April and the Extraordinary World
France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
In Scotland 1874, Jack is born on the coldest day ever. Because of the extreme cold, his heart stops beating. The responsible midwife in Edinburgh finds a way to save…
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling…
RRRrrrr!!!
Barracuda
This French-German-Belgian thriller, reminiscent of Misery (1990) and The Collector (1965), begins after Fred Astaire-fan Clement (Jean Rochefort) invites comic-book artist Luc (Guillaume Canet) to Sunday dinner with Clement and…
The Grand Dukes
My First 40 Years
Marina is a woman who never says no…to men, money and fame! Determined to climb the social ladder, she works her way up from a marriage of a millionaire prince….
The Skirt Chaser
An Elephant Can Be Extremely Deceptive
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and…
The Phantom of Liberty
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting…
La Liberté en croupe
Trouble Among Widows
When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she regards his death…
The Iron Mask
The story of the Three Musketeers, D’Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.