Jeremie Renier
1) Slalom
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from debut filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor, played by frequent Dardenne brothers collaborator Jérémie Renier. In a breakthrough role, Noée Abita plays 15-year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to an elite ski club known for producing some of the country's top professional athletes. Taking...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Markov and Hamilton are fellow French Legionnaire's at the end of their posting in Afghanistan. An ambush results in an abdication of duty-despite it stemming from an act of fidelity. Markov joined the Legion as a foreign refugee, hoping to gain his French citizenship and provide a better life for his young son. Ultimately, the complications of immigration and legal status takes a heartbreaking turn but also a primal urge to do right by those who...
3) Double Lover
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Description
Crafting a deliriously cinematic web of suspense, shock, eroticism, and power dynamics, writer/director François Ozon returns to master the thriller genre with DOUBLE LOVER. Chloé, who works as a guard at a museum in Paris, seeks to shore up her resiliency and enters psychoanalysis. Following the end of the treatment with psychiatrist Paul Meyer, both realize that they have fallen in love. A new chapter begins for Chloé when she and Paul move in...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
After a Jewish couple (Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo) sells their basement to a former history teacher (François Cluzet), they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.
7) Cloclo
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
A biopic of French pop star Claude François, most famous for co-writing the song "My Way". Tracing his life from childhood in Egypt through success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
8) Double lover
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Chloe, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
In a shantytown in the slums of Buenos Aires, Julian and Nicolas work tirelessly to help the local people. Nicolas joins Julian in overseeing the construction of a hospital following the failure of a project he was leading in which paramilitary forces assassinated members of the community. Deeply troubled by his actions, Nicolas finds solace in Luciana. As Nicolas' beliefs wane, work on the hospital is halted, and the faith of the entire community...
11) In Bruges
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ray and Ken, two foul-mouthed Irish hit men, are hiding out in Bruges, Belgium. For Ray, Bruges is a place where you can spend a year in a weekend, while Ken finds the ancient town calming and contemplative. Ken and Ray work for Harry, a crime lord who eventually materializes in Bruges, and ends up proving that even professional hitmen have their feelings. A loopy, violent fable that is part thriller, part spoof, with a dash of dark comedy, leavened...
Series
Film Movement volume 14, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Afghanistan 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antares and his men's determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself.
14) Slalom
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
Follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor. In a breakthrough role, Noée Abita plays 15-year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to an elite ski club known for producing some of the country's top professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, ex-champion turned coach Fred decides to mold Lyz into his shining star despite her lack of experience. Under his influence,...
15) Le gamin au vélo
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
"Twelve-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on."--Container.
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