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: 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: Anne Fontaine (2008)
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck. Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order. Or, will he?
With: Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy [...]
Director: Cédric Klapisch (2008)
This is the story about a Parisian suffering from an illness who wonders whether he is going to die. His condition makes him look at things and the people he encounters in a whole new way. The fact of envisaging death suddenly gives value to his life, the lives of others, along [...]
Director: Laurent Tirard (2007)
Paris,1644: 22–year–old Jean–Baptiste Poquelin is not yet the writer recognised by history as Moliere, the father and master of comic satire, author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, and a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare and Sophocles. Far from it. He is, in fact, a failed actor. Awash in debt and pursued by [...]