WORKS (TRAVAUX) 2005 US Premiere |
DIRECTOR:
Brigitte Roüan (Post Coitum animal triste, Outremer)
CAST:
Carole Bouquet
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Alvaro Llanos
Aldo Maccione
Didier Flamand
DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT
-Cannes Film Festival '05
Presented by and followed by Q&A with Writer
& Director Brigitte Roüan and Actor Alvaro Llanos |
Chantal Letellier (C.Bouquet) is a « wonderful woman ». She is a lawyer and wins every case. She may be a pit bull at work but she’s a nanny in her private life. Following a mutually satisfactory divorce, she lives with her 2 « very badly brought up » adolescent children. Her love life is a wasteland: she has no time. But the flesh has its demands and she gives in to a client’s advances (J-P.Castaldi). Unfortunatly, he falls madly in love with her and move in. To get rid of him, she starts having work done to make a house unliveable. To capit all, she hires a young Colombien architect, an illegal immigrant from whom she has just obtained a residence permit. Overcome with gratitude, he redesigns her whole house. She never expected so much!
www.pyramidefilms.com
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THE CHILDREN (LES ENFANTS) 2005 US Premiere |
DIRECTOR:
Christian Vincent (La séparation)
CAST:
Gérard Lanvin
Karin Viard
Martin Combes
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A man meets a woman. His name is Pierre (G.Lanvin), her name is Jeanne (K.Viard) . They are both divorced, and each has two children. In this story, 1 + 1 equals 6. It’s hard to do the math, and Pierre and Jeanne will have to solve the equation. It’s rough on Pierre, living with Jeanne’s children but not his own. And it’s not easy for Jeanne to be the mother of two boys who aren’t hers. This is the romance of remarried families.
www.lesenfants-lefilm.com
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THIRTYFIVE SOMETHING (TOUT POUR PLAIRE) 2005 US Premiere |
DIRECTOR:
Cécile Telerman
CAST:
Mathilde Seigner
Judith Godrèche
Anne Parillaud
Marina Tomé
Pascal Elbe
Presented by and followed by Q&A with
Co-writer Jérôme Soubeyrand and
Actress Marina Tomé
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Florence, Juliette, Marie, three childhood friends, three modern working women... Marie (J. Godrèche) is a doctor married to a loving but ineffectual artist who’s never sold a canvas. Florence (A. Parillaud), caught between a marriage gone cold and a passive job in an advertising firm, is a woman in search of recognition.
Juliette (M. Seigner), their still single friend, is a struggling attorney-at-law, and when she's not trying to collect her fees, she's on a constant quest for Mr. Right. All three steal a few moments to find and punctuate their daily life of conversations without reserve. A report is essential: at 35, the ideals grew blurred and reality takes the step...
www.diaphana.fr
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THE FIVE OF US (ELLES ÉTAIENT CINQ) 2004 US Premiere |
DIRECTOR:
Ghyslaine Côté (Pendant ce temps, Pin-Pon the movie)
CAST:
Jacinthe Laguë
Julie Deslauriers
Brigitte Lafleur
Ingrid Falaise
Noémie Yelle
Louise Portal
Presented by Mrs. MARCY GROSSMAN
Consul General of Canada in Miami, and followed by Q&A with Actress Julie Deslauriers |
Manon Cloutier (J.Lague), 32, accepts a dinner invitation from her colleague, Romance is on the menu. A few days later, still aglow from this fledgling relationship, Manon is at a carwash when she becomes completely distraught at the glimpse of a man with tattooed arms. Terrified Manon hurries home and double-bolts the door. So begins a series of flashbacks. She remembers a summer day, when she was 17, when she and her girlfriends, Anne (J.Deslauriers), Claudie (B.Lafleur), Isa (I.Falaise) and Sophie (N.Yelle), are getting ready for party at Sophie’s cottage. She remembers how much fun they used to have together…and she remembers the young tattooed man…
www.ellesetaientcinq.com
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DIRECTOR:
Maurice Barthélémy (Casablanca Driver)
CAST:
Alain Chabat
Martin Combes
Yael Abecassis
Judith Godrèche
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Louis (M.Combes) has a funny dad (A.Chabat): always smiling, joking, laughing.
But Louis does not really feel like laughing.
On the road which brings them back home, the father and his son will find each other.
At the end of their voyage, they will find light, and life.
www.papa-lefilm.com
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THE ART OF BREAKING UP (UN FIL A LA PATTE) 2005 East Coast Premiere |
FROM A PLAY BY GEORGES FEYDEAU
DIRECTOR:
Michel Deville
(Un monde presque parfait, La maladie de Sachs)
CAST:
Emmanuelle Béart
Charles Berling
Dominique Blanc
Julie Depardieu
Jacques Bonnaffé
Stanislas Merhar
Patrick Timsit
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Bois d’Enghien (C.Berling) loves Lucette (E.Béart), the diva, his appointed mistress, but must break up with her urgently because…he has to sign his marriage settlement, that very afternoon, with the pretty Viviane Duverger, a young woman who also has a very pretty dowry. Madame Duverger (D.Blanc), Viviane's mother, is eager to have Bois-d'Enghien as a son-in-law - or does she just want to have him for herself?
The very rich Irrigua would like to take Lucette as a mistress. Her entire entourage, including Bois d'Enghien, agrees, because Irrigua is wealthy. But he is also very jealous… Sex and money are the subject of this comedy. Who sells whom? Who is selling himself or herself? Who will be had?
www.unfilalapatte.com
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RENART THE FOX (LE ROMAN DE RENART) 2005 US Premiere |
DIRECTOR:
Thierry Schiel
VOICE CAST:
Frédéric Diefenthal
Laurent Deutsch
Patrick Préjean
PUBLIC AUDIENCE AWARD -ANIMA '05
SPECIAL PRICE OF THE JURY -FIFEM '05
OPENING CEREMONY SCREENING -SICAF '05
NOMINATED IMAGINA '05 |
Renart the Fox tells the hilarious yet moving adventure of cunning Renart (voice F. Diefenthal), an outlaw constantly at odds with the feudal laws of his society, who is characterized by a "liberal attitude" towards the property of others. However, the motivation for his pursuit of riches is simply to make a decent living for children. His quest for a better living will start while meeting an ugly and fat sewer rat named Rufus (voice L.Deutsch), who will become a companion and eventually a friend. The treasure they will look for in their adventure will not be the one they imagined, and they will discover many values along the way that could be more important in life than all the riches in the world.
www.leromanderenart.com
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IZNOGOUD 2005 US Premiere |
DIRECTOR:
Patrick Braoudé (Deuxième vie, Neuf mois)
CAST:
Jacques Villeret
Michaël Youn
Presented by and followed by Q&A with:
Writer & Director Patrick Braoudé
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It’s said that in Baghdad, an unscrupulous Grand Vizier called Iznogoud (M.Youn) plans to steal the throne from the caliph Hanoun El Poussah (J.Villeret). In short, he wants to take the caliph’s place. Supported by his faithful servant Dilat Larath, Iznogoud makes endless attempts to achieve his aims.
www.iznogoud-lefilm.com
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ANTHONY ZIMMER 2005 US Premiere |
DIRECTOR:
Jérôme Salle
CAST:
Sophie Marceau
Yvan Attal
Samy Frey
Gilles Lellouche
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All the police from around the world are after Anthony Zimmer, a criminal genius operating in the financial sphere. No one knows what he looks like, but among the competitors in the chase to nab him, Akerman, an exceptional cop, is one lap ahead: he knows that Zimmer will risk anything to see Chiara again.
The young woman was supposed to link up with the elusive criminal, but instead receives a message from him. To shake off the people on his tail, Zimmer asks
Chiara (S.Marceau) to accost a stranger and to make everyone believe he's the man they're all after. Chiara sets her cap at François (Y.Attal), an ordinary man who, fascinated by the young woman, rapidly finds himself caught up in a nightmare.
In a world full of manipulations and pretense, they all discover that, despite appearances, they're merely pieces in a chess game being played while waiting for the grand master to arrive.
www.marsdistribution.com
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DIRECTOR:
Mabrouk El Mechri
CAST:
Jalil Lespert
Léa Drucker
Jean-Pierre Cassel
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Every week Virgil (J.Lespert) comes to visit Ernest
(JP.Cassel), his father, in prison and every week he fuels the old man’s dreams with tales of his boxing feats.
Every week Virgil crosses paths with Margot (L.Drucker) in the visiting room and every week Virgil builds his own castle in the air.
One week, Ernest tells Virgil he’s being released and can’t wait to see him in the ring.
The only hitch is that Virgil hasn’t boxed for three years…
www.virgil-lefilm.com
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FCM KICK OFF PARTY @The Forge - October 15, 2005 |
Virginie Champoussin,
French Consul General & Mrs. Vinogradoff, Philippe Timon |
Patrick Gimenez, Laurence Oxenberg, Sylvie Clasquin |
Karl Hoffman, Damièle Ferré, Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor |
Patrick Gimenez, FCM volunteers Virgine & Julie
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Christine Caly-Sanchez, Luis Sanchez |
Barbara Pergament, Dana Keith
(Miami Beach Cinematheque) |
DISCUSSION PANEL @Miami Beach Cinematheque - November 11, 2005 |
The French delegation
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Director Brigitte Roüan, Jean-Louis Lefevre, Philippe Timon
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Aymelyne Alexi (for City of Miami), Barbara
Pergament (President of Miami Beach Cinematheque) |
COCKTAIL PARTY @Alliance Française de Miami - November 11, 2005 |
P. Gimenez and P. Timon with the French delegation |
Directors Patrick Braoudé & Brigitte Roüan |
Kimberley Gaultier, Ysé |
PROJECTIONS - November 11, 12 & 13, 2005 |
Opening night French delegation |
Q&A Director Brigitte Roüan
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M. Grossman (Canada’s Consul General in Miami), S.Papiernik (President Alliance Française) |
P. Gimenez, Actress Marina Tomé, Writer Jérôme Soubeyrand |
Patrick Gimenez, Patrick Braoudé, Philippe Timon |
Q&A with Patrick Braoudé, Philippe Timon |
2005 Proclamation |
2005 Proclamation |
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