old son. When not working in a factory or being with his little family, he hangs out with his close friend and neighbor Michel. Like the other factory workers, Fred and Michel live humble lives. Unfortunately Read More

Irma Vep

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Actors: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler

Synopsis: Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep tells the story of has-been French filmmaker René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). In an attempt to reinvigorate his career, Vidal decides to remake Les Vampires, the classic silent serial featuring the adventures of jewel thief Irma Vep. Playing Read More

Ligne De Vie

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Actors: Vincent Perez, Tatyana Meshcherkina, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Dmitri Pevtsov, Vsevolod Larionov

Synopsis: This fast-paced, convoluted bit of European escapist fare is set in crumbling contemporary Moscow, where a French composer finds himself seduced into a fantastic adventure after his flight to Paris is delayed and he finds himself broke and stranded in the Moscow airport. His temptress is the Read More

Pedale Douce

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Actors: Patrick Timsit, Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry, Michèle Laroque

Synopsis: A closeted gay man's attempts to "act straight" for the sake of his job have unexpected consequences in this French comedy. Adrien (Patrick Timsit) is a businessman who is trying to close a major deal with Alexandre (Richard Berry), a powerful banker. Alexandre invites Adrien to attend an upcoming Read More

Madame Butterfly

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Actors: Jing Ma Fan, Huang Yiqun, Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan

Synopsis: Puccini's classic opera of a trusting woman and how her love was tragically betrayed comes to the screen in this faithful film adaptation. In the 19th century, an American sailor named Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton (Richard Troxell) arrives in Japan and meets a 15-year-old girl named Cio-Cio-San (Ying Huang Read More

Elles Ne Pensent Qu'à Ça...

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Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Carole Laure, Bernard Le Coq, Roland Blanche, Heinz Bennent

Synopsis: This fluffy French romantic comedy chronicles the love lives of several lovers and relatives. Margeau has just arrived in Paris from New York. Twenty years before, she left her husband, a painter and many years her senior and her daughter Jess, who now sells classic cars with her partner the Read More

Le Cri du Coeur

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Actors: Said Diarra, Richard Bohringer, Felicite Wouassi, Alex Descas, Clémentine Célarié

Synopsis: This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him from Africa to Paris, France. Moctar, a boy whose first 11 years were spent in a small village in Mali, is having difficulty adjusting to his new life in Paris. After several years in Paris, Moctar Read More

L'Eau Froide

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Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Dominique Faysse

Synopsis: Written and directed by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, L'Eau Froide is a romantic drama about young, rebellious love in 1972 Paris. Christine (Virginie Ledoyen) and Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) are 16-year-old lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general Read More

À la Folie

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Actors: Anne Parillaud, Béatrice Dalle, Patrick Aurignac, Bernard Verley, Alain Chabat

Synopsis: A menage-a-trois between rival sisters and a boyfriend provide the dramatic focus of this French film. The sisters Alice and Elsa have been apart for two years. Alice, a painter, lives in Paris with her lover Franc. Problems for the happy couple ensue when Elsa suddenly appears at their door after Read More

Une Nouvelle Vie

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Actors: Sophie Aubry, Judith Godrëche, Bernard Giraudeau, Christine Boisson, Philippe Torreton

Synopsis: Tina (Sophie Aubry) is an unpleasant young woman with an unpleasantly supine mother and an unpleasantly futureless boyfriend. Even for someone whose range of facial expressions consists of mild-to-moderate sulking, this is too much, and she decides to look up the father she has never known. Along Read More

Loin des Barbares

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Actors: Dominique Blanc, Ronald Guttman

Synopsis: Zena (Dominique Blanc) lost her parents as a very young girl, and though she was born in Albania, only knows about life in Paris. She was raised by her uncle Selman (Sulejman Pitarka), whom she is about to leave behind in order to start a new life in New York. Just before she leave, however, she Read More

La Fille de l'Air

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Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Thierry Fortineau, Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be Read More

Paris s'éveille

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Actors: Judith Godrëche, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Thomas Langmann, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: Louise (Judith Godrèche) is living with Clément (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an older man who copes with her bouts of drug addiction and is attempting to give her a hand in getting a television career going. When the man's son Adrien (Thomas Langmann), who is on the run from the police, comes to stay with Read More

Hors la Vie

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Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Habib Hammoud

Synopsis: Patrick (Hippolyte Girardot) is a news photographer in Lebanon who is captured and held hostage by one of the factions fighting in the civil war there. This hostage drama film is unusual in that it attempts to show what motivates the captors, as well as showing the brave attempts of the captive to Read More

Woyzeck

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Actors: Jean-Pierre Sentier

Tilai

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Actors: Rasmane Ouedraogo, Roukietou Barry, Assita Ouedraogo

Synopsis: The unbending nature of village law wreaks havoc upon an all-too human family in this unusual film from the tiny nation of Burkina Faso. In the story, a young man has fallen in love with and become affianced to a young woman, which is not too strange. But then his father swiftly exercises his Read More

Ada Dans La Jungle

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Actors: Marie Louisa, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Isaach de Bankolé, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: This tepid actioner is taken from the popular comic strip by Francesco Altan. Ada (Marie Louisa) is the heir who promises her dying father she will look for the son he left behind in Africa 20 years before. Her scheming cousin Nancy (Charley Boorman) tries to get Ada disinherited. Ada runs into Read More

Camomille

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Actors: Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Remi Martin, Monique Chaumette, Guy Saint Jean, Albert Delpy

Synopsis: Martin (Remi Martin) is a shy baker's assistant with a stutter who has a penchant for felines and fast cars. He is building a car in his garage, oblivious to the fact that when it is completed he will not be able to drive it out of the structure. The kind-hearted Martin takes in Camille (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu Read More

L'Enfant de l'Hiver

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Actors: Clotilde de Bayser, Marie Matheron, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Gérard Blain

Synopsis: In this French romantic drama, Stephane (Michel Feller) wants to form a romantic bond with Sabine (Clotilde de Bayser), and to do this has left his pregnant girlfriend behind. Sabine would rather be with Bruno (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) her former boyfriend, a stage actor. Bruno in turn is much more Read More

Pentimento

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Actors: Magali Noël

Synopsis: In this frothy comedy, Lucie (Patricia Dinve) never knew her father, but she somehow finds out he has recently died and is to be buried on a certain day at a certain cemetary. In a belated attempt to connect with her roots, she rushes to the cemetary and joins a funeral gathering. She gets to know Read More

Berlin Jerusalem

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Actors: Lisa Kreuzer, Markus Stockhausen, Benjamin Levy, Vernon Dobtcheff

Synopsis: This difficult-to-follow arthouse film explores the parallel stories of two very idealistic Zionist women who never met in real life. The story concerns the German poet Elsa Lasker-Schuller and the Russian Mania Schochat. Elsa (Lisa Krezer) lives in 1920's Berlin as Germany is degenerating into Read More

L'Homme Voilé

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Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Michel Piccoli, Laure Marsac, Michel Albertini, Sandrine Dumas

Synopsis: Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two Read More

Avril Brise

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Actors: Jean-Claude Adelin, Violeta Sanchez, Alexandre Arbatt

Synopsis: A 100-year-old family feud in Albania continues to target men for vengeful execution in this somber drama. The people are bound by an ancient code of honor to avenge one death with that of another from the assailant's family. Gjerg (Jean-Claude Audelin) becomes a hero to his family when he kills Read More

Desordre

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Actors: Wadeck Stanczak, Ann-Gisele Glass, Lucas Belvaux, Simon de la Brosse, Remi Martin

Synopsis: After serving his apprenticeship as a screenwriter for director André Techiné, former movie critic Olivier Assayas wrote and directed this film. In the story, a penniless girl and two similarly impoverished boys with ambitions of becoming a successful rock group are sorely in need of some Read More

L'Unique

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Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Sami Frey, Charles Denner, Jezabel Carpi

Synopsis: This routine drama's main distinctions are the musical numbers by Julia Migenes Johnson as a misbehaving singer and the computer-assisted scenes that are melded with actual scenes for the first time in French cinema. The singer has been missing her scheduled performances -- or just simply cuts out Read More

Adieu, Bonaparte

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Actors: Michel Piccoli, Mohsen Mohiedine, Mohamed Atef, Patrice Chéreau, Mohsena Tewfik, Christian Patey

Synopsis: This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli Read More

Ave Maria

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Actors: Dora Doll, Bernard Freyd, Isabelle Pasco, Anna Karina, Féodor Atkine, Pascale Ogier

Synopsis: Naive but devout villagers find themselves victimized by two conniving grifters in this French crime drama. The con artists are a former priest and his lover, respectively, who have come to town proclaiming themselves "Holy Father' and "Holy Mother." Soon, the awe-struck villagers are handing Read More

Autour du Mur

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Actors: Yilmaz Güney

Synopsis: One year after director Yilmaz Guney escaped from a Turkish prison, he started shooting his film the Wall on the injustices of the military regime in Turkey and at the same time, director Patrick Blossier began shooting this documentary on the techniques used by Guney to elicit the best Read More

Rebelote

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