Fanny Ardant

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see". (imdb)

The special relationship between Callas (Ardant) and her former manager (Irons) forms the heart of this compelling fictional imagining of the diva's swan song, written and directed by the late Callas's friend and colleague, Franco Zeffirelli, in a worthy tribute to his legendary friend. (Regent Releasing)

Times have been tough for Heaven, with Hell winning the battle between good and evil. So when Heaven's managers have the opportunity to win the soul of a boxer and shift the balance of power, they send their best angel for the job, Lola Nevado (Abril). When Hell gets wind of this, they counter by sending their most experienced operative to Earth, Carmen Ramos (Cruz). The battle between Heaven and Hell is on! (First Look Pictures)

One murdered man, eight women, each seeming to be more eager than the others to know the truth. Gimme, gimme, gimme some clues to make up my mind. And eventually enter the truth. Oh, thou cruel woman! (imdb)

An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it. (imdb)

Catherine (Ardant) is an attractive woman with a great career and a seemingly solid marriage to Bernard (Depardieu), her husband of 25 years. Their lives seem to be going well until Catherine discovers that Bernard is having an affair. Realizing that she does not really know her husband or what he really wants, Catherine hires Marlene (Béart), a beautiful prostitute, to act as "Nathalie," a woman who will seduce Bernard and extract answers to the questions that are obsessing her. (Koch Lorber)

A family of successful safe-crackers gets turned on its ear when its 12-year-old prodigy decides to give up listening to tumblers and instead begins listening to his own heart.

In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend... (imdb)

One very full day in the life of Denis Diderot -- the 18th century philosopher and libertine who wrote the first encyclopedia -- during which he dodges the law, the church, his wife, and his definition of morality. (filmaffinity.com)

A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions. (imdb)

Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone's great politeness. (imdb)

Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationship with his mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unsuccessful attempts to make money out of printing and publishing books... (imdb)

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made... (imdb)

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is very suspected. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations... (imdb)

In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue. (imdb)

Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings. (imdb)

A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller. (imdb)

Colonel Chabert (Gerard Depardieu) has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne (Fanny Ardant) has married the Count Ferraud (Andre Dussollier) and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money... (imdb)

The story of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who has been elected to Parliament seven times since is was established in 1946. (imdb)

Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed "le paltoquet") and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. (FilmFrance)

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband... (imdb)

Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth. (imdb)

A strange woman staggers through the streets of Paris before collapsing unconscious on a sidewalk. No one stops for her, except for Sami (Roschdy Zem), an Algerian man jogging by. Nina (Fanny Ardant), the fallen pedestrian, goes out looking for her Sami, and finds her savior dressed up as a drag queen, hustling on a street corner. Drag queen or not, Nina falls in love with him. One day at a time, the two fallen angels help each other pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. (tlavideo.com)

Two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a Rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. Her quest for individuality takes a defiant turn when she befriends Michelle, a free-spirited and equally headstrong fellow student. (imdb)

Claude Langmann is a middle-aged auctioneer who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform in bed. His wife says she is satisfied with Claude's love and tenderness, but he visits a sex specialist anyway. There he learns of Viagra, which is not yet approved in France, though it is available in Switzerland over the counter. Soon Claude is on his way to Geneva (answers.com)

An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life.

Comedy about a french-jewish couple which moves from Paris to Tel Aviv. They can't speak Hebrew and their life gets much more difficult than it used to be.

The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during the shooting of his movie Visage, which --itself-- is also a movie within a movie. (imdb)

Story about marriage and lovely dog.

About Fillipo, a young man whose new job as a civil servant has him navigating the fringes of Roman society, rubbing elbows with the high-and-mighty.

Truffaut kept everything, from notes made on bits of paper to the numerous drafts of each of his scripts, and photographs of those dear to him. This «autobiography» sets out to highlight the director's recurrent themes, as they appear in film after film: childhood, apprenticeship, the conflictual relationships between men and women, death. The film leaves commentary to those, including a number of figures, who knew him well, in his work, in his life and for whom he was a source of admiration.

Edouard Pierson is a Belgian-born wool dealer who emigrated to Australia after World War Two. He returns to his homeland to assist his family with their wool business. Edouard was left a single father after his girlfriend died and when he goes to Belgium he leaves behind this young girl, whom his family don't know about. He meets a beautiful woman, Jeanne, another single parent, and an intense relationship develops. (imdb)

Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von Trotta's film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play. (mubi.com)

Traces events in the life of Carlo, from his christening in 1906, where his grandfather reminds his father that Carlo means "free man," to his 80th birthday party. The film principally explores his relationships with younger brother Guilio, with wife Beatrice, and with her sister Adriana, whom Carlo loved as a young man (imdb)

César-winning French cinema icon Fanny Ardant stars in this sophisticated and sexy drama about a married woman in her sixties tumbling into an affair with a much younger man. (tiff.net)

After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax. (IMDB (adapted))

Two stories about the greatest seducer of all time, Giacomo Casanova. (imdb)

A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends at an apartment, ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills - only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.

Adrien, a closeted gay man at day and wealthy banker, is going to make the deal of his life. At night, he's a buyoyant character, part of exuberant Parisian gay nightlife, with his best and closest friend, at his best girldfriend place, Eva's restaurant. Marie thinks her husband is tired of their marriage and is tired of his straight life ; she wants to save her marriage and then tries to change her ways. A joyful portray of characters and a lots of qui-pro-quos, in a French manner.

An intimate look at the life and work of Greek-American opera singer, Maria Callas, as told in her own words. (imdb)

When his mother dies, Zino decides to find his father, Farid. But 25 years ago, Farid became Lola. (imdb)

A couple in crisis. He, disillusioned, sees his life upset the day an entrepreneur offers him to plunge back into the time of his choice. (imdb)

Set against a mountainous terrain, in »The Bare Necessity« we follow Pierre Perdrix, played by Swann Arlaud. Pierre lives a comfortable, stable life until one day Juliette Webb, played by Maud Wyler, marches into his life. Suddenly his quiet shared home with his mother, brother, and his niece is shaken up. Juliette's presence pushes the family to reconsider the boundaries of their neatly kept microcosm, challenging them to take new chances, and be adventurous. (stockholmfilmfestival.se)

A French Anthology series of fantastic stories

Fanny Ardant, Louis Garrel, Dylan Robert

Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. His eldest daughter, Dino, lives with Paul, a playwright: theirs is a passionate relationship dogged by the dissatisfactions of daily life. Another daughter Sidonie comes into adulthood in love with Jude, both are musicians, except that she has a phobia about performing in public. After Jeanne throws Edouard out, the film jumps ahead seven years to pick up the resoluti

A drama set on New Year's Eve 1999 in a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined. (imdb)

The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Under the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.

Two lovers meet 15 years after the first encounter, in the corridor of a hospital. She's 71, he's 45. Opposed but mesmerized by each other, they reconnect. Widow, mother, grand-mother, Shauna wants to reaffirm she's a woman after all. (imdb)

An assassin on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island, people and a ghostly shipwreck. (imdb)

Since losing his wife, Andrew Blake's heart has gone out of him. A final impulse drives him to leave London and return to France, to the estate where he met her. His journey back to the memory of happier days doesn't go at all according to plan... In order to stay at the Beauvillier estate, Blake finds himself condemned to play butler on probation.

Rachel, a sort of Ma Dalton, has brought up her sons Sam and Jérémie, and grandson Nathan, in the cult of conning. From botched schemes to petty theft, this likeable family of oddballs is always after a big score. Luck or fate, during a burglary they steal a painting by Tamara de Lempicka, without knowing its value. Céleste, a shrewd and charming detective, and Gauthier, her faithful sidekick, set off in pursuit...

Paris. 1940. Lili is 17 years old. In occupied France, she encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance. Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any lengths to defend their country. (imdb)

Carlo and Silvia are married for twenty years. He lives with a young lover, while Silvia lives in their original flat. Their 'regular' menage changes when also Silvia starts meeting other men, and in particular a young and violent neo-fascist. Carlo becomes obsessed by knowing everything about her wife's affairs and jealousy makes him blind. (imdb)

Nina is a little crazy mother, Baptiste a little too wise son. Angry, they meet for the adventure of a lifetime. On a funny and moving journey, they will make up for lost time, finally get to know each other and love each other again. (imdb)

A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin. (imdb)

In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film shoot in Vienna, Catherine stays with a rich admirer, Fanny Hohenstein. Fanny has a history of many lovers of both sexes, two of whom killed themselves over her. (imdb)