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French Films: Recent Releases
November 2009
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In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot began work
on what could have been his greatest film. Cast in the leading
roles were two of the best known actors of their generation - Romy
Schneider and Serge Reggiani. But three weeks into the shoot, the
film was abandoned...
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Release date: 11th November 2009 |
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Philippe Miller is a small time crook who, one day, comes across an
abandoned road works. Seeing an opportunity
to make easy money, Philippe hires some men to resume work on the road
and passes himself off as the site foreman...
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Release date: 11th November 2009 |
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Jean-Pierre and Nathalie have been together for five years. To
celebrate this event, Jean-Pierre decides to buy his wife a
very special present, a British bulldog. Jean-Pierre soon realises that he
has a serious rival for his wife’s attentions...
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Release date: 11th November 2009 |
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Julie is an actress who, despite having been
taught Portuguese by her mother, has never set foot in Portugal.
One day, she is sent to Lisbon to make a film and becomes fascinated by the
people she meets, including a nun who prays each night in a
chapel...
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Release date: 11th November 2009 |
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Andrei Filipov was once the most celebrated
conductor in the USSR. But when he refused to part company with
his Jewish musicians, he was dismissed. Thirty
years on, Andrei is employed by the Bolshoi Orchestra, but
as a cleaner....
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Release date: 4th November 2009 |
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A woman has her bag stolen just as she is leaving a
supermarket. The thief empties its contents over the car
park. A passer-by picks up the purse. Thus begins
an adventure that will change two lives forever...
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Release date: 4th November 2009 |
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Grégoire is a philosophy teacher.
Patrick is a well-known TV presenter. Despite his celebrity,
Patrick is unhappy. When Grégoire appears
on his show he realises he has found a man who may have the
answers he needs to lead a better life...
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Release date: 4th November 2009 |
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For the past two years, Elias has been working out his suspended
sentence as a nurse in a hospital. With just a few hours to go
before he is once more a free man, Fate throws him a potential
firecracker...
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Release date: 4th November 2009 |
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A Taiwanese director is invited to make a film about the story of
Salome at the Louvre museum. Even though he can speak neither
French nor English, he insists on casting Jean-Pierre Léaud in
the role of King Herod...
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Release date: 4th November 2009 |
October 2009
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When a bullet lodges itself in his brain, Bazil looks set to lose
everything. He recalls that his
father died whilst trying to disarm a bomb in the Moroccan
desert. If only he could take revenge against those who profit
via the armaments industry...
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Release date: 28th October 2009 |
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Régis Deloux is an ordinary maths teacher in a typical school. One
day, he discovers that he has a unique ability -
to enter and leave films. When he hears of this, Fernandel
gives him a mission: to rescue a woman who is being
held prisoner by a psychopath in a silent film...
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Release date: 28th October 2009 |
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The man who can shoot faster than his shadow, Lucky Luke is charged
with restoring order to Daisy Town.
Once a law-abiding community, Daisy Town is now ruled by bandits and
sharpshooters, like Pat Poker, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane and Jesse
James....
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Release date: 21st October 2009 |
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In 1577, the couturier Pic Saint Loup is commissioned by Henry III
to create a wedding dress for the marriage of his nephew to the daughter of a Spanish nobleman. The problem is
that Saint Loup's secretary intends using the expedition to avenge the Huguenot Massacre...
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Release date: 14th October 2009 |
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Jean is the model citizen. His life is without incident but he is
content. Then he meets Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s
schoolteacher. Despite their differences, Jean is
strangely drawn to the young woman...
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Release date: 14th October 2009 |
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Valentine and Alex are a happily married couple, lawyers who have made a
career of resolving the marital breakdowns of
others. Their relationship appears as
solid as a rock, until the day a spot of marital infidelity intrudes
and smashes it to pieces...
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Release date: 14th October 2009 |
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In the 1950s, Louise left her family and hasn't been heard of since.
Fifty years on, her granddaughter Audrey
visits her parents and finds an old note book
that belonged to her grandmother and which could
explain her disappearance...
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Release date: 7th October 2009 |
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Alice is moved by the plight of her neighbour, an old man named Victor who is about to be evicted from his rooms.
She comes to his rescue by organising a competition in the magazine she works for.
The winner will have the privilege of adopting Victor for life!
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Release date: 7th October 2009 |
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At the funeral of their best friend, Mathieu, seven youngsters, aged
between 22 and 26, arrive to pay their respects. They have never
met before and each believes he or she was Mathieu’s only friend...
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Release date: 7th October 2009 |
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After the death of his father, Denis, an introverted 30-year-old,
decides to look for his father’s former
companion. He hopes that this will help him to come
to terms with his traumatic past...
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Release date: 7th October 2009 |
September 2009
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Isabelle is a teacher, Bruno is a burglar. Together, they have found
lasting happiness, until the day the police begin
knocking on their door. They hide out in a
forest to live out their romantic idyll for as long as they can...
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Release date: 30th September 2009 |
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It is 31st December 1990. The ultimatum issued by the United
Nations for Iraq to evacuate Kuwait expires in 15 days. If Saddam
Hussein does not withdraw, the Allies have the authority to use
military force. In Jerusalem, tensions are high...
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Release date: 30th September 2009 |
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Nicolas leads an idyllic childhood. But one
day he makes a terrible discovery: his mother is
pregnant! Soon his parents will have a new baby boy to dote over and he will be abandoned
in the woods, like Tom Thumb...
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Release date: 30th September 2009 |
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From the age of 7, Thomas has tried to make contact with his biological
mother, Julie. Finally,
Thomas manages to find the woman who abandoned him when he was 4 years
old. But how will he cope now that he has two households, two families?
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Release date: 30th September 2009 |
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Moscow in the early 1980s.
Sergueï Grigoriev is a colonel in the KGB who has become so
disillusioned with the regime running his country that he decides to
bring down the system. He makes contact with Pierre Froment, a
young French engineer...
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Release date: 23rd September 2009 |
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Hervé, the head of a press agency, finds that his life and his
career are being ruined by his alcohol addiction. Realising that
he risks losing everything, he begins a course of detoxification at a specialist
centre in Geneva...
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Release date: 23rd September 2009 |
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In Paris during the Nazi occupation, a labourer named Manouchian
leads a group of young Jewish immigrants, of various nationalities.
They are united in a single cause, to oppose the Nazis and liberate France...
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Release date: 16th September 2009 |
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A company arranges a reception, ostensibly to launch a new
product, but it soon becomes apparent that this is an exercise for the company’s
managers. With the company heading for a
takeover, the employees will have to fight to keep their jobs...
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Release date: 16th September 2009 |
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Since the death of her husband, Judith has lived in exile
in Marseilles. When her cousin invites
her to attend her wedding, Judith has no choice but to accept, despite
her fears of what may ensue...
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Release date: 9th September 2009 |
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Chêne is a renowned coach but he is also a gambler who
has accumulated huge debts. Hounded by his creditors,
Chêne takes on a contract which may save him. His
job: to turn gauche company director Marmignon into a smart
businessman...
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Release date: 9th September 2009 |
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Just as a circus company is about to begin its summer season, its
owner dies. The troupe
contacts Kate, the daughter of their former boss, and ask
her to take her father’s place. To everyone’s surprise, Kate
is willing to resume the life that she
abandoned years ago...
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Release date: 9th September 2009 |
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Since the break-up of her marriage, Léna has coped as best she
may to bring up her two children. But when
she returns to her family home in Brittany, she faces her toughest
ordeal. Her parents have invited her ex-husband to visit...
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Release date: 2nd September 2009 |
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When he learns that his mother has been hospitalised, Mathieu
returns to the town where he grew up. Here, he meets Maya, his childhood sweetheart. A few hours later, Maya telephones
Mathieu at his old family home and invites him to call on her...
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Release date: 2nd September 2009 |
August 2009
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Malik El Djebena is just 19 when he is sent to prison for six
years. Immediately, he falls in with a group of Corsican
prisoners who rule the roost. Malik learns some invaluable lessons and
sets about building his own network...
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Release date: 26th August 2009 |
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The setting is a small village. It is a happy and peaceful
community, at the time when man is making his first steps in space
exploration. These events fire the imagination of
two children...
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Release date: 26th August 2009 |
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15 years after having given birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka has
managed to make a new life for herself. But then a spate of horrific murders suddenly
reawakens memories of her terrible past. The victims are all
mutilated beyond recognition...
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Release date: 19th August 2009 |
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Tired of her comfortable middleclass life, housewife
Suzanne decides to resume her career as a
physiotherapist. During the building work on her
new clinic, she is strangely attracted to the site foreman...
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Release date: 12th August 2009 |
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Robinson is recovering from a disastrous love affair when he hears that the world is about to
end. With nothing to lose, and with time running out,
he throws himself into another amorous adventure...
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Release date: 12th August 2009 |
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Anxious that Paul’s obsession in historical battles
is taking a sinister turn , his mother implores his brother Mathieu to
bring him back to reality. The only way that Mathieu can do this
is by entering Paul’s world...
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Release date: 12th August 2009 |
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14-year-old Sami Benboudaoud has his entire world turned upside down
when he is uprooted from the immigrant hotspot where he lives and put
into the care of his Aunt Djamila, who inhabits an altogether different
sphere, in a posh suburb of Paris....
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Release date: 12th August 2009 |
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In a Corsican village, Hélène leads an uneventful
but contented life. One
day, she sees a couple playing chess and becomes
fascinated by the game. With the help of a strange old man, she learns the rules of the
game and soon becomes a talented player...
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Release date: 5th August 2009 |
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