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director:
Sam Karmann screenplay: Sam Karmann, Désir Carré producer:
Sam Karmann starring: Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Gamblin, Clovis
Cornillac, Julie Durand, Florence Pernel, Jean-Pierre Lazzerini
release date: June 25th, 2003 running time: 100mn
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Description:
The story unfolds over the course of a short week, at “Chez
Roger”, a bar and restaurant in the Paris neighborhood of Saint-Ouen,
retracing the paths of a multitude of its local characters. More than
old neighborhood stories and local anecdotes, these are tales of friendship
between men whose dreams intertwine though their fates diverge…
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director: Jean Becker
screenplay: Sébastien Japrisot producer: Louis Becker starring:
Jacques Villeret, André Dussollier, Thierry Lhermitte, Benoît
Magimel, Isabelle Candelier, Suzanne Flon, Bernie Collins release
date: March 26th, 2003 running time: 95mn
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Description:
Lucien, a fourteen-year old boy, doesn’t understand why his
father, a well-respected and serious-minded school-teacher, regularly
makes a fool of himself through his silly amateur clown bit. One day,
André, his father’s best friend, reveals to Lucien the
story behind his father’s strange pass-time… He explains
that when the war ended, they both committed an act of petty resistance,
which got them captured by the Germans and thrown into a ditch where
they awaited the firing squad… Through André’s
story, Lucien will discover the courage and loyalty that lie hidden
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director: Pierre Jolivet
screenplay: Pierre Jolivet, Simon Michaël producer: Alain Sarde
starring: Sandrine Kiberlain, Sylvie Testud, François Berléand,
Roschdy Zem, Vincent Lindon release date: June 11th, 2003 running
time: 85mn
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Description:
After six years of school, Carole, a young prosecutor, is a bit square.
She has a passion for justice. Tina, a repeat burglar, has two months
of hard time under her belt and isn’t stiff in the slightest.
She has a passion for shoes. After meeting at the Court House, they
become inseparable, perhaps because Tina inspires Carole, or because
Carole comforts Tina. Or maybe, it’s because they’re both
only daughters – and each could be the sister the other never
had. And if they don’t always agree on what is right or wrong,
they’ll soon make the pleasant discovery that mistakes are best
made together. |
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director: Claude Miller
screenplay: Claude Miller, Annie Miller, Julien Boivent producer:
Annie Miller starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu, Nicole
Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean Pierre Marielle, Robinson Stévenin,
Marc Betton, Yves Jacques, Anne Le Ny release date: August 27th,
2003 running time: 104 mn
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Description:
Mado, a famous actress, is spending the summer vacation in Brittany,
along with her brother Simon, her son Julien, an aspiring filmmaker,
and Brice, her current lover and the director of her latest films.
Wracked by a tumultuous relationship with his mother, Julien is also
madly in love with Lili, a young “local” who dreams of
becoming an actress. Lili cares for him, but she is fascinated by
Brice, an established director who seems to recognize her spark. Lili
asks him to leave everything behind and take her to Paris. Five years
later, Lili has become a famous actress, and she is no longer with
Brice. She happens to learn that Julien is about to shoot his first
feature film, and that he has mentioned her… |
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director: Jacques-Rémi
Girerd screenplay: ? producer: Patrick Eveno starring: Michel Piccoli,
Coline Girerd, Kévin Hervé, Laurentine Milebo, Jacques
Higelin, Annie Girardot, Michel Galabru, Manuela Gourary release
date: December 3rd , 2003 running time: ?
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Description:
At the edge of the world, far from everything, a peaceful family has
made its home in a pretty farmhouse perched atop a hill. In this cozy
nest live Ferdinand, an old retired sailor, his wife Juliette from
Africa, and their adopted son Tom. At the foot of the hill, their
neighbors, the Lamottes, are about to leave for Africa to buy a pair
of crocodiles. Juliette and Ferdinand have kindly offered to take
care of Lili, the Lamottes’ only daughter, during the length
of their time away. Both children are overjoyed by this fortunate
set of circumstances bringing them closer together. But the very evening
of the Lamottes’ departure, the nearby countryside resounds
with a frightening rumbling... |
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director: Isabelle
Nanty screenplay: Isabelle Nanty, Fabrice Roger-Lacan producer:
Claude Berri starring: Edouard Baer, Isabelle Nanty, Pierre-François
Martin Laval, Juliette Duval release date: June 4th, 2003 running
time: 96 mn
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Description:
Louis Le Bison is something of a loner, a bit misanthropic and slightly
bohemian. On the other hand, Dorine, the superintendent of his building
is a wife and the soon-to-be mother of five. The two have diametrically
opposed personalities.
But one day, they find themselves having to help each other out when
Dorine’s husband leaves to start a new life with Louis’
girlfriend. |
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director: Martin Valente
starring: Lorant Deutsch, Jalil Lespert, Pascal Légitimus,
François Berléand, Barbara Cabrita, Sara Martins
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Description:
At twenty-five, Christopher and Jipé face the hardships of
life in the projects gracefully and without bitterness. Work in a
grocery store for one and odd jobs for the other leaves them with
plenty of time to dream about girls – Jipé’s sister
Malika and Christophe’s cousin Maya. Fearlessly in love but
hopelessly awkward, they will have to come up with something brilliant
to catch their attention. Unfortunately, these two girls think of
nothing but their studies, and the freedom and fun with which they
will be rewarded. Not insecure in the least, and dead set on being
themselves, Jipé and Christophe somehow wind up as the baffled
witnesses of a botched hold-up, the forbidden spectators of a theatrical
representation, and confused hostages stuck for days in the countryside.
But what of the girls? They’ll find out as soon as their circumstances
allow them to. |
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director: Valérie
Guignabodet starring: Albert Dupontel, Marianne Denicourt, Philippe
Uchan, Marina Tomé, Sophie Mounicot |
Description:
The body of a calendar girl. Never busy, never down with a headache.
No tears, no scenes. Her name is Monique, and this inflatable doll
is about to change Alex and Claire’s lives forever… |
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director: Antoine de
Caunes screenplay: René Manzor producer: Pierre Kubel starring:
Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant, Elsa Zylberstein, Stéphane
Freiss, Bruno Putzulu, Frédéric Pierrot, Siobhan Hewlett,
Jay Rodan, Keira Knightley release date: February 12th, 2002 running
time: 120 mn
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Description:
Exiled by his enemies to Saint-Helen, a small island lost in the Atlantic,
Napoleon lands there on October 17th, 1815. Here, under the constant
watch of a thousand English soldiers, surrounded by loyal friends
and scheming enemies, torn between two women, the general spends six
last years that historians would qualify as “incomprehensible,
irrational”. But the most important question also remains –
how could Napoleon, the warrior without equal, the brilliant political
and military strategist, have accepted this prison of open air and
high seas? Here, in Saint-Helen, he would deliver a mysterious battle;
his last, but his most important – and the one which history
has never revealed. |
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director : Pascale
Ferran screenplay : Pierre Trividic, Pascale Ferran producer : Aline
Mehouel starring : Didier Sandre, Charles Berling, Catherine Ferran,
Sabrina Leurquin release date: le 4 octobre 1994 running time :
108 mn
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Description:
A beach in Brittany under the August afternoon sun. Against the tide
line, a forty-five year old man starts to build a sandcastle. From
different places on the beach, three individuals are watching each
other. A beach sweltering under the sun seems a strange place to speak
of the deceased, and these are strange characters to boot. On one
side, there is Jumbo, a little boy with protruding ears and a dumbfounding
memory who has lost his best friend. On the other side, we have François
and Zaza, the brother and sister of the sandcastle’s architect,
who have recognized the setting as their childhood beach… Through
their dreams, memories, and obsessions, the film goes back and forth
from each of their worlds. Three characters: a child, a thirty-year
old scientist, and a middle-aged woman – all trying to “come
to terms” with their departed loved ones. |
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director : Michel Deville
starring: Denis Podalydès, Zabou Breitman, Simon Abkarian,
Lubna Azabal, Clotilde Courau, Vincent Elbaz, Julie Gayet, Stanislas
Merhar, Malik Zidi
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Description:
It is August of 1946. A ladies’ wear sewing shop in a Jewish
neighborhood of Paris decides to reopen for business – without
anticipating the possible problems that could ensue. Damaged by the
war but determined to stay put, four women, five men and a handful
of children take on the gambles of life with light-heartedness and
grace. |
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