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“400 blows” (original title : « Les 400 Coups »)

Directed by François Truffaut, 1959

Genre : Classical movie.

Duration: 99 minutes

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy

Awards: Nominated for Oscar (Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, 1960). Another 6 wins and 3 nominations, including: Cannes Film Festival 1959 (Best Director), BAFTA Awards 1961 (Best Film), New York Film Critics Circle Award 1959 (Best Foreign Language Film).

A young Parisian boy, Antoine Doinel, neglected by his derelict parents, skips school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals and tries (disastrously) to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. Unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. He inhabits in dingy Paris flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories, and streets, a city that seems big and full of possibilities only to a child's eye.

“Crime is our Business”(original title: “Le Crime est notre affaire”)

Directed by Pascal Thomas, 2008

Genre : Comedy. Duration 109 min

Cast : Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Chiara Mastroianni

Awards: 2 nominations at the César Awards 2009 (French equivalent of the Oscars):

Best Actress (Catherine Frot) and Best Writing – Adaptation.

The latest adventures of Belisaire and Prudence Bersford. The characters are enjoying peaceful days in their castle but Prudence is bored. She longs for an event that would add some excitement to their lives. The day an old aunt witnesses a murder, Prudence perks up and sets out on the trail of the killer.

“Hunting and Gathering” (original title: “Ensemble c’est tout”)

Directed by Claude Berri, 2007

Genre : Romantic comedy.

Duration 97 minutes

Cast : Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker

Awards: 3 wins and 3 nominations. 1 César Award in 2008: Most Promising Actor (Laurent Stocker). Cabourg Romantic Film Festival 2007: Best Actor (Guillaume Canet). European Film Awards 2008: 1 nomination (Best Film).

Camille (Audrey Tautou) works evenings as an office cleaning woman, and makes graceful drawings in her free time, living in the attic of a Parisian apartment block. Philibert (Laurent Stocker) is a young, aristocratic history buff living - temporarily - in an apartment lower down, part of the estate of his late grandmother. He has let out part of it to up and coming cook Franck (Guillaume Canet), a gruff young loner and womaniser with a genuine love for his frail grandmother, Paulette (Francoise Bertin). When Camille falls ill, Philibert insists she stay with the two of them so he can look after her. And even though she and Franck clash, the trio manage to live together and learn from each other.

“Rivals”(original title : « Les Liens du sang »)

Directed by Jacques Maillot, 2008

Genre : Thriller. Duration 106 min

Cast : Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Clothilde Hesme

Set in Lyon, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder. Their reunion is not easy but both men want to draw a line under the past. With François’s help, Gabriel finds a place to live and a job in a hypermarket. Everything seems to be going well, until the day when Gabriel's criminal past catches up with him...

“Saint-Cyr”

Directed by Patricia Mazuy, 2000

Genre : Period movie.

Duration: 119 minutes

Cast : Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Morgane Moré

Awards : 3 wins and 7 nominations. Cannes Film Festival 2000 (Award of the Youth), 1 César Award in 2000 (Best Costume Design).

France, end of the 17th century. Madame de Maintenon opens a special school for girls, seeking to educate young ladies of distinguished parentage but limited financial means. The girls learn to speak French with a linguist's precision, in addition to studying philosophy and history. However, when two of Maintenon's charges, Anne and Lucie, recite material in class that Madame finds inappropriate, it begins a war of wills between the headmistress and her students.

“Seraphine”

Directed by Martin Provost, 2008,

Genre : Period movie/Biography.

Duration : 125 minutes

Cast : Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur

Awards: 10 wins and 3 nominations. 7 wins at the César Awards 2009, including Best Film, Best Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Writing – Original. Cairo International Film Festival 2008: 1 win (Best Actress, Yolande Moreau).

1912. Séraphine Louis, 42, lives in Senlis, a small town fifty kilometers outside Paris. She earns a living doing household chores and cleaning. In her spare time, Séraphine paints, on anything that comes to hand (plates, furniture, small wooden panels). She works as a maid for Madame Duphot, who rents an apartment to a German art critic and dealer, Wilhelm Uhde, an enthusiastic advocate of modern and “primitive” artists. At a dinner party given by Madame Duphot, Wilhelm comes across a small painting that Séraphine brought over a few days previously. Mesmerized, he snaps it up and insists that Séraphine show him the rest of her work. He buys it all and encourages her to continue developing her talent…