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: Nadine Trintignant (1971)
French filmmaker Nadine Trintignant writes and directs the 1971 drama Ça N’Arrive Qu’Aux Autres (It Only Happens to Others), based on her real-life experiences with actor husband Jean-Louis Trintignant. Catherine (Catherine Deneuve) and Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) lose their baby daughter Camille to a deadly illness. In order to mourn their loss, they [...]
Director: François Truffaut (1980)
Truffaut, whose Day For Night explored the world of filmmaking, now turns to the stage in this story of a small theatre company during the German occupation of France. Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve), the theatre’s owner, is desperately trying to keep both the troupe and Lucas (Heinz Bennet), her Jewish husband, alive. [...]
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: Jean-Pierre Melville (1972)
Jean-Pierre Melville’s last film stars Alain Delon as Police Commissioner Coleman who finds himself playing a game of cat and mouse with a gang of thieves after a bank robbery in a small Riviera town goes wrong. The gang is led by Coleman’s friend, Simon (Richard Crenna), a night-club owner and whose [...]