Director: Gérard Jugnot (2000)
Doting hairdresser dad Yvon is upset when his 17-year-old daughter Laetitia lands the lead role in a film by acclaimed director Stephane. Unwilling to let her work on the film, Yvon is finally persuaded when he hears the large salary his daughter will be paid.
With: Gérard Jugnot, Bérénice Bejo, Sabine Haudepin.
Director: Michael Haneke (2000)
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s (”Funny Games”) multi-layered look at personal and racial conflicts in the new Europe follows a variety of Paris residents through a string of incidents–from a subway encounter to a tussle with the police–as their lives intersect.
With: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi, Maimouna Hélène Diarra.
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Director: François Ozon (2000)
Set in Germany in the 1970s. Leopold, a smug, still-hunky 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces fresh-faced, carrot-topped 19-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold turns cranky and argumentative. When Franz’s buxom blond girlfriend surfaces, and then Leopold’s elegant and enigmatic ex, things [...]
Director: Dominik Moll (2000)
In this gripping and witty Hitchcockian thriller, Michel, a Parisian teacher, and his family are heading to their rundown vacation cottage when he meets Harry, who claims to be an old school chum, at a service station. The amiable, seemingly wealthy Harry and his voluptuous girlfriend Plum join them on their holiday [...]
Director: François Ozon (2000)
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married to Jean for 25 years, although they have no children. During their summer vacations in [...]