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He's My Girl (2009)La folle histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy
Among the crowded streets around Paris's Chateau Rouge Metro station, a modern apartment block rises up incongruously. Here, virtuoso clarinettist Simon Eskenazy (Antoine de Caunes) is trying to finish his record. He is also resisting his sick mother's pleas to stay in his apartment, while coming to terms with the reappearance of ex-wife Rosalie (Elsa Zylberstein) and their ten-year-old son; then there are his musicians, his insistent agent, Arlette (Catherine Hiegel), and his current lover, Raphael (Micha Lescot). And then there is Naim (Mehdi Dehbi). By night he is Rose, waitress at the 'Paradise' cabaret. Fragile yet violent, loving, funny, elusive and provocative, he is the artist of his own life; in a heartbeat, he can transform himself into a femme fatale. Simon, an Ashkenazi Jew, and Naim, a Muslim, are worlds apart. But this film is both a love story and a dizzying comedy, in which Simon is forced to let go of all his preconceived ideas and fears. - Director:
- Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
- Cast:
- Antoine de Caunes, Mehdi Dehbi, Elsa Zylberstein
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Isabelle Huppert stars as Ann. a gifted and brilliant musician whose sense of security falls to pieces when she witnesses her husband kissing another woman. Without hesitation, she abandons him and takes a headlong rush into a new beginning, embarking on a transnational journey that ultimately takes her to an isolated island villa and into the arms of local woman Giulia. with whom Ann begins to explore a whole new facet of life. - Director:
- Benoît Jacquot
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Xavier Beauvois
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Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin Haewon
After her mother leaves for Canada in the hope of starting a new life, film student and aspiring actress Haewon begins to sink into a deep depression. In the hope of finding solace, she re-ignites an affair with her ex-lover, a much older married professor. But within the kaleidoscopic inner world of her emotions, her dreams slowly begin to interweave with her reality and evolve into something that will change her life forever. - Director:
- Sang-soo Hong
- Cast:
- Jeong Eun-Chae, Sun-kyun Lee, Joon-sang Yoo
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011)Les neiges du Kilimandjaro
Despite losing his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire. They have been in love for more than 30 years... Their children and grand-children delight them... They have plenty of close friends... They are proud of their union and political struggles... Their conscience is as clear as their view of life. This happiness will be shattered by two young men, armed and masked, who beat them, tie them up, snatch their wedding rings and flee with their credit cards... The shock will be all the more violent when they discover that this brutal attack was organised by one of the young workers laid off at the same time as Michel. Michel and Marie-Claire gradually discover that their attacker, Christophe, only did what he did because he had no choice.. - Director:
- Robert Guédiguian
- Cast:
- Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
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Before the Winter Chill (2013)Avant L'hiver
Paul (Daniel Auteuil), a successful surgeon in the autumn of his life, becomes torn between a loving wife, Lucie (Kristin Scott Thomas), and a dangerous attraction for a troubled, mysterious young woman. As Paul is drawn further to Lou (Leila Bekhti), a cafe waitress claiming to be one of his former patients, Lucie begins to suspect her husband of having an affair, but the truth proves to be far darker and complex than she expected. - Director:
- Philippe Claudel
- Cast:
- Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Leïla Bekhti
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The ghost of a young soldier, who bids farewell to his mother and travels the world to see his transgender sister. By possessing living bodies, he meddles with the romances of unfaithful lovers along the way in Taiwan, Japan, Spain and Thailand. He meets a soul mate amid the massive protests of Hong Kong and they take shelter in a disguised garage, where human bodies are treated in a way beyond moral limits. - Director:
- Scud
- Cast:
- Adonis He, Joe Leung, Daniel Benjamin
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The House by the Sea (2017)La Villa
By a little bay near Marseilles lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days: Angela (Ariane Ascaride), an actress living in Paris, Joseph (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), who has just fallen in love with a girl half his age and Armand (Gérard Meylan), the only one who stayed behind in the bay to run the family's small restaurant. It's time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father's ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil. - Director:
- Robert Guédiguian
- Cast:
- Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
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Leap Year (2010)Año bisiesto
This highly charged sexual thriller from Mexico follows Laura (Monica del Carmen), a freelance journalist, as she alleviates the boredom of her solitary existence by moving from one anonymous sexual encounter to another. Upon meeting Arturo (Gustavo Sanchez Parra), she finds herself drawn into a sadomasochistic relationship in which he is the dominant partner. Increasingly, however, the balance of power shifts. What begins as an attempt by two lonely people to connect with one another soon becomes something more dangerous. When Laura marks a red square around an upcoming date on her calendar, the wheels are set in motion for a startling conclusion. - Director:
- Michael Rowe
- Cast:
- Mónica Del Carmen, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Armando Hernández
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Red Lights (2003)Feux Rouges
On the hottest day of the year Antoine and Helene hit the road, destined for the south of France. The oppressive heat and traffic gridlock take their toll on Antoine's frazzled nerves and, as he attempts to cool off with one cold beer after another, tensions between the bickering couple are pushed to boiling point. As night draws in Antoine stops off at yet another bar but returns to the car to find Helene missing. Panic-stricken, he embarks on a desperate search, only to find events spiralling far beyond his control with horrifying consequences... - Director:
- Cédric Kahn
- Cast:
- Carole Bouquet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Vincent Deniard
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The powerful feature-film debut of acclaimed young director Joe Stephenson, this compelling coming-of-age drama builds upon on a remarkable central performance from newcomer Scott Chambers. Chambers plays Richard, a fifteen-year-old boy with learning difficulties who lives in a shabby caravan with his older brother, Polly. Life for the siblings is harsh, with the engaging, nature-loving teenager yearning for stability while frequently finding himself on the wrong side of his brother's destructive, often violent moods. Finding it easier to communicate with animals none more so than his beloved hen, Fiona Richard nevertheless forms a strong friendship with rebellious seventeen-year-old Annabel, whose family have recently acquired the farmland on which the brothers live. But growing conflict with the new landowners will lead to a situation that severely tests Richard's natural optimism, as a world of privilege collides with the brothers' precarious, marginalised existence. - Director:
- Joe Stephenson
- Cast:
- Scott Chambers, Morgan Watkins, Yasmin Paige
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Dark Horse (2005)Voksne Mennesker
Daniel (Jakob Cedergren) is an irresponsible but charming young Copenhagen graffiti artist who doesn't care even though everybody is trying to track him down: Parking attendants, landlords, bills and the police. One day he falls in love with Franc (Tilly Scott Pedersen), a girl just as reckless and fascinating as he is. All of a sudden his easy-going days are over as he comes face to face with a serious leap of faith. Featuring an impressive score by the director's band Slowblow, Kari - who intriguingly describes his aim as wishing to create what would have happened if Krzysztof Kieslowski directed an episode of Seinfeld - has crafted an innovative and beguiling second feature that offers an idiosyncratic glimpse into an outsider's personal odyssey. - Director:
- Dagur Kári
- Cast:
- Jakob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro, Tilly Scott Pedersen
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Noi Albinoi (2002)Nói albínói / Noi the Albino
Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year old Noi (Tómas Lemarquis) drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland, cut off from the outside world by a shroud of snow. He dreams of escape from this white-walled prison with Iris (Elín Hansdóttir), a pretty young city girl who works in a local gas station, but his clumsy breaks for freedom spiral out of control and seem doomed to end in failure. - Director:
- Dagur Kári
- Cast:
- Tómas Lemarquis, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Elín Hansdóttir
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Petit Mal (2022)Petit mal
Have you ever met a throuple? We are opening the doors of our home to show you our life, as a female throuple. To share and experience the intimate details, both unique and universal with the shifting dynamics of a polyamorous relationship. This real fiction shows how we deal with loneliness, jealousy and how we adapt when three have become two. - Director:
- Ruth Caudeli
- Cast:
- Silvia Santamaría, Ruth Caudeli, Ana María Otálora
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Tandem (1994)Chikan densha hitozuma-hen: Okusama wa chijo
Midnight in a coffee shop. Two men, one middle aged one mid twenties make friends, exchanging cigarettes and stories about their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners. Though various disclosures and conflicts the men discover as much about themselves as they do about each other. The story, told in flashbacks, as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. - Director:
- Toshiki Satô
- Cast:
- Takeshi Itô, Hotaru Hazuki, Yuri Ishihara
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There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio. Since the content of this picture is not as important as the pictures and allegories, the simple plot can not be described further. - Director:
- Louis Malle
- Cast:
- Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart
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