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A Woman's Life (2016)Une Vie
A powerful adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's first novel, 'A Woman's Life' is a timeless story of anguished love set in the repressive world of early 19th century Normandy. Jeanne (Judith Chemla) is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. Yet little by little her illusions are stripped away when she marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who reveals himself to be a miserly and adulterous partner. - Director:
- Stéphane Brizé
- Cast:
- Judith Chemla, Lise Lamétrie, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
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Deerskin (2019)Le Daim
With his relationship with his wife in tatters, Georges (Jean Dujardin) retreats to a remote town where he purchases the deerskin jacket of his dreams. Along with the jacket he's just acquired, he also gets hold of an old video camera, igniting a new interest as he moves from couture to auteur. Aided by aspiring editor Denise (Adele Haenel), he sets out to create his masterwork. However, his increasingly close relationship with his deerskin jacket starts to take him down a darker path that he continues to document on camera and which Denise continues to sew together into a film. Laugh out loud funny and gloriously unexpected, the odyssey on which Georges has embarked leaves him guilty of many things, not least an excess of killer style... - Director:
- Quentin Dupieux
- Cast:
- Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy
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Timbuktu (2014)Le chagrin des oiseaux
In the acclaimed new film by Abderrahmane Sissako (Bamako) the people of the Malian city, Timbuktu, struggle against an oppressive regime of terror inflicted upon them by invading Jihadists who prohibit every enjoyable indulgence of life. Meanwhile, Kidane lives a peaceful life in the nearby dunes, but when he has an altercation with a neighbour the extremists take it upon themselves to deliver their brand of draconian justice. - Director:
- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Cast:
- Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki
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Amour (2012)Love
Examining the close bond shared by an elderly couple when one of them begins to suffer from an illness, Amour tells a heart-rending story of sacrifice, devotion and the limits that love can drive us to. Amour is one of the most honest, intimate and deeply affecting portraits of love ever committed to film. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
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Fresh from an unceremonious dumping by her boyfriend of 10 years, Paula (Laetitia Dosch) finds herself wandering the streets of Paris - jobless, homeless, and single - who no idea of what life holds for her next. At 31 years old, with little to show for it but a kidnapped cat and a sense of adventure, she sets out to reinvent herself - new job, new friends, new life - and finds that these things never do come easily. - Director:
- Léonor Serraille
- Cast:
- Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon
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Fifteen years ago, Mel (Madeleine Sami) and Jen (Jackie van Beek) discovered they were being two-timed by the same man. Bitter and cynical they became fast friends and formed 'The Breaker Upperers', a small-time business breaking up couples for cash. Now they're in their late-thirties and business is booming. - Director:
- Madeleine Sami
- Cast:
- Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek, James Rolleston
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Dune (2021)Dune: Part One
Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive. - Director:
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast:
- Jean Gilpin, Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson
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John (James Norton), a 35-year-old window cleaner, lives with his three-year-old son Michael (Daniel Lamont). He was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer and has decided that he will find the best family to take Michael in after his death. Against the advice of the adoption agency he's working with, John cannot face telling his son the truth, taking him on visits to prospective families under the guise of visiting new friends. But as his condition starts to show, he begins to ponder what his legacy should be for his son - should Michael start life a new or should John leave him with the fools that would allow him, later in life, to know the father he had. - Director:
- Uberto Pasolini
- Cast:
- James Norton, Daniel Lamont, Eileen O'Higgins
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The House by the Sea (2017)La Villa
By a little bay near Marseilles lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days: Angela (Ariane Ascaride), an actress living in Paris, Joseph (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), who has just fallen in love with a girl half his age and Armand (Gérard Meylan), the only one who stayed behind in the bay to run the family's small restaurant. It's time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father's ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil. - Director:
- Robert Guédiguian
- Cast:
- Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
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"The Out-Laws" draws you into the lives of the Goethals sisters - tied together by the premature death of their parents, they've clung to each other like a real clan. But ever since their fifth sister's marriage the bond has frayed. Together, the four of them plot the murder of their brother-in-law, Jean-Claude, a pain in the ass just asking to be liquidated. Clever and quick-witted, the sisters devise a whole host of ingenious schemes. But while planning a murder is easy, committing it is another story...and with each mounting failure, the collateral damage grows... - Director:
- Nathalie Basteyns
- Cast:
- Barbara Sarafian, Kristine Van Pellicom, Ruth Becquart
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Photojournalist Shannon (Jaime King) witnesses a cop (Lola Kent) shooting and killing an unarmed henchman during a drug deal in the woods. She captures the whole scene on her camera before being discovered. Shot at and scared, she tries to escape. Newly retired police officer Jack (Bruce Willis) hears the commotion, saves Shannon just in time and they escape into the woods. As more dirty cops bear down on them, not sure of whom she can trust, Shannon decides to rely on Jack, her only real chance to fight back the corrupt police and bring it to justice. - Director:
- Mike Burns
- Cast:
- Jaime King, Bruce Willis, Lala Kent
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The mayor of a small fishing village which has fallen upon hard times comes up with a radical plan to rejuvenate the community... entice a giant corporation to build their new factory in the village. But there's just one problem - in order to qualify, they must have a doctor in residence, which they don't have... When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence they believe their prayers have been answered, and hilarity ensues as the villagers rally together to charm him into staying. - Director:
- Don McKellar
- Cast:
- Taylor Kitsch, Anna Hopkins, Brendan Gleeson
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Jerry (Ryan Reynolds) is an affable loner who works in a bathtub factory by day and hangs out at his flat above a disused bowling alley by night chatting to his pet cat, Mr. Whiskers, and loyal dog Bosco - whose voices he hears. Eager to socialise, Jerry asks Fiona from accounts (Gemma Arterton) out on a date, but when she stands him up he later accidentally stabs her to death, repeatedly, in the woods. Covering his tracks, under strict advice from Mr. Whiskers, Jerry is now beyond the reach of his well-meaning psychiatrist Dr. Warren (Jacki Weaver) and things are looking bad for Lisa (Anna Kendrick) who has taken a shine to him. Despite Bosco trying to keep him on the straight and narrow, Mr. Whiskers is the loudest voice in Jerry's head and all he can hope for now is salvation. - Director:
- Marjane Satrapi
- Cast:
- Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick
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"Hunger" follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland shortly before and during the infamous 1981 IRA hunger strike led by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). With and epic eye for the detail, the film provides a timely exploration of the final act of desperation, when the human body is the last and ultimate resources for protest. - Director:
- Steve McQueen
- Cast:
- Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan
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Martha (Anna Kendrick) is unlucky in love, after catching her boyfriend cheating she swears off men. That is until she meets Francis (Sam Rockwell). Sophisticated, handsome and funny, Francis seems too good to be true, Mr. Right? The only catch? He's a hitman with a conscience killing the ruthless people who hire him. When one of his hits gains the attention of an FBI agent (Tim Roth) Martha becomes embroiled in a bitter rivalry and hers and Francis relationship is tested to the limit. - Director:
- Paco Cabezas
- Cast:
- Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, Tim Roth
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