Adèle Haenel
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse. Intrigued and excited Arnauld sings up for the boot camp himself. They soon realize that the boot camp is harder than they had imagined.
2) Three worlds
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Al, a young man from a modest background, is ten days away from marrying the daughter of his boss, along with succeeding him as the head of the car dealership where Al has been working for most of his life. One night, while coming back drunk from his bachelor party, Al commits a hit-and-run when he hits a man by accident and is urged to leave the scene of the crime by his two childhood friends who are with him in the car. The next day, gnawed by...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists go to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group's radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough.
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Marianne is hired to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse. As the women orbit each other, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse's first moments of freedom. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language at the Golden Globes. Winner of Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
When her marriage falls apart, Agnès Le Roux moves back to the South of France from Africa to live with her mother, Renée (Catherine Deneuve), owner of a casino in Nice. There, Agnès falls in love with Maurice Agnelet, a lawyer and Renée's business advisor, who is ten years her senior. As a shareholder in the casino, Agnès decides to sell what should have been her inheritance to go it alone. After a failed suicide attempt, Agnès disappears and...
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Français
Description
In Paris in the early 1990s, members of the activist group ACT UP battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, newcomer to the group Nathan falls in love with Sean, the ACT UP's radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough....
9) Orphan
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Searching for a new beginning, a young woman, played by four actresses (including award-winning Adele Exarchopoulos), reflects on her broken family, her troubled past, and the hope of tomorrow.
10) Heat Wave
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
On a sweltering day in the south of France, four characters find themselves on a collision course that ends in tragedy. Nominated for the Golden Camera and the C.I.C.A.E. Awards at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Winner of the Cinema Nouveau Award at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival.**
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
In a town on the French Riviera, detective Yvonne (Adèle Haenel) is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero idolized by their young son. When she realizes her husband was not the model of virtue she believed him to be and that an innocent man, Antoine, has spent eight years in prison as Santi's scapegoat, her world is thrown into turmoil. Yvonne wants to do everything she can to help the young man get back to his life and his wife (Audrey Tautou)....
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1789. The Bastille has been stormed and a breath of liberty blows through the streets of Paris. Françoise, a young washerwoman, and Basile, a drifter without a family or name, discover the unique exhilaration of love and revolution. Together with their friends and the people of the working-class districts of Paris, they begin to realize dreams of emancipation in a newly formed assembly where they witness, with both hopes and doubts, the creation...
13) Aliyah
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Alex, a young Parisian drug dealer, longs to make a new beginning by opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv with his cousin and make "aliyah", the immigration of Diaspora Jews to Israel, but he must face conflicts that include leaving the city he loves, drug dealing, his complicated love life with a new woman, and a troubled older brother whom he is always financially rescuing.
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