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La Rafle (The Round-Up)

Written & Directed by Rose Bosch Produced by Ilan Goldman Released by Menemsha Films France. 115 min. Not rated French, German & Yiddish with English Subtitles With Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Raphäelle Agogué, Hugo Leverdez, Olivier Cywie, Mathieu & Romain Di Concetto, Rebecca Marder & Anne Brochet Advisory to American audiences: La Rafle […]

Rust and Bone

Directed by Jacques Audiard Written by Audiard & Thomas Bidegain, based on the short-story collection Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson Released by Sony Pictures Classics French with English subtitles. France. 120 min. Rated R With Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners & Jean-Michel Correia On first sight, the […]

The Other Son

Directed by Lorraine Lévy Produced by Virginie Lacombe & Raphael Berdugo Written by Nathalie Saugeon, Lévy & Noam Fitoussi Released by Cohen Media Group France. 105 min. Rated PG-13 English, French, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles With Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi, Areen Omari, Khalifa Natour, Mahmood Shalabi & Bruno Podalydès […]

Holy Motors

Written & Directed by Leos Carax Produced by Pierre Grise Production, Théo Films, Arte France Cinéma, Pandora Film & WDR-Arte Released by Indomina Releasing English & French with English subtitles France/Germany. 116 min. Not rated With Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Kylie Minogue, Eva Mendes & Michel Piccoli Leos Carax has returned in a big way […]

My Worst Nightmare

Directed by Anne Fontaine Produced by Francis Boespflug, Philippe Carcassonne, Bruno Pesery & Jérôme Seydoux Written by Fontaine & Nicholas Mercier Released by Strand Releasing French with English subtitles France. 103 min. Not rated With Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier & Virginie Efira Anne Fontaine has had a curious career. The French director has […]

War of the Buttons

Directed by Christohe Barratier Produced by Thomas Langmann Written by Stephane Keller, Barratier & Philipe Lopes Curval, based on the novel by Louis Pergaud Released by the Weinstein Company France. 90 min. PG-13 With Guiluame Canet, Laetitia Casta, Kad Merad, Jean Texier & Clement Godefroy Film festival fodder from the likes of Olivier Assayas, Claire […]

17 Girls

Written & Directed by Delphine & Muriel Coulin Produced by Denis Freyd Released by Strand Releasing French with English subtitles France. 90 min. Not rated With Louise Grinberg, Juliette Darche, Roxane Duran, Esther Garrel, Yara Pilartz, Solène Rigot, Noémie Lvovsky, Florence Thomassin, Carlo Brandt, Frédéric Noaille & Arthur Verret The 2008 news story about a […]

Little White Lies

Written & Directed by Guillaume Canet Produced by Alain Attal Released by MPI Pictures French with English subtitles France. 154 min. Not rated With Jean Dujardin, Marion Cotillard, François Cluzet, Benoît Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Joël Dupuch & Laurent Lafitte From the get-go, Little White Lies intentionally feels like a French, modern day The Big Chill; […]

The Well-Digger’s Daughter

Written & Directed by Daniel Auteuil, based on the work by Marcel Pagnol Produced by Alain Sarde & Jerome Seydoux Released by Kino Lorber French with English subtitles France. 110 min. Not rated With Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle & Astrid Bergès-Frisbey In the world of French playwright-director-screenwriter Marcel Pagnol, […]