André Wilms

Aki Kaurismäki returns to France with this sun-kissed utopian parable. One of his most politically resonant films, Le Havre echoes The Man Without a Past’s ruminations on community and resilience, albeit this time (via a hat tip to Carl Dreyer’s Ordet) with a nod to the vagaries of the divine.

A painter named Louis and his wife Michelle, have been experiencing strange events. The universe around them seems to be changing. Slowly, furniture, objects, and people lose their realism.

An intimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she's left to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.

Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite knock backs and tragedies.

In 1930s Paris, an actress famous for her gory death scenes at the Grand Guignol Theater contends with a mysterious stalker and ghosts from her past.

In this mysterious tale, a family welcomes a baby with an unusual gift causing suspicion, intrigue and doubt to arise.

An outrageously wicked comedy about two families from award winning debut filmmaker Étienne Chatiliez, this fast-paced satire became the most popular French comedy of the decade. The radiantly bourgeois Le Quesnoys with their immaculate children and perfect manners and the grubby, disreputable Groseilles are thrown together in absurd chaos by an act of revenge as they discover that twelve years prior their babies were switched at birth. A witty send up of class relations and family ties, 'Life Is a Long Quiet River' was celebrated with a host of trophies at France's César Awards ceremony winning for best screenplay, best debut work and acting prizes for Hélène Vincent and Catherine Jacob.

The biopic of the legendary, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chemist, who triggered controversy not only in the male dominated world of French science, but also by her unconventional romantic life.