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57,000 Kilometres Between Us (57000km Entre Nous, 57,000km Between US) (Country: France; Director: Delphine Kreuter; Writer: Delphine Kreuter; Cast: Florence Thomassin, Pascal Bongard, Mathieu Amalric, Marie Burgun, Hadrien Bouvier, Stéphanie Michelini, Mohamed Rouabhi, Véra Briole)
A provocative, yet charming take on digital communication, this debut follows a teenager caught between her stepdad (who records and posts the family's supposedly perfect life online), her real father (now a transsexual), and the refuge of her own online life as she searches for meaningful connections with others.
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The Beaches Of Agnes (Les Plages d'Agnès) (Country: France; Director: Agnès Varda; Writer: Agnès Varda; Cast: Mathieu Demy, Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda)
The grandmother of the French New Wave documents her own life story.
La Belle Personne (Country: France; Director: Christophe Honoré; Writer: Christophe Honoré, Madame de La Fayette, Gilles Taurand; Cast: Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Esteban Carvajal-Alegria, Simon Truxillo, Agathe Bonitzer, Anaïs Demoustier, Valerie Lang, Jacob Lyon, Jean-Michel Portal, Martin Siméon)
Romantic shenanigans in a Parisian high school.
Dying Or Feeling Better (Soit je meurs, soit je vais mieux) (Country: France; Director: Laurence Ferreira Barbosa; Writer: Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Nathalie Najem; Cast: Florence Thomassin, François Civil, Marine Barbosa, Carine Barbosa, Thomas Cerisola, Valérie Lang, Emile Berling, Mathias Ganem, , ,)
A 16-year-old disaffected youth finds his horizons broadened in a trouble fashion after hooking up with rebellious twins.
A Lake (Un lac) (Country: France; Director: Philippe Grandrieux; Writer: Philippe Grandrieux; Cast: Dmitry Kubasov, Natalie Rehorova, Alexei Solonchev, Simona Huelsemann, Vitaly Kishchenko, Artur Semay, , , , ,)
Minimalist narrative about a woodchopper and his family who find their lives disrupted when a stranger arrives. Words such as "abstract" and "uncompromising" abound in descriptions of this film, so its probably not for those looking for an easily accessible watch.
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Louise Michel (Country: France; Director: Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine; Writer: Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine; Cast: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners, Robert Dehoux, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Katerine, Kafka, Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Hosmalin, Christophe Salengro, Pierre Renverseau, Siné)
Odd-couple comedy about a factory worker out for revenge and the inept hitman she bonds with.
Mia And the Migou (Mia et le Migou) (Country: France, Italy; Director: Jacques-Remy Girerd; Writer: Benoît Chieux, Jacques-Remy Girerd, Antoine Lanciaux, Iouri Tcherenkov; Cast: Miou-Miou, Dany Boon, Pierre Richard, Yolande Moreau, Laurent Gamelon, Jean-Pierre Coffe, Romain Bouteille, Jean-François Dérec, Maïté, Carim Messalti, Charlie Girerd)
Family-friendly animation about a young girl whose journey to find her father sees her encounter a race of forest creatures.
Modern Life (Profils paysans: la vie moderne) (Country: France; Director: Raymond Depardon)
Established chronicler of rural France, Depardon, returns to the Haut-Garonne area to revisit the subjects of his previous Profils Paysans films.
Nucingen Haus (Country: Romania, France; Director: Raoul Ruiz; Writer: Honoré de Balzac, Raoul Ruiz; Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Elsa Zylberstein, Audrey Marnay, Laurent Malet, Thomas Durand)
A writer wins a mansion replete with ghostly residents, who aren't too keen on having new housemates.
Parc (Park) (Country: France; Director: Arnaud des Pallières; Writer: John Cheever, Arnaud des Pallières; Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Geraldine Chaplin, Delphine Chuillot, Paola Comis, Laurent Delbecque, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Sergi López, Nathalie Richard, László Szabó, ,)
Adaptation of Bullet Park, which features a "love it or hate it" fragmented narrative about a troubled teen, his family and an enigmatic stranger.
Possibility Of An Island (La Possibilité d'une île) (Country: France; Director: Michel Houellebecq; Writer: Michel Houellebecq; Cast: Benoît Magimel, Ramata Koite, Patrick Bauchau, Jean-Pierre Malo, Serge Larivière, Jordi Dauder, Philippe Delest, Conrad Cecil, Patrick Rameau, Fernando Arrabal, Arielle Dombasle)
Michel Houellebecq adapts his own novel for the screen, exploring issues of cloning, religion and the future of humanity.
A Simple Heart (Un coeur simple) (Country: France; Director: Marion Laine; Writer: Marion Laine, Nicolas Peufaillit, based on the story by Gustave Flaubert; Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Marina Foïs, Pascal Elbé, Patrick Pineau, Thibault Vinçon, Noémie Lvovsky, Louise Orry-Diquéro, Melissa Dima, Antoine Olivera, Romain Scheiner, Jean Senejoux)
Period adaptation about a 19th century maid in a Normandy household.
Vie d'artiste, La (Country: France; Director: Marc Fitoussi; Writer: Marc Fitoussi; Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Émilie Dequenne, Denis Podalydès, Valérie Benguigui, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Jean-Marie Winling, Alain Libolt, Anne Bouvier, Lolita Chammah, Léopoldine Serre, Marion Monier)
Comedy about a writer, an actor and a would-be chanteuse's pursuit elusive glory.
