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It’s an album-length drama of friendship and disappearance, youth and responsibility, backed by a soundtrack of overlooked indie-rock classics and Hers’ subtle and flowing direction.

As Primrose Hill begins, four friends finish band practice and head off on a long walk. They’re enjoying their too infrequent reunion, the beginning of fall, and the memories that come to mind as they wander. But they’re also all marked by an absence, the fifth friend who went missing a few months before, and whose voice we hear on the soundtrack, describing a dream that’s eerily similar to the images we see.Read More »

Through a letter to her sweetheart, Dolly recalls their “over the top” sexual overflows. Steaming flashbacks and tender memories interweave. Frederic Lansac film, and interpreted by Karine Gambier, this film was awarded by a huge success as well as the criticism.”Read More »

After the cops have busted her brothel, the Madame decides to open it up again under the guise of a boarding school where young women are taught how to please their men.Read More »

Eric and Joelle decide to spend their honeymoon night at the house of a couple of married friends – who happen to be in the midst of a serious marriage crisis. Before sunset, a young woman arrives riding a motorbike, and says she’s Angel. With her strange presence, erotism breaks out, and several couplings and vicious sex erupt in the comfortable home.Read More »

The mansion that a young couple inherits has been, they find, a center for sophisticated depravity. They get immersed in voyeurism and hedonistic love triangles with their willing servants. Eventually the entire household, including the guests at a formal dinner party, get caught up in the antics.Read More »

International superstars Alain Delon (Le Samouraï), Jean Gabin (Touchez Pas au Grisbi) and Lino Ventura (Le Deuxième Souffle) star in this action-packed thriller that delivers white-knuckle suspense from its exciting opening chase to its thrilling conclusion. Aging Sicilian mobster Vittorio Manalese (Gabin) springs master thief and hit man Roger Sartet (Delon) from prison so he can help him pull off the most ambitious heist of his illustrious career, which includes hijacking a New York–bound plane and transporting 50 million dollars in jewels. But after the audacious crime, Sartet betrays the crime boss and the two partners in crime become engaged in a tense game of cat-and-mouse and a no-holds-barred battle of wit and bravado.Read More »

Following Peter Von Kant,François Ozon returns with a wild comedy lead by two rising stars of French cinema: Nadia Tereszkiewicz (who won the César for Best Newcomer for Les Amandiers) and Rebecca Marder, supported by an A-list cast of French superstars. Already praised as one of Ozon’s best films, The Crime Is Mine is a mischievous drama and detective comedy set in the 1930s, where two friends, Madeleine and Pauline take advantage of the gullibility and idiocy of all the men they meet. The Crime Is Mine is ‘ultimately about the triumph of sorority,’ according to Ozon, who was inspired by American screwball comedies from the 1930s. The absolutely hilarious film follows Madeleine Verdier, a young, pretty, penniless and untalented actress, who is accused of murdering a famous producer. With the help of her best friend Pauline, a young unemployed lawyer, Madeleine presents herself as a grieving victim who must be celebrated for her act instead. The greatest surprise is the one and only Isabelle Huppert, who appears halfway through the film.Read More »

A very sexually active older couple spots Beatrice on the beach and decide to draw her into a threesome. The wife, Anne, seduces the girl and prepares her for a weekend with the husband, Mitch, who is off working and cavorting with another young blonde’s during the week.Read More »

Film adaptation of W.G. Sebald’s novel “Austerlitz”, directed by the Czech-born French director Stan Neumann and starring Denis Lavant as Jacques Austerlitz, the film is described as “not so much a filmed book as it is a film about a book, breaking down the walls that divide documentary and fiction, just as Sebald blurred the lines between the two in his writing”.Read More »