Élodie Bouchez

Vanessa Springora tells how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. She explains how she was the victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary and psychic. But beyond her individual story, she also questions the excesses of an era, and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity.

The Feral family plan to look normal and friendly as they move into a new neighborhood. Their son, Philemon gets closer to his new neighbor, Camila and his thirst for blood grows thus his difference becomes impossible to hide.

January 13, 2018. 8h08. Hawaii is in a state of alert: ballistic missiles have just been launched in the direction of the island, there are only a few minutes left to find a shelter. Like every year, a group of friends has come to spend a week's vacation in the hotel of one of their friends, who has left to live in Hawaii. As they think they are living their last moments, years of unspoken words come back and degenerate into a settlement of accounts. Fortunately for them, it's a false alarm. Unfortunately, they still have eight days of vacation to spend together.

Restorative justice programs offer a safe space for dialogue between offenders and victims - supported by professionals and volunteers. Among the participants are Chloé, a victim of sexual assault; Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of burglary and snatching; while Nassim, Issa, and Thomas are offenders, convicted of violent robberies. In this emotional and difficult journey, they must overcome resentment to find solace and forgiveness. And perhaps, at the end of the road, some of them might even find healing.

It’s summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet’s Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist painting of today’s France.

Today is Raphael’s funeral. His young wife Lola doesn’t know what to do with her sadness, or with her 7-year-old son’s, or with anyone’s. Her sister Margaux is here, though they have been estranged for years. On their way to the ceremony, Lola forces Margaux to flee the procession and to take them away from this sad reality. During this improvised trip, the two sisters will rediscover each other and relearn freedom. The freedom of not wanting to bury the man you love.

Pierre is still mourning his dead wife when he meets Laura, a joyful and sensual woman with whom he will have a new child, little Autumn. But will this passionate and unexpected love be able to resist the demons of the past?

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.

Two down-on-their-luck strangers become improbable companions in misfortune.

The death of Roberto, the canary, forces a family to come to terms with their own grief.

세상에 나온 지 이틀 만에 엄마와 이별한 아기, ‘테오’. ‘테오’는 위탁보호사 ‘장’의 손에 잠시 맡겨지고, 그 사이 사회복지센터와 입양기관 담당자들은 ‘테오‘를 받아줄 가족을 찾는데…… 과연 ‘테오’는 자신을 사랑해줄 가족을 만나 행복해질 수 있을까?

젊은 기자 고티에는 자신이 1960년대부터 90년대까지 전성기를 누린 프랑스 인기가수 기 자메의 사생아라는 사실을 어머니에게서 듣는다. 지금 기는 예전 곡으로 이뤄진 신규 앨범을 홍보하러 지방을 다니고 있다. 카메라로 무장한 고티에는 기를 따라다니며, 그의 일상과 콘서트를 녹화하여 다큐멘터리를 제작한다.

When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.

After keeping a careful distance for many years, 25-year-old Gaspard must renew contact with his family when his father remarries. Accompanied by Laura, an eccentric young woman who agrees to pretend she's his girlfriend at the wedding, he finally feels ready to set foot in the zoo owned by his parents, where he is reunited with the monkeys and tigers he grew up with... But with a father who is an out-of-control womanizer, a brother who is far too sensible, and a sister who is far too beautiful, he unknowingly sets himself up to experience the last days of his childhood.

존재감 제로, 자신감 제로의 평범한 남자사람 ‘로키’.  어느 날 집에 희귀한 부엉이가 들어왔다고 직장 동료들에게 말하지만 아무도 믿지 않는다.  결국 부엉이를 회사로 데려와 보여주겠다고 약속한 그는 꼼짝도 않는 녀석을 대신해  부엉이 탈을 쓰고 출근한다. 그리고 바로 그 날, 운명처럼 팬더 탈을 쓴 여자를 만나는데…

A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.

A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.

Young Juliette is obsessed with dying in tragedy, just as her namesake. Desperate to find her Romeo before her 15th birthday, Juliette goes to great lengths to make her classmates fall deeply in love with her.

소싯적 페달 좀 밟으며 최고의 사이클리스트를 꿈꾸었지만 현실은 사이클 제조 회사의 판매원으로 일하며 매년 ‘뚜르 드 프랑스’를 열심히 시청만(?) 하고 있는 프랑수아. 사이클이라면 진저리를 치는 아내와 골칫덩이 아들과의 여행을 앞둔 어느 날, 회사에서는 프랑수아에게 ‘뚜르 드 프랑스’에서 회사 프로모션 차량의 운전을 제안한다. 비록 선수로서는 아니지만 자신의 어릴 적 꿈이었던 '뚜르 드 프랑스’ 무대에 서게 될 기회를 잡은 프랑수아는 흔쾌히 회사 제안을 받아들인다. 하지만 이 소식을 들은 아내와 아들은 집을 나가버리고 설상가상으로 떠나는 아내를 잡으려다 프로모션 행사를 망쳐버린 프랑수아는 해고까지 당한다. 하루 아침에 가족은 물론이요, 꿈의 무대에 설 기회마저 잃어버린 프랑수아... 혼자만의 '뚜르 드 프랑스’를 위한 힘겨운 페달을 밟기 시작한다. 어릴 적 꿈과 떠나버린 가족, 그리고 사라진 희망이 다시 보일 때까지! 그의 도전은 무사히 성공할 수 있을까?

A lesbian couple on the brink of divorce divide their possessions in mediation and through each object, we get a glimpse of their relationship and the sometimes humorous and sexy power that objects can hold on our lives and emotions.

A young artist in Manhattan falls in love with a Mexican.

보석 코디네이터 ‘라셀’은 회사 홈페이지 제작을 위해 웹 전문가 ‘뱅상’과 사무실에서 야근을 한다. 순간 서로에서 끌리는데, 사실 둘 다 가정이 있다. 이 일 이후로 라셀은 남편 프랭크에서 얘기해서 뱅상 부부를 초대한다. 프랭크는 뱅상의 아내 테리를 물리치료 해 주다 그만 키스를 하는데, 프랭크는 아내에게 이 사실을 솔직히 얘기한다. 이후 네 사람은 다시 만나 합의하에 상대를 바꾸어 잠자리를 갖는다. 전혀 다른 성격의 남자와 여자를 품에 안은 그들은 새로운 삶을 얻은 것처럼 적극적으로 사랑한다. 새로운 사랑과 기존 부부간의 사랑, 두 가지 사랑에 모두 충실한 네 사람은 행복한 시간을 보낸다. 그러나 만남이 계속되면서 갈등이 생기고 처음 만날 때와는 달리 부부간의 신뢰가 무너짐을 느끼게 된다. 위기 의식을 느낀 그들은 모처럼 시간을 내서 함께 휴가를 떠난다. 이제 네 사람은 모든 허울을 벗어 버리고 본능에 충실히 오직 사랑에만 최선을 다한다. 네 사람의 사랑은 과연 영원할 수 있을까?

A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.

A 30 ans, Bruno, rock-star has been, vit toujours aux crochets de sa petite amie. Les temps sont durs... surtout quand une ex ressurgit de nulle part pour lui apprendre qu'il est le père de Nancy, 13 ans, dont il n'a jamais soupçonné l'existence.

A comedian kidnaps a singer and keeps him in his apartment.

카미유는 아들 프랑수아가 자동차 사고로 죽자 그의 친구 프랑크를 찾아간다. 사고에 책임이 있어 괴로워하는 그를 장례식 날 집으로 데려오고, 딸과 친척들은 비난의 시선을 쏟아 붓는다. 프랑크의 삶에 깊이 관여하기 시작하는 카미유.

Three couples and a single guy, from different social and career backgrounds, and of various ages, struggle with finding happiness in their lives.

A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.

A wannabe surfer parties on the French Riviera while awaiting the perfect wave.

The psychiatry department of a young doctor Cora has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown. Cora becomes fond of her patient and establishes a relationship which goes beyond the usual course of treatment. She feels a kind of "call" from this woman as a strange and strong tie grows between them. One day, Cora learns that the identity of her patient has been discovered. Her name is Loa, she is a stranger, she has been sent back home…to Iceland. Cora, who had no idea of this woman's life outside their relationship, is deeply moved : she decides to meet up with her in order to finish the treatment.

Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?

In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.

This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.

Maxime, a young man of 25, arrives in Paris, but wishes to join Justine, the woman he loves, in India. At the bar of the Raphael Hotel, he meets Jack Lesterhoof, a rich businessman who offers to be his interpreter for an important meeting. Maxime accepts. The two men soon become friends. Jack decides to take a break from the routine and accompany Maxime to India.

Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.

The Beat Nicks are musician Nick Nero and poet Nick Beat, a pair of self-styled truth-seekers who'd better find a gig or they'll be out on the street. Their luck begins to change when they find a box on the beach, a treasure chest of infinite beats that will set the stage for the ultimate success, a gig at the Monkey Club. But when Nick Nero falls in love with Nica, the club owners captive bride, he learns that they are some truths better left unsought. Hard knocks and a trip to rock bottom reunites the Nicks to preform the gig of a lifetime, and return the box to its source

The Beat Nicks are musician Nick Nero and poet Nick Beat, a pair of self-styled truth-seekers who'd better find a gig or they'll be out on the street. Their luck begins to change when they find a box on the beach, a treasure chest of infinite beats that will set the stage for the ultimate success, a gig at the Monkey Club. But when Nick Nero falls in love with Nica, the club owners captive bride, he learns that they are some truths better left unsought. Hard knocks and a trip to rock bottom reunites the Nicks to preform the gig of a lifetime, and return the box to its source

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance

In an Illinois farming community, Lyle lives quietly with his wife Amy. But their life is set spinning when Lyle's friend Vernon visits with his girlfriend Juliette. Soon Lyle and Juliette have embarked on a passionate affair which has the town talking and the religious community frowning.

A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

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.

Ulysse, a gun-toting hood, gets together a team of four people, including himself, to carry out what he thinks will be a fail-safe heist...

이자는 스물 한 살. 커다란 배낭을 짊어지고 도시에서 도시로 떠돌아 다니며 틈틈이 자신이 만든 카드를 팔아 생계비를 번다. 낯선 도시 릴르로 친구를 찾아왔지만 친구는 벨기에로 이미 떠난 뒤 갈 곳 없는 그녀는 공장에 취직하고 그 곳에서 동갑내기 마리를 만난다. 그늘진 얼굴에 말이 없는 마리는 이자가 자신의 아파트에서 지내는 것을 허락하지만 사실 그 아파트는 교통사고로 중태에 빠진 어느 모녀의 것. 혼수상태에 놓인 모녀가 죽기라도 하면 금방 다른 사람의 손에 넘어갈 상황이다. 외향적이고 남을 보살피기 좋아하는 이자와 예민하고 연약한 마리. 외모도 성격도 정반대이지만 둘은 금세 친구가 된다. 일이 서툰 이자가 해고당하자 마리도 함께 직장을 그만 둔다. 일자리를 찾아 거리를 배회하던 둘은 나이트 클럽 기도인 샤리와 후레도를 만나 함께 어울려 다니고 돈이 필요한 마리는 사랑하지도 않는 샤리와 함께 관계를 가진다. 이자는 다른 일을 찾아서 열심히 살아가지만 마리는 세상과 단절된 채 오직 자기 자신에게만 빠져든다. 어느날 마리는 나이트 클럽 주인인 크리스를 만난다. 매력적인 외모와 부를 겸비한 그에게 매료된 마리는 사랑해서는 안될 사람인 걸 알면서도 점점 집착하게 되고 그런 마리를 사랑하는 샤리는 묵묵히 옆에서 지켜만 볼 뿐이다. 이자는 안타까움과 걱정어린 마음으로 마리에게 충고하지만 오히려 둘은 크게 다투고 급기야는 이자가 집을 나가게 되는데.

Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms (that part based on a true story). From this starting point, the film revolves around the interactions between them and Boris (orgy fan), Abdel (no sentimental life), Ducon (wants to kill himself), Nico (dying of AIDS), etc... A social study of the 90s with heavy references to sex and deat

In a French prison, three men are coming to terms with the emotional and physical torment which their incarceration brings them. Arnaud is serving a six-month sentence for drug smuggling; he protests his innocence and will do anything to secure an early release. Francky is a hardened criminal who has all but lost his wife and family and who seeks comfort in self-inflicted abuse. Kader is in prison for theft; he is the most philosophical of the three men, he is growing accustomed to prison life and seems to prefer it to the world outside.

On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to meet her future husband, a missionary in India. The women decide to swap roles...

A mobster is determined to find the drugs his mistress stole from him before running off with a young hustler.

A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it...

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled drug addict.

The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for this mystery. The deliberately rigorous courses are designed to prepare students to take the brutal examinations for entry into the elite Grand Ecoles, where a select few will gain the skills and education needed to insure a bright, prosperous future for themselves. The story centers on Delphine, a girl from the lower classes, and the upper class Claude. Both young women aspire to attend the Ecole Normale Superieure on the Rue d'Ulm. Delphine lives in humble public housing with her dull mother and two young brothers while Claude, who considers herself a Communist, lives in luxury with her own servant; she is sexually involved with fellow- student, Axel, who thinks himself a fascist.

Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies. Part of ARTE's series "The high school years".

알제리 전쟁이 한창인 60년대 프랑스. 청년들은 전쟁을 피하기 위해 결혼을 하고, 학생들은 무엇이 옳고 그른지 치열하게 고민을 한다. 기숙학교에서 만난 프랑수아와 알제리인 세르주는 우정 이상의 감정을 갖고 가까워지지만 프랑수아는 소꿉친구인 메이테에게도 마음을 두고 있다. 지독한 성장통을 겪는 청년들의 삼각관계를 시골 마을의 목가적인 풍경과 함께 그린 멜로드라마. (2012년 제7회 시네바캉스 서울)

Somewhere in the Drôme Valley, there is a farm where old shepherd Fernand lives with his two sons. A young woman arrives at the farm to learn the farm-work and disturbs the calm.

A young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her.

Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as Stan, an over-the-hill lothario, much given to quoting Shakespeare, who occasionally goes around naked under his raincoat and exposes himself to strangers, who are usually not interested in his primitive display of genitalia. It also appears that he is unable to sexually satisfy his much younger lover, and he suspects her of having another boyfriend. He earns his living tutoring students (mostly young girls) in English literature. When, in his frustration, he gropes one of the girls in her home during a tutoring session, she protests, her father (who is at home) beats him up, and he is sentenced to a jail term. There, he is teamed up with a slightly loopy murderer. When he gets out of jail, he finds his girlfriend has left for good, and ends his life.

A famous retired opera singer reunites with her children.