The latest French film releases - 2011 and 2012
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May 2012
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Homeless and penniless, Ali is unable to cope when he is left holding
the baby, more specifically his five-year-old son Sam. With no
one else to turn to, he heads southwards to Antibes so that he can stay
with his sister. After a fight in a
nightclub, Ali meets Stéphanie for the first time. He
takes her home and gives her his telephone number. Only a tragedy
could bring the two of them together.
But a tragedy is what comes their way. When they next meet, Ali
finds that his princess is confined to a wheelchair. She has lost
her legs and most of her illusions. Ali is moved to lend her his
support, not out of pity, but out of simple human compassion...
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Release date: 16th May 2012 |
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A coastal resort in Brittany, in the sunny month of July.
Alex, 20, is a seasonal tennis coach who makes the most of his
freedom. Guillaume, 35, is on holiday with his wife and daughter,
hoping to reawaken memories of his happy youth. Pierre, 50, is
staying with his two children after his recent divorce. Three
men, from three different generations, have one thing in common: they
have desires that can never be satisfied...
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Release date: 9th May 2012 |
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Two love-starved sisters decide to kidnap their mother in order to
force her to love them.
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Release date: 9th May 2012 |
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One New Year’s Eve, 30-something Émilie signs onto Meet Me, an internet dating website
where she hopes to fulfil her new New Year resolution by finding the
love of her life. There is certainly no shortage of candidates on
the website. In addition to all the clowns and cynics there
appear to be a fair crop of old-fashioned romantics.
Émilie has no idea what is waiting for her back in the real
world...
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Release date: 9th May 2012 |
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The calm of a typical French family is torn asunder when the youngest
son, Romain, is caught filming himself doing something naughty in a
biology class. Romain protests that he only did it for a bet,
that he was coerced into it by his classmates...
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Release date: 9th May 2012 |
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Franck has everything he could want to be happy - a pretty Brazilian
girlfriend, an interesting job... And yet, whilst holidaying in
Mauritius, he becomes depressed. On his return to Paris, he
consults a doctor and discovers he is suffering from depression.
When they learn of this, Franck’s friends rally round to try to help
him, but they soon discover that they too are all depressed...
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Release date: 2nd May 2012 |
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Amanda suffers from androphobia, an irrational fear of men which ruins
every opportunity she has to fall in love. Her best friend
Florence is determined that she will one day enjoy a stable and
harmonious relationship with a man. Amanda agrees to attend
Florence’s New Year’s Eve party, on condition that only couples are
invited to the party. The only exception is Maxime, a colleague
whom she knows to be gay. But, at the last minute, Maxime is
called away to join his lover in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Antoine,
only recently separated from his wife, turns up at the party
alone...
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Release date: 2nd May 2012 |
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Whilst travelling in the north of Benin, Cécile comes across a
young African mother who, in a state of panic, places a baby in her
arms. Cécile decides to adopt the child and brings him up
in France. When Lancelot is seven years old, Cécile
returns with him to his birth country and tries to discover why he was
abandoned...
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Release date: 2nd May 2012 |
April 2012
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Vincent is over the moon when he learns he is to become a father for
the first time at the age of 40. Invited to dinner by his sister
Élisabeth and her husband Pierre, he meets Claude, a childhood
friend. As they await the arrival of Vincent’s young wife Anna,
they discuss Vincent’s future life as a father. When Vincent is
asked what name he has chosen for the unborn child the reply he gives
plunges the family into chaos...
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Release date: 25th April 2012 |
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The end of term bell rings and the reluctant pupil Ducobu is already
away on his holidays, looking forward to lazy weeks filled with such
delights as comic books, ice cream and the Mickey Mouse Club.
But the boy’s dreams are soon shattered when his father proposes an
altogether different schedule. They are going to go on a camping
holiday with the Gratin family. So much for leisure. It
will be up at dawn and long days traipsing around museums or doing
endless revision. And that’s not the worst of it. It so
happens that Latouch and Miss Rateau have also decided to go camping,
and they just happen to have chosen the same destination as the
Ducobus...
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Release date: 25th April 2012 |
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Nino une adolescence imaginaire de Nino Ferrer Nino is 16. When the holidays begin his heart is torn between Natacha, a beautiful young stage actress, and the delightful Nathalie, a girl he has known forever. The latter will not accept that her ideal man is going to slip from her as easily as her childhood... [More...] Release date: 25th April 2012 |
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Adèle is a fifteen year old girl who desperately wants to
die. Timo has just escaped from prison, where he was
serving a sentence for murder. Wounded, he takes refuge at the
farm belonging to Adèle’s parents. The teenage girl offers
Timo a macabre contract. She will help him to escape on condition
that, once he is safe, he will murder her. Timo has no option but
to accept this unusual proposal...
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Release date: 25th April 2012 |
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One winter, Simon, an enterprising 12 year old, makes good use of the
cable car that connects the industrial town where he lives with his
sister Louise and the opulent ski resort that overlooks it. From
the latter he steals skiing equipment from wealthy tourists which he
then sells, at a profit, in his town. Having lost her job, Louise
finds that she is becoming increasingly dependent on her little brother...
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Release date: 18th April 2012 |
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Violette lives in the country with her parents, wealthy Picardie land
owners. Gabriel works as a cashier in a supermarket. On the
face of it, both of these two young people appear to have led ordinary
lives without incident, and yet they both have dark secrets and a
yearning to escape from their stifling present reality. Their
chance meeting will set them free, but with unexpected consequences...
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Release date: 18th April 2012 |
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An evening party entwined with musical love stories, to the rhythm of
Northern Soul...
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Release date: 18th April 2012 |
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In a place and time not so far from our own, a little girl imagines
that she cannot be seen by her parents. To test this theory, she
makes up her mind to disappear. And so begins an extraordinary
adventure in which the little girl goes in such of freedom and
identity...
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Release date: 11th April 2012 |
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After a series of emotional and professional setbacks in New York,
aspiring comic Ben returns to Paris, where he meets Alex, a star
presenter on a radio breakfast show. Ben makes such an impression
on Alex and his cohorts, Cyril and Arnold, that he is soon hired to
write material for them. But no sooner has Ben managed to get his
feet back on the ground than disaster strikes: for some reason the
radio show’s audience figure has taken a nosedive. To win back
their audience, the four friends set out on a radiophonic road trip
that will shatter their certainties about themselves...
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Release date: 11th April 2012 |
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A brief but intense hug will have the effect of throwing a meticulously
planned wedding into chaos. Is chance about to give fate a
helping hand...?
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Release date: 11th April 2012 |
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When Dan Geraldo, a reporter looking for his next scoop, arrives in the
South American country of Palombia, he can have no idea of the
adventures that lie in store for him. With the help of Pablito, a
resourceful local guide, he will encounter one surprise after another,
but the greatest surprise will be the discovery of the mythical
Marsupilami...
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Release date: 4th April 2012 |
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In France, there are over half a million security cameras and
webcams. An anonymous hacker has found a way to access all of
these cameras and amuses himself by spying on the illicit habits of the
Parisians. Nothing escapes his all-seeing eye, least of all a
terrorist attack at the Gare d’Austerlitz. As the police divert
their attention to an Islamist terror group, the hacker observes who
really placed the bomb and decides to track them across the city...
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Release date: 4th April 2012 |
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Eight years after she has been abducted by Vincent, Gaëlle is set
free and must learn to fend for herself. Having spent so much
time in the company of one person, Gaëlle finds it hard to
readjust to normal life. It is as if she was starting her life
all over again...
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Release date: 4th April 2012 |
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Just when he is about to join the Israeli army for his military
service, Joseph discovers that he is not the biological son of his
parents. It turns out that he was swapped at birth with Yacine,
the child of a Palestinian couple living on the West Bank. This
revelation comes as a shock to both families and compels them to
re-evaluate their convictions, their values and their identities.
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Release date: 4th April 2012 |
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An underground filmmaker is struggling to complete his latest film when
he is visited by the characters of his previous films. They take
him off into three flights of fancy, three adventures involving young
people who are prepared to do anything to make a fresh start in their
lives. The three stories appear to be pieces of a puzzle, but
what can it mean...?
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Release date: 4th April 2012 |
March 2012
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Brussels, in the summer of 1942. Simon watches in horror as his
father is arrested and deported by the Nazis. He flees to England
where he meets up with his grandfather, Abraham, a distant and austere
old man who offers him little comfort. It appears that the
two men have nothing in common. Abraham is devoted to the
traditions of his Jewish faith and scorns Simon’s secular
education. When the horrors of the Holocaust are revealed
to them, it is Simon who allows his grandfather to come to terms with
an unbearable reality...
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Release date: 28th March 2012 |
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Nina is young, pretty - and round. Unfortunately, her husband
Gaspard only has eyes for women with stick-insect waistlines,
particularly since the couple moved to Paris to sell bathing costumes
for the ultra-thin. Against her will, Nina accepts her husband’s
gift of a stay at slimming clinic in Brides-les-Bains. Here, she
meets Sophie, an attractive lawyer from Marseille who is determined to
gain control over her body, and Emilie, a mother who has come to
realise that, whilst Big is Beautiful, it can play havoc with your love
life...
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Release date: 28th March 2012 |
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Marion, a young French woman, lives in New York with Mingus, a radio
journalist, and their two children from previous relationships.
As Marion, a photographer, prepares her latest exhibition, her father
and sister decide to visit her. As her father does not speak a
word of English and her sister is going through a severe emotional
crisis, it proves to be an eventful visit...
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Release date: 28th March 2012 |
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In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, life at the Palace of
Versailles continues in its carefree vein, far from the tumult that is
starting to overtake Paris. When the court receives news of
the taking of the Bastille, noblemen and servants take flight. Sidonie
Laborde, the queen’s personal reader, is unperturbed by the rumours of revolution. She
knows that, under the protection of Marie-Antoinette, no harm can
befall her...
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Release date: 21st March 2012 |
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At 35, Michel Ressac feels that he is drifting through life, with no
clear objective, no achievements to reassure him. All that
changes when, one morning, he receives a phone call notifying him, that
he has won a meal with his idol Eddy Merckx. This provides him
with the perfect pretext to patch things up with his father, since
their only shared interest is a passion for cycling...
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Release date: 21st March 2012 |
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In New Zealand, a wealthy French businessman, Charles Doumeng, has his
life overturned when he learns that he has an incurable disease.
Sixty years old, with no family and no heir, and knowing that he has
only a few weeks left to live, Doumeng feels a sudden need for
affection. Consequently, he sets out to find the sister that he
has not seen for fifty years and who lives in the west of France...
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Release date: 21st March 2012 |
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A communications agency is tasked with performing a makeover on Pierre
Hénaut, an honest provincial politician and an improbable
candidate for the presidential elections. It is the job of
Thierry Giovanni, the head of the agency, and his colleagues
Noémie, Fred and Olivier, to transform Hénaut into a
camera-friendly political big beast. To improve their client’s
standing in the opinion polls, they are willing to use any means at
their disposal...
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Release date: 21st March 2012 |
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Gloria and Frances first met in the 1980s. They could not have
been closer, joined together like Siamese twins by their interest in
drugs, sex and rock and roll. But, as they grew up, they drifted
apart and went their own separate ways. Twenty years on, Frances
decides to get in touch with Gloria...
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Release date: 21st March 2012 |
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This is the story of a French pop legend who died tragically at the age
of 39. Thirty years on, Claude François continues to
fascinate, and here we discover why. Cloclo wasn’t just a
phenomenally successful music star, he was also a shrewd businessman
and master of self-promotion. He was also a father and a great
lover of women. This is the portrait of a complex,
multifaceted man who was willing to do anything to be loved...
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Release date: 14th March 2012 |
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When he was ten years old, Patrick, a West Indian, was sent by his
mother to study in France. Thirty years later, he is a
distinguished historian, proud of his achievements and so
well-integrated into French society that he has almost lost sight of
his racial origins. On hearing that his mother is at death’s
door, Patrick immediately heads off for Martinique with his daughter
and arrives at the height of the carnival season. For three days,
accompanied by his childhood friend Zamba, Patrick will coast on a wave
of emotion and madness. These three days will change his life
forever...
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Release date: 14th March 2012 |
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On her return from a business trip in China, Louise discovers that the
street where she lives has been the scene of a crime. There were
no witnesses; everyone was asleep when the incident
happened. Her husband Pierre was away working, at
sea. Or so it seems. The police and the press are
both investigating the crime. Then, one night, Louise has a
dream. She dreams that Pierre is speaking to her in his
sleep. Her husband hardly ever talks to her and yet now he seems
incapable of stopping himself from talking...
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Release date: 14th March 2012 |
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Bruno and Marilyne Caron decide to give up their old life in the north
of France and make a fresh start in a mountain village. When they
arrive, they find that their chalet is still under construction, but
there is no cause for alarm. Their landlord, Patrick Castang,
offers them alternative accommodation until their dream cottage has
been completed. This is the beginning of a long series of
disasters as the Carons are forced to move several times, and the
couple soon begin to resent the over-attentive support from
Castang. Bitterness and frustration soon turn to hatred...
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Release date: 7th March 2012 |
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It is July 1976, during the long summer heat wave. Claude, an
Algerian Jew who settled in France fifteen years ago, takes his young
wife Isabelle, their two sons and his mother-in-law to Brittany.
It was Isabelle who chose the location, a small village where she was
born, after she discovered her husband was having an affair. The
day after their arrival, they join up with some old friends, but the
locals regard them with suspicion. Breton Catholics do not
mix easily with Algerian Jews...
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Release date: 7th March 2012 |
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Illegal immigration is something we hear about every day in the
news. But what lies behind the scare stories and the dry
statistics? In this documentary, director Tony Gatlif shows us
what it means to be an illegal immigrant. Through the eyes of a
young woman, we see what it is like to be driven from your own country
by the primal impulse to stay alive and then have to come up against a
system that fails to recognise your most basic human needs and
individual circumstances.
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Release date: 7th March 2012 |
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Jacky Bonnot is a thirty-something good food fanatic who dreams of
owning his own restaurant. Unfortunately, his present situation
makes it unlikely that he will ever fulfil his dream. He just
about manages to scrape a living by doing odd jobs which he can barely
hold onto. Then his path crosses that of Alexandre Lagarde,
a star chef whose business is threatened by the financiers who own his
restaurants...
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Release date: 7th March 2012 |
February 2012
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On a remote plateau, Johann struggles to keep going the farm that he
has inherited from his father. As winter beckons, his business
looks increasingly threatened. The young farmer begins to feel
trapped by his inheritance but he tries his best to love the hard,
solitary world that he now inhabits. Alas, the world is changing
and Johann’s way of life is soon to become a thing of the
past...
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Release date: 29th February 2012 |
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Seven film directors offer seven permutations on the theme of male
infidelity. (Can there really be as many as that?)
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Release date: 29th February 2012 |
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Georges, a shipyard owner, can no longer look to his bank for
support. As his fortunes take a turn for the worse, he is
prepared to fight to the bitter end to try to save the company to which
he has devoted his life.
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Release date: 22nd February 2012 |
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After 15 years, Tomás returns to his home country, a country he
barely knows and which is still riven by ancient enmities. He has
come back to bury his father, a militant republican who fell foul of
Franco’s regime and who ended his days in prison.
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Release date: 15th February 2012 |
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Ali, Nasser and Hamza are all in their twenties and live on a housing
estate in the outskirts of Lille. They meet Djamel, a man who is
ten years their senior and who is, in their eyes, someone to be looked
up to. A habitual manipulator, Djamel soon takes control of the
three younger men. He understands better than anyone their anger
and disillusionment and intends to make use of their loathing for a
society from which they feel permanently excluded...
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Release date: 15th February 2012 |
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Marie is 40, but when she wakes up one day she is convinced she is
25. She has forgotten 15 years of her life. When she awakes
she has no idea that the great romance she thinks is before her has
already run its course. She wakes up and realises she has just
four days to win back her ideal partner...
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Release date: 15th February 2012 |
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Willy Vanderbrook, a Franco-Belgian who regards himself a citizen of
the world, is required to take the post of caretaker at a luxury
Parisian hotel. He meets up with his childhood friend Serge
Luyperts, a disillusioned lemonade magnate who lives with his
ex-brother-in-law Frank Vrut, a Wallon separatist with slight
psychopathic tendencies. The three friends plan to pull off the
scam of the century, by passing off Willy as the rightful king of
Belgium...
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Release date: 15th February 2012 |
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Tal is a young French woman who has settled in Jerusalem with her
family. She is 17 and has the reached the age of her first adult
experiences - her first love, her first cigarette, her first terrorist
attack. When a suicide bomber blows up a café near to
where she lives, she writes a letter to an imaginary Palestinian in
which she asks pointed questions and refuses to accept that Israel and
Palestine must go on being divided by hatred. She puts the letter
in a bottle and asks her brother to throw it into the sea, near to
Gaza. A few weeks later, Tal receives a reply from someone named
Gazaman...
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Release date: 8th February 2012 |
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A Palme d’Or at 15, a César at 16, this year JC must take his
bac. But Jean-Christophe Kern, alias JC, is an adolescent
unlike any other. A cross-between Jean-Luc Godard and Justin
Bieber, at 17 he divides his time between munching his breakfast treats
in front of the telly after school and pursuing a career worthy of
Stanley Kubrick...
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Release date: 8th February 2012 |
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Things are looking up for Eddie, Dov, Yvan and their friends. Not
for them the grim prospect of trying to eke out an existence in the
less fashionable precincts of Paris. They are now happily
ensconced in the flourishing district of Aubervilliers. They are still the happy band of friends they
have always been; if anything, their friendship has been strengthened
by their previous escapades. But a storm is coming and
the old friends risk being torn apart by an ill wind that will test
their resources and mutual loyalties to the limit...
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Release date: 1st February 2012 |
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Anne, a journalist on a top women’s magazine, is compiling a report on
student prostitution. Alicja and Charlotte, two Parisian
students, talk openly to her about their experiences as prostitutes,
without shame or regret. Far from being shocked at what she is
told, Anne finds herself in sympathy with her interviewees.
Before she knows it, her whole life is turned on its head...
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Release date: 1st February 2012 |
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In Tangier, four young women, all aged about twenty, work so that they
can survive by day and live by night. For them, time, space and
sleep are rare. From dawn to night, their pace of life is one
long frantic chase...
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Release date: 1st February 2012 |
January 2012
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When he finds out that his wife has been cheating on him, Antoine walks
out on his family and moves in with his old school friend
Léo. With the help of Léo and his wife Léa,
Antoine soon comes to terms with his present predicament. His one
regret is that he can only see his children every other Sunday and so
he feels that he has become an amateur parent. But, dismal as
things first appear, Antoine soon finds he has something to smile about...
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Release date: 25th January 2012 |
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It is never easy to say goodbye to someone one has grown to love.
It can take a whole lifetime, perhaps even two... Between Paris in
the 1960s and present-day Montreal there unfolds an epic love story
that is as dark and troubling as it is luminous and full of hope.
Its main protagonists are Jacqueline, a young Parisian mother, and
Antoine, a Canadian disk jockey...
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Release date: 25th January 2012 |
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After the execution of Louis Mandrin, a well-known outlaw and popular
underworld hero of the 18th century, his former partners in crime
decide to chance their luck with a smuggling operation in the provinces
of France. Well-armed, the smugglers arrange markets on the
outskirts of the villages, where they sell tobacco, fabrics and other
precious commodities. They write songs in honour of Mandrin,
which they then print and distribute among the poor folk of the
kingdom...
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Release date: 25th January 2012 |
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Somewhere in Southeast Asia, on the banks of a turbulent river, a
European clings to his dreams of fortune for the sake of his
daughter. His is a story of passion, madness and perdition...
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Release date: 25th January 2012 |
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Owing to her natural affinity for horses, Gracieuse has the potential
to be a great rider, and she knows it. When her employer sells
the horse that has been promised to her, she is so disgusted that she
leaves her job and finds employment on another stud farm. The
farm’s owner, Joséphine de Silène, has no time for
sentiment and cynically exploits his trainer, Franz Mann, a one-time
champion whose experience is highly sought after by rich horse
riders. Gracieuse soon finds herself pitted against Mann as she
struggles to realise her dream, to obtain her own horse and prove her
worth as a rider...
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Release date: 25th January 2012 |
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Anne has no friends, no children, no lovers. Her life is a
solitary sham. Then, one day, a little bird flies into her lonely
apartment...
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Release date: 25th January 2012 |
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Literary critic by day, columnist by night, Marc Marronnier is
convinced that love never lasts for more than three years. His
own experiences bear this out. Having recently divorced, he
published a pamphlet in which he puts a compelling case for his
thesis. Then he meets Alice...
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Release date: 18th January 2012 |
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Zachary is an independent 20-year-old who wins women’s hearts as easily
as he fails his exams. Sarah is 18, top of her class but
emotionally insecure. On the face of it, they have nothing in
common. But, for six months in their final year at school, they
become infatuated with one another. It is to be the one great
romance of their lives, but will it end happily...?
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Release date: 18th January 2012 |
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Annie, Jean, Claude, Albert and Jeanne have been firm friends for more
than forty years. They have each lived full and happy lives, but
when their memories begin to falter and the prospect of moving into a
retirement home rears its ugly head, they decide to take a stand
against convention. Not for them the prospect of fading away in
miserable anonymity. They will live together and share their
declining years, come what may. After all, life only begins at 75!
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Release date: 18th January 2012 |
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1943, towards the end of the Occupation. Sister Luce is an
exemplary nun and nurse at a hospital in Périgueux. Her
meeting with a priest involved with the resistance will have a profound
impact on her. It is the start of a passionate affair that will
cause her to break her vows and leave her convent. But Lucie is
too quick to give into her passions and disappointment soon
follows. Betrayed, she feels she has been abandoned by both God
and man. One morning, postal workers working for the resistance
intercept an anonymous letter addressed to the German commandant...
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Release date: 18th January 2012 |
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Vincent lives in Dubaï. When his wife Livia goes missing, he
is immediately concerned and sets out to look for her. She may
have gone off with another man, or there may be a more sinister
explanation. In a car park, he comes across a young woman in
tears. They strike up an instant rapport and together they begin
to scour the region between the city and the desert, a place where
dreams and reality melt seamlessly into one another...
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Release date: 18th January 2012 |
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Without the knowledge of his employees, the owner of a factory in
Marseille is planning to relocate to another region, pocketing two
million euros along the way. When Franck, one of his staff,
discovers what is afoot, he is understandably outraged. With the
support of his longstanding friend Max, he decides to go on the
offensive...
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Release date: 11th January 2012 |
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At 40, Mélina has the best-known voice in France. The host
of a night time radio show, she has set herself up as the nation’s
agony aunt, cheerfully and cheekily unravelling the personal crises of
her listeners. Everyone knows her voice, but no one knows her
face. In real life, she is something of a recluse. Anxious to find
the mother she has never seen, Mélina tracks her down to a large
family living in the suburbs. She makes up her mind to approach
her, without revealing her identity...
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Release date: 11th January 2012 |
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Marc Bajau travels the length and breadth of the country for a
well-known clothing label. He enjoys the freedom this life
affords him and the opportunity to meet new people wherever he
goes. But just as he is about to set off for his latest
promotion, his most recent amorous conquest walks out on him, leaving
him to take charge of her six-year-old son Lucas. And so begins
Marc’s most eventful trek across France, ten golden days that will
change his life forever...
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Release date: 11th January 2012 |
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Eléonore is an attractive young girl, about twenty years in age,
who has lost both her parents and an arm in a terrible accident.
At present, she lives in an orphanage in Burgundy. Judge London,
a local magistrate, takes an interest in her and invites her to stay at
his château, with the intention of adopting her as his own
daughter. Unbeknown to her mysterious protector, Eléonore
is in love with Robinson, who works as an illusionist at nightclub
belonging to the shady entrepreneur Renaud Duraquet...
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Release date: 11th January 2012 |
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Simon Weiss is a Parisian cop who watches over the city’s hotspots each
night, imperturbable in the execution of his duty. He has settled
into a comfortable routine and knows exactly what is required of him,
but all that changes one unforgettable night. Caught in the
firing line between his police superiors and Paris’s criminal
fraternity, Weiss must take on businessmen, gangsters and fellow police
officers if he is to survive his worst nightmare...
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Release date: 4th January 2012 |
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Yann and Nadia are a couple who are deeply in love. They finally
get to realise their dream of running their own business when they open
a restaurant on the banks of a lake. But their happiness is short
lived. Having been forced to take a job in another country, Nadia
must leave her son in the care of Yann...
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Release date: 4th January 2012 |
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Chloé finally has everything she could want to be happy.
She is soon to marry the man of her dreams, a former tennis champion
who is now a successful businessman. The only thing she lacks is
the ideal father to lead her to the altar on her wedding day. Who
is it going to be - Bernard, a glacially cold aristocrat, or Gus, a
good-natured swindler?
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Release date: 4th January 2012 |
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Michel Matarasso is a cop, based in Nice, who no longer has any
enthusiasm for work, or indeed for life in general. He finally
manages to get himself relieved from his professional duties and he
appears content to spend the time that is left to him by ruminating in
gloomy solitude. It is just when he least expects it that a woman
enters his life and shatters his newfound calm. She is Sandra
Bandini, a suicide case...
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Release date: 4th January 2012 |
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After a painful separation, Louise Wimmer is keen to put her past life
behind her. On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, she lives in her
car and has just one objective - to find an apartment so that she can
make a fresh start. With her only assets being her car and her
seductive voice, Louise is willing to do whatever it takes to get her life
back...
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Release date: 4th January 2012 |
December 2011
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Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an
ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself,
and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn’t know
who Ruben is is Ruben himself. When he comes to a major
turning point in his life, Ruben cannot make up his mind which way to
go. Should he follow his people or his heart...?
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Release date: 28th December 2011 |
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Having grown up in Switzerland, Marta returns to her home village in
Calabria with her mother and sister. Try as she might, she feels
like a complete strange in this devastated region of southern
Italy. She is thirteen years old, the age at which she is to be
confirmed as a Catholic. Perhaps the catechism will provide the
means by which she will be accepted into this community...
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Release date: 28th December 2011 |
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Leda is the pride of the Italian economy, a vast commercial empire run
by the Rastelli family which spans five continents. Under
pressure from the laws of global commerce, the Rastellis must resort to
all manner of skulduggery so as not to lose their pre-eminent position
in the world market - forgery, political influence,
corruption... The Rastellis are a family of entrepreneurs
whose fraudulent activities may well bring about their downfall...
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Release date: 28th December 2011 |
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Nathalie has everything she could want to be happy. She is young,
beautiful and is enjoying the perfect romance. When her husband
is suddenly taken from her, Nathalie’s life
suddenly falls apart. She gets through her present crisis by
committing herself to her work. She could not be
a more dedicated employee. Then, some
years after the fateful day she lost her husband, she is taken by the
sudden urge to kiss one of her colleagues...
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Release date: 21st December 2011 |
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Marcel Marx was once a renowned writer. These days, he lives in
exile in the town of Le Havre, where he works as a shoeshine boy.
It is not the most remunerative of professions, but it brings him close
to people and he is content with his life, which he divides between his
work, his wife Arletty and the corner bar where he takes his daily
tipple. Then one day, Marcel’s happy routine is suddenly
disturbed when his path crosses that of an African child immigrant...
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Release date: 21st December 2011 |
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Two solitary children come across a small undisturbed lake which exerts
a sudden and intense control over them. It is a magical place, a
strange wilderness inhabited by unfamiliar living things, as though in
a dream. As the two children succumb to the mysterious charms of
this lonely spot, they get to know one another better and find
themselves transformed by what they experience...
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Release date: 21st December 2011 |
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A couple who have lived together so far without incident fall prey to a
young woman who seems determined to ruin their lives. Behind the
familiar tale of adultery there lurk dark motives and a very sinister
reckoning...
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Release date: 21st December 2011 |
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Life is far from being a bed of roses for Solweig, a humble supermarket
cashier. No matter how bad her day is, she can find relief by
writing about it in her daily blog. One snowy evening, she meets
Charles, her prince charming. Without realising that Solweig
comes from a completely different milieu to his own, the stranger
cannot help falling in love with her...
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Release date: 14th December 2011 |
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Paul’s life is upended on the day his wife Sarah suddenly
goes missing. After a year of fruitless searching, Paul is left a
broken man. His only hope is to start all over
again, to move with his two children to Saint-Malo, the town where he
grew up. Some unexpected encounters are about to send Paul in the
most unlikely direction...
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Release date: 14th December 2011 |
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In a small town by the sea, 17 teenage girls at the same school make a
group decision that will prove incomprehensible to everyone else in the
town. They will all get pregnant at the same time...
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Release date: 14th December 2011 |
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Once upon a time in Belleville there were two restaurants situated
opposite one another - the Berbère King, owned by the Chouffry
family, and the Empire of the Dragon, run by the Zi family. The
two restaurants manage to coexist quite happily until one dark day when
Samir Chouffry accuses Mr Zi of having eaten his dog...
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Release date: 14th December 2011 |
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Jeanne is the French dubber for an American actress who stars in a hit
television series. When that actress
decides to give up acting, Jeanne fears that her own career may also be
over. Her only hope is to head off to Los Angeles and try to
persuade the disillusioned star to go back to her day job...
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Release date: 7th December 2011 |
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In Brittany, one Halloween night, Lucie Clavel and two friends decide
on impulse to indulge in a spot of house breaking. The house they
select for their amateur burglary belongs to Deborah Jessel, a
mysterious old woman who was once a classical dance instructor.
In the course of an evening that proves to be both tragic and
fantastic, Lucie will uncover Deborah’s dark secret...
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Release date: 7th December 2011 |
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After a fierce family row at an isolated house in the Vosges, Jean, the
youngest son, is expelled. To learn how to kill, Jean joins up
with a party of huntsmen. The following night, the car belonging
to Jean’s mother is set alight. The obvious culprit, Jean goes
missing in the woods...
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Release date: 7th December 2011 |
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Sylvian is a young man who has dedicated his life to a local cinema
that is now threatened with closure. He lives in the cinema’s
basement and is both projectionist and ticket seller, as well as the
one who decides which films to screen. Every night, he leaves his
comfortable little world to perform a murderous ritual...
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Release date: 7th December 2011 |
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In a public park, two eleven-year-old boys get into a fight in which
they both get badly injured. Naturally, the parents of each child
consider that their little treasure is the victim of a malicious
assault. When the parents confront one another, what begins as a
mild dispute rapidly escalates into something far more serious.
Who knows where the ensuring carnage will end...
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Release date: 7th December 2011 |






















































































