Catherine Hiegel

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.

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, impoverished and unloved Violette Leduc (Emmanuelle Devos, Coco Before Chanel) meets Simone de Beauvoir (Sandrine Kiberlain, The Apartment) in post war Saint-Germaindes-Pres. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette’s quest for freedom through writing and on Simone’s conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer. Based on the true story of French novelist Violette Leduc, Violette is directed by Martin Provost (Séraphine).

Doting wife Loli finally learns the truth about her husband’s chronic philandering and exacts payback when a stranger shows up outside their house.