Director: François Truffaut (1964)
Francois Truffaut directed this simple tale of revenge and adultery which features an exceptional musical score by Georges Delerue. The story concerns a love affair between successful literary magazine editor Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly) and alluring airline stewardess, Nicole Chomette (Francoise Dorleac). They meet on a flight to Lisbon, where Pierre is [...]
Director: Julie Lopes-Curval (2009)
Three women, three generations.
In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she’s become a doctor.
Martine’s daughter, Audrey, an independent thirty-year-old, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook [...]
Director: Roselyne Bosch (2010)
On July 16-17, 1942, over 13,000 Jews were arrested in Paris and its suburbs by French police who were zealous supporters of the German occupiers. Most were kept at Paris’ Velodrome d’Hiver sports stadium; many were sent on to Auschwitz. The operation was ordered by France’s Vichy government. A movie about possibly [...]
Director: Marc Recha (2010)
Arnau is seventeen and lives with his sister and brother in the outskirts of Barcelona, in a no man’s land surrounded by freeways, overhead power cables, and bordered by the river Besòs. Here he devotes himself to his great passion, competitive songbirds, raising finches, greenfinches, and a goldfinch that represents his greatest [...]
Director: Safy Nebbou (2010)
When Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, his ghostwriter, are at the summit of their collaboration, Auguste decides to pass himself off as Alexandre in order to seduce Charlotte, a fervent admirer of the great man.
With: Gérard Depardieu, Benoit Poelvoorde, Dominique Blanc, Melanie Thierry, Catherine Mouchet.
Trailer for the movie L’autre Dumas: