| 2018 – 101′ – Drama / Biopic –
Written by Edouard Deluc, Etienne Comar, Thomas Lilti, Sarah Kaminsky.
Directed by Edouard Deluc.
Starring Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi, Pua-Taï Hikutini, Marc Barbé,
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

French artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was an innovator of modern art, known for experimenting with bold color and distorted proportions, along with his contemporaries Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. By 1891, Gauguin was already well-known in artistic circles, but had grown tired of the civilized world and its political and moral conventions. Leaving his wife and children behind, he ventures alone to Tahiti, consumed with a yearning for new inspiration. Pushing deep into the Tahitian jungle, Gauguin meets Tehura, his muse, who will consume his mind and inspire his most iconic works of art.

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| 1979 / 2013  – 131′ –  Classic – Digitally Restored – Drama / Biopic –
Written by Pascal Bonitzer, Jean Gruault and André Téchiné.
Directed by André Téchiné.
Starring Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Adjani, Roland Bertin, Alice Sapritch, Xavier Depraz, Adrian Brine, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Grégory.
Official Selection COLCOA French Film Festival (World Premiere Digitally Restored Version), Cannes International Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

In a remote English village of the 1840s, three sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne – live a simple life with their brother, Branwell, and their father, the pastor Patrick Brontë.  Although compelled to take up posts as governesses or private tutors, the four loyal siblings continue to nurture their artistic aspirations.  Branwell’s poems are beginning to interest other writers and each of the three sisters has published a successful novel.  But then tragedy strikes.  After a disastrous love affair with an older woman, Branwell succumbs to drugs, drink and depression.  Soon after his death, Emily and Anne are struck down by tuberculosis.  Will Charlotte’s lot be any better…? 

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| 2010 – 113′ –  Thriller / Biopic / Drama / Crime -,
Written by Abdel Raouf Dafri, Jean-François Richet
Directed by Jean-François Richet.
Based on Jacques Mesrine’s memoirs.
Starring Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan, Olivier Gourmet, Michel Duchaussoy, Anne Consigny.
Official Selections COLCOA French Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival. 5 César Awards nomination including Best Director.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release.|

The second opus of a 2-part biopic dedicated to the 70’s most wanted French gangster, MESRINE: ENEMY PUBLIC #1 starts when, now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number 1 and is eventually condemned to a maximum-security prison where he writes his memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and the anti-hero across France. Mesrine stages another daring escape and disappears into the lawless underworld, taunting the police and reinventing himself as a celebrity criminal through his savvy manipulation of the media. After such a monumental rise, comes the inevitable fall as the police close in, bringing the life of Jacques Mesrine to full bloody circle.(The first part of the biopic MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT, is also available on COLCOA VIRTUAL CINEMA)

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| 2010 – 113′ –  Thriller / Biopic / Drama / Crime -,
Written by Abdel Raouf Dafri, Jean-François Richet
Directed by Jean-François Richet.
Based on Jacques Mesrine’s memoirs.
Starring Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche, Myriam Boyer, Michel Duchaussoy, Roy Dupuis, Elena Anaya.
Official Selections COLCOA French Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival. 5 César Awards nomination including Best Director.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release.|

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The first opus of a 2-part biopic dedicated to the 70’s most wanted French gangster, MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT introduces us to Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), a loyal son and dedicated soldier back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido (Gérard Depardieu) Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder. After pulling off an audacious heist he and his lover Jeanne (Cécile de France) flee to Canada where the opportunity of one big payout lures him out of hiding and propels him towards international notoriety. (MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY #1, the second part is also available on COLCOA VIRTUAL CINEMA)

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| 2018 –  107′ – Comedy / Biopic / Romance –
Written by Academy Award Winner Michel Hazanavicius and Anne Wiazemsky.
Directed by Academy Award Winner Michel Hazanavicius.
Starring Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Academy Award Nominee Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot, Grégory Gadebois, Marc Fraize.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival. 4 César Award nominations.
In French with English subtitles. A Cohen Media Group release.|

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Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting LA CHINOISE with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love. They marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc. The events of May ’68 will amplify this process, and the crisis that shakes the filmmaker. Deep-rooted conflicts and misunderstandings will change him irrevocably. Revolutionary, off-the-wall, destructive, brilliant, he will pursue his choices and his beliefs to the breaking point… With his romantic and slyly funny GODARD MON AMOUR the Academy Award-winning director of THE ARTIST, Michel Hazanavicius, once again affectionately transports moviegoers back to a unique time and place in cinematic history: France, in the late 1960s. Actress Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin) finds herself juggling political protests and artistic challenges in her married life with renowned filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (Louis Garrel). As her country undergoes enormous cultural change, so too does Anne’s dynamic with her husband. GODARD MON AMOUR is a story of both real love and reel love.

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| 2009 – 125′ –  Drama / Biopic –
Written and Directed by Martin Provost.
Starring Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent.
Official Selection COLCOA French Film Festival. Winner of 7 César Awards, including Best Film, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Costume design.
A Music Box Films release.|

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Séraphine is the true story of Seraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau), a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41 — self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel — began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912 Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic and collector, discovered her paintings while she worked for him as a maid in his lodgings in Senlis outside Paris. Director Martin Provost builds his story around the relationship between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman’s spirit.

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| 2013 – 102′ –  Biopic / Drama  –
Written and Directed by Alice Winocour.
Starring Vincent Lindon, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin, Grégoire Colin.
Official Selection COLCOA French Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Critics Week Cannes Film Festival.
Three César Awards nominations including Best First Feature.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release.|

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The powerful and darkly sensual drama AUGUSTINE is based on the true story of the unusual relationship that developed between Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, the pioneering 19th century French neurologist and mentor to Sigmund Freud, and his star teenage patient. In Belle Epoque Paris, 19-year-old kitchen maid Augustine suffers an inexplicable seizure that leaves her partially paralyzed and is shipped off to an all-female psychiatric hospital specializing in the then-fashionable ailment of ‘hysteria’. Augustine captures the attention of renowned neurologist Dr. Charcot (Vincent Lindon) after she has another attack that appears to give her intense physical pleasure. Intrigued, he begins using her as his principal subject, hypnotizing her in front of his fellow doctors. As Augustine displays her spectacular fits in lecture halls, the lines between doctor and patient become blurred, radically impacting the course of both of their lives. Chronicling one woman’s sexual awakening against the backdrop of Victorian psychology and social repression, director Alice Winocour’s auspicious feature film debut stars 27 year-old French recording artist Soko in a breakout performance.

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| 2011 – 122′ –  Biopic / Music  –
Written and Directed by Joann Sfar, based on the life of Serge Gainsbourg.
Starring  Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Doug Jones, Anna Mouglalis, Sara Forestier, Philippe Katerine, Yolande Moreau.

Official Selection COLCOA French Film Festival.
8 César Awards nominations. Winner Césars for Best Actor (Eric Elmosnino), Best First Film and Best Sound.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release.|

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Taking the best from LA VIE EN ROSE and AMELIE, renowned comic book artist Joann Sfar’s GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE is a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous poet, singer-songwriter and musician Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino). Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian- Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi-Occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and, finally, pop superstar. Along the way he romances many of the era’s most beautiful female singers, including Juliette Greco (Anna Mouglalis), Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta) and Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon). Employing a witty, surrealistic style and soundtrack that includes many of the musician’s greatest hits, GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE is a quintessential time capsule from 1960s Paris.

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| 1995 – 111′ –  Classic / Drama / Music / Biography –
A Franco-Belgian co-production.
Co-written and Directed by Gérard Corbiau.
Starring Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Caroline Cellier, Jeroen Krabbé.
Academy Awards Nomination Best Foreign Language Film 1996.
Winner Golden Globes Best Foreign Film 1996.
In French and Italian with English subtitles.
A Film Movement Classics release.|

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In the 18th century during Handel’s time, no man was more famous or more celebrated than the castrato, Farinelli. The incredible, true story of the world famous opera singer – who was castrated during childhood in order to preserve his voice – comes to life in this Oscar-nominated drama of high notes and even higher passions.

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