Director: Jan Kounen (2009)
Paris, 1913. Coco Chanel is in love with the young and wealthy Boy Chapel, but she is above all dedicated to her work. Igor Stravinsky rehearses The Rites of Spring. The composition’s revolutionary dissonance bring to mind, in many respects, the clothing designer’s radical work.
Coco goes to the premiere of the The [...]
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner (2010)
Paris, today.
Julia Jarmond, an American journalist who’s been living in France for 20 years, investigates the terrible rounding up of Parisian Jews and their incarceration in the bicycle stadium, Vel’d’Hiv, during the Nazi occupation of France. Tracing her way back through events, her path crosses that of Sarah, who was ten years [...]
Director: Xavier Beauvois (2010)
A monastery in the middle of the Algerian mountains, during the 1990s.
Eight French Cistercian monks live in harmony with the Muslim population.
One day, foreign workers are massacred by a group of Islamic fundamentalists. Panic spreads among the inhabitants. The army offers to protect the monks, but they refuse assistence. Should they leave? [...]
Director: Christophe Blanc (2010)
Maxime has everything to be happy: the manager of flourishing upmarket car dealership, he’s married to a delightful young woman and lives in a comfortable villa. But it all goes awry the day that Simon, his associate, is murdered by a gang of criminals. Now answerable to the gang, Maxime looks to [...]
Director: Jacques Audiard (2001)
Carla Bhem has worked as a secretary for a property development company for a long time. Her job, basically, is everything : from handling files and answering the phone to drafting estimates and dealing with suppliers. First to arrive in the morning, last out at night. For that, she gets paid like [...]