Patrick d'Assumçao
10 titles
Filmography
10 results

The Death of Louis XIV
(2016)August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. Over the next few days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.

Murder on Devil's Bridge
(2018)When André Savignac, the mayor of Saint-Guilhem-Le-Désert, is found hanging from the Devil's Bridge, Marina Fazergues comes back to her home village to investigate the mysterious death.

I Lost My Body
(2019)Romance, mystery and adventure intertwine as a young man falls in love and a severed hand scours Paris for its owner in this mesmerizing animated film.

The Taste of Things
(2023)Starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as 1880s gourmands, this sensuous film is aromatic with romance and bathed in buttery luminosity. Adding the delights of cooking to the pleasures of cinema in a delectable mélange, Trần Anh Hùng won Best Director at Cannes for this belle époque treat.

Stranger by the Lake
(2013)After winning a prize in Cannes, this thriller quickly became a sensation as the hottest arthouse queer title of the year. Set in the cruising world, it merges eroticism and suspense in a celebration of bodies of all shapes and sizes, engaging in explicit sex under the glinting, menacing summer sun.

The Apparition
(2018)A thoughtful story about belief follows a top journalist, recruited by the Vatican to investigate a young woman’s reported vision of the Virgin Mary.

All About Them
(2015)Charlotte and Micha are young and in love. They’ve recently bought a house near Lille in which they intend to live happily ever after. But, for the past few months, Charlotte has been cheating on Micha with Mélodie... Without suspecting a thing, but feeling a little abandoned nevertheless, Micha is in turn cheating on Charlotte... also with Mélodie! The situation is making Mélodie’s head spin. She’s the secret accomplice of her lovers. And she’s also in love with both of them.

Land Legs
(2016)Divorced sailor Dom has two children who live with him, even though he is gone for three weeks at a time on a fishing boat. However, when his daughter gets pregnant, Dom knows he has to make a change.

Après Suzanne
(2016)Joachim returns to his family after his first painful break-up. Despite his parents' excessive tenderness and his feeling of strangeness about the world, Joachim will learn to live again.

Elementary
(2017)Elementary school teacher Florence (Sara Forestier, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The Names of Love) is a single mother completely devoted to her pupils, so much so that she shares an apartment on the school's property with her 10-year-old son and pupil Denis. When she encounters and meets Sacha, a disruptive student with a complicated home life, Florence dedicates herself to helping him. But as Sacha's plight and her impending work assessment force her to put everything on the line, including her position within the school and her relationship with her son, Florence gradually realises that one is never too old to learn a new life lesson.