Patrick d'Assumçao

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.

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.

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.