Pauline Etienne

In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.Read More »

17-year-old Claire struggles between her commitment to swimming and her first turmoil in love. Maurice Revedy, an elderly man who is as mysterious as he is extravagant, welcomes her in his spacious home. But Claire carefully avoids this distant figure who is no other than her grandfather. Proud, rebellious, and solitary, they represent two generations who push each other away, while also being attracted to each other. They are two interwoven trajectories that confront each other, one searching for the future, the other tormented by his past.Read More »

A young Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.

Amélie (Pauline Etienne) was born in Kansai but she is Belgian, unfortunate twist of fate as she stubbornly wants to become « a venerable Japanese writer ». So at the age of 20 Amelie leaves Belgium for Japan to realize her dream. There, to earn her living, she teaches french to Rinri (Taichi Inoue), a young Japanese french culture enthusiast, as sweet and charming as he is sometimes impenetrable… Read More »

Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging to Jewish collectors. Informed by a concierge, he manages to enter the apartment of Mr. Klein who apparently has a fabulous collection.

Adapted from The Invisible Collection by Stefan Zweig.Read More »