Anne Alvaro
Nascimento : 1951-10-29, Oran, Algérie
L’écrivaine
Arthur Rambo é um pseudônimo de alguém que espalha mensagens de ódio nas redes sociais. Mas, quem ele seria na verdade? Talvez um jovem e inconsequente escritor frustrado, empenhado em fazer sucesso? Quando a verdade vem à tona, a vida e a carreira de um jovem escritor descendente de imigrantes é colocada duramente em xeque.
Geneviève (voice)
November 2015. Violette's parents are killed in the Paris terror attacks. She is sent to live with her uncle, a gruff man she hardly knows, who is a caretaker at the Versailles chateau. Little does Violette realize that in this intimidating place she will find unexpected refuge and a new family.
In a sad imaginary suburb, Jean-Jacques is oppressed by his work, belittled by his girlfriend, pursued by a bailiff. Jean-Jacques is afraid of sinking into madness, until he meets Jeanne and her brother Gilles, with whom he will share a dream, that of seeing the forest.
This film follows Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a great part of his biography. The director searches for him in places where his stories and novels occur, meeting with real and imaginary characters, in a territory where reality and fiction have a diffuse frontier. A new form of literary biopic, where the writer and his character turn into one and only person.
Mitra
Armand e Leila, alunos da prestigiada faculdade de ciências políticas parisiense, Sciences Po, são um jovem casal, e estão a planear irem juntos para Nova Iorque fazer um estágio de final de curso nas Nações Unidas. Porém, quando Mahmoud, o irmão mais velho de Leila, regressa de uma temporada no Iémen onde se tornou um fundamentalista islâmico, opõe-se àquela relação e decide afastar Armand a todo o custo. De maneira a ver novamente Leila, que não pode sair do apartamento da família, a Armand só resta a opção de se disfarçar de mulher cobrindo-se com uma burca e um véu! No dia seguinte, tocam à campainha em casa de Leila – à porta está uma Xerazade de rosto coberto, e Mahmoud não fica insensível aos seus encantos...
Liliane
On the day of his dismissal, Guillaume meets Tom his substitute...
Catherine Launey
For Marie Launey, the nightmare begins when her mother is found, with a weapon in her hand, near her father's corpse. No doubt for the police: Alzheimer's, Catherine killed her husband Jean in a fit of jealousy. Marie is convinced of her innocence, but as her sister Juliette does not fail to remind her, her absence for years perhaps affects her judgment ... And who is really that uncle Daniel recently returned from Brazil that her mother seems to confuse with her husband ? Working as a restorer of paintings, Jean had recently analyzed "The Deposition of Christ," a canvas that proves to be a copy. Had he discovered a traffic in forgers?
Elise
Marie-Louise Bousquet
Paris, 1957. Com apenas 21 anos, Yves Saint-Laurent (Pierre Niney) é chamado para cuidar do futuro da prestigiosa grife de alta costura fundada por Christian Dior - falecido recentemente. Depois de seu primeiro desfile triunfal, ele vai conhecer Pierre Bergé (Guillaume Gallienne) e este encontro irá abalar sua vida. Amantes e parceiros de trabalho, os dois se associam a fim de criar a grife Yves Saint Laurent. Apesar de suas obsessões e demônios interiores, Saint Laurent vai revolucionar o mundo da moda com sua abordagem moderna e iconoclasta.
Madame Léry
Por mais que more em Paris há bastante tempo, Matthew Morgan (Michael Caine) não conhece a língua local. Muito graças à sua esposa, Joan (Jane Alexander), que sempre foi sua intérprete pelas ruas da capital francesa. Entretanto, Joan faleceu há três anos e, desde então, Matthew vive triste e solitário, ocupando seu tempo com aulas de inglês ocasionais. Um dia, ele é ajudado no ônibus por Pauline (Clémence Poésy), uma simpática professora de dança. Não demora muito para que eles se tornem amigos, já que ela lembra a esposa de Matthew e ele lembra o pai de Pauline. Entretanto, tudo muda quando a tristeza fala mais alto e Matthew tenta o suicídio.
Anna
Painful family events lead Augusta to leave Italy. On a small boat, immersed in the Amazon Forest grandness, she begins a travel between Indios villages. From the favela to the isolation in the Forest, Augusta will go in search of herself.
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve's party that she falls into an ethylic coma and she finds herself... propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and... be miserable twenty-five years later? Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughter? Who ever said that time traveling was fun?
Louisa
An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
Dr Marianne
A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.
In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap dance lessons under the high patronage of Fred Astaire and the search for a companion... The mother, Geneviève, dreams of only one thing: quietly continuing her infantilisation, with her household help, protector and guardian angel, Mr Mootoousamy.
Betty
Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) tem 43 anos, é editor da revista Elle e um apaixonado pela vida. Mas, subitamente, tem um derrame cerebral. Vinte dias depois, ele acorda. Ainda está lúcido, mas sofre de uma rara paralisia: o único movimento que lhe resta no corpo é o do olho esquerdo. Bauby se recusa a aceitar seu destino. Aprende a se comunicar piscando letras do alfabeto, e forma palavras, frases e até parágrafos. Cria um mundo próprio, contando com aquilo que não se paralisou: sua imaginação e sua memória.
Simone de Beauvoir
Biographical film about French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, concentrating on his passionate affairs with women.
Julia
French actor Mathieu Amalric directs the made-for-TV comedy La Chose Publique (Public Affairs). Shot on digital video, the film is a satire of French politics and media personalities. Television director Philippe Roberts (Jean-Quentin Chatelain) has been assigned to make a film series, so he decides to use his own life and marriage as an inspiration. Public Affairs was shown at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
Clara Devaux
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.
Florence
The idea for this film about a generation and its lost ideals came to Romain Goupil after attending several funerals of friends in the fall of 1996, where the '68 generation, now in influential positions in media or politics, kept meeting each other. It seemed as if the revolution that they had tried to make was being buried with each coffin. A MORT LA MORT is in some ways an homage to this generation, now in their fifties. They were a privileged generation that thought that they could change the world, doing everything that their parents failed to do. There were no actual deaths in France as there were in Germany or Italy, but the system was not ideal for personal issues or for love. There was always a scapegoat for the injustices of the world, be it capitalism or imperialism. That way the blame could be placed somewhere else. Some of the '68 generation are still faithful to the principles of their youth and still continue to fight for the illusions of the past.
Rosemonde Burel
An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
"Miéville captures a moment of disquieting intimacy amid the bustle of a parade." - BAM
A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.
Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone). Ruiz offered a counterproposal that he direct several music videos rather than one; once this deal was made, he shot enough material to interconnect the various videos until he arrived at a feature.
An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen. (Mubi)
Isidore
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
Maria
The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old grudge.
Eléonore
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
Bérénice
Now Titus' father has died, the new emperor will be free to marry his beloved Bérénice. Also In love with Bérénice, Titus' friend Antiochus plans to flee Rome rather than face the marriage. However, public opinion about the pairing causes Titus to choose his duty to Rome over his love for Bérénice, and he sends his love rival to tell Bérénice the news...