Hélène Vincent

When Michelle’s peaceful retirement at a Burgundy village is interrupted by a visit from her daughter and grandson, family ties are tested.

When Jean-Louis' heart stops beating, he must confront his Oedipal issues — and ask his mother an unthinkable question — or he'll be dead in three days.

Divorced parents Victor and Emma are shocked when Lila, their 14-year-old daughter, suddenly transforms into a rebellious teenager. In over her head, Emma decides to get creative to keep her daughter in line.

Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl - and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt - as the intense reaction of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.

An arthouse staple of the ’90s, the Three Colors films hold up some twenty years later as complex, emotionally resonant, and visually beguiling tales of contemporary Europe. The first part, Blue, is a story of death and rebirth that features a tour-de-force performance by Juliette Binoche.

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.

After being unceremoniously dumped by her husband and downsized out of her job, a 50-year-old woman is forced to move back in with her parents.

The prodigal son of a family in turmoil returns home to his French rural home to reconnect with his family and make sense of their dysfunctions.

Romance blossoms between an undocumented Senegalese immigrant working in Paris and the insomniac caseworker trying to keep him in the country.