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: Mia Hansen-Løve (2009)
Grégoire Canvel has everything going for him. A wife whom he loves, three delightful children, a job that excites him. He’s a film producer. Discovering filmmakers, accompanying films that correspond to his idea of cinema, open and free and close up to life – that’s his reason for living. His vocation. Grégoire [...]
Director: Philippe Godeau (2009)
Herve, the head of a press agency, is traveling fast down a road headed in only one direction: self-destruction. He is an alcoholic, and his drinking is wrecking his marriage, family and career. In desperation and still in denial, he checks into a detox clinic in Geneva, his last-chance saloon. There he [...]
Director: Zabou Breitman (2009)
Over the period of one night, Pierre shares with Chloé, his daughter-in-law, this dark secret that has haunted him for twenty years. The secret that confronts him with himself, his contradictions and his choices, his male role and his failings. The secret of this love he felt for Mathilde, which he finally [...]
Director: Xavier Giannoli (2009)
When he stumbles upon an abandoned construction site, small-time crook Philippe Miller (François Cluzet, One for the Road, Tell No One, Too Beautiful For You) sees an opportunity to make some money. Claiming to be in charge of reviving the site to build a highway, he convinces everyone of his good will, [...]