Denis Podalydès

  • Marc Fitoussi – La vie d’artiste (2007)

    2001-2010ComedyFranceMarc Fitoussi

    A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi’s cynical entertainment industry satire. Bertrand is a French literary professor whose students all know that he is shacked up with pretty math teacher Solange despite the couple’s best efforts to keep their relationship under the radar. Though no one in the school much cares for Bertrand’s prose, self-flagellating student Frederic is the one notable exception. Meanwhile, as Bertrand struggles to deliver his second novel, recent big city arrival Cora finds that her fondness for outmoded songwriters may be having an adverse effect on her career trajectory. While Cora struggles to make ends meet by working at a popular chain steakhouse, even this attempt to remain afloat ultimately proves disastrous.Read More »

  • Mathias Gokalp – L’établi AKA The Workbench (2023)

    2001-2010DramaFranceMathias Gokalp

    A few months after May 68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a production line worker. Like other of his comrades, he wanted to infiltrate the factory to rekindle the revolutionary fire, but the majority of workers didn’t want to hear any more about politics. When Citroën decided to pay back the Grenelle agreements by requiring workers to work 3 hours overtime a week for free, Robert and a few others saw the possibility of a social movement.

    L’ETABLI is adapted from the famous novel of the same name by Robert Linhart.Read More »

  • Costa-Gavras – Le dernier souffle AKA Last Breath (2024)

    2021-2030Costa-GavrasDramaFrance

    In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of encounters in which the doctor is the guide and the writer, his passenger, led to confront his own fears and anxieties.Read More »

  • Jean-Baptiste Péretié – Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune AKA Jacques Tati, Fallen From The Moon (2021)

    2021-2030DocumentaryFranceJean-Baptiste Péretié

    The artistic life of Jacques Tati, from his beginnings as a mime to his last film. A low-budget first feature film, which struggled for a year to find a distributor, before becoming a huge hit… The creation of an eccentric character, who immediately entered the annals of cinema… A Special Jury Prize at Cannes and an Oscar in Hollywood … Then a massive project. A gigantic set, a three-year shoot, a storm, impatient bankers, a lens seized in the middle of filming, a mortgaged house. And in the end, a masterpiece… as well as a financial wreck. His company was liquidated, his films were placed in receivership… But he never stopped creating.Read More »

  • Bruno Podalydès – Les 2 Alfred AKA French Tech (2020)

    2011-2020Bruno PodalydèsComedyFrance

    Alexandre is unemployed and his bank account has been frozen. His wife is on a two-month top secret nuclear submarine mission. While she’s away, he has to prove that he can take care of the children and find a job. Following a surreal interview, he is hired at The Box on a trial basis – and thus Alexandre enters the 24-7 world of a greenwashed start-up with a strict no-child policy. He meets Arcimboldo, who juggles different jobs and apps and offers to look after the kids in exchange for accommodation. Between Alexandre’s killer colleague Severine, incessant conference calls and endless team building sessions, keeping his secret is no easy challenge.Read More »

  • Bruno Podalydès – L’enterrement de mémé AKA Granny’s Funeral (2012)

    2011-2020Bruno PodalydèsComedyDramaFrance

    Granny is dead. Berthe is no more. Armand’s grandmother had sort of slipped his mind… Armand runs a pharmacy in the Paris suburbs with his wife, Helene. In a medicine cabinet he hides his magical equipment – he’s secretly preparing a show for the daughter… of his lover, Alix. And Granny? Should she be buried or cremated? Who was Berthe?Read More »

  • Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet – Les amours d’Anaïs AKA Anaïs in Love (2021)

    2021-2030Charline Bourgeois-TacquetComedyFranceRomance

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    Anaïs is thirty and broke. She has a lover, but she’s not sure she loves him anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her. But Daniel lives with Emilie – whom Anaïs also falls for. This is the story of a restless young woman. And the story of a profound desire.Read More »

  • Christophe Honoré – Plaire, aimer et courir vite AKA Sorry Angel (2018)

    2011-2020Christophe HonoréDramaFranceQueer Cinema(s)

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    As any cinephile can tell you, there are some directors we love despite the fact they have never made a great film, but rather for the uniqueness of their voice and the hope that one day they will deliver on their potential. In the case of Christophe Honoré, his delightful “Love Songs” landed him on that list, even if no one would argue that the effervescent 2007 ménage-à-trois musical was a masterpiece, while every subsequent film has slightly chipped away at our affection.Read More »

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