New York's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2014
Going Away Going Away
Going Away and Grand Central
2 Autumns 3 Winters (2 Automnes 3 Hivers) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Sébastien Betbeder)
A man decides to change his life by taking up running. It's a start...
Age Of Panic (La Bataille De Solférino, The Battle Of Solférino) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Justine Triet ; Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Vincent Macaigne)
A TV journalist set to cover the presidential elections finds her life complicated by the rival of her ex, who is demanding to see their daughters.
Les Apaches (Apaches) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Thierry de Peretti; Writer: Benjamin Baroche, Thierry de Peretti; Stars: Aziz El Hadachi, François-Joseph Cullioli, Hamza Mezziani, Maryne Cayon, Joseph-Marie Ebrard)
A casual theft leads to trouble for a group of young friends.
A Castle In Italy (Un Château En Italie) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; Writer: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Noémie Lvovsky, Agnès de Sacy; Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Louis Garrel, Filippo Timi, Marisa Borini, Xavier Beauvois, Céline Sallette, Andre Wilms, Marie Riviere, Gerard Falce, Pippo Delbono, Silvio Orlando, Omar Sharif)
A family are forced to sell their Italian home.
Eastern Boys (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Robin Campillo; Writer: Robin Campillo; Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov, Edéa Darcque, Camila Chanirova, Beka Markozashvili, Bislan Yakhiaev, Mohamed Doukouzov, Aitor Bourgade)
Story about a solitary Parisian and a young Ukrainian migrant.
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Mood Indigo and A Castle In Italy
The Gilded Cage (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Ruben Alves; Stars: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud)
Life becomes complicated for Portuguese immigrants living happily in France when one of them inherits a winery in the old country.
Going Away (Un beau dimanche) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Nicole Garcia; Writer: Jacques Fieschi, Nicole Garcia; Stars: Pierre Rochefort, Louise Bourgoin, Dominique Sanda, Déborah François, Eric Ruf, Benjamin Lavernhe, Mathias Brezot, Olivier Loustau, Vanessa Liautey, Jean-Pierre Martins, Juliette Roux-Merveille, Emmanuelle Reymond, José Cidolit, Michel Bompoil, Laurence Roy)
A loner teacher finds his life changed by an encounter with a single mum.
Grand Central (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Rebecca Zlotowski; Writer: Gaëlle Macé, Rebecca Zlotowski; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Tahar Rahim, Denis Ménochet)
A complex romance set against the backdrop of the nuclear power industry.
His Wife (Son épouse) (Country: France, India, Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Michel Spinosa; Writer: Agnès de Sacy, Michel Spinosa; Stars: Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Janagi, Mahesh, Laguparan, Corentin Lobet, Nirupama Nityanandan, David Quertigniez, Janakiraman Jayakumar, S.S. Kalai Raani, Murugan Perasamy, Anaël Snoek, Ishaan Azad, Chandra, Durga)
The widower travels to meet his wife's friend, who has been suffering psychologically since she died.
If You Don't, I Will (Arrête ou je continue) (Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Sophie Fillières; Writer: Sophie Fillières; Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Joséphine de La Baume, Emmanuelle Devos)
A couple on a hike, debate their relationship.
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Les Apaches and Eastern Boys
Love Battles (Mes Séances De Lutte) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Jacques Doillon; Stars: Sara Forestier, James Thiérrée)
A death, a man, a woman, an experiment.
Love Is The Perfect Crime (L'amour est un crime parfait) (Year: 2013; Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu; Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Maïwenn, Karin Viard)
A professor forms a realtionship with one of his student's mothers after her daughter disappears
The Marchers (La marche) (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Nabil Ben Yadir; Writer: Nabil Ben Yadir, Romain Compingt, Ahmed Hamidi, Mohamed Hamidi, Nadia Lakhdar; Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Tewfik Jallab, Vincent Rottiers, M'Barek Belkouk, Nader Boussandel, Lubna Azabal, Hafsia Herzi, Charlotte Le Bon, Philippe Nahon, Jamel Debbouze, Malik Zidi, Simon Abkarian, Corinne Masiero, Rufus, Benjamin Lavernhe)
Miss And The Doctors (Tirez la langue, mademoiselle) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Axelle Ropert; Writer: Axelle Ropert; Stars: Cédric Kahn, Laurent Stocker, Louise Bourgoin, Paula Denis, Serge Bozon, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Camille Cayol, Jean-Pierre Petit, Alexandre Wu, Chloé Esdraffo, Kea Kaing, Nusch Batut, Zéphir Batut, Paul Bozon, Laurent Mothe)
Two doctor brothers both fall for the same single mother.
Mood Indigo (Country: Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Michel Gondry; Writer: Luc Bossi, based on the novel by Boris Vian; Stars: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Omar Sy, Michel Gondry)
This dreamlike story of two pairs of lovers, a cook and a kitchen mouse is an adaptation of the cult novel by French writer Boris Vian.
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Young & Beautiful and Tonnerre
On My Way (Elle S'En Va) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Emmanuelle Bercot; Writer: Emmanuelle Bercot, Jérôme Tonnerre; Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Camille, Mylène Demongeot)
Popping out for cigarettes, a middle aged woman just keeps going, increasingly determined to leave her old life behind.
Playing Dead (Je Fais Le Mort) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Jean-Paul Salomé; Stars: François Damiens, Geraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste)
A struggling actor helps out with a police reenactment and finds himself caught up in the search pf a killer.
Quai d'Orsay (The French Minister) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Bertrand Tavernier; Writer: Christophe Blain, Abel Lanzac; Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Joséphine de La Baume, Jane Birkin, Niels Arestrup, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz, Alix Poisson, Julie Gayet, Sonia Rolland, Thomas Chabrol, Thierry Frémont, Didier Bezace, Yvonne Gradelet, Loïc Risser, Bruno Raffaelli)
A political satire revolving around Alexandre Tallard de Vorms, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, a man who calls on the powerful and invokes the mighty to bring peace, to calm the trigger-happy, and to cement his aura of Nobel Peace Prize winner-in-waiting.
School of Babel (Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Julie Bertuccelli )
Documentary about young migrant schoolkids.
Suzanne (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Katell Quillévéré; Stars: Sara Forestier, Adèle Haenel, François Damiens)
The close relationship between two sisters and their widowed father becomes complicated when one of them falls pregnant.
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Quai d'Orsay and School of Babel
Tip Top (Country: Luxembourg, France, Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Serge Bozon; Writer: Odile Barski, Serge Bozon, Axelle Ropert; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Samy Naceri, François Damiens, Sandrine Kiberlain)
Two police officers investigate the death of a informant.
Tonnerre (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Guillaume Brac; Writer: Guillaume Brac, Hélène Ruault; Stars: Vincent Macaigne, Solène Rigot, Bernard Menez)
A musician enters into an amour fou with a younger woman who is on the rebound.
Under The Rainbow (Un jour mes princes viendront) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Agnès Jaoui; Writer: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui; Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Agnès Jaoui, Arthur Dupont, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Benjamin Biolay, Dominique Valadié, Valérie Crouzet, Beatrice Rosen, Didier Sandre, Laurent Poitrenaux, Nina Meurisse, Clément Roussier, Serena Legeais, Bonny Durand, Candela Cottis)
A woman is on the hunt for her own Prince Charming.
Young & Beautiful (Jeune et jolie, Jeune & Jolie) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Marine Vacth, Géraldine Palhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Fantan Ravat, Johan Leysen, Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard, Djedje Apali, Lucas Prisor, Laurent Delbecque, Jeanne Ruff )
Portrait of a 17-year-old, who sells her body for cash.
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