Jean-Philippe Écoffey . He has nominated for two César Awards. He's known for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Henry & June (1990) and La reine Margot (Queen Margot) (1994).
On 27 February 2009, pupil Benjamin Feller commits a crime which he has meticulously described beforehand in a diary entry. He goes to the post office to send the diary entry to his teacher before he shoots his parents and turns h...
Escaping from the clinic above Lausanne where she has been confined, Diane Kramer is driven by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha-coloured car who turned her life upside-down. Taking with her a few possessions, a bit o...
Pregnant and living in Canada, Audrey visits her parents in the small French town of her birth. Over the holiday, she comes to learn the story of the grandmother who gave up her family, left, and never returned - and in doing so c...
At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the rakishly successful and charismatic editor in chief of French Elle was a man defined by his passion for life. On December 1995, he suffered a massive stroke and his brain stem was rendered inactive...
Cold Showers is a coming of age story about Mickael, a high school student who is captain of the Judo team and who lives with his low-income family. His mother is a janitor/groundskeeper at a gymnasium and his father is a long-tim...
Okwe, an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, is trying hard to make ends meet, using caffeine and potentially harmful stimulants to keep himself from going under. In the evening, he's a minicab driver and sometime clap doctor to the f...
As an orphaned teenager, Louba is taken in by a kindly family in the French countryside and develops an unusually passionate relationship with her stepsister Jeannie. The erotic tension between the two girls progressively channels...
"Shadow Play" follows the lives of nine friends over two years of work, love and arguments. The characters slowly come into focus beneath the smiling mask of their lies and the drama becomes tinged with comedy.
Ludovic is a young boy who can't wait to grow up to be a woman. When his family discovers the little girl blossoming in him they are forced to contend with their own discomfort and the lack of understanding from their new neighbor...
Max is on his way to Tokyo. He lives in Paris and likes to flirt but has decided to get married. By chance, he seems to have seen Lisa, his greatest love, in a cafe. Max forgets everything, his trip to Tokyo and his fiance. Obsess...
Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on...
Paris, August, 1572 – a troubled time in the history of France, a country torn by wars and religious strife. To appease the Protestants, the queen mother, Catherine Medici, arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margot, and t...
In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York tryin...
Assayas' second feature, L'Enfant de l'hiver, also has as its beginning a dissolution, as Stéphane, a struggling architect, suddenly leaves his pregnant girlfriend Natalia. At that stage Stéphane has been involved for a while in...
There is the gang of adults who engage in clandestine trafficking; and the gang of children who play the traffickers. But are not the first children as children as the latter, do not they also play under the pretended gravity of t
Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
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