Laurent Machuel

Laurent Machuel

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Laurent Machuel

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Comme une louve
Director of Photography
When Lili, 26 years old, poor, single mother of three, is wrongly accused of abuse and the social services take away her children, she collapses. But this is without counting on the luminous meeting of other women. With them, Lili fights to rebuild her family.
Gentle
Director of Photography
Gentle is a film set in modern-day South Vietnam and based on the short story 'A Gentle Creature' by the Russian novelist Dostoevsky.
Meu Pai, Meu Herói
Director of Photography
Paul foi um grande competidor de maratonas e triathlon. Quando percebe que seu filho, Julien, vai viver o resto da vida em uma cadeira de rodas, ele desiste do esporte e acaba não conseguindo manter um relacionamento com o menino. Mas tudo o que Julien quer é a atenção do pai, e poder viver aventuras ao lado dele. Ao ver que um paraplégico conseguiu completar uma competição com ajuda da família, propõe ao seu próprio pai que os dois compitam juntos no triathlon "Ironman", considerada uma das provas mais difíceis do circuito mundial.
Paris-Manhattan
Cinematography
Alice (Alice Taglioni) é uma mulher bonita e apaixonada pelo seu trabalho como farmacêutica, seu único problema é que continua solteira. Ela se refugia do mundo com a paixão por Woody Allen, chegando ao ponto de recomendar seus filmes às pessoas que procuram a farmácia em busca de algum medicamento e até mesmo conversar com o diretor, em seus pensamentos. A família de Alice insiste em lhe arranjar pretendentes, mas ela constantemente ignora os apelos da família para que se case. No entanto, o encontro com Victor (Patrick Bruel) pode mudar a sua vida...
Pacto de Sangue
Director of Photography
O clã Malakian, uma família de gângsters armênios, controla o submundo do sul da França. No comando, o brilhante e violento chefão Milo Malakian, impera seu mundo com punhos de ferro. Seu filho e herdeiro, Anton, sonha com a liberdade para viver seu amor com Elodie (que não pertence ao clã), e fazer suas próprias escolhas.
Out of the Blue
Cinematography
Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman.
Dad on the run
Director of Photography
Jonas (Clément Sibony), a 23-year-old dad attempts to carry out an important Jewish tradition: burying the foreskin of his newly circumcised son. The forgetful father only has a few hours to complete the task... but have a group of hit men on his trail won't help matters much.
Longe da Vista
Director of Photography
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.
Alors voilà,
Director of Photography
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
For a Good Cause
Director of Photography
When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their visit to Paris, the exuberent, well-meaning youth immediately offers his own abode. His classmates cheer and he feels happy until he broaches the subject with his parents. Daniel, the boy's father is delighted by his son's humanitarianism, but still says no. Not wanting to lose face at school, Tonin decides to take the visitor anyway and just keep him hidden for the next few weeks. This family-oriented French comedy follows his efforts to keep his new African guest, Moussa, a secret.
Três Vidas e Uma Só Morte
Cinematography
Um homem que se divide em quatro nomes e quatro personalidades que nos coloca em quatro diferentes histórias de amor, luxúria e crime.
Diary of a Seducer
Director of Photography
A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls in love with him. But there is also Gregoire's circle, his disturbing neighbour, his maybe crazy grandmother Diane, his former teacher Hugo. And this is mixed up with Sebastien's attempts to seduce Claire then her mother Anne. And also Claire's psychiatrist.