France

Paris, I Love You (2009)

Paris, je t'aime | France
Genre
Drama| Romance
Budget
13,000,000.00$
“Paris, je t'aime” is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers have five minutes each; the audience must weave a single narrative out of twenty moments. The 18 moments are fused by transitional interstitial sequences and also via the introduction and epilogue. Each transition begins with the last shot of the previous film and ends with the first shot of the following film, extending the enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, preparing the audience for a surprise, and providing a cohesive atmosphere. There's a reappearing mysterious character who is a witness to the Parisian life. A common theme of Paris and love fuses all. Cast: Natalie Portman, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Buscemi, Elijah Wood, Nick Nolte, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Ardant, Bob Hoskins, Ben Gazzara, Gérard Depardieu, Rufus Sewell, Miranda Richardson, Alexander Payne Directed by Olivier Assayas ("Quartier des Enfants Rouges"), Frédéric Auburtin, Gérard Depardieu ("Quartier Latin"), Gurinder Chadha ("Quais de Seine"), Sylvain Chomet ("Tour Eiffel"), Ethan Coen&Joel Coen ("Tuileries"), Isabel Coixet ("Bastille"), Wes Craven ("Père-Lachaise"), Alfonso Cuarón ("Parc Monceau"), Christopher Doyle ("Porte de Choisy"), Richard LaGravenese/ ("Pigalle"), Vincenzo Natali ("Quartier de la Madeleine"), Alexander Payne ("14th arrondissement"), Bruno Podalydès ("Montmartre"), Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas ("Loin du 16ème"), Oliver Schmitz ("Place des Fêtes"), Nobuhiro Suwa ("Place des Victoires"), Tom Tykwer/ ("Faubourg Saint-Denis"), Gus Van Sant/ ("Le Marais") Feature film concept and transitions Emmanuel Benbihy Idea by Tristan Carné Producer: Emmanuel Benbihy, Claudie Ossard

State of Play (2009)

State of Play | France| United States of America| United Kingdom
Genre
Thriller| Drama
Budget
60,000,000.00$
Oscar® winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in an case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Crowe plays D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey, whose street smarts lead him to untangle a mystery of murder and collusion among some of the nation’s most promising political and corporate figures in State of Play, from acclaimed director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland). Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party’s contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out. McCaffrey has the dubious fortune of both an old friendship with Collins and a ruthless editor, Cameron (Oscar® winner Helen Mirren), who has assigned him to investigate. As he and partner Della (Rachel McAdams) try to uncover the killer’s identity, McCaffrey steps into a cover-up that threatens to shake the nation’s power structures. And in a town of spin-doctors and wealthy politicos, he will discover one truth: when billions are at stake, no one’s integrity, love or life is ever safe. Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman, Robin Wright-Penn and Helen Mirren Directed by: Kevin Macdonald

Taken (2008)

Taken | France| United States of America| United Kingdom
Genre
Action| Thriller
IMDB
7.8 (552589 votes)
Budget
25,000,000.00$
The seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father, the retired agent Bryan Mills that left the secret service to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart; she convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with the stranger Peter and Amanda tells to him that they are alone in Paris. When Bryan succeeds in contacting his daughter, she tells that criminals have just break in the spot and they are kidnapped by an Albanese gang of human trafficking. Bryan promises in the phone to kill the kidnapper of his daughter and immediately travels to Paris to find Kim and chase the criminals. Cast: Liam Neeson, Arben Bajraktaraj, Leland Orser, Radivoje Bukvic Directed by Pierre Morel Script: Robert Mark Kamen, Luc Besson Producer: Luc Besson

Tokyo! (2009)

Tokyo! | France| Germany| Japan
Genre
Drama| Comedy| Romance
Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. Is he human? A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He conquers fear to seek her out. A chair, a corpse, a hermit: sources of urban connection? Cast: Yû Aoi, YosiYosi Arakawa, Jean-François Balmer, Julie Dreyfus, Ayako Fujitani, Ayumi Ito, Teruyuki Kagawa, Denis Lavant, Yutaka Matsushige, Nao Omori, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Yamamoto Directed by Michel Gondry ("Interior Design"), Joon-ho Bong ("Shaking Tokyo"), Leos Carax ("Merde") Script by Michel Gondry ("Interior Design"), Joon-ho Bong ("Shaking Tokyo"), Leos Carax ("Merde") Producer: Anne Pernod-Sawada, Masa Sawada, Michiko Yoshitake

99 francs (2008)

99 francs | France
Genre
Drama| Comedy
IMDB
7.3 (7.3 votes)
Octave is the master of the universe. Octave exercises the profession of copywriter. Today he decides what you will want tomorrow. For him, "man is a product like everything else." Octave works for the world's largest advertising agency, Ross & Witchcraft, nicknamed "The Ross." He's swimming in money, girls and coke. Even so, he has his doubts. Two events will turn Octave's life on its head: his love affair with Sophie, the agency's most beautiful employee, and a meeting at Madone to sell an advertisement to this major company in the diary sector. Gifted Octave loses the plot and decides to rebel against the system that created him, by botching his greatest publicity campaign. From Paris, where agency bosses negociate deals, to Miami, where advertisements get shot while gulping anti-depressants, from Saint-Germain-de-Pres to an isolated island in Central America, will Octave manage to escape his golden prison? Cast: Jean Dujardin, Jocelyn Quivrin, Patrick Mille, Vahina Giocante, Élisa Tovati, Dominique Bettenfeld, Nicolas Marie, Antoine Basler Directed by Jan Kounen

Atonement (2008)

Atonement | France| United States of America| United Kingdom
Genre
Drama| Romance
Budget
30,000,000.00$
Joe Wright, the BAFTA Award-winning director of "Pride & Prejudice," has reunited with his filmmaking team and his Academy Award-nominated actress, Keira Knightley, for another classic British romance, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for "The Last King of Scotland") opposite Ms. Knightley. Christopher Hampton (Academy Award winner for "Dangerous Liaisons") has written the screenplay adaptation of Ian McEwan's best-selling 2002 novel Atonement. Shot on location in the U.K., the film's story spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (Mr. McAvoy), the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia (Ms. Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony - who has a crush on Robbie - is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested - and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love. Cast: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave, Juno Temple Directed by Joe Wright

Burn After Reading (2008)

Burn After Reading | France| United States of America| United Kingdom
Genre
Drama| Comedy
IMDB
7.0 (297837 votes)
Budget
37,000,000.00$
Burn After Reading, is a new comedy thriller from Academy Award winners, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski). At the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Arlington, Virginia, analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) arrives for a top-secret meeting. Unfortunately for Cox, the secret is soon out: he is being ousted. Cox does not take the news particularly well and returns to his Georgetown home to work on his memoirs and his drinking, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) is dismayed, though not particularly surprised; she is already well into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a married federal marshal, and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry. Elsewhere in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, and seemingly worlds apart, Hardbodies Fitness Centers employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) can barely concentrate on her work. She is consumed with her life plan for extensive cosmetic surgery, and confides her mission to can-do colleague Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt). Linda is all but oblivious to the fact that the gym's manager Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins) pines for her even as she arranges dates via the Internet with other men. When a computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst's memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and Chad, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. As Ted frets, "No good can come of this," events spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, in a cascading series of darkly hilarious encounters. Cast: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand Directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Script: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Conversations with my gardener (2008)

Dialogue avec mon jardinier | France
Genre
Drama| Comedy
This French comedy is a story of a Parisian artist, who, being tired of the city, returns to his country home. Discovering that the beautiful garden has been neglected, he employs a gardener, which, much to his surprise, is his close school friend. They spend months in conversations, revealing their life stories. Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin Directed by Jean Becker Scriptwriter: Jean Cosmos Producer: Louis Becker

Definitely, maybe (2008)

Definitely, maybe | France| Germany| United States of America| United Kingdom
Genre
Comedy| Romance
IMDB
7.2 (7.2 votes)
Ryan Reynolds stars as Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin), starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as an idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. Will hopelessly attempts a "PG" version of his story for his daughter and changes the names so Maya has to guess who is the woman her father finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily (Elizabeth Banks)? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, the apolitical April (Isla Fisher)? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist Summer (Rachel Weisz)? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back...and maybe even possible to find a happy ending. Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Derek Luke, Abigail Breslin, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz Directed by Adam Brooks

Sammy's Adventures 3D (2010)

Sammy's Adventures 3D | France| Belgium
Genre
Family| Animation
Directed by "Fly Me To The Moon" helmer Ben Stassen, "Sammy's Adventures" is the life story of a sea turtle, from his birth in 1959 to his adulthood in 2009. As he scrambles to the sea shortly after his birth on a Californian beach, Sammy the sea turtle finds and loses the love of his life, a pretty hatchling called Shelly. On the epic journey across the oceans that all turtles accomplish before returning to the beach where they were born, Sammy dodges every danger in the hope of meeting Shelly again. With best buddy Ray, he sees close-up how humans are hurting the planet and battles piranhas while looking for a mysterious secret passage that will lead him back to Shelly. Directed by Ben Stassen Script: Domonic Paris Producer: Gina Gallo, Mimi Maynard, Domonic Paris, Ben Stassen

Full Treatment (2011)

De Vrais Mensonges | France
Genre
Comedy| Romance
One fine spring morning, Emilie receives a love letter. It's beautiful, inspired, but it's also anonymous. She initially throws it into the trash can, before realizing that it could be the way to rescue her mother, who has become isolated and alone since her husband died. Without thinking further, she immediately sends the letter on to her. But Emilie doesn't yet know that Jean, her shy employee, is the letter's author. She certainly doesn't imagine that her rash gesture will cast them into a series of misunderstandings and entanglements that will soon get out of hand. Casting: Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila, Stéphanie Lagarde, Judith Chemla Directed by: Pierre Salvadori

The Duchess (2008)

The Duchess | France| Spain| United Kingdom| Italy
Genre
Drama| Historical| Romance
IMDB
6.9 (77482 votes)
Budget
17,759,769.00$
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling u.c. Directed by Saul Dibb Script: Jeffrey Hatcher
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