Director: Manuel Pradal (1998)
When the film begins, Orso has barely turned 15. With his jutting cheekbones and merman’s muscles, there is something compelling tinged with violence about him, that look of darkness or pride in his face. A pickpocket on the night train that continues on to Italy, he dreams of getting a gun so [...]
Director: Josée Dayan (1998)
In the port of Marseille, Edmond Dantès is unjustly accused of treason on his wedding day with Mercedes, and is sent to Le Château d’If, an island prison. Responsible are his two best friends (Mondego and Danglars) who betrayed him and the prosecutor (Villefort) who framed Dantes to spare the real traitor [...]
Director: Radu Mihaileanu (1998)
It is 1941, the year 5701 of creation, and Shlomo, the village idiot, breathlessly announces the news: The Nazis are coming, and all will be sent to the death camps. As the rabbi and the wise men of the shtetl confer on how to react, Shlomo interjects, “A fake deportation train!” The [...]
Director: Francis Veber (1998)
A group of friends each bring an idiot to lunch on a Wednesday. The person who brings the best idiot receives a prize…
With: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster.
Trailer:
Director: François Ozon (1998)
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother’s discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister’s suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband..
With: Francois Marthouret, Adrien de Van, Camille Japy, Evelyne Dandry, Marina de Van, Francois Delaive.