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French cinema: 2002

Être et avoir (2002)
Nicolas Philibert

In the Auvergne region of France, Monsieur Lopez is the sole teacher in a small primary school which caters for 12 pupils aged between four and ten...   [More...]

Le Fils (2002)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Olivier is a carpentry instructor at a vocational training centre that assists in the rehabilitation of convicted criminals...   [More...]

Le Frère du guerrier (2002)
Pierre Jolivet

Thirteenth Century France. When his mother dies, Arnaud honours her wish to carry on the family tradition of preparing herbal medicines for the local community...   [More...]

Gangsters (2002)
Olivier Marchal

Franck Chaievski is a small-time crook who is used to being picked up by the police. A habitual recidivist, he cannot escape from a life of crime, and when his latest hold-up goes badly wrong he finds himself back in police custody, along with his girlfriend Nina Delgado, a drug-addicted prostitute...   [More...]

La Guerre à Paris (2002)
Yolande Zauberman

Paris 1943. Jules and Thomas are two brothers who couldn't be more different. Whilst Thomas, the younger brother, is eager to participate in his father's resistance adventures against the Nazis, Jules, 19, has no ideals, and no desire to get involved in a lost cause...   [More...]

L'Homme du train (2002)
Patrice Leconte

One evening, a stranger, Milan, arrives in a small French town and enters a pharmacy to buy some aspirin. There, he meets Manesquier, a retired teacher who lives alone in a huge house...   [More...]

L'Idole (2002)
Samantha Lang

Living in an anonymous Parisian apartment block is Zao, an elderly Chinese cook who has made up his mind to end his days in the not too distant future...   [More...]

Irène (2002)
Ivan Calbérac

Irène has just turned thirty. She is attractive, has a well-paid job in a good company, has plenty of girl friends and has just moved into a nice Parisian apartment...   [More...]

Irréversible (2002)
Gaspar Noé

Marcus and his friend Pierre are on a killer rampage. They storm a gay S&M nightclub in search of a man who must take their revenge...   [More...]

Laissez-passer (2002)
Bertrand Tavernier

In the 1940s, with France under Nazi occupation, the Germans continue to allow the French to make their own films, but under their supervision...   [More...]

Ma femme... s'appelle Maurice (2002)
Jean-Marie Poiré

When Emmanuelle discovers that her boyfriend Georges is married, she is determined to have her revenge. Armed with a hungry hedge cutter, she heads for Georges' Parisian apartment to tell his wife about his extra-marital affair...   [More...]

La Maîtresse en maillot de bain (2002)
Lyèce Boukhitine

In a provincial French town, three thirty-something men are without work but find solace in their friendship. The bond that keeps them together is a graffiti sketch of their schoolteacher in a swimming costume, which they painted on a wall when they were children and which they now religiously protect...   [More...]

Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours (2002)
Robert Guédiguian

Marie-Jo is a woman who, in early middle age, appears to have all she could want to lead a comfortable and fulfilled life...   [More...]

Mille millièmes (2002)
Rémi Waterhouse

In an anonymous apartment block on the Rue des Oursins in Paris, Patrick Bertil is anxious to create a duplex by combining his flat with that of his wife so that they can live together...   [More...]

Mon idole (2002)
Guillaume Canet

Bastien, young and ambitious production assistant for a popular reality TV programme, is offended when his employer, the star presenter Philippe Letzger, steals his idea for a new programme...   [More...]

Monique (2002)
Valérie Guignabodet

To all appearances, Alex and Claire are a perfectly normal middle-aged, middle class couple. But when Alex falls into a mood of depression, Claire leaves him to start an affair with another man...   [More...]

Monsieur Batignole (2002)
Gérard Jugnot

Paris 1942. With the French capital under Nazi control, Edmond Batignole struggles to make an honest living as a butcher...   [More...]

Nid de guêpes (2002)
Florent-Emilio Siri

During the 2001 Bastille Day celebrations in France, a band of criminals led by Nasser and Santino prepare to raid a depot and make off with a lorry load of expensive computers...   [More...]

Le Papillon (2002)
Philippe Muyl

Julien is a lonely old widower who devotes himself entirely to his one remaining passion in life: butterfly collecting. There is one particular butterfly that has so far eluded him and which he is determined to add to his already ample collection...   [More...]

Parlez-moi d'amour (2002)
Sophie Marceau

After 15 years of married life, Justine and Richard agree to separate. Justine has grown tired of her husband's drinking bouts and petty jealousies; Richard cannot forgive her for her marital infidelities...   [More...]

Peau d'ange (2002)
Vincent Perez

17-year old Angèle leaves home and finds work as a housemaid to a bourgeois couple in a nearby town. One day, she meets a young man in a suit, Grégoire, who passes himself off as a manager in a music company...   [More...]

Les Petites couleurs (2002)
Patricia Plattner

Christelle is a hairdresser in a small provincial town. Aged 35, she has been married to an older man for almost 20 years, during which time she has been bullied, deceived and taken for granted...   [More...]

Quelqu'un de bien (2002)
Patrick Timsit

When Pierre discovers that he needs a liver transplant to save his life, his girlfriend Marie suggests that his brother, Paul, may be a willing donor...   [More...]

Le Raid (2002)
Djamel Bensalah

Sami and his loyal friends Tacchini, Yaya and Kader form a gang of petty criminals who scrape by in the suburbs of Paris...   [More...]

La Repentie (2002)
Laetitia Masson

An aura of mystique surrounds a woman who has just arrived in Nice by train. Dressed entirely in black and wearing dark glasses, she can hardly help arousing fascination, and yet it is quite evident she does not seek the company of others...   [More...]

Rue des plaisirs (2002)
Patrice Leconte

One rainy night, three prostitutes pass the time whilst waiting for clients by recalling the story of one of their former acquaintances...   [More...]

Sex Is Comedy (2002)
Catherine Breillat

Making a film is never an easy endeavour, but for Jeanne her latest magnum opus, Scènes intimes, is rapidly turning into the mother of all nightmares...   [More...]

La Sirène rouge (2002)
Olivier Megaton

Brought up by a cruel and domineering mother, Alice is a deeply disturbed 12-year-old who lives in perpetual fear - and with good reason...   [More...]

Swing (2002)
Tony Gatlif

During the summer holidays, Max, a 10-year old boy, stays with his grandmother in the Alsace region of France. Frequently, he slips away to visit a community of Manouche gypsies, having befriended a young gypsy girl named Swing...   [More...]

Total Kheops (2002)
Alain Bévérini

Present day Marselles. On the day of his release from jail, Manu is shot down after a nocturnal safe-cracking job. His death is mourned not only by his girlfriend, Lole, but also his two long-standing male friends, Ugo and Fabio...   [More...]



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