› THE BIG APARTMENT (Le grand appartement)
› A YEAR IN MY LIFE (Le temps des porte-plumes)
› FRENCHMEN (Le coeur des hommes)
› DREAM HOUSE (La maison du bonheur)
› DODGING THE CLOCK (L'horloge biologique)
› FOUR STARS (Quatre étoiles)

› ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS (Asterix et les Vikings)
› JEAN-PHILIPPE (Jean-Philippe)
BAD FAITH (Mauvaise foi)
› IF YOU LOVE ME, FOLLOW ME (Qui m'aime me suive)
› UDERZO'S TOUR (Le Tour d'Uderzo)

 





THE BIG APARTMENT LE GRAND APPARTEMENT 2006 World Premiere

Comedy/Drama directed by
PASCAL THOMAS

Starring:
Laetitia Casta
(Francesca)
Mathieu Almeric
(Martin)
Pierre Arditi (Adrien)

Francesca (Laetitia Casta) and Martin (Mathieu Almeric) are living a merry life, between reality and fiction, and especially above their means. They occupy a huge apartment with a small rent, which they owe to the old law of 1948. This large apartment has become some sort of phalanstere for friendship.



A YEAR IN MY LIFE LE TEMPS DES PORTE-PLUMES 2006 US Premiere

Drama directed by
DANIEL DUVAL

Starring:
Jean-Paul Rouve (Gustave)
Anne Brochet
(Cécile)

Denis Podalydès (Falmin)
Annie Girardot ( Alphonsine)
Raphaël Katz (Pippo)

Pippo, 9 years old, secretive and independent, is taken in by Gustave and Cécile, a farming couple living in the countryside. It’s the season for working the fields – providing the prospect of a new life for the little boy.
Earlier events in Pippo's life have left their mark, and he has difficulty adapting to this new world. However, little by little, he opens up to the people around him. The barriers slowly fall and Pippo shapes his identity.



FRENCHMEN LE COEUR DES HOMMES 2003 US Premiere

Comedy/Drama directed by
MARC ESPOSITO

Starring:
Gérard Darmon
(Jeff)
Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Manu)

Bernard Campan (Antoine)
Marc Lavoine (Alex)

Four friends: Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu.
Four modern guys, stable and immature, at a turning point in their lives.
They've been friends for 25 years, ever since they played for the same football team in the Paris suburbs. They see each other regularly. They like talking, arguing and laughing together.
This particular spring, various events normal in any life - the death of a father, a wife's infidelity, a daughter's wedding - bring them even closer together.
Confronted with situations they can't control, they confide in and help each other, talk things through and reflect on their lives.
Their relationships with women are central to all their problems, conversations and arguments.



DREAM HOUSE LA MAISON DU BONHEUR 2006 US Premiere

Comedy directed by
DANY BOON

Starring:
Dany Boon
(Charles)
Michèle Laroque (Anne)
Daniel Prévost (Jean-Pierre)

 

A stingy husband decides to finally be generous with his wife by buying her a country house.
But he can't help trying to cut corners and puts his trust in a shady realtor and some pretty lousy workers, turning his surprise into a nightmare.



DODGING THE CLOCK L'HORLOGE BIOLOGIQUE 2005 US Premiere

Comedy/Drama directed by
RICARDO TROGI

Starring:
Patrice Robitaille
(Fred)
Jean-Philippe Pearson
(Paul)

Pierre-Francois Legendre (Sébastien)
Julie Deslauriers (Anne)

The flight of time is undoubtedly the only true proof of justice here below. Some would like to stop its way, others would rather choose to follow it. It is now time for choices for those three men in their thirties. Responsible involvement in relationships and paternity. How to react when our friendships keep on changing, when the circle is slowly closing on the small cell of our new family, when we feel that our youth is coming to an end.



FOUR STARS QUATRE ÉTOILES 2006 US Premiere

 

Comedy/Drama directed by
CHRISTIAN VINCENT

Starring:
Isabelle Carré
(Franssou)
José Garcia (Stéphane)
Francois Cluzet (René)


“Quatre Etoiles” is a story about money, and therefore, feelings.
It’s the story of a girl who inherits €50,000 and doesn’t really know what to do with it. It’s a burden, this thing called money. It binds you, just like feelings.
Franssou decides to spend it by going to the Côte d'Azur. Here she comes across Stéphane at the Carlton Hotel. He’s interested in money – other people’s money, that is. He wants Franssou’s, but the lady is no pushover. They’ll join forces and try to cheat a third scoundrel, a former racing car driver.
A story that mixes vice and virtue, money and feelings.


ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS ASTERIX ET LES VIKINGS 2006 US Premiere

Animation directed by
STEFAN FJELDMARK
and
JESPER MOLLER

Based on the work of René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo.
Adaptation Rights: Les Editions Albert René

With the voices of:
Roger Carel
(Asterix)
Jacques Frantz
(Obelix)
Lorànt Deutsch (Goudurix/Justforkix)
Sara Forestier (Abba)
Pierre Palmade
(Cryptograf)

Big event for our favorite village in Gaul: Justforkix, the Chief's nephew, has just arrived from Parisium. Asterix and Obelix are assigned an impossible task: to make a real man out of him. Because under his arrogant looks, the kid from the big city is just a scared chicken, and the tough training he receives does little to change things...
Meanwhile, the Vikings have landed in Gaul, determined to find a "champion of fear" who will, as their seer has promised, teach them to fly, since supposedly "fear lends wings"...
Disaster strikes when Justforkix is abducted by the Vikings! Asterix and Obelix must find him at all cost. While they chase after him all the way to the frozen North, their young protégé, now unwillingly cast at the center of an abominable plot, meets the beautiful and intrepid Abba, and discovers that love can hit you like a punch in the face... talk about culture shock!



JEAN-PHILIPPE 2006 US Premiere

Comedy/Drama directed by
LAURENT TUEL

Starring:
Fabrice Luchini
(Fabrice)
Johnny Hallyday (Johnny)

 


Fabrice, a middle executive, is a big fan of Johnny Hallyday’s, perhaps his number one fan. One morning though, he wakes up to a different reality, in another world in which Johnny does not exist. Lost and confused, he decides to look for Jean-Philippe Smet to find out what has become of him in this new dimension. When he finds him at last, it is only to discover the manager of a bowling alley, an ordinary guy instead of a celebrity. Then Fabrice has one and only goal: revive his idol; awaken the « Johnny » living and hiding in Jean-Philippe.



BAD FAITH MAUVAISE FOI 2006 World Premiere

Comedy directed by
ROSCHDY ZEM

Starring:
Cécile de France
(Clara)
Roschdy Zem
(Ismaël)

Pascal Elbé (Milou)
Jean-Pierre Cassel

 

Ismaël and Clara are a happy couple.
Ismaël is a music teacher, and he takes it easy. He hates pushing himself forward, taking decisions or making rules.
Clara works as a therapist in the psychomotor unit of a medical center for injured people. She has a strong personality, and she hates when people tell her what she should do.
One day, Clara finds out she is pregnant, which is the most beautiful thing she and Ismaël coud have expected. But things are not always that simple. They will first have to announce their relationship officially to their families.
While Ismaël is well aware that it is not going to be easy for his Muslim family to "swallow the bitter pill", Clara will be completely taken aback by her family's reaction. Whereas she thought her parents, of a Ashkenaze descent, would be quite open-minded, she will find out that they are not willing at all to open the family circle to an Arab son-in-law.



IF YOU LOVE ME, FOLLOW ME QUI M'AIME ME SUIVE 2006 US Premiere

Drama directed by
BENOIT COHEN

Starring:
Mathieu Demy (Maxime)
Eléonore Pourriat (Chine)
Julie Depardieu (Praline)
Romane Bohringer (Anna)

Maxime Maréchal, a successful 35-year-old phycisian, leads a well-ordered life with a lawyer as a wife, his admiring friends and a happy family. Until the day when he meets Chine, a singer, who will cause the electric shock so much feared by his relatives. Max decides to give up his career and start a rock'n'roll band, an old dream of his. He will drag his family circle and close friends into his crazy adventure, causing chaos in everyone's life.


UDERZO'S TOUR LE TOUR D'UDERZO 2000 WORLD Premiere

Documentary directed
by
Patrick Gimenez
Private collection

Starring:
Albert Uderzo

Documentary ordered by Les Editions Albert René in 1997 during the French promotion of "La Galère d'Obelix".
In amphitheatres filled with kids full of admiration for Albert Uderzo while he is drawing some of his most popular characters...
This documentary will present Albert Uderzo at his drawing desk, bringing Asterix and Obelix to life in actual time (17 mns).
A unique and exceptional documentary.

 



 

 

 


 


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