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French cinema: 2004

Feux rouges (2004)
Cédric Kahn

At the start of a busy weekend on the roads, stressed insurance agent Antoine and his wife Hélène set out from Paris to collect their two children from a holiday colony in the south-west of France...   [More...]

Garçon stupide (2004)
Lionel Baier

Despite his lack of education, 20-year-old Loïc is convinced that one day he will make something of his life. In the meantime, he earns a subsistence wage in a chocolate factory and spends his evenings meeting up with older men for no-strings sex...   [More...]

Holy Lola (2004)
Bertrand Tavernier

Pierre and Géraldine Ceyssac are a French couple who, unable to have children of their own, head off to Cambodia in the hope of adopting an orphan...   [More...]

Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (2004)
Yvan Attal

Vincent and Georges are two 40-somethings who are both beginning to hanker after a more exciting love life. Each man feels he is trapped in a long-term relationship with a woman who, on the face of it, would appear to be his ideal partner...   [More...]

L'Incruste (2004)
Alexandre Castagnetti

Swindler and serial liar Paul is looking for his next squat when he happens across Alexandre, a young musician. The latter is living in an apartment belonging to his friend Christophe, who is at present in Africa...   [More...]

Inguélézi (2004)
François Dupeyron

Geneviève is unsure how she is going to cope after the sudden death of her husband. After dropping her daughter off at her mother's, she takes to the road and is so wrapped up in her grief that she scarcely notices the world around her...   [More...]

L'Intrus (2004)
Claire Denis

Sixty-something Louis Trebor lives a hermit-like existence in the Jura mountains, his only companions being his two dogs...   [More...]

J'me sens pas belle (2004)
Bernard Jeanjean

Fanny, 30 and single, has decided it is high time she hooked a man. Having selected her victim, a colleague named Paul, she invites him to dinner...   [More...]

Ma mère (2004)
Christophe Honoré

When he learns of the death of his father, 17 year old Pierre experiences a sudden and dramatic crisis of identity. Whilst holidaying with his mother, Hélène, on a Mediterranean island, he undergoes a turbulent and destructive initiation into the mysteries of sex...   [More...]

Madame Edouard (2004)
Nadine Monfils

A bizarre series of murders in Brussels disturbs the peace of Commissaire Léon, who would rather be getting on and doing some knitting...   [More...]

Malabar Princess (2004)
Gilles Legrand

After his wife's death, Pierre finds it increasingly difficult to bring up his rebellious eight-year old son Tom. In the end he places the little boy in the care of his grandfather, Gaspard, a train driver who lives in the Mont Blanc region of France...   [More...]

Mariages! (2004)
Valérie Guignabodet

At 25, Johanna and Benjamin have decided that they must forgo the delights of bachelorhood and begin a new life together, one that promises a lifetime of unalloyed marital bliss...   [More...]

Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités... (2004)
Laurent Tirard

Raphaël is a 30-something writer who earns a crust churning out insipid autobiographies for the latest trendy, empty-headed celebrities...   [More...]

Mon ange (2004)
Serge Frydman

Colette is a prostitute who prefers to make her own way in life after breaking up with her boyfriend. One evening, she receives a phone call from a friend who pleads with her to take charge of her teenage son, Billy...   [More...]

Mon père est ingénieur (2004)
Robert Guédiguian

After suffering a traumatic experience, Natacha is left in a partially comatose state, unable to communicate with anyone, not even her father...   [More...]

Mondovino (2004)
Jonathan Nossiter

Winemaking is a dying art, according to one French vineyard owner. Commercial pressures are driving traditional winemakers to put quantity before quality, and, worse, to artificially alter the flavour of their wine to satisfy an increasingly standardised palate...   [More...]

Ne fais pas ça ! (2004)
Luc Bondy

After a violent row, Nicole walks out on her boyfriend Joel and returns to live with her parents, Francis and Edith, taking her infant son with her...   [More...]

Ne quittez pas! (2004)
Arthur Joffé

Félix Mandel is a dedicated astrophysicist who seems to live in a world of his own, to the annoyance of his wife Lucie...   [More...]

Nos amis les flics (2004)
Bob Swaim

Frédo is a small-time crook who has a knack of botching every job he turns his hand to. With the help of his four loyal buddies, Frédo tackles his next hold-up with his usual ineptitude, with the result that he ends up on the wrong-side of the notoriously hard to please crime boss Toussaint...   [More...]

Notre musique (2004)
Jean-Luc Godard

Hell: images of war, some real, others cinematic recreations, some portraying the brutality and carnage, others glorifying this most universal of human pursuits...   [More...]

Le P'tit curieux (2004)
Jean Marboeuf

Clément is a nine-year-old boy with an insatiable curiosity for the world around him. There are so many things that puzzle him - for instance, why do his mother and father live apart...   [More...]

People (2004)
Fabien Onteniente

In one disastrous evening, Charles de Poulignac sees his reputation as the prince of the Parisian jet set decimated by one of his rivals...   [More...]

Podium (2004)
Yann Moix

Bernard Frédéric is obsessed with the legendary popular singer Claude François. Believing he is the singer's double, he plans to make a career by performing a tribute act, with the help of his friend, Couscous...   [More...]

Le Pont des Arts (2004)
Eugène Green

Christine and Pascal are two arts students at the university of Paris in the late 1970s. Their harmonious relationship falls apart when Christine begins nagging Pascal for not taking his studies seriously...   [More...]

Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil (2004)
Laetitia Masson

The film director Laetitia Masson is in a bad way, both financially and creatively. Producer Maurice Rey offers her a lifeline by asking her to adapt Christine Angot's latest novel Pourquoi le Brésil?, which recounts the author's passionate love affair with a journalist...   [More...]

La Première fois que j'ai eu 20 ans (2004)
Lorraine Levy

In the 1960s, Hannah Goldman lives in Paris with her Jewish family and is experiencing a painful adolescence. Less attractive than her two sisters, she is often the butt of cruel jokes at school, but she takes solace in her love of music...   [More...]

Quand la mer monte... (2004)
Yolande Moreau

Irène, a travelling stage performer in her early fifties, is touring northern France with her subversive one-woman show...   [More...]

Qui perd gagne! (2004)
Laurent Bénégui

For several years, Jacques and Angèle have formed the perfect couple, in spite of the fact that he is a professional gambler and she is an officer in police intelligence...   [More...]

Les Revenants (2004)
Robin Campillo

The dead have returned. All over the world, millions of men, women and children who died within the last ten years have risen from their graves...   [More...]

Les Rivières pourpres II - Les anges de l'apocalypse (2004)
Olivier Dahan

In a monastery in Lorraine, a monk is nailing a crucifix onto a stone wall when blood begins to flow..... Behind the wall, the body of a dead man is found...   [More...]



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