French Film Festival 2007
Change Of Address Change Of Address
Change Of Address and OSS 117: Cairo - Nest Of Spies
The Axe (Le Couperet, The Ax) (Country: Belgium, France, Spain; Year: 2005; Director: Costa-Gavras; Writer: Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg, based on the novel by Donald E Westlake,; Stars: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Geordy Monfils, Christa Theret, Ulrich Tukur, Olivier Gourmet, Yvon Back, Thierry Hancisse, Olga Grumberg, Yolande Moreau, Dieudonné Kabongo)
It's murder to find a job in France.
Camping (Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Fabien Onteniente; Writer: Emanuel Booz, Franck Dubosc, Philippe Guillard, Fabien Onteniente; Stars: Gérard Lanvin, Mathilde Seigner, Franck Dubosc, Claude Brasseur, Mylène Demongeot, Antoine Duléry, Frédérique Bel, Christine Citti, Laurent Olmédo, Eliott Parillaud, Béatrice Costantini)
Culture clash comedy on a holiday campsite.
Change Of Address (Changement D'adresse) (Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Emmanuel Mouret; Writer: Emmanuel Mouret; Stars: Emmanuel Mouret, Frédérique Bel, Fanny Valette, Dany Brillant, Ariane Ascaride, Claire Breniaux, Clément Delmas, Magali Leroy, Jérôme Flaum, Frédéric Niedermayer, Hans Joachim Kruse)
Unrequited love in Paris.
A Comedy Of Power (L'Ivresse Du Pouvoir) (Country: Germany/France; Year: 2006; Director: Claude Chabrol; Writer: Odile Barski, Claude Chabrol; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel, Marilyne Canto, Robin Renucci, Thomas Chabrol, Jean-François Balmer, Pierre Vernier, Jacques Boudet, Philippe Duclos, Roger Dumas)
Investigating fraud amongst France's fattest fat cats.
Oh La La! (Nouvelle Chance) (Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Anne Fontaine; Writer: Julien Boivent, Anne Fontaine; Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Arielle Dombasle, Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, Andy Gillet, Christophe Van de Velde, Michel Baudinat, Katsuko Nakamura, Øystein Singsaas, Mariana Otero, Philippe Storez, Xavier Morineau)
A disparate group of Parisians rehearse a play that is trying to be typically French.
Paris Je T'Aime Paris Je T'Aime
Paris Je T'Aime and Tiger Brigades
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest Of Spies (OSS 117: Le Caire Nid d'Espions) (Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Michel Hazanavicius; Writer: Jean-François Halin, Michel Hazanavicius, based on characters by Jean Bruce; Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre, Constantin Alexandrov, Saïd Amadis, Laurent Bateau, Claude Brosset, François Damiens, Youssef Hamid, Khalid Maadour)
Fifties spoof sees not-so-super spy go on a mission to Cairo.
Paris Je T'Aime (Country: Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, France; Year: 2006; Director: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Br; Writer: Tristan Carné; Stars: Marianne Faithfull, Steve Buscemi, Miranda Richardson, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Wes Craven, Elijah Wood, Emily Mortimer, Natalie Portman, GCraven, Elijah Wood, Emily Mortimer, Natalie Portman, Gérard Depardieu)
Twenty different glimpses of Paris.
Tiger Brigades (Les Brigades Du Tigre) (Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Jérôme Cornuau, François Cornuau; Writer: Xavier Dorison, Fabien Nury, based on the TV series; Stars: Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Edouard Baer, Olivier Gourmet, Stefano Accorsi, Jacques Gamblin, Thierry Frémont, Léa Drucker, Alexandre Medvedev, Philippe Duquesne, Gérard Jugnot, Didier Flamand, Andre Marcon)
The first motorised special police unit in Paris before the Great War contains terrorism, uncovers corruption and falls under the spell of a Russian princess.
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