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Robust and Between Two Worlds
Anaïs In Love (Les Amours d'Anaïs)
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet; Writer: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet; Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Charles Clichet)
A woman in her early thirties goes full steam ahead in pursuit of experiences which come and go at a fast pace.
Authentik (Suprêmes)
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Audrey Estrougo)
Biopic about French rap group ever : Suprême NTM.
Between Two Worlds (Ouistreham)
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Emmanuel Carrère; Writer: Florence Aubenas, Emmanuel Carrère, Hélène Devynck; Stars: Juliette Binoche)
Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women.
Both Sides Of The Blade (Avec amour et acharnement, Fire)
(Country: rance; Year: 2021; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Christine Angot, Claire Denis; Stars: Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Grégoire Colin, Issa Perica, Bulle Ogier, Mati Diop, Hana)
Sara has been in a stable, loving relationship with Jean for years. But then a man from their past reappears and, without warning, an old passion reignites.
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Vincent Le Port; Writer: Vincent Le Port; Stars: Dimitri Doré, Jean-Luc Vincent, Roman Villedieu, Alex Fanguin, Tino Vigier, Nelly Bruel, Ivan Chiodetti, Dominique Legrand, Antoine Brunel, Tristan Chiodetti, René Loyon, Rémy Leboucq, André Salson, Astrid Vialard, Jeanne Fauchier)
Everything Went Fine and Paris, 13th District
Deception (Tromperie)
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Arnaud Desplechin; Writer: Arnaud Desplechin and Julie Peyr, based on the book by Philip Roth; Stars: Denis Podalydès, Léa Seydoux, Emmanuelle Devos, Anouk Grinberg, Miglen Mirtchev, Rebecca Marder, Madalina Constantin)
An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.
Everything Went Fine (Tout S'est Bien Passé)
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon, based on the book by Emmanuèle Bernheim; Stars: Sophie Marceau, Charlotte Rampling, Hanna Schygulla, André Dussollier)
A father asks for help to die.
Gallant Indies (Indes galantes)
(Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Philippe Béziat)
The story of what happened when filmmaker Clément Cogitore agreed to stage Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes at Opéra national de Paris, working with acclaimed choreographer Bintou Dembélé.
Guermantes
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Christophe Honoré; Writer: Christophe Honoré; Stars: Serge Bagdassarian, Dominique Blanc, Loïc Corbery, Gilles David, Yoann Gasiorowski, Éric Génovèse, Anne Kessler, Laurent Lafitte, Elsa Lepoivre, Claude Mathieu, Mickaël Pelissier, Sébastien Pouderoux, Julie Sicard, Stéphane Varupenne, Florence Viala)
Paris, summer 2020. Actors from “la Comédie-Française”, France’s most prestigious theater, rehearse Christophe Honoré’s new play, an adaptation of Marcel Proust’s “The Guermantes Way”. When the show is suddenly canceled, the drama group decides to go ahead with it anyway.
Hold Me Tight (Serre Moi Fort)
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2021; Director: Mathieu Amalric; Writer: Mathieu Amalric; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Arieh Worthalter, Juliette Benveniste, Aurèle Grzesik, Anne-Sophie Bowen-Chatet, Sacha Ardilly, Victor Abadia, Aurélia Petit, Sylvain Micard, Siméon Micard)
A woman leaves her family - or does she?
Deception and Hold Me Tight
Lost Illusions
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2021; Director: Xavier Giannoli; Writer: Xavier Giannoli, based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac; Stars: Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste, Xavier Dolan, Salomé Dewaels, Jeanne Balibar, Gérard Depardieu, André Marcon, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Jean-François Stévenin, Alexis Barbosa, Marie Cornillon, Saïd Amadis, Morgane de Vargas, Raphaël Magnabosco)
A poet finds his opinion of the world and himself challenged after he moves from the provinces to Paris.
Madeleine Collins
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Antoine Barraud; Writer: Antoine Barraud, Héléna Klotz; Stars: Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone, Jacqueline Bisset, François Rostain, Loïse Benguerel, Thomas Gioria, Valérie Donzelli, Nadav Lapid, Nathalie Boutefeu, Mona Walravens, Anne Lepla, Assouma Sow, Lorette Dugardin, Sofiane Felouki)
Judith manages a busy double life between Switzerland and France. On the one hand there's Abdel, with whom she has a little girl, and on the other Melvil, with whom she has two older boys. Gradually, this delicate balancing act starts to crack.
Magnetic Beats
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2021; Director: Vincent Cardona; Stars: Marie Colomb, Joseph Olivennes, Thimotée Robart)
Brittany, 1980s.
A bunch of friends yearning for excitement broadcast a free radio station from their hometown in the countryside. Jerome leads it with unique charisma while Philippe, the technical genius, lives in the shadow of Jerome, his big brother. When called for the military service, Philippe has no choice but to leave for West Berlin. He’s determined to keep on broadcasting, but realizes that he just lived the last glorious moments of a world on the verge of extinction.
Our Men
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2021; Director: Rachel Lang; Writer: Rachel Lang; Stars: Louis Garrel, Camille Cottin, Ina Marija Bartaité, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Naidra Ayadi, Léo Lévy, Jean Michelangeli, Vladimir Ignat, Simona Trocan, Mowei-Jeannine Leroux, Alice Coulibaly-Chateaux, Wilfried Ranaivo, Lukas De Wolf, Edwin Gaffney, Paul De Bronde)
They come from all over the world but they have one thing in common: The Foreign Legion, their new family. This film tells their stories.
Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades)
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Jacques Audiard; Writer: Jacques Audiard, Léa Mysius, Céline Sciamma; Stars: Noémie Merlant, Stephen Manas, Geneviève Doang, Lumina Wang)
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy - They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.
Secret Name and Both Sides Of The Blade
Petite Solange
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Axelle Ropert; Writer: Axelle Ropert; Stars: Jade Springer, Léa Drucker, Philippe Katerine, Grégoire Montana, Chloé Astor, Marthe Léon, Léo Ferreira, Benjamin Esdraffo, Joanna Grudzinska, Laurence Huby, Camille Cayol, Claire Théodoly, Jean-Baptiste Breton, Maxime Droguet, Hélène Humbert)
Divorce drama.
Rise
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Cédric Klapisch; Writer: Cédric Klapisch; Stars: Marion Barbeau)
Reeling in the wake of devastating physical and emotional injuries a ballerina Elise slowly rebuilds her life
Robust (Robuste)
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Constance Meyer; Writer: Constance Meyer, Marcia Romano; Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Déborah Lukumuena, Megan Northam, Lucas Mortier, Caroline Donnelly, Hugues Duchêne, Lola Dueñas, Florence Janas, Théodore Le Blanc, Julie Lesgages, François Loriquet, Cédric Meusburger, Léa Millet, Florence Muller, Sébastien Pouderoux)
An actor forges and unlikely friendship with the woman assigned to provide him with security.
Secret Name (La Place d'une autre)
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Aurélia Georges; Writer: Maud Ameline, Aurélia Georges; Stars: Maud Wyler, Laurent Poitrenaux, Sabine Azéma, Jacques Bachelier, Amélie Belohradsky, Agnès Bourgeois, Didier Brice, Olivier Broche, Jacques Bruckmann, Gautier Del Pia, Bruno Dreyfurst, Françoise Félicité, Ilario Gallo, Sarah Gendrot-Krauss, Naton Goetz)
Nelie escapes a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914 and goes on to discover emancipation can come with a price.
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Hands Off The Loot)
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1954; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Albert Simonin, Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe, based on the novel by Albert Simonin; Stars: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli, Marilyn Buferd, Gaby Basset, Paul Barge, Alain Bouvette, Daniel Cauchy, Denise Clair, Angelo Dessy, Lucilla Solivani, Michel Jourdan, Paul Oettly, Jean Riveyre)
After a bullion heist, two gangsters face a test of friendship when one of them is kidnapped.
A Tale Of Love And Desire and Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
A Tale Of Love And Desire (Une histoire d’amour et de désir)
(Country: France, Tunisia; Year: 2021; Director: Leyla Bouzid; Writer: Leyla Bouzid; Stars: Sami Outalbali, Zbeida Belhajamor, Diong-Kéba Tacu, Aurélia Petit, Mahia Zrouki, Bellamine Abdelmalek, Mathilde Lamusse, Samir El Hakim, Khemissa Zarouel, Sofia Lesaffre, Baptiste Carrion-Weiss, Charles Poitevin, Omar Khasb, Zaineb Bouzid, Céline Rotard)
Ahmed’s world is thrown off-balance when he encounters Farah, newly-arrived from Tunis, who challenges everything he thought he knew.
Undercover
(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Thierry de Peretti; Writer: Hubert Avoine, Emmanuel Fansten, Thierry de Peretti; Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Mylène Jampanoï, Vincent Lindon, Julie Moulier, Pio Marmaï, Roschdy Zem, Marilyne Canto, Alexis Manenti, Lucie Gallo, Philippe Petit, Frédéric Norbert)
October 2015. French Customs seized seven tons of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a hazy past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of the State's drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into the investigation.
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