The latest French film releases - 2011 and 2012
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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 |
November 2011
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From his boyhood, Edmond Vidal has always had a
sense of family loyalty. This explains why he is still
devotedly attached to his
childhood friend Serge Suttel, with whom he experienced his first taste
of crime and prison life. It was with Serge that Edmond formed
one of the most notorious criminal gangs of the early 1970s. Now
in his late fifties, Edmond tries to forget this period of his
life...
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Release date: 30th November 2011 |
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It is a love story almost without precedent, involving a man, Michael
Aris, and an exceptional woman, Aung San Suu Kyi, who sacrificed her
own personal happiness for the good of her people. In spite of
the traumas these two people experienced - their separation, their
ill-treatment by Burma’s brutal political regime - nothing could lessen
their love...
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Release date: 30th November 2011 |
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When he learns of the death of his mother,
Martin returns to his home town in California. Here, he meets up
with an old family friend who takes him to his mother’s apartment
in an area he got to know well when he was living with her. The ensuing
emotional crisis drives him to Tijuana, where he hopes to find a
young Mexican woman who occupied an important part in
his mother’s life...
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Release date: 30th November 2011 |
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Between February and July 1858, the virgin mother appeared to a small
girl on eighteen occasions in the Grotto of Massabielle. That
girl was Bernadette Soubirous, one of the poor folk of Lourdes.
Through her miraculous encounters, she would bring about something of a
revolution, shaking the established order of Second Empire France with
her message of universal love and prayer.
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Release date: 30th November 2011 |
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In the 1930s, the discovery of oil in Arabia will have far-reaching
consequences. Not only will it fuel the rivalry of two powerful
emirs, it will also assist the rise of a dynamic young price who is
destined to unite the tribes of a vast desert kingdom...
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Release date: 23rd November 2011 |
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At the exact moment that one falls in love, one becomes aware of a very
distinctive music, an ethereal sonata that seems to speak of eternity
and promise all the delights of paradise. This peculiar air is
different for everyone and can enter our consciousness at the
most unexpected of moments...
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Release date: 23rd November 2011 |
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Having survived numerous catastrophes, a family of women has learned to
weather the storm and cope with life’s upsets, without the need for
male support. Naturally, this happily self-sufficient little
community is shaken when one of their number falls in love - with a
man...
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Release date: 23rd November 2011 |
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The setting is the island of Ouvéa in New Caledonia, April
1988. When thirty policemen are taken hostage by a group of
Kanak separatists, the French government sends in a battalion of 300
soldiers to restore order. Police chief Philippe Legorjus
attempts to negotiate with the leader of the hostage takers in a bid to
avoid a bloody skirmish...
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Release date: 16th November 2011 |
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Despite having lost his job, Michel leads a contented life with his
beloved Marie-Claire. They have been together for thirty years
and are still in love. They are proud of what they have achieved as trade
union and political activists. But their perfect life is
senselessly disfigured one day when two masked men break into their
house, snatch their wedding rings and run off with their
credit cards...
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Release date: 16th November 2011 |
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In the course of a drugs raid, a cop manages to lay his hands on a
large bag of cocaine. He does not know that, during the
operation, he is spotted by one of the traffickers. The result:
his son is taken hostage by a ruthless group of gangland
thugs. Vincent is given an ultimatum: if he wants to see
his son alive again he must hand over the bag of cocaine, at a
nightclub run by his gangster opponents...
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Release date: 16th November 2011 |
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Tom Ricks, an American novelist in his forties, moves to Paris in the
hope of patching things up with his estranged
daughter. But nothing goes quite as planned. His
resources depleted, he must stay at a shabby hotel and work as a night
watchman. Just when he thinks he has touched rock bottom, a
mysterious and sensual woman named Margit suddenly enters his
life...
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Release date: 16th November 2011 |
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In the autumn of 1430, Joan of Arc is taken prisoner by a powerful
nobleman of Northern France and sold to the English. As the young
woman languishes in her prison cell, awaiting her trial and probable
execution for heresy, several men pay her a visit, hoping to understand
just who she is - a messenger from God, a disciple of the Devil, or
merely a poor mad child...?
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Release date: 16th November 2011 |
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Agathe leads a comfortable bourgeois existence, with her son and
husband. Patrick lives alone with his son in the back of a
van. She manages a prestigious art foundation. He just about
gets by with state handouts and odd
jobs. Their paths would never have
crossed had it not been for the fact their children have become the
best of friends...
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Release date: 9th November 2011 |
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Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based lawyers who could hardly
be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to
helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is
older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. Under
Claire’s influence, Stéphane discovers a new lease of life and
at last finds a cause that is worth fighting for...
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Release date: 9th November 2011 |
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César Borgnoli is an Italian car dealer who faces financial ruin. As a last resort, he
appeals to his sister Alex to help him save the family business.
Alex agrees, but on condition that he assists her in her bid
to adopt a Thai orphan. César must pass
himself off as the husband of Alex’s girlfriend Kim to persuade the
Thai authorities to part with the little girl on whom Alex and Kim have
set their heart...
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Release date: 9th November 2011 |
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Richard Wagner is probably the most important person in Judith’s life,
even if he died over a hundred years ago. Without his music, it
is doubtful that she would be able to cope with the humdrum life in
which she feels she is forever trapped. Inspired by what she
discovers about Wagner, she imagines his colourful life through the
prism of her own...
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Release date: 9th November 2011 |
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During an assignment in Afghanistan, star reporter Elsa Casanova is
taken hostage by the Taliban. Aware that Casanova is likely to be
executed, a special forces unit is sent to rescue her. In a
landscape that is as hostile as it is beautiful, a desperate race
against time ensues in which hardened soldiers attempt to snatch the
unfortunate journalist from her murderous captors...
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Release date: 2nd November 2011 |



























































