French cinema: 2001
L'Anglaise et le duc (2001)
Eric Rohmer
Grace Elliott, a well-connected English lady, is living in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. She was once the lover of the Duke of Orléans, cousin of King Louis XVI, who remains her closest friend and confidant...
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Eric Rohmer
La Chambre des officiers (2001)
François Dupeyron
At the start of the First World War, a young lieutenant, Adrien, is badly injured in a shell explosion. When he comes to, he realises that the lower part of his face has been blown away, although he is otherwise unharmed...
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François Dupeyron
Comment j'ai tué mon père (2001)
Anne Fontaine
Jean-Luc has made a successful career in private medicine, specialising in anti-ageing treatments. He appears to have it all: his own gerontology clinic at Versailles, which brings him wealth and esteem, and a beautiful young wife Isa...
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Anne Fontaine
Éloge de l'amour (2001)
Jean-Luc Godard
A filmmaker Edgar is preparing to make a film about the four stages of love (meeting, passion, separation and reconciliation)...
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Jean-Luc Godard
L'Emploi du temps (2001)
Laurent Cantet
When he is fired from his job as a high-powered consultant, Vincent hides the fact from his friends and family by pretending to have found a new job at the United Nations...
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Laurent Cantet
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The victim of an unhappy and lonely childhood, Amélie Poulain attains adulthood with a strong sense of justice and a willingness to help others, a strange set of qualifications for a modest waitress in a Montmarte café... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The victim of an unhappy and lonely childhood, Amélie Poulain attains adulthood with a strong sense of justice and a willingness to help others, a strange set of qualifications for a modest waitress in a Montmarte café... [More...]
Liberté-Oléron (2001)
Bruno Podalydès
Jacques is determined to make the most of his summer holidays on the island of Oléron. His wife Albertine may be content to lounge around on the beach and dream of ways to improve their second home, but he is a man of action and intends to make this an adventure that he and his four children will remember for the rest of their lives... [More...]
Bruno Podalydès
Jacques is determined to make the most of his summer holidays on the island of Oléron. His wife Albertine may be content to lounge around on the beach and dream of ways to improve their second home, but he is a man of action and intends to make this an adventure that he and his four children will remember for the rest of their lives... [More...]
Loin (2001)
André Téchiné
Serge is a young man in his mid-twenties who works as a long-distance lorry driver. His work consists of shipping rolls of fabric to Morocco and then collecting clothes manufactured in this country, which he drives back to Europe... [More...]
André Téchiné
Serge is a young man in his mid-twenties who works as a long-distance lorry driver. His work consists of shipping rolls of fabric to Morocco and then collecting clothes manufactured in this country, which he drives back to Europe... [More...]
Mademoiselle (2001)
Philippe Lioret
Claire is proud of the fact that she is one of life's highfliers. She is married, with two adorable children, and has a successful career with a major pharmaceuticals company... [More...]
Philippe Lioret
Claire is proud of the fact that she is one of life's highfliers. She is married, with two adorable children, and has a successful career with a major pharmaceuticals company... [More...]
Martha... Martha (2001)
Sandrine Veysset
Martha is a vulnerable young woman who, after a traumatic childhood, now finds calm and contentment with her husband Reymond and their little girl, Lise... [More...]
Sandrine Veysset
Martha is a vulnerable young woman who, after a traumatic childhood, now finds calm and contentment with her husband Reymond and their little girl, Lise... [More...]
La Pianiste (2001)
Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men... [More...]
Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men... [More...]
Profils paysans: l'approche (2001)
Raymond Depardon
In the year 2000, the journalist-filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the rural France of his happy childhood. Having gained the confidence of several smallscale farmers, many of whom are at or beyond the age of retirement, he gets them to talk about their concerns, be it their mistrust of those they trade with or their anxiety about the future... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
In the year 2000, the journalist-filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the rural France of his happy childhood. Having gained the confidence of several smallscale farmers, many of whom are at or beyond the age of retirement, he gets them to talk about their concerns, be it their mistrust of those they trade with or their anxiety about the future... [More...]
Reines d'un jour (2001)
Marion Vernoux
One day in December, four people living in the same region of Paris are about to embark on day of emotional turmoil. Marie loses her job in a photo-shop when a customer complains she ruined her wedding photos... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
One day in December, four people living in the same region of Paris are about to embark on day of emotional turmoil. Marie loses her job in a photo-shop when a customer complains she ruined her wedding photos... [More...]
Roberto Succo (2001)
Cédric Kahn
Whilst on holiday in the South of France, a sixteen year old girl, Léa, is enchanted by a strange young man, Kurt, who says little about his past and who speaks with an Italian accent... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
Whilst on holiday in the South of France, a sixteen year old girl, Léa, is enchanted by a strange young man, Kurt, who says little about his past and who speaks with an Italian accent... [More...]
Se souvenir des belles choses (2001)
Zabou Breitman
When Claire Poussin, a seemingly healthy thirty-year-old, begins having difficulty speaking and remembering things her older sister Nathalie becomes concerned... [More...]
Zabou Breitman
When Claire Poussin, a seemingly healthy thirty-year-old, begins having difficulty speaking and remembering things her older sister Nathalie becomes concerned... [More...]
Sur mes lèvres (2001)
Jacques Audiard
Carla works for a property development company where, on account of her partial deafness, she is teased and abused by her male office colleagues... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
Carla works for a property development company where, on account of her partial deafness, she is teased and abused by her male office colleagues... [More...]
Trois huit (2001)
Philippe Le Guay
Pierre is a married man in his mid-thirties who works long hours at a glass-producing factory and leads a contented family life... [More...]
Philippe Le Guay
Pierre is a married man in his mid-thirties who works long hours at a glass-producing factory and leads a contented family life... [More...]
Va savoir (2001)
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe? (2001)
Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Having completed a stretch in prison for drugs trafficking, Kamel, an illegal immigrant, returns to his Algerian family in the rundown suburbs of Paris and tries to make a fresh start... [More...]
Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Having completed a stretch in prison for drugs trafficking, Kamel, an illegal immigrant, returns to his Algerian family in the rundown suburbs of Paris and tries to make a fresh start... [More...]