Director: Anne Fontaine (2008)
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck. Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order. Or, will he?
With: Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy [...]
Director: Claire Denis (2008)
Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. For [...]
Director: Dany Boon (2008)
This massively popular French farce illustrates that the North-South divide is even worse in France! To southerners, the inhabitants of the Nord Pas de Calais region are a bunch of beer-swilling, chip-gorging, rain-soaked cretins.When post office manager Phillipe (Merad) is transferred from Provence, his depressive wife refuses to accompany him North. In [...]
Director: Jean Becker (2008)
Advertising executive Antoine is 42 and a pretty successful guy. He’s married to Cécile, has two kids, and lives in a nice house in the Paris suburbs where he gets on well with his neighbors. Of course, there’s his discreet affair with the beautiful Marion, but it’s nothing that could upset this [...]
Director: Laurent Cantet (2008)
“The Class” is based on an autobiographical novel by Francois Begaudeau, a drama that follows the year in the life of a French schoolteacher working at a high-school in a tough neighborhood of Paris. Ethnicities, cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom. As amusing and inspiring as the teenage students can [...]