Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
Directed by Julian Schnabel
The latest from Oscar-winning filmmaker Luc Jacquet ("March of the Penguins") is a fairy-tale like documentary about a girl who forms a friendship with a fox.
Cast: Bertille Noel-Bruneau, Isabelle Carré
Directed by Luc Jacquet
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Monica Bellucci, Michel Blanc, Daniel Duval
Directed by Alain Corneau
Habemus Papam is a traditional announcement in Latin, meaning “We Have a Pope!” The conclave of cardinals has spent several days in isolation, considering the candidates. The crowd of people in the St. Peter’s Square has also been waiting patiently. Everyone’s attention is suspended in tension until the moment the new pope appears on the balcony and greets all the believers. However, an unexpected problem occurs as the new pope has a panic attack. A famous psychoanalyst, an atheist, is called to help.
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa
Directed by: Nanni Moretti
No matter if you’re a punk, a pensioner, a family man, a nudist, or an umbrella salesman! No matter how you get there – a thumb ride, rev up your convertible so that the breeze riffles your hair, or slam your foot on the gas in a bubble car – it’s time to head for the Atlantic Ocean! A colourful and delightfully humouresque film, a sort of homage to Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot’s Holiday and also inspired by Blake Edwards, Aki Kaurismäki, and Jacques Demy, Holidays by the Sea aims for an almost dialogue-less burlesque comedy.
Cast: Jacques Gamblin, Maria de Medeiros, François Damiens, François Morel, Dominique Pinon
Directed by: Pascal Rabate
Legend has it that director Raoul Ruiz once asked Marcello Mastroianni, which role he would like to play, and the actor responded – a professor, a tramp and a servant. But the film "Three Lives and Only One Death" is not that simple as the initial impression of three separate stories disappears when the previous story characters randomly start to appear in the next story. Raoul Ruiz with distinguishing ease merges the stories and Marcello Mastroianni in his penultimate role performs magnificently.
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes
Directed by: Raoul Ruiz
Set in the 1970s, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy finds George Smiley, a recently retired MI6 agent, doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage.
Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects—all experienced, urbane, successful agents—but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart of the British establishment.
Tells the story of two sets of parents who decide to have a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl.
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Directed by: Roman Polanski
"The Iron Lady" is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.
For the role of Margaret Thatcher Hollywood most beloved star Maryl Streep received GGOLDEN GLOBE award, as well as about to get an OSCAR.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Iain Glen, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant, Harry Lloyd, Roger Allam
Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd
One fine day, charming Natalie kisses her colleague Markus. For no reason. She kisses him and forgets. But poor Markus is stunned: an accidental kiss turns his life upside down! Now, he cannot think about anything or anyone else but Natalie. Will Natalie respond to his feelings? Even though she hardly notices Markus’ presence...
Cast: Audrey Tautou, François Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Mélanie Bernier, Joséphine de Meaux
Directed by: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
Having already had his work adapted for the big screen in Jan Kounen’s 99 Francs, the best-selling novelist Frédéric Beigbeder is making his directorial feature debut with an adaptation of another of his books: Love Lasts Three Years. The film chronicles the disappointments of Marc Marronnier, who is disillusioned by everything and everyone, and can’t bear the idea of divorcing a women he no longer really loves. This classic storyline is spiced up by Beigbeder’s characteristically caustic style typified by a phrase from the novel: "The first year, you buy furniture. The second year, you move the furniture. The third year, you divide up the furniture".
Cast: Gaspard Proust, Louise Bourgoin, Joey Starr, Jonathan Lambert, Frederique Bel u.c.
Directed by: Frédéric Beigbeder
After a paragliding accident, Philippe, a rich aristocrat, commit as home helper Driss, a young man from suburb, hardly brought out of prison… In brief, the person the least adapted for the job.
Together, they are going to make Vivaldi live and after Earth Wind and Fire, the verb and the gate, the costumes and the tracksuits.
Two universes are going to cross themselves, become accustomed, to give birth to a friendship as crazy, funny and strong as unexpected, a unique relation which will make sparks and make them untouchable.