Public Affairs – An old-fashioned Godardian political essay in which a director’s wife/muse announces that she’s seeing another man.
Welcome to the Rozes – Two escaped convicts take refuge in an ultra-bourgeois home in this sardonic first film from Francis Palluau.
Work Hard, Play Hard – Jean-Marc Moutout explores the horrors of office life in this Faustian tale of execs on the make.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room – The fourth film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s classic ‘locked room’ mystery novel is a humourous yet reverential pastiche of old-style dectective stories.
The Over-Eater – A modern variation on ‘Beauty And The Beast’ starring beach-footballing legend Eric Cantona as a morbidly obese Marseilles cop. The philosopher king himself will attend the screening, as well as presenting his own directorial debut Apporte Moi Ton Amour.
Beautiful Memories – This quirky comedy set in a rural memory-loss clinic swept the boards at last years Cesars.
Eager Bodies – Following a cancer diagnosis, a third party becomes involved in an intense relationship in Xavier Giannoli’s exploration of shifting psychological dynamics.
18 Years Later – The follow-up to the 1985 hit Three Men And A Cradle (remade as Three Men And A Baby) is remarkably even more accomplished than its Hollywood equivalent Three Men And A Little Lady.
Strayed – A column of refugees are bombed by the Germans and must turn to a feral child for help in this psychologically complex wartime drama.
Les Cotelettes – More absurdist drama from the predictably provocative Bertrand Blier.
Only Girls – Offbeat female buddy comedy pitching a free spirit together with an uptight lawyer.