Films to watch on MUBI in June

May 27, 2021

French documentaries screening on MUBI

This week we take a look at some of the great documentaries which are coming up in June on MUBI – all by female directors. To give you some ideas we’ve picked our top four.

Included in the line-up, and screening from 12 June, is Callisto McNulty’s Delphine and Carole, which we showed during the 2019 Festival. It charts the creative collaboration between Delphine Seyrig and Carole Roussopoulos looking at the history of women’s rights and feminist filmmaking.

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Letters Home / Letters Home

Available 6 June

Dir Chantal Akerman

Synopsis

Keeping the original theatrical mise-en-scene, the film features Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig reciting poet Sylvia Plath’s letters to her mother directly to the audience as though we were the recipients of these private missives.

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Credits

Director Chantal Akerman
1986 | Belgium, France | 104 mins | French with English subtitles.

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Delphine and Carole / Delphine et Carole, insoumuses

Available 12 June

Dir Callisto McNulty

Synopsis

The portrait of 1970s enchanted feminism, the film retraces the encounter between actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos in 1974, their creative and disruptive use of video, their radical actions and incisive humour.

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Credits

Director Callisto McNulty
2018 | France, Switzerland | 70 mins | French with English subtitles.

WATCH IT FROM 12 JUNE

Be Pretty and Shut Up! / Sois belle et tais-toi!

Available 21 June

Dir Delphine Seyrig

Synopsis

In 1976, Delphine Seyrig asked 24 French and US actresses about their professional experiences as women, their roles and their relationships with directors. A sobering assessment of an industry that only awards parts based on clichés and stereotypes. Includes interviews with Jane Fonda, Jenny Agutter, Luce Guilbeault and Marie Dubois.

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Credits

Director Delphine Seyrig
1981 | France | 111 mins | French with English subtitles.

WATCH IT FROM 21 JUNE

F.H.A.R / Le F.H.A.R (Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire)

Available 21 June

Dir Carole Roussopoulos

Synopsis

First meetings and then participation of the FHAR (Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire) in a public demonstration.

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Credits

Director Carole Roussopoulos
1971 | France | 26 mins | French with English subtitles.

WATCH IT FROM 21 JUNE

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IFcinéma movie offering to discover online

May 22, 2021

FROM 8 MAY 2021

An IFcinéma movie offering to discover online

With the Cannes Film Festival taking place in July rather than in its traditional slot this month, IFcinéma à la carte are screening a selection of films from previous years. Here are some of the highlights.

Included in the line up is Mathieu Amalric’s tribute to the “dame en noir”, Barbara. Screening during the French Film Festival (as well as Cannes) in 2018, Jeanne Balibar takes on the double role of the celebrated singer and an actor playing her.

Also screening is Laurent Cantent’s The Workshop, which we screened at the 2017 Festival. Starring Marina Foïs, it deals with the topical subject of radicalism. It was shown at Cannes the same year.

They’re all available to watch for free until Thursday 10 June.

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Barbara / Barbara

Dir Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis

Brigitte is preparing for the role of the famous French singer Barbara. The actress carefully studies the character, gestures, manners, and intonations. She learns the music scores, mimics her facial expression, but, as Brigitte does more and more of it, she gradually merges with the character.

Awards & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival (2017)
Official Selection

Credits

Dir Mathieu Amalric
Cast Jeanne Balibar, Mathieu Amalric
2017 | France | 107 mins | French with English subtitles.

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Bird People / Bird People

Dir Pascale Ferran

Synopsis

In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. As fate draws him and a young French maid together, an audacious second-act surprise suddenly transforms César Award-winning director Pascale Ferran’s dark-tinged fairy-tale into something altogether richer, more beguiling, and utterly astonishing.

Awards & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival (2014)
Official Selection

Credits

Dir Pascale Ferran
Cast Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier
2014 | France | 128 mins | French with English subtitles.

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Run / Run

Dir Philippe Lacote

Synopsis

Run is a runaway who has just killed the Prime Minister of his homeland. Disguised as a lunatic, he begins wandering across the city. He remembers his past through flashbacks: his childhood with Master Tourou when he was dreaming of becoming a rain-maker, his adventures with Gladys the eating champion and finally as a soldier at the heart of a political and military conflict in the Ivory Coast.

Awards & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival (2014)
Official Selection

Credits

Dir Philippe Lacote
Cast Abdoul Karim Konaté, Isaach De Bankolé, Reine Sali Coulibaly
2014 | France, Ivory Coast | 100 mins | French with English subtitles.

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The Workshop / L’Atelier

Dir Laurent Cantet

Synopsis

Olivia, a well-known Parisian novelist, is running a creative writing workshop to help a group of seven young people integrate into the world of work. The backdrop is La Ciotat in the South of France, a coastal town hugely impacted by the shipyard closure 25 years earlier. Olivia is particularly intrigued with Antoine, a taciturn and not very sociable young man. Antoine makes writing suggestions the others consider shocking and becomes the “black sheep” of the group.

Awards & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival (2017)
Official Selection

Credits

Dir Laurent Cantet
Cast Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci
2017 | France | 114 mins | French with English subtitles.

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Suzanne Lindon’s Spring Blossom

April 24, 2021

FROM 24 April 2021

Suzanne Lindon’s Spring Blossom

This week we take a look at Suzanne Lindon’s directorial debut, Spring Blossom, which has just been released on Curzon Home Cinema.

Premiering in the UK earlier this year at Glasgow Film Festival, it’s a remarkably assured debut film. Delicately evoking the worlds of François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, Lindon proves herself a dazzling new screen talent in a complete charmer of a film.

For a bit of a flavour why not take a look at this short introduction by FFF Director Richard Mowe in our Trailer of the Week? We hope you enjoy the film.

Spring Blossom / Seize printemps

(N/C 12+)

Dir Suzanne Lindon

Synopsis

Suzanne (Lindon) is 16. She is bored with people of her age. Every day on her way to high school, she passes a theatre. There, she meets an older man, and becomes obsessed with him. Despite their age difference, they find in each other an answer to their ennui and fall in love. But Suzanne is afraid she’s missing out on life – that life of a 16-year-old, which she had struggled so much to enjoy in the same way as her peers.

Read FFF Director Richard Mowe’s review on Eye For Film

Watch the trailer on YouTube

Credits

Director Suzanne Lindon
Cast Suzanne Lindon, Arnaud Valois
2020 | France | English subtitles | 73 mins

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TV5MONDE April Cinema Selection

April 4, 2021

FROM 3 April 2021

April Cinema Selection from TV5MONDE

This week we take a look at some of the great classic French films that TV5MONDE will be screening for free online in April. Here are some of the highlights.

The April line-up commences with Lucky Jo, directed by previous Festival guest Michel Deville. There’s also the original 1951 version of Knock, by Guy Lefranc. It was later re-made into the 1997 version, Dr Knock, starring Festival favourite Omar Sy. Also screening is Marc Allégret’s romantic comedy Julietta starring Jeanne Moreau, a past patron of the Festival.

All films will be available to watch on TV5MONDE live via their website, or via the new TV5MONDE Smart TV App for Samsung / Android / Amazon Fire TVs at their scheduled time, just like in the cinema – tune in at the scheduled time and sit back and enjoy the film. Catch up is also available via the TV5MONDE Smart TV App – just search in your TV App Store to find it.

In the meantime why not take a look at some of the other great content available for free from TV5MONDE, including news, TV drama and programmes aimed at younger audiences? We hope you enjoy the films.

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Lucky Jo / Lucky Jo

Available Sunday 4 April (20:00)

Dir Michel Deville

Synopsis

Jo the black sheep.
Jo has bad luck. When he comes out of prison, everyone turns their back on him except just one friend, who lends him a car. And Jo then promptly finds himself in the midst of a hold-up!

Credits

Dir Michel Deville
Cast Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Christiane Minazzoli
1964 | France | 90 mins | French with English subtitles.

Knock / Knock

Available Sunday 11 April (20:00)

Dir Guy Lefranc

Synopsis

“Does it itch, or does it tickle you?”
Newly installed in Saint-Maurice where everyone is in perfect health, Dr Knock convinces everyone that “healthy people are sick people who just don’t know it yet”.

Credits

Dir Guy Lefranc
Cast Louis Jouvet, Jean Brochard, Pierre Renoir
1951 | France | 99 mins | French with English subtitles.

Julietta / Julietta

Available Sunday 18 April (20:00)

Dir Marc Allégret

Synopsis

Falsely naïve or a real pain in the neck?
Julietta is promised to a man she doesn’t want. She falls in love with someone else, who is already engaged, and decides to do everything in her power to win him over.

Credits

Dir Marc Allégret
Cast Jean Marais, Dany Robin, Jeanne Moreau
1953 | France | 96 mins | French with English subtitles.

Fric-Frac / Fric-Frac

Available Sunday 25 April (20:00)

Dirs Maurice Lehmann & Claude Autant-Lara

Synopsis

A stooge in a world of comics.
Marcel, an employee of a jewellery store, falls under the spell of beautiful Loulou. He has no idea that she and her companion plan to rob the jewellery store…

Credits

Dirs Maurice Lehmann & Claude Autant-Lara
Cast Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty, Hélène Robert
1939 | France | 105 mins | French with English subtitles.

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The best of French cinema from this year’s Glasgow Film Festival

February 13, 2021

FROM 13 FEBRUARY 2021

Five great French titles from Glasgow Film Festival

This week we take a look at some of the French films that are coming up online at Glasgow Film Festival this year. It runs from Wednesday 24 February to Sunday 7 March.

From the directors of Blue Dog, featured in last year’s Short Cuts programme, one of the highlights is the Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh romantic urban fantasy, Gagarine. Set in a Paris housing estate, it’s a joyful celebration of community, love and shooting for the stars.

The Festival closes with the UK premiere of Suzanne Lindon’s remarkably assured directorial debut Spring Blossom. Delicately evoking the worlds of Francois Truffaut and Eric Rohmer, Lindon proves herself a dazzling new screen talent in a complete charmer of a film. For a bit of a flavour why not take a look at this short introduction by FFF Director Richard Mowe in our Trailer of the Week?

To watch, all you need is a Glasgow Film At Home account. Tickets are on sale now. All films are priced at £9.99 each, and film bundles are available.

We hope you enjoy the films.

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Jumbo

Jumbo (N/C 15+)

Available 27 February – 2 March

Synopsis

Love is where you find it in Jumbo, a quirky charmer of a debut from Zoé Wittock, ‘inspired’ by a true story. Awkard, painfully shy teen Jeanne (Noémie Merlant from Portrait of a Lady on Fire) lives with her blowsy mother (Emmanuelle Bercot) and works as a cleaner at an amusement park.

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Credits

Director Zoé Wittock
Cast Noémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot, Bastien Bouillon
2019 | France / Luxembourg / Belgium| English subtitles | 93 mins

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Gagarine

Gagarine (N/C 12+)

Available 4 – 7 March

Synopsis

A deeply romantic urban fantasy, Gagarine marks a beguiling feature-length debut from directors Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh. Built in the 1960s and named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the Gagarine housing estate in Paris has been earmarked for demolition.

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Read FFF Director Richard Mowe’s review on Eye For Film

Credits

Directors Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh
Cast Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield
2020 | France | English subtitles | 98 mins

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The Woman with Leopard Shoes

La Femme aux Chaussures Leopard (N/C 18+)

Available 5 – 8 March

Synopsis

Remember Here Comes Hell, that black and white mystery thriller that caused a Glasgow sensation? Well, here’s your next retro fix, first-timer Alexis Bruchon’s impressively old school yet ultra-modern noir thriller that twists, turns and twists again.

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Credits

Director Alexis Bruchon
Cast Paul Bruchon
2020 | France | English subtitles | 80 mins

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Out of the World

Hors du monde (N/C 18+)

Available 6 – 9 March

Synopsis

The very private Leo (a stunning performance by Kevin Mischel) has issues communicating with others due to past trauma and only lives for his music. For now, not able to have a career as a composer, he works as an Uber driver and lives in his car.

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Credits

Director Marc Fouchard
Cast Kevin Mischel, Aurélia Poirier
2020 | France | English subtitles | 97 mins

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Spring Blossom

Seize printemps (N/C 12+)

Available 7 – 10 March

Synopsis

Oh to be young and in love. The UK premiere of Suzanne Lindon’s dreamy, remarkably assured directorial debut provides the perfect conclusion to the 2021 Glasgow Film Festival. The daughter of Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon, Lindon emerges as a force to be reckoned with in her own right.

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Read FFF Director Richard Mowe’s review on Eye For Film

Credits

Director Suzanne Lindon
Cast Suzanne Lindon, Arnaud Valois
2020 | France | English subtitles | 73 mins

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Last chance to catch this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival

February 13, 2021

FROM 12 FEBRUARY 2021

Last chance to catch this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival

We hope you’ve been enjoying our top selections from this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival. As there’s only a few days left of the Festival, we take a look at more of our favourites. From short films to features, and documentaries to animations, there’s something for everyone. They’re all available to watch until Monday 15 February.

Included in the line-up is Aurel’s haunting animation Josep, which was first screened at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Younger audiences will enjoy Javier Navarro Avilés‘ fantasy animation Dalia’s World, part of the official selection at this years Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

Remember, to watch all you need is a MyFrenchFilmFestival account. The short films are free to view, while there is a small fee for features. We hope you enjoy the films.

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Dalia’s World

Dir Javier Navarro Avilés

Synopsis

Dalia is exploring her father’s tropical greenhouse. After taking a few pictures, she realises that she has lost sight of her father. A real tropical forest appears in front of her. Animation.

Awards

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (2021)
Official Selection

Credits

Director Javier Navarro Avilés
2019 | France | No dialogue | 3 mins

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Josep

Dir Aurel

Synopsis

February 1939. Faced with so many Spanish republicans fleeing Franco’s dictatorship the French Government confines them to concentration camps. Despite being separated by barbed wire, two men strike up a close friendship: later the prison guard remembers this encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartoli, who later settled in New York. Animation.

Awards

Cannes Film Festival (2020)
Official Selection

Credits

Director Aurel
Voice Cast Sergi López, Bruno Solo, David Marsais, Gérard Hernandez, Valérie Lemercier, Thomas VDB, Silvia Pérez Cruz, François Morel, Sophia Aram, Alain Cauchi
2020 | France, Belgium, Spain | English subtitles | 74 mins

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Madame

Dir Stéphane Riethauser

Synopsis

A grandmother and her grandson (the director) explore gender, sexuality, and the transmission of identity. Documentary.

Awards

Madrid International Documentary Film Festival (2019)
Winner – Grand Jury Prize

Credits

Director Stéphane Riethauser
Cast Caroline Della Beffa, Stéphane Riethauser
2019 | Switzerland | English subtitles | 94 mins

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Recoding Entropia

Dir François Vautier

Synopsis

At the core of nothingness, on the horizon of infinite space and unfathomable time, wanders an imposing geometrical form, delivering a mysterious message as its shape changes. Animation, VR Experience.

Awards

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal (2020)
Official Selection

Credits

Director François Vautier
2020 | France | No dialogue | 8 mins

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Great titles from MUBI this February

February 12, 2021

FROM 28 JANUARY 2021

Watch award-winning films from MUBI

This week we take a look at some of the great titles which are coming up in February on MUBI. To give you some ideas we’ve picked our top four, which are a mixture of feature films, shorts and documentaries.

Included in the line-up is Aude Léa Rapin’s Heroes Don’t Die. It stars Adèle Haenel from Portrait of a Lady on Fire – one of the hits from the 2019 French Film Festival UK.

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Heroes Don’t Die / Les Héros ne meurent jamais

Dir Aude Léa Rapin

Available now

Synopsis

Joachim is approached by a man believing him to be a Bosnian soldier who died on the day Joachim was born. Suspicious that he is the reincarnation of the soldier, Joachim travels to Sarajevo with his friends Alice (Adèle Haenel) and Virginie to uncover his past life. Showing as part of ‘From France with Love’ MUBI’s line-up of new French cinema coming to you fresh from festivals.

Awards

Cannes Film Festival (2019)
Screened as part of Critics’ Week

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Credits

Director Aude Léa Rapin
Cast Adèle Haenel, Jonathan Couzinié, Antonia Buresi, Hasija Borić
2020 | France | English subtitles | 85 mins

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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Dir Terence Dixon

Available 2 February 2021

Synopsis

Documentary. This rare film document of one of the towering figures of 20th-century American literature—photographed by Jack Hazan (Rude Boy, A Bigger Splash) – captures the iconic writer in several symbolic locations, including the Place de la Bastille.

Awards

New York Film Festival (2020)
Official Selection

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Credits

Director Terence Dixon
1970 | United Kingdom, France | English | 27 mins

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The Passion of Joan of Arc / La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc

Dir Carl Theodor Dreyer

Available 3 February 2021

Synopsis

Cinema can be many things: a drama, a poem, a song, a dream. Dreyer’s masterpiece is one of cinema’s greatest expressions of spirituality, and indeed one of the greatest of all films: a daring, radical reimagining of the art form that continues to inspire awe. A tale of feminist passion.

Awards

National Board of Reviews (1929)
Winner: Top Foreign Films

Berlin International Film Festival (1997)
Official Selection

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Credits

Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
1928 | France | No dialogue | 98 mins

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If It Were Love / Si c’était de l’amour

Dir Patric Chiha

Available 11 February 2021

Synopsis

Documentary on the creation of Crowd, Gisèle Vienne’s evocative dance piece based on the undulating, liquid physicality of the 90s clubbing scene in Berlin. We follow the fifteen dancers from theatre to theatre – their work along with their strange, intimate relationships. The line between the stage and real life becomes blurry, creating a troubling journey into our nights, our parties, our loves.

Awards

Berlin International Film Festival (2020)
Winner, Teddy Award

BFI London Film Festival (2020)
Official Selection

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Credits

Director Patric Chiha
2020 | France | English | 82 mins

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Titles from TV5MONDE this month

February 12, 2021

FROM 3 FEBRUARY 2021

February Cinema Selection from TV5MONDE

This time we take a look at some of the great films that TV5MONDE will be screening for free online in February. Here are some of the highlights.

To celebrate Valentine’s Day on 14 February they’ll be screening Isabelle Mergault’s comedy Je vous trouve très beau about a farmer from the countryside looking for love. Daniel Auteuil (from 2019 Festival favourite La Belle Epoque) stars in another Isabelle Mergault comedy Donnant, donnant later in the month.

All films will be available to watch live on the TV5MONDE website, or via the new TV5MONDE App for Samsung / Android and Amazon Fire TV at their scheduled time – just visit the platform and the film will be ready to watch. Catch up is also available via the TV5MONDE App: just search in your TV App Store to find it.

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Blame it on Fidel / La faute á Fidel!

Dir Julie Gavras

Available Sunday 7 February (20:00)

Synopsis

1970. Nine year old Anna leads a peaceful, comfortable life. The only concern is her communist uncle fighting Franco. His execution and a trip to Chile, where Allende has just been elected, completely transform her parents.

Awards

Deauville Film Festival 2006
Winner, Michel d’Ornano Award

Credits

Director Julie Gavras
Cast Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Marie Kremer, Olivier Perrier
2006 | France | English subtitles | 99 mins.

You Are So Beautiful / Je vous trouve très beau

Dir Isabelle Mergault

Available Sunday 14 February (20:00)

Synopsis

When farmer Aymé Pigrenet loses his wife, he is not exactly overwhelmed by sorrow, rather by the sheer amount of work that suddenly falls on his shoulders. He decides he needs to find a new wife.

Awards

César Awards (2007)
Winner – Best First Feature Film

Credits

Director Isabelle Mergault
Cast Michel Blanc, Medeea Marinescu, Wladimir Yordanoff, Benoît Turjman
2006 | France | English subtitles | 97 mins.

Daydreams / L’indomptée

Dir Caroline Deruas-Garrel

Available Sunday 21 February (20:00)

Synopsis

Past and present, fantasy and reality collide in this boldly original feature debut from Caroline Deruas-Garrel. A group of young French artists converge at Rome’s Villa Medici for a one-year residency. One is haunted by spectral visions of the villa’s past. A beguiling tale of creative struggle, romantic rivalry, and ghosts.

Awards

Les Arcs European Film Festival (2016)
Winner: Best Original Score
Winner: Young Jury Prize

Credits

Director Caroline Deruas-Garrel
Cast Clotilde Hesme, Jenna Thiam, Tchéky Karyo, Bernard Verley
2016 | France | French with English subtitles | 98 mins

Donnant, donnant / Donnant, donnant

Dir Isabelle Mergault

Available Sunday 28 February (20:00)

Synopsis

A man escapes from prison and holes up in an abandoned barge near an isolated village by a canal. One of his new neighbours recognises him, but she agrees to keep silent on condition that he commits murder for her. He agrees but events take a different turn…

Credits

Director Isabelle Mergault
Cast Daniel Auteuil, Sabine Azéma, Medeea Marinescu, Ariane Pirié
2010 | France | French with English subtitles | 100 mins

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