Director: Caroline Bottaro (2009)
A hotel maid is captivated by a romantic couple playing chess while staying at the Mediterranean island hotel where she works. The doctor whose house she cleans reluctantly becomes her mentor in the game, leading her to a chess tournament and initiating major transformations in her life.
With: Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline, Valérie [...]
Director: Catherine Corsini (2009)
Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man [...]
Director: Réfis Wargnier (1999)
The story is set just after the end of the Second World War in 1946 when many Soviet exiles have been tempted back to their mother country by the Soviet government, which promises amnesty to anybody who had left in the past thirty years. Unfortunately, immediately upon arrival, most of those on [...]
Director: Patrice Leconte (2004)
Psychological comedy in which a young woman seeking help with her marital problems mistakenly goes into an accountant’s office. Moved by her distress, the man does not like to tell her of her mistake and allows her to make further appointments. Their meetings turn into a strange ritual, in which both start [...]
Director: Maurice Pialat (1972)
Maurice Pialat’s powerful romantic drama examines the final period of a long and ultimately unhappy affair. Jean (Jean Yanne) is an unpleasant, domineering man. Though he still lives with his wife, their marriage has been over for a long time. For six years, Jean has had an affair with the much-younger Catherine [...]