PLOT: Story of the rise and the fall of a young man in Paris who dreamed to be a writer and became a journalist
A 2021 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli, based upon Illusions perdues by Honoré de Balzac. It stars Benjamin Voisin, Xavier Dolan, Vincent Lacoste, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu and Jeanne Balibar.Read More »
A documentary shot by Moullet in 16mm, about two remote, underdeveloped villages, one in the Alps and one in the Pyrenees. It is Moullet’s version of Buñuel’s Las Hurdes (Land without Bread, 1932) which was not released until 1966.Read More »
Synopsis Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancee. The search for her leads him to meet so many young, pretty, sexy girls – that when he finally encounters his fiancee, he is no longer sure he loves her. (imdb)Read More »
The actress Isabelle Huppert has chosen twenty film extracts to compose this mosaic (self) portrait, interwoven with archives and commented by herself.Read More »
Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) lives with her adult twin sons, aimless François (Yannick Renier) and headstrong Thierry (Jérémie Renier, star of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s L’ENFANT and LA PROMESSE), in a renovated Belgian farmhouse. Each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Both boys pursue their respective interests, but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. However, all that is about to change. Pascale has fallen in love again and dreams of a new life for herself and her lover a countryside B&B that they aspire to own together. But what would seem to be a happy time in her life takes a turn for the worse as she finds herself unable to rise from the shadow of her ex-husband and selfish children. In a bid for survival, Pascale leaves the house in the hands of Thierry and François, never suspecting that in her absence, long-buried resentment and rivalry will boil over, igniting a war between the brothers. (DVD Backcover)Read More »
Lina is a Lebanese Student that just arrived to Paris to continue her studies in a French University in 1993, only to find that the Chaos that was home was no different than what she will witness in the French capital. But Paris will offer her the opportunity to find herself and acquire a new self confidence that she didn’t know she had in herself.Read More »
“A seductive and dangerous vagabond is the troubling protagonist of Peter Dourountzis’s first feature, a social thriller which has been awarded Cannes’ Official Selection.” ~CineuropaRead More »
Life Doesn’t Scare Me, follows four friends – Emilie (Woch), Ines (Molinier), Stella (Parmentier) and Marion (Rousselet) – as they progress through their school years discovering romance and heartbreak together.