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- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsCatherine DeneuveMichel PiccoliMelvil PoupaudAt her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, known for odd views and methods. She reads Jeanne's journal, documenting René's criminal tendencies. Solange believes him innocent, manipulated into the murder or framed. Odd psychiatrists turn up, including Georges Didier, who runs FBPS, and his rival, Christian, who believes crime originates in a story's taking hold of a person. After the verdict, René and Solange's relationship changes, Georges and his society commit a bizarre act, and the police record Solange's story.
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsJalil LespertJean-Claude VallodChantal BarréThe 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift, not only between labor and management, but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love, and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.
- DirectorValeria Bruni TedeschiStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiChiara MastroianniJean-Hugues AngladeAs a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge. As Federica struggles to find meaning in her life, she wrestles with her feelings about death and responsibility. She alleviates the added weight of the haunting guilt that her wealth derives through her vivid imagination, where her reality grows wonderful and, if only fleetingly, gives her the sense that all is perfect in her world.
- DirectorChad ChenougaStarsLysiane MeisAbdel HalisAimen Ben AhmedAfter her escape from Algeria in 1967, Adda lives in 17, rue Bleue, Paris, with two children and two sisters. She has a relationship with her boss, who guarantees a comfortable situation for her family. After his death, everything changes.
- DirectorJean-Patrick BenesAllan MauduitStarsMarilou BerryFrédérique BelPierre-François Martin-LavalThis is the story of too nice girl who one day decides to become evil. And who will find out it is not so easy to do wrong when you have always been nice.
- DirectorLaure CharpentierStarsLou DoillonEduardo NoriegaMarie KremerSet in the risque world of 1960's Paris, Gigola is a witty and desirable young girl who explores the lesbian underworld of the city and soon becomes a high-priced escort.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsDenis LavantMichel SuborGrégoire ColinAn ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsJean DujardinAlbert DupontelAnne AlvaroAn alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsJacques DutroncAlexandra LondonBernard Le CoqThe final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
- DirectorEmmanuel MouretStarsJulie GayetMichaël CohenVirginie LedoyenWhen Gabriel and Emilie meet totally by chance, they don't know it is the start of a long story. A story that Emilie tells Gabriel to explain why she refuses an innocent, meaningless kiss.
- DirectorJan KounenStarsAnna MouglalisMads MikkelsenElena MorozovaParis 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel Coco's radical ideas. She wants to democratize women's fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coco is moved but Igor is inconsolable. Paris 1920, Coco is newly wealthy and successful but grief-stricken after Boy's death in a car crash. Igor, following the Russian Revolution is now a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris. Coco is introduced to Igor by Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballets Russes. The attraction between them is instant and electric. Coco invites Igor along with his wife - now sick with consumption - together with his four children and a menagerie of birds to stay at her new villa, Bel Respiro, in Garches.
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsVincent CasselEmmanuelle DevosOlivier GourmetShe is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsPauline EtienneIsabelle HuppertLouise Bourgoin1760s France. Suzanne is shocked when her bourgeois family sends her to a convent. There she faces oppression and torment, leading her to fight back and expose the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsArta DobroshiJérémie RenierFabrizio RongioneLorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her lover Sokol. In order to do so, she has become involved in a scam conducted by Fabio, a gangster.
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsPatrick TimsitLaetitia CastaVincent ElbazA handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
- DirectorDavid FoenkinosStéphane FoenkinosStarsAudrey TautouFrançois DamiensBruno TodeschiniA French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
- DirectorJoann SfarStarsEric ElmosninoLucy GordonLaetitia CastaA glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
- DirectorCédric KlapischStarsRomain DurisKelly ReillyAudrey TautouFive years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
- DirectorCédric KlapischStarsRomain DurisAudrey TautouCécile de FranceA 40-year-old father's life is complicated when the mother of his two children moves to New York. Since he can't bear them growing up far away from him, he decides to move there as well.
- DirectorPierre SalvadoriStarsAudrey TautouNathalie BayeSami BouajilaA hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her mother.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsAsia ArgentoMichael MadsenKelly LinA beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.
- DirectorJane BirkinStarsGeraldine ChaplinMichel PiccoliJane BirkinA woman sifts through boxes filled with memories of her past and seeks forgiveness from the ghosts who still haunt her.