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 Becker (1999)
In rural France in the 1930s, a group of people live a marginal life in the marshland outside a bourgeois town. Riton is a pleasant man, though too fond of the local wine, and his friend Garron is also good-hearted though has never quite recovered from World War I. The after-effects of [...]
Director: François Ozon (1999)
French bad boy director François Ozon, who caused a stir with his controversial first feature Sitcom (1998) and his shorts A Summer Dress (1997) and See the Sea (1997), creates a dark and brooding tale of transgression and sexuality for his second feature outing. Alice (Natacha Régnier) is a bored, spoiled high [...]
Director: Francois Dupeyron (1999)
Nicolas, the son of peasant farmers, lives with his parents and grandparents on a farm which they are about to lose due to his father’s myraid of personal problems. When Nicolas meets Maria, a single mother with two sons, he must make a decision to save her family or his own.
With: Jacques [...]
Director: Patrice Leconte (1999)
It’s night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has [...]