Director: François Ozon (2010)
North of France, Sainte-Gudule, 1977. Suzanne is the submissive, housebound wife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol, who oversees his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is equally tyrannical with his children and ‘trophy housewife’. When the workers go on strike and take Robert hostage, Suzanne steps in to manage the factory. [...]
Director: Pascal Chaumeil (2010)
Your only daughter is madly in love with an absolute fool, your sister has just got engaged to a stupid lout? Your best friend is going out with a jerk? There is still one man left who can save the day. His name: Alex Lippi. His profession: homewrecker. His method: seduction!
In a [...]
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche (2010)
Paris, 1817, within the Académie Royale de Médecine. “I’ve never seen a human head that so closely resembles a monkey’s.” Anatomist Georges Cuvier is categorical when looking at the cast made of Saartjie Baartman’s body. A panel of distinguished colleagues applauds the demonstration. Seven years earlier, Saartjie left South Africa with her [...]
Director: Jean Becker (2010)
It’s the story of one of those improbable encounters that can change the course of one’s life: the encounter, in a small public garden, between Germain, fifty and barely literate, and Marguerite, a little old lady passionate about reading. Forty years and 220 pounds separate them. One day, purely by chance, Germain [...]
Director: Guillaume Canet (2010)
Marion Cotillard and François Cluzet head a terrific cast in this acerbic group portrait of the Parisian bourgeoisie on holiday, from Tell No One director Guillaume Canet.
Actor Guillaume Canet proved his directing chops and commercial nous with the massively successful thriller Tell No One. There are elements of thriller tension in Little [...]