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A lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.

Filmmaking and real life start to blur for a director making a biopic about female singer Barbara.
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A suicidal man struggling to avoid sliding back into alcoholism visits former friends and lovers to say goodbye.

Story of a singer who finds herself in desperate circumstances after her son has an accident.
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A filmmaker's life becomes complicated by the return of a former lover.

Four animated tales give a twist to tradition.

A woman embraces a new phase in her life.

A plantation owner in Indochina finds herself in a love rivalry with her adopted daughter as France's colonial strength wanes.

A fragile young woman falls for her psychotherapist... and his twin.

Controversial drama about a married mum who walks out on her husband.
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Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love, they marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc.
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An exploration of group dynamics in a young people’s writing workshop.

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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