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French cinema: 2003

18 ans après (2003)
Coline Serreau

Now that she has turned 18 and has her baccalaureate safely in her pocket, Marie is happy to spend her summer holidays in the company of her mother Sylvia in the south of France...   [More...]

7 ans de mariage (2003)
Didier Bourdon

Alain is concerned that, after seven years of conjugal life, the spark has suddenly gone out of his marriage. His wife Audrey, a reserved bank employee, appears to be too preoccupied with her work and their daughter Camille to have any time for him...   [More...]

À la petite semaine (2003)
Sam Karmann

Having served a five year stretch in jail, fifty-something Jacques returns to his old friends in Saint-Ouen, hoping to make a fresh start...   [More...]

Les Amateurs (2003)
Martin Valente

J.P. and Christophe are two ordinary lads, in their mid-twenties, who come from an ordinary low-incoming housing estate in France...   [More...]

Après vous... (2003)
Pierre Salvadori

Antoine, the headwaiter of an exclusive Parisian restaurant, is taking a shortcut home across a park one evening when he sees a man, of about his own age, preparing to hang himself from a tree...   [More...]

La Beuze (2003)
François Desagnat

Inseparable buddies since childhood, Alphonse Brown and Scotch live in the busy French sea port of Le Havre, just about making ends meet with their petty criminal exploits...   [More...]

Bienvenue au gîte (2003)
Claude Duty

Tired of their stressful Parisian lifestyle, Caroline and Bertrand decide to start a new life, running a traditional gîte in deepest Provence...   [More...]

Bon voyage (2003)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Paris, 1940. A few days before France falls to German occupation, a famous actress, Viviane Denvers, triggers a series of events that will irrevocably change the lives of herself and those around her...   [More...]

Ce jour-là (2003)
Raoul Ruiz

Livia is a rich heiress who lives in a grand house in a remote part of Switzerland, resented by her relatives who are jealous of her fortune and desperately want to get their hands on it...   [More...]

Cette femme-là (2003)
Guillaume Nicloux

The 29th of February is a date that haunts Michèle Varin, a woman police officer coping badly with depression and loneliness...   [More...]

Chouchou (2003)
Merzak Allouache

Chouchou is a young North African who arrives illegally in Paris with the intention of looking for his nephew. The kindly parish priest Father Léon helps him to find a place to live and a job as a housecleaner for Dr Nicole Milovavovich, a psychiatrist...   [More...]

Les Clefs de bagnole (2003)
Laurent Baffie

Lawrence Baffie has what he believes to be a stunning premise for a film - a comedy that will have audiences rolling in the aisles and critics falling over themselves in their efforts to come up with the juiciest superlatives with which to shower it in the popular press...   [More...]

Le Coeur des hommes (2003)
Marc Esposito

Alex, Manu, Jeff and Antoine have been the best of friends since they played in the same football team, twenty years ago...   [More...]

Le Coût de la vie (2003)
Philippe Le Guay

Laurence is a young heiress who is determined to prove that she can find happiness without money, so she gets herself a job at a Lyon restaurant and promptly steals the heart of a dishwasher, Patrick...   [More...]

Depuis qu'Otar est parti (2003)
Julie Bertuccelli

Whilst her brother Otar is illegally employed as a construction worker in Paris, Marina remains in her hometown of Tblisi, Georgia...   [More...]

Effroyables jardins (2003)
Jean Becker

Lucien is a little boy who loves his father Jacques but he shrinks in embarrassment every time he sees him perform his clown act for the amusement of others...   [More...]

Les Égarés (2003)
André Téchiné

In June 1940, the German armies are poised to take France when a widowed schoolteacher, Odile, bundles her two infants, Philippe and Cathy, into her car and flees the capital...   [More...]

En jouant Dans la compagnie des hommes (2003)
Arnaud Desplechin

Edward Bond's play 'In the Company of Men' is in the process of being turned into a film. The director assembles a number of actors for screen tests and then proceeds to the rehearsals...   [More...]

En territoire indien (2003)
Lionel Epp

Jean-Claude Adam is so close to realising his dream of starting a new life in Mexico, far from the troubles that weigh him down in France...   [More...]

Errance (2003)
Damien Odoul

When his girlfriend Lou bears him a son, Jacques promises to give up his wayward existence of debauchery and petty crime to start a new life...   [More...]

L'Esquive (2003)
Abdellatif Kechiche

On a rundown housing estate on the outskirts of Paris, Krimo, a teenage boy of North African descent, lives with his mother in a cramped apartment...   [More...]

Fanfan la Tulipe (2003)
Gérard Krawczyk

In 18th century France, Fanfan la Tulipe is a young man who just can't help attracting women. This state of affairs suits him fine - until the fateful day when one of his more insistent female admirers, a farmer's daughter, looks set to force him into the yoke of holy matrimony...   [More...]

Filles uniques (2003)
Pierre Jolivet

Carole is a successful lawyer, organised, self-disciplined and so busy that she only ever sees her husband at bedtime. Tina is a petty thief, wild, emotional and has no difficulty picking up men for one night stands...   [More...]

La Fleur du mal (2003)
Claude Chabrol

François Vasseur returns to his well-to-do family home in Bordeaux after a four year stay in the United States and finds little has changed...   [More...]

France Boutique (2003)
Tonie Marshall

France and Olivier Mestral have been together for ten years but now the strain on their marriage is beginning to show. One reason for this could be the fall off in the popularity of the shopping channel they have created, France Boutique...   [More...]

Haute tension (2003)
Alexandre Aja

Best friends Marie and Alex decide to take a break in the countryside to revise for their exams. But soon after they arrive at Alex's family home, a remote country house, a sinister looking visitor arrives in a van...   [More...]

Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003)
Jacques Rivette

Julien is a middle-aged clock repairman who lives alone in a big house with only his cat for company. He has acquired some items which threaten a businesswoman, Madame X, who trades in fake fabrics, and begins to blackmail her...   [More...]

Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (2003)
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Federica is a young woman desperately searching for meaning in her life. Being the daughter of an incredibly wealthy Italian businessman, she has no need to work, so she drifts about aimlessly, struggling to find worthwhile pursuits to occupy her time...   [More...]

Les Invasions barbares (2003)
Denys Arcand

When he learns that his father, Rémy, is in the final stages of terminal cancer, businessman Sébastien reluctantly hastens to his bedside in a Montreal hospital...   [More...]

Janis et John (2003)
Samuel Benchetrit

Insurance agent Pablo Sterni hits on a scheme to make easy money - by pocketing the premiums of low risk clients. The scheme goes badly wrong when one such client makes a claim for half a million francs after his car is smashed up...   [More...]



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