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French cinema: 2013

11.6 (2013)
Philippe Godeau

For ten years, Toni Musulin has worked as a security guard, delivering money without incident and without arousing the slightest suspicion...   [More...]

2 automnes 3 hivers (2013)
Sébastien Betbeder

Arman is 33, lives in Paris and is ready for a change in his life. Things begin to look up for him when he runs into Amélie, a woman of his own age, whilst out jogging...   [More...]

20 ans d'écart (2013)
David Moreau

Alice Lantins is 38, ambitious and so committed to her work that her personal life is virtually non-existent. In short, she is the ideal candidate for the next editor of the fashion magazine Rebelle, or would be were it not for the fact that she appears to be stuck in a rut...   [More...]

9 mois ferme (2013)
Albert Dupontel

Ariane Felder is a middle-aged woman who conducts herself as scrupulously in her private life as she does in her career as a highly respected magistrate...   [More...]

Ain't Misbehavin (Un voyageur) (2013)
Marcel Ophüls

After an absence of 19 years from our screens, director Marcel Ophüls comes out of retirement to construct a cinematic self-portrait, a substitute for the autobiography he always intended to write but never got round to...   [More...]

Attila Marcel (2013)
Sylvain Chomet

Paul, 33, inhabits a Parisian apartment with his well-meaning aunts Annie and Anna, who have looked after him since he was two and who dream that one day he will become a virtuoso pianist...   [More...]

Avant l'hiver (2013)
Philippe Claudel

Paul is a successful brain surgeon who, since he married Lucie, has never known a day's unhappiness. He has a comfortable home, a loving family and a job he adores...   [More...]

Camille Claudel, 1915 (2013)
Bruno Dumont

Winter 1915. The renowned sculptor Camille Claudel finds herself incarcerated in an asylum in the south of France. Her family have given up on her and it seems that after a turbulent life she will be forced to live out the rest of her days as a pitiful recluse...   [More...]

Comment j'ai détesté les maths (2013)
Olivier Peyon

So you've always hated maths? You're not alone - it is a subject that has brought misery to countless schoolchildren and left irreparable scars...   [More...]

Les Conquérants (2013)
Xabi Molia

Galaad and Noé have nothing in common except that they share the same father and seem destined to fail at everything they attempt, in both their professional and personal lives...   [More...]

L'Écume des jours (2013)
Michel Gondry

Colin is the archetypal happy bachelor. He has wealth and health and sees life as one perpetual party, his every need catered for by his faithful man-servant Nicolas...   [More...]

Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table (2013)
Guillaume Gallienne

Guillaume had a far from conventional childhood. When he was four or five, his mother would call him into dinner by shouting: "Boys and Guillaume, dinner's ready!" Guillaume knew there and then that he was different from other boys, but he could never tell how he was different...   [More...]

L'Inconnu du lac (2013)
Alain Guiraudie

A secluded beach beside a placid lake provides a haven for a handful of men who feel the need to strip off and surrender themselves to the sun's rays and the admiring gaze of others...   [More...]

Jeune & jolie (2013)
François Ozon

One summer, Isabelle, 16, is on holiday with her family on the French Riviera. Encouraged by her hedonistic parents, she allows an attractive young man to rob her of her virginity, but she takes no pleasure in the experience and sees no real significance in it...   [More...]

Le Passé (2013)
Asghar Farhadi

Four years after their separation, Ahmad travels from Teheran to Paris at the request of his wife Marie so that they can formalise their divorce...   [More...]

Queen of Montreuil (2013)
Sólveig Anspach

Agathe, a woman in her thirties, returns to France with the ashes of her husband, recently deceased in a road accident. As she passes through customs at the airport in Paris she makes the acquaintance of an older Icelandic woman, Anna, and her 25-year-old son Úlfur...   [More...]

Rendez-vous à Kiruna (2013)
Anne Novion

Ernest, a renowned architect, lives only for his work. One day, he receives a call from the Swedish police who ask him to undertake a long journey to Kiruna in Lapland...   [More...]

Le Temps de l'aventure (2013)
Jérôme Bonnell

Alix, an actress in her early forties, is performing in a play in Calais. When her paycheque fails to turn up she becomes anxious and takes the next train to Paris, hoping to hook up with her strangely elusive boyfriend...   [More...]

Tip Top (2013)
Serge Bozon

After an informer of Algerian origin is killed in Villeneuve, a nondescript little town in northern France, two senior police officers, Esther Lafarge and Sally Marinelli, are sent to investigate...   [More...]

Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (2013)
Axelle Ropert

Boris and Dimitri Pizarnik are two doctors who share the same practice in the Chinese district of Paris. Brothers, they are inseparable, as devoted to each other as they are to the profession which occupies most of their waking hours...   [More...]

Une place sur la Terre (2013)
Fabienne Godet

Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo...   [More...]

La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)
Roman Polanski

Alone in a Paris theatre, Thomas laments the fact that he has not been able to find an actress for the lead role of his next play...   [More...]

La Vie d'Adèle (2013)
Abdellatif Kechiche

15-year-old Adèle is a girl like any other, and like any girl of her age going out with boys is a habit she soon gets into...   [More...]

Violette (2013)
Martin Provost

Violette Leduc, a woman born outside of wedlock at the start of the last century, meets the intellectual Simone de Beauvoir in St-Germain-des-Prés shortly after the war...   [More...]

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