In a large house from the Tunisian bourgeoisie it occurs a drama, in Turbulence.
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In Sans toi a divorced Chinese immigrant earns a living by selling on the black market of Belleville what she has gleaned in the trash uptown. She had a love affair with a fellow she met in Paris but since departed for China…
Whit Stillman’s most recent film is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s unpublished novel Lady Susan. This comedy of manners, set in eighteenth century England, follows the scheming of Lady Susan in order to find a match for her daughter.
In Liberté Jean a young man struggles in the city.
A young woman works in a school restaurant. It’s the last day before the summer holidays. She asks for a money advance to be able to take her daughter on vacation, but it is refused. This film shows the struggle of this woman to get the sum that will allow her daughter’s summer not to be wasted.
Bunk beds as a stage in Les Ratés.
Le Goût de plaire is a musical: a boy has a date with two different girls at the same time.
A couple wakes up one sunny morning it is the 15th of May. Apparently they had the same nightmare, the day unfolds strangely. The next day, we are still on the 15th May. Are they gone mad?
Luc is a young hooligan and a prostitute in a suburb. The man who is in love with him offers him a job: La vie selon Luc.
Mia Hansen-Løve won this year’s prize for best director at the Berlinale with this film, about a middle aged philosophy teacher (Isabelle Huppert) who has to deal with her mother’s death, her husband’s infidelities and a professional stagnation.
Samuel returns to Forbach, his birthplace, to receive a medal. In this coal mining city, everyone is proud of his Parisian success: a native of the region is on his way to become a famous actor.
In Dis-moi oui, dis-moi non Cécile thinks one thing and its opposite. She wants one thing and its contrary. She does not know what she thinks or what she wants. Then she speaks of a thing and something else.
Michel is farmer enjoying the quiet of winter and spending time with his young apprentice: a solid friendship will soon bind them together in Du soleil en hiver.
A crowded cafe between silence and sound in Du bruit.
Inspired by the theater of the absurd and such playwrights as Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, the film is punctuated with the Charlie Parker song “Crazeology.
Cartas da Guerra adapts a novel of the Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes. It’s 1971 and António is recruited to serve as a doctor in Angola during the colonial war. Only the letters he writes to his wife save him from despair.
In Caress, a young woman visits a former classmate to tell him of a dream that deeply troubled her.
A minimalist world invaded by a series of uninvited, unexplained presences. Could this be art? Better don’t touch! Anomalies is a film about the human compulsion to meddle, probe and fiddle with things that are better left alone.)