Arnaud Valois

Actress Nicole Garcia directed L'Adversaire in 2002 and is even more ambitious with this complex story of a range of characters in a French town on the Atlantic Coast. It should be said first that Charlie is a ten year old boy - and that it is not always what he actually says that is important. Rather, as the original title suggests, this is life 'according to Charlie', life through Charlie's perceptions. (habitusnetwork.org)

Early 1990s. With AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly ten years, Act up-Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indifference. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by Sean, a radical militant, who throws his last bits of strength into the struggle. (imdb)

A mysterious boarding school perfectly reforms wayward girls to fit their surroundings' exact desires. (imdb)

In an industrial seaside town, strangers burst into flames for no reason. Suicides? Murders? Supernatural phenomena? To find out, Louise, a young journalist, and Gabriel, a psychiatrist, go to investigate. (imdb)

A 16 year old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes. (imdb)

Jeremie, a young man at his breaking point, leaves Paris to return to his intrusive mother in Limousin. (imdb)

When his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc's world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each needed to face.

Follows the rise of Karl Lagerfeld in the 1970s Parisian fashion world and his rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent's partner Pierre Berge, as well as his love story with Jacques de Bascher. (imdb)