Liliane Rovère

An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisonniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past")

Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. (imdb)

This film follows the travels of three elderly Jewish women whose lives have been touched by the Holocaust. First, Rivka (Shulamit Adar) is in Poland with her husband, and, when their tour bus breaks down, so does her mental stability. Then, in Paris, Regine (Liliane Rovère) receives word that her father, who she thought had perished in the camps, is alive in Lithuania. Finally, Vera (Esther Gorintin) voyages from Russia to Israel to find her cousin, but is taken aback by cultural differences.

Paris, 1959. The tenor sax player who has just been booked at the Blue Note was once known as one of the greats... (imdb)

After having sex with his girlfriend Lucie (Pailhas) in a bathroom, Arthur (Duris) discovers that a ceiling panel is a time portal to the Paris in the future, although it appears more like a sun-baked desert city by that point. There he meets an old man named Ako (Belmondo) who turns out to be Arthur's son. Ako attempts to persuade Arthur to impregnate Lucie so that he can exist in this future. (Wikipedia)

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds. Back in the village, accompanied by Claire, a young woman he loves but who hesitates to commit herself, he does the job half-satisfactorily... (imdb)

With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail. (imdb)

Home care assistant Félicia is charged with spending her days with Anna, a woman in her sixties who suffers from dementia and requires constant care. When Anna's husband vanishes, the two women then continue their life together in a world apart, losing slowly all sense of time and self...

A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure. (imdb)

Two cars crash into each other on a deserted road at twilight. Following this incident, a young man talks to a young girl in a college dormitory. She asks the man to explain how her father died. The man begins to tell a story concerning a woman called Alice, who was in one of the cars. (BFI)

In Paris, France, a group of movie-star agents go about their lives and work, and they'll have to figure out how to carry on with the agency after the passing of their fearless leader. This hour-long drama plays out much like a soap opera, with more realistic problems and concerns. They don't do Olympic-size gymnastics to get you to believe a plot or to create drama. Written by jandycobbs

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded .

Learning that cannabis will be legalized, Joseph, a failed entrepreneur, decides to transform, with the help of his family and friends, the kosher butcher shop of his father and open the first marijuana coffeeshop in France. (imdb)

Twenty-four hours in the life of a couple, engulfed in the harsh world of a big city. At the end of these twenty-four hours, Bruno and Fabienne may have touched on the possible solution to the eternal misunderstanding arising from man's quest for sex and woman's quest for love... (L.H. Wong)

Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20.

When the Lino Vartan home - which takes in young orphans and senior citizens - has to close for health reasons, Milann has no choice but to accept an invitation from an old people's home in the south of France that is hosting them for the summer. Everyone boards Alban's bus. The children and elders discover the Bel Azur Club, an idyllic villa by the sea: a dream come true! A godsend for these orphaned kids who have never had a holiday...

The ten-year-old boy lived through the events of May 1968 hidden away at his grandparents' house, surrounded by his uncles and great-grandmother, all bivouacked around a mysterious hideout. Adapted from the novel by Christophe Boltanski. (imdb)

Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented aliens day after day does not fit in with her ideals. That's why when, one night, Olga, the Kazakh prostitute she apprehends, begs her to free her not to leave her four-year-old son alone, she hesitates... And why, after Olg... Tout lire (imdb)

A woman, madly in love, decides to organize the escape of her husband who has received a sentence of 18 years in prison. (imdb)