From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Edith Piaf’s life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love.
Raised in poverty, Edith’s magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest names of the period - Jean Cocteau, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others - made her star all around the world.
But in her audacious attempt to tame her tragic destiny, the ‘Little Sparrow’ - as she was known - flew so high she could not fail to burn her wings.
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Release date : MAY/JUNE 2007 |
Berlin - International Film Festival, 2007 - Opening Night Gala
Charlotte is a sound engineer. Her mother is murdered in her house
in the countryside. Once there, Charlotte realizes
that she doesn’t know much about her
mother’s life in the village. The official
investigation isn’t going anywhere, and the
place seems full of secrets. Charlotte decides
to take action. She uses her sound equipment
to carry out her own investigation. While listening to a recording just made in the house
where the murder took place, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon: sounds from
the past blend in with sounds from the present.
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Release date : SUMMER/AUTOMN 2007 |
Paediatrician Alex, whose wife Margot was savagely murdered in the early
days of their marriage eight years before, receives an anonymous email: when he clicks
on the link indicated, he sees a woman’s face standing in a crowd filmed in real time.
Margot’s face.
Is she still alive? And why does she instruct him to tell no one? So many questions that our hero will not have time to consider: he barely even has time to raise the lid of this Pandora’s box before the police reopen the
case. And, eight years down the line, the police are determined that he will take the blame for her murder.
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Release date : 15 JUNE 2007 |
TELL NO ONE picked up four of the most prestigious awards at this year’s Césars: Best Director (Guillaume Canet), Best Actor (François Cluzet), Best Original Music (Mathieu Chedid) and best editing (Hervé de Luze).
Joana loves Guillaume. Guillaume now has reservations. Despite the strength of their
relationship, their love is coming to an end, and they are separating. Guillaume moves
back in with his father in Paris. He soon refuses to leave his younger brother’s bedroom in
which he settles. Joana is no longer here; depression is creeping over him. His brother
Jonathan and his father try to comfort Guillaume, each in their own way, to help him
overcome his heartache. Guillaume’s father looks after him with an often excessive
presence and paternal love; his brother entertains him and describes the mild extravagance
of his womanising.
In the meantime, in Paris, people are getting ready for the Christmas holiday season.
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Release date : 4 MAY 2007 |
Cannes - International Film Festival, 2006 - Directors’ Fortnight
Jean-Claude is a world weary older man whose days are spent in the thankless job
of ‘hussier de justice’ (the French equivalent of a bailiff), delivering paperwork to people facing
eviction or seizure of their possessions. He took over the business from his father, a brusque
fault finding widower who tries the patience of the care workers in the rest home where his
son dutifully visits him each Sunday. Across the street from Jean-Claude’s office is a
dance studio, and he decides to shake himself out of his drear, stultifying rut by enrolling for
tango lessons. There he is approached by a woman who tells him that his mother was
her babysitter when she was a child. She is learning to dance in preparation for her wedding,
but both she and Jean-Claude seem to share a longing for something more in their lives.
A tentative bond develops, but each is justifiably cautious.
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Release date : 8 JUNE 2007 |
San Sebastian - International Film Festival, 2005
When not trying to find an apartment for his difficult clients, Nicole (Laura
Morante) and Dan (Lambert Wilson), Thierry (André Dussollier) tries to charm his alluring
but saintly co-worker, Charlotte (Sabine Azéma). She lends him a tape of her favourite
religious TV programme, but Thierry’s in for a huge surprise. Meanwhile, his sister, Gaëlle
(Isabelle Carré), is on a quest of her own to find the love of her life. With the help of Lionel
(Pierre Arditi), a friendly bartender, she meets Dan and they get on well until Gaëlle spots
Dan with Nicole. Dan confides in Lionel, who has hired Charlotte as a night nurse for his
terminally sick and unbearably rude father, Arthur. Charlotte performs a miracle in
getting Arthur to behave himself. She leaves behind a tape of her “favourite religious TV
programme”...
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Release date : 20 JULY 2007 |
Venice - International Film Festival, 2006 - Silver Lion, Best Director
September the 1st, 2001. Elliot (Nick Nolte) - an American C.I.A. agent
holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world - disappears. His sole aim
is to meet his daughter Orlando (Sara Forestier), that he abandoned ten years
before. Irène (Juliette Binoche), a French agent who used to work with him, and David (Tom
Riley), his adoptive son, will help him and will lead the girl to her father. Chased by
William Pound (John Turturro), a psycho-poetry lover-killer, they will defy the dangers
of international espionage from Paris to Venice and finally get to Elliot on
September the 11th.
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Release date : SUMMER/AUTOMN 2007 |
Venice - International Film Festival, 2006
Despite appearances, Zingarina isn’t a Gypsy. She’s a young rebellious woman. She goes off with her friend
Marie to Transylvania in search of the man she loves. Marie tries desperately to hold on to
and keep some control over Zingarina because she knows that her friend is capable of doing anything. Imagine the unimaginable, and Zingarina will do it.
During the surrealistic pagan festival devoted to Herod, Zingarina is finally reunited with
the man she loves. In the madness, the noise, the music, the drunkenness of the celebrations,
she learns that she’s alone in the world, once again with love, and now without any point
of reference. No bearings, no mooring.
She evades her friend Marie, a connection to her past, to find a rebirth down another road
with another man, Tchango, an enigmatic character, free, with no borders nor house.
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Release date : 10 AUGUST 2007 |
Cannes - International Film Festival, 2006 - Closing Night Gala
Three French friends, Jean, Céline, and Pat arrive in Tbilisi, Giorgia, to
receive an inheritance. Accompagnied by their interpreter, Nikolaï, they take a bus into the
mountains, in which they meet a man and his grandson transporting an empty coffin. The
two men are going to an enemy clan’s village where the grandfather is to be sacrificed in
order to put an end to the rivalry between the two families. With their video recorder, the
friends follow them to the village...
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Release date : JULY 2007 TBC |
Sundance International Film Festival, 2007 - Special Jury Prize
The film tells the story of a group of young men, including local farmer
Demester who go to fight in an unnamed war with brutal consequences. Juxtaposing rural
images of their home village against the often savage and unrelenting landscape of war, the
film charts familiar Dumont territory by offering a unique vision against a backdrop of an
unconventional love story between Demester and his fragile sometime girlfriend Barbe.
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Release date : 6 JULY 2007 |
Cannes - International Film Festival, 2006 - Grand Jury Prize
THE SINGER
(Quand j'étais chanteur) |
This Singer never hits a false note. Depardieu plays Alain, a small-time
variétés singer of the white-jacket-and-redcarnation school; a hardened, honest
professional who’s always ready with a sentimental standard, he knows only too well
that he’s one of the dinosaurs that karaoke is making extinct. Then he meets Marion (de
France), a brittle-as-glass estate agent with her own emotional troubles. (...) In fact,
this is a hard-headed, incisive character study, a disenchanted adult love story, and a
study of a French social phenomenon that’s often written off as a joke. In this wry tribute
to the foot-soldiers of Gallic showbiz, Depardieu offers a touchingly sardonic selfportrait
as he contemplates the woes of a survivor who seems dated only because he’s
lasted the course. Jonathan Romney
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Release date : 17 AUGUST 2007 |
Cannes - International Film Festival, 2006
François is a dealer in antiques, a man completely immersed in his
trade. On the occasion of his birthday, his associate Catherine candidly informs him that
he has no friends. The other guests agree: François’ passion is confined to the objects he
buys and sells; he cannot connect emotionally. François is shocked - surely they’re joking. He
has nothing but friends, his days are full of meetings, of people. But Catherine insists:
she’s talking about friendship, not business. François insists - she’s talking nonsense.
When things get really heated between them, Catherine offers a challenge: François
must produce one of these good friends, a real friend - his best friend. He’s got ten days
to find him.
Thus his search begins. Only now does Daniel start to understand the difficulty of the
task ahead of him. Disappointment follows disappointment, rejection follows rejection,
and the true, lonely state of his life becomes clear. Then a meeting with a taxi driver
offers a glimmer of unlikely hope...
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Release date : 11 MAY 2007 TBC |
Toronto - International Film Festival, 2006
