Director: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (2009)
Oscar, a ten-year-old boy, is staying at a children’s hospital. Neither the doctors nor his parents dare to tell him the truth about his illness. Only Rose, a woman with a grumpy attitude, who comes to deliver pizzas, communicates with him in a straightforward way. To distract him, Rose suggests that Oscar [...]
Director: Maïwenn Le Besco (2009)
A female filmmaker wishes to make a documentary about actresses of all kinds: popular stars, the unknown, intellectual, comic, and forgotten… Filming each and everything, with or without the actresses’ permission, the filmmaker gets caught up in her own game and allows herself to be consumed by these women as fragile [...]
Director: François Ozon (2010)
North of France, Sainte-Gudule, 1977. Suzanne is the submissive, housebound wife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol, who oversees his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is equally tyrannical with his children and ‘trophy housewife’. When the workers go on strike and take Robert hostage, Suzanne steps in to manage the factory. [...]
Director: Pascal Chaumeil (2010)
Your only daughter is madly in love with an absolute fool, your sister has just got engaged to a stupid lout? Your best friend is going out with a jerk? There is still one man left who can save the day. His name: Alex Lippi. His profession: homewrecker. His method: seduction!
In a [...]
Director: Jean Becker (2010)
It’s the story of one of those improbable encounters that can change the course of one’s life: the encounter, in a small public garden, between Germain, fifty and barely literate, and Marguerite, a little old lady passionate about reading. Forty years and 220 pounds separate them. One day, purely by chance, Germain [...]