Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012
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- DirectorOlivier NakacheÉric ToledanoStarsFrançois CluzetOmar SyAnne Le NyAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
- DirectorDavid FoenkinosStéphane FoenkinosStarsAudrey TautouFrançois DamiensBruno TodeschiniA French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
- DirectorDelphine CoulinMuriel CoulinStarsLouise GrinbergJuliette DarcheRoxane DuranWhen a rebellious teenager finds out that she is already eight weeks pregnant, she forms a pact with sixteen of her classmates to get pregnant simultaneously, raise their children together, and most of all, be in charge of their lives.
- DirectorFrédéric LoufStarsPierre NineyAudrey BastienLou de LaâgeThis feature is a classic first-love and coming-of-age story set in the exciting political context of 1981.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsYvan AttalSophie QuintonNicole GarciaA young woman is stabbed, sexually assaulted and murdered in public as her neighbors ignore her cries for help.
- DirectorMathieu DemyStarsMathieu DemyGeraldine ChaplinChiara MastroianniA man who returns to Los Angeles to wrap up his mother's estate sets out in search of the mysterious woman named in her will.
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsArlettyJean-Louis BarraultPierre BrasseurThe theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
- DirectorBenoît JacquotStarsLéa SeydouxDiane KrugerVirginie LedoyenA look at the platonic relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her female readers during the first days of the French Revolution.
- DirectorIsmaël FerroukhiStarsTahar RahimMichael LonsdaleMahmud ShalabyIn Paris during World War II, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.
- DirectorOlivier MarchalStarsGérard LanvinTchéky KaryoDaniel DuvalAfter growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Gang Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.
- DirectorVincent GarenqStarsPhilippe TorretonWladimir YordanoffNoémie LvovskyA family man battles to prove his innocence after being accused of a heinous crime.
- DirectorJalil LespertStarsBenoît MagimelIsabelle CarréAntoine DulérySarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DenisStarsCéline SalletteÉric CaravacaFrançois LoriquetSister Luce meets Martial, a chaplain with a shaken faith and who has passed through the ranks of the Resistance. From the love of Christ to that of a man, she leaves the convent. But it collides with the wall of reality and passions.
- DirectorLaurent AchardStarsPascal CervoCharlotte Van KemmelKarole RocherSylvain, 31 and film-obsessed, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
- DirectorCyril MennegunStarsCorinne MasieroJérôme KircherAnne BenoîtA woman wages an uphill struggle to put her life back together in this neo-realist drama from France. Louise is a divorcee in her early fifties who is having a hard time making ends meet on her own, she works as a cleaning woman and lives in her car but raising enough money for an apartment always seems to be just out of her reach.
- DirectorNicolas KlotzStarsCamille RutherfordArash NaimianLuc ChesselTwo young lovers face down French police in this drama. When Afghani student Hussian finds his visa expired, he and his new girlfriend, Julie, are forced underground. Can they evade a tragic fate?
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsJean BarneyChloé BerthierJB BlancThree characters of different social classes escape their unfinished painting in search of the Painter, hoping he will complete it.
- DirectorAlain CavalierStarsVincent LindonAlain CavalierBernard BureauVincent Lindon and Alain Cavalier are pals. Like father and son. They sip port in bars dreaming of a film they might make. Together. Then just once in a while, they don suit and tie. Play men of power. See how much trouble they can make. For a laugh. They tell a tall story, that's part really personal, part, well - just plain tall...
- DirectorMathieu AmalricStarsMuriel MayetteDenis PodalydèsSuliane BrahimA father is looking for the son he hasn't seen for years in this contemporary adaptation of the seventeenth-century play by Pierre Corneille.
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsJacques NolotChristian Milia-DarmezinKenji LevanFollowing the death of the notorious smuggler Louis Mandrin his old friends walk in his footsteps and make him popular by composing and singing songs about him. A 2011 French adventure film won the 2011 Prix Jean Vigo award.
- DirectorRobert GuédiguianStarsAriane AscarideJean-Pierre DarroussinGérard MeylanA union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsAndré DussollierCarole BouquetMélanie ThierryA crime writer living in Venice while working on his new novel meets and soon marries his real-estate agent. Relocated to a remote house on Sant'Erasmo Island, his obsession with his wife's daily whereabouts takes a dark turn.
- DirectorDaniel AuteuilStarsDaniel AuteuilAstrid Bergès-FrisbeyNicolas DuvauchelleIn 1930s southern France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper.
- DirectorRémi BezançonJean-Christophe LieStarsMax Renaudin PrattSimon AbkarianAbraham AdesoyeAfter escaping the clutches of a slave trader, a bold ten-year-old Sudanese boy befriends a young giraffe and a kind Bedouin, who takes them on a splendid journey via a hot-air balloon as far as the palace of King Charles X of France.