Laurent Poitrenaux

A puzzlebox neo-noir, this erotic thriller from Mathieu Amalric is one where the French actor’s filmmaking is every bit as enthralling as his performance. We hand you the keys to The Blue Room, a spiral of passion, secrets & murder brilliantly adapted to the screen from Simenon’s eponymous novel.

Victoria, a criminal lawyer in a total sentimental void, bumps into her friend Vincent and Sam, a former drug dealer she defended. When Vincent is accused of attempted murder, Victoria accepts to defend him. She also hires Sam as an au pair. This is just the beginning of troubled times for Victoria.

A job as a Red Cross nurse in 1914 France becomes Nelie’s ticket out of poverty, but her chance at wealth comes by stealing a dead woman’s identity.

An engineer forms a bond with a local chef and uncovers a mystical energy present in the mountains, losing even more any desire to return to the city.

Two young outcasts with scientific minds build a friendship and an unusual vehicle to carry them on a wild cross-country adventure through France.

The winds of change sweep the streets of Paris at a time both intimidating and liberating for a mother and her teenage children. Charlotte Gainsbourg is at her most enchanting in this drama, which follows in the footsteps of the great Éric Rohmer by tenderly and precisely observing human existence.

Successful Parisian publisher Alain struggles to adapt to the digital revolution, and has doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors—another auto-fiction recycling his affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife and a famous actress, is of the opposite opinion.