| 2021 – 133′ – Comedy,Drama  –
Written by Bruno Dumont.
Directed by Bruno Dumont.
Starring Léa Seydoux (France de Meurs), Blanche Gardin (Lou), Benjamin Biolay (Fred de Meurs), Emanuele Arioli (Charles Castro), Juliane Köhler (Mme Arpel), Gaëtan Amiel (Joseph de Moeurs), Jawad Zemmar (Baptiste)
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2021, COLCOA French Film Festival 2021
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release|

Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling new film, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont (The Life of Jesus, NYFF35) casts Seydoux as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, homelife, and psychological stability are shaken after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy Paris street. This accident triggers a series of self-reckonings, as well as a strange romance that proves impossible to shake. A film that teases at redemption while refusing to grant absolution, France is tragicomic and deliciously ambivalent—a very 21st-century treatment of the difficulty of maintaining identity in a corrosive culture.

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| 2015 – 104′ – Comedy / Drama  –
Co-Written and Directed by Thomas Lilti.
Starring Vincent Lacoste, Reda Kateb, Jacques Gamblin, Marianne Denicourt, Félix Moati, Philippe Rebot, Carole Franck.
Official Selections: COLCOA French Film Festival, Cannes International Film Festival Critics’ Week. 7 César Awards nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Script and Best Actor.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films U.S. release.|

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Closing night of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week, HIPPOCRATES: DIARY OF A FRENCH DOCTOR  is a darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern, Benjamin, played by Vincent Lacoste (Eden), who begins his internship at the hospital ward run by his father. Confident and determined that he will quickly become a successful doctor, Vincent soon realizes that the reality of the medical world is a lot grimmer than what he had imagined. He is also overshadowed by his co-junior partner Abdel, a foreign doctor, played by Reda Kateb (Lost River, Zero Dark Thirty) who’s obviously more competent than he is but who’s forced to work as an intern because of his immigrant status. When Vincent makes a medical error, his father quickly covers it up but Abdel is not fooled…
A charming counterpoint to shows like GREY’S ANATOMY and HOUSE, the film is framed as a rite of passage set against a social backdrop and offers an ultra-realistic vision of the French public medical system. Helmed by Thomas Lilti, an M.D himself, the film was a box-office hit in its native France, earning Reda Kateb a Cesar for best supporting actor.

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| 2017 – 116′ –  Comedy / Drama  – France- Italy co-production –
Co-Written by Francesca Archibugi and Paolo Virzi
Directed by Paolo Virzi.
Starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti, Bob Messini, Sergio Albelli, Marisa Borini, Anna Galiena, Tommaso Ragno.
Official Competitions COLCOA French Film Festival (Winner Audience Special Mention), Cannes Film Festival – Directors Fortnight.
In Italian with English subtitles.
A Strand Releasing release. |

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Actresses Valerie Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramozzotti are at the height of their games as comically mismatched escapees from a mental institution. The story begins in a stately Tuscan villa converted into a retreat for unstable women. Beatrice (Tedeschi) is an entitled, manically motor-mouthed compulsive liar. Donatella is a withdrawn depressive, deeply damaged by life. As much as Donatella dwells on the past, Beatrice lives for the moment, so when she sees an opportunity to get away from hospital staff, she seizes it, with Donatella in tow. The two hit the road on an outlaw odyssey that includes sexy cars, expensive dinners, fortune tellers, an ex-this and a former-that, and any manner of self-medicating, all without a Euro to scrounge between them. They aim to find happiness, but that turns out to be a tricky thing to nail down. Even a lighthearted jaunt in the Tuscan sun can take you to a deeper, more emotionally resonant destination.

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| 2016 – 129′ –  Comedy / Drama –
Written by Xavier Giannoli and Marcia Romano.
Directed by Xavier Giannoli.
Starring Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Denis Mpunga, Christa Théret, Sylvain Dieuaide, Aubert Fenoy.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival. 11 Nominations César Awards, including Best Film, Best Director. Winner 4 César Awards including Best Actress (Catherine Frot).
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

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1921, the beginning of the Golden Twenties. Not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont’s castle. Like every year, an array of music lovers gathers around a great cause at the owner’s place. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. Marguerite sings. She sings wholeheartedly, but she sings terribly out of tune. In ways quite similar to the Castafiore, Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience, always coming in for a good laugh, acts as if she was the diva she believes she is. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream. Despite her husband’s reluctance, and with the help of a has-been divo, both funny and mean, she decides to train for her first recital in front of a crowd of complete strangers.

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| 2017 – 117′ –  Drama / Comedy
Co-Written & Directed by Martin Provost.
Starring Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier Gourmet, Mylène Demongeot, Quentin Dolmaire.
World Premiere Berlin International Film Festival. .
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Film release .|

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Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire’s late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together in this sharp character study from the César-award winning director Martin Provost (SERAPHINE – also available on COLCOA VIRTUAL CINEMA).

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| 2018 – 113′ –  Drama / Comedy –
Co-Written & Directed by Cédric Klapisch.
Starring Pio Marmai, Ana Girardot, François Civil, Jean-Marc Roulot, Maria Valverde.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Film release. |

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Three siblings reunite at their home in picturesque Burgundy to save the family vineyard in this tender tale of a new generation finding its own unique blend from acclaimed director Cédric Klapisch (L’AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE, CHINESE PUZZLE). Jean (Pio Marmaï), the black sheep of the family, unexpectedly returns home from a decade abroad to reconnect with his hospitalized father. He’s welcomed by his strong-willed sister, Juliette (Ana Girardot), who took over the reins of the vineyard after their father fell ill, and Jeremie (François Civil), the youngest of the three who has recently married into one of the region’s more prestigious wine families. Their father passes shortly after Jean’s return, leaving them with the estate and a looming inheritance tax of half a million dollars. As four seasons and two harvests go by, Jean, Juliette, and Jeremie have to learn to reinvent their relationship and trust in each other as they work to preserve the land that ties them together.

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GUY

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MR. & MRS. ADELMAN

| 2017 – 120′ – Comedy / Romance – Co-written and Directed by Nicolas Bedos.
Starring Doria Tillier, Nicolas Bedos, Denis Podalydès, Antoine Gouy, Christiane Millet, Pierre Arditi.
Winner Audience Award COLCOA 2017.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films U.S. release.|

The decades-spanning tumultuous romance of a quintessentially French couple is chronicled in the thought-provoking and scathingly funny MR. & MRS. ADELMAN. Told in flashback from the early 1970s forward, this epic love-hate relationship begins as angst-ridden writer Victor meets Sarah, a brilliant doctoral student who falls head-over-heels. A complicated courtship and eventual marital discord ensue, as the egocentric Victor becomes a literary superstar and the enigmatic Sarah—his muse and steadfast source of strength—lingers in the shadows. Intimately detailing the intricacies of a lifetime of shared highs and lows, this saga of passion, betrayal, tragedy and unexpected twists of fate is co-written by the film’s two stars, Nicolas Bedos and his life partner Doria Tillier. Audience Award winner at the Hamptons International Film Festival and COLCOA French Film Festival.

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THE FRESHMEN

| 2019 – 92′ – Comedy / Drama – Written and Directed by Thomas Lilti.
Starring Vincent Lacoste, William Lebghil, Michel Lerousseau, Darina Al Joundi.
Official Competition COLCOA 2019.
A Distrib Films U.S. release. |

The Freshmen follows Antoine (playing by rising star in French cinema Vincent Lacoste), who is about to start his first year of medical school… for the third time. Meanwhile, Benjamin, fresh out of high school, will have his first stab at it. He soon realizes that it’s not exactly a walk in the park. With nights dedicated to hard studying, rather than hard partying, the two freshers will have to adapt and find a middle ground between despair for the present and hope for the future.

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PERFUMES

| 2021 – 101′ – Comedy / Drama –
Written and Directed by Grégory Magne.
Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Grégory Montel, Gustave Kervern.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films U.S. release.|

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Anne Walberg (Emmanuelle Devos) is a master in perfumes. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible gift to many companies. She is a diva, selfish and temperamental. Guillaume  (Gregory Montel – CALL MY AGENT) is her new driver and the only one who dares facing her. This is probably why she does not fire him.

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