Hippolyte Girardot

In Faenza, Italy, a dysfunctional family gathers for occasional dinners, and as untold truths are revealed over time, things gradually become rocky.

Janot fell in love with Léon when she was only sixteen. Years later, when they could finally be together, the Nazis arrived in France.

A translator with the Paris police (Isabelle Huppert) finds herself in possession of a huge store ofhash, the insider knowledge required to move it and an unexpected flair for the danger that ensues.

Nine strangers with no clear connection awaken drugged and imprisoned in a locked house, where they learn only one of them is meant to survive.

Years after surviving the atrocities of Auschwitz, old friends reunite at the seaside, trying to close the door on the past and celebrate life’s joys.

Shot simultaneously with JEAN DE FLORETTE, this second chapter in the epic story of the intersecting fates of the Cadoret and Soubeyran families unfolds ten years after the events of the first film, as Jean Cadoret’s daughter, Manon (Emmanuelle Béart, in a César-winning performance), now a teenage shepherdess, learns of the circumstances that drove her family to ruin—and seeks revenge on those responsible. A stirring portrait of a young woman’s awakening to her own agency, MANON OF THE SPRING brings to a close Claude Berri’s sweeping Marcel Pagnol adaptation with a devastating power that approaches Greek tragedy.

For the second feature to be shot outside of his native Taiwan, Hou Hsiao-hsien ventured to Paris for this lyrical masterpiece. Starring Juliette Binoche, and captured in swooning tracking shots by cinematographer Lee Ping Bing, The Flight of the Red Balloon is a work of warm and delicate wonder.

A famous writer and his young wife struggle with their their marriage while on vacation in Haiti.