Sabine Bail

Erotismo a partes iguales, fotografía de moda, arte monográfico, misterio metafísico, arqueología social y cultural de la capital francesa, y el neo-noir de arte y ensayo de cine-Rose, c'est Paris es la historia de dos hermanas gemelas, sólo conocidas como B y Rose. Un secuestro conduce a una historia detectivesca que se desarrolla en las calles, cafés, cabarets, museos, fábricas abandonadas y los grandes hoteles de París. ¿Qué pasó con la hermana desaparecida? ¿Hubo una conspiración? ¿Estaba realmente secuestrada? ¿Está viva o muerta? ¿Es en realidad un caso de identidad equivocada? Reims y Bramley crean una serie de extraordinarios cuadros sugiriendo todas estas posibilidades y muchas más, con una serie de celebridades, incluyendo Naomi Campbell, Michelle Yeoh, Monica Bellucci, Charlotte Rampling, Valérie Lemercier, Inès Sastre, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Marnay, Anthony Delon, Rona Hartner, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Azzedine Alaia, Louise Bourgoin, y Helena Noguerra.

A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.

A married man in his fifties who has lost all interest in his wife suddenly meets Juliette, a young woman. She reignites love in his life but triggers violent arguments with his wife. Their indifference soon turns into chaos. (French with English subtitles)

Un thriller muy interesante sobre la mayoría de edad de un joven con problemas que busca su lugar en este mundo. El adolescente Jonathan (Fabien de Marchi) está teniendo dificultades para vivir con su padre y su madrastra. Por capricho, roba algo de dinero y se embarca en un viaje de placeres prohibidos. Pasa la noche en un edificio abandonado y se despierta atado y es hecho prisionero por Antoine (Johan Libéreau), un joven narcotraficante buscado por la policía. Los dos chicos forjan una relación ambigua entre violencia, compasión y fascinación. Víctima, Jonathan acaba por gustarle a su torturador.

Max wakes up one morning and discovers that his wife Hélène has left him in his sleep, without a word, taking their two children with her. He doesn't understand. The nights drag on, his demons get involved, he chooses to face them and to anchor himself in reality. He probes his feelings, revisits from top to bottom the artifice of his life. Max ends up rediscovering his love for Hélène and decides to win her back. But isn't it already too late?

Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain.

Il Tempo Dell'Amore (A Time to Love) is an omnibus film of three different love stories that take place in three different eras and locations. The common element is the theme: love causes a lot of pain.

The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" award for The Dreamlife of Angels. When Louise has an encounter with homeless Remi (Roschdy Zem), they have a magnetic attraction, but she is already attached to illiterate shoplifter and pickpocket punk Yaya (Gerald Thomassin). Although allied with Yaya in petty crimes, Louise lives with her widowed father (Lou Castel), a devoted writer of fiction. After a Metro bum (Bruce Myers) tells her of his desire to see his young son, she plucks the kid, Gaby (Antoine de Merle), right out of school, making him the newest rookie recruited into their subway gang. Shoplifting in a department store, the young toughs escape the store's security guards by hiding in the ballet rehearsal rooms of the nearby opera. But does Louise really belong with the subway toughs, or is she just pretending? When she's arrested, Louise is forced to reexamine her lifestyle.

Oulage has it all planned: New Year's eve, at the stroke of midnight, he'll finally kiss Brigitte, the girl he's madly in love with. That'll be the moment, because Brigitte is having a costume party. Oulage has it all planned—except for the fact that Brigitte has also invited a gang of truly parasitical friends: an old girl friend who never leaves Brigitte's side, a manic-depressive police officer, a paranoid psychopath, a cannabis-addict suffering withdrawal pains, a stunning Cuban woman on the prowl for immigration papers, and many others who do everything to ruin Oulage's life.

Daniel, un joven repartidor de pizzas, consigue hacer realidad uno de sus sueños: obtener la licencia de taxi. Pero un encuentro fortuito con Emilien le pone en un aprieto: para conservar su licencia de taxi, han de detener a una banda que está desmantelando los bancos del país.

The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do not have enough cash to go somewhere else. The last shelter for those who hang around at night. These shadows walking silently along the streets, selling their poor body heat for a few crumpled banknotes, swallow and digested by their voracious thirst for a cheap high. Enough to forget for a while the distress of a ruined life and to dream of a more rejoicing elsewhere. Nathalie and her brother Tof struggle against this futureless world. Pierre, a shoe-repairer, troubled by Nathalie's grace will take part for a while to the life of these two children of misery.

Una compañía francesa de teatro se propone representar una obra en Sarajevo, pero sus miembros son capturados y recluidos en un campo de prisioneros de guerra. Entonces pedirán ayuda a sus amigos más influyentes para que gestionen su liberación.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang learns to paint and takes art classes at the Shanghai Art Institute, until it is closed for painting nudes. Because she cannot bear him a son, Yu-liang leaves Pan to his first wife, and studies art in Paris, where she wins an award for a nude self-portrait. She returns to join Pan in Nanking in the 1930's, and becomes a Professor until it is discovered that she came from a brothel. She returns to Paris to live the rest of her life there, and finally gains a major exhibition of her work.