| 2012 – 103′ – Romantic Comedy –
Co-Written by Nicolas Mercier and Anne Fontaine.
Directed by Anne Fontaine.
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier, Virginie Efira, Aurélien Recoing, Eric Berger, Bruno Podalydès.
In French with English subtitles.
A Strand Releasing release.|

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MY WORST NIGHTMARE is a romantic comedy from director Anne Fontaine (COCO BEFORE CHANEL, GEMMA BOVERY). Agathe (Isabelle Huppert) is an uptight, impatient art dealer who lives in an expensive Parisian apartment with her wealthy publisher husband, Andre Dussollier. Patrick (Benoît Poelvoorde)  is a skirt-chasing, unemployed single father who lives in his van with his son. Their lives would never intersect except that their two sons are best of friends and her husband has hired Patrick to remodel their apartment. Hilarity ensues as this odd couple relationship turns into Agathe’s worst nightmare. “Charming…Delightful…One of the Best French Adult Comedies” – IonCinema.

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| 2015  – 102′ – Comedy / Romance –
Written and Directed by Sophie Fillières.
Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Brochet, Laurent Poitrenaud, Joséphine de la Baume, Nelson Delapalme, Julia Roy.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

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Pomme and Pierre have been together a long time. Passion and spontaneity have given way to predictability and cold shoulders. But there’s a lingering optimism, a hope they can return to the couple they used to be, attending chic art openings and sharing a laugh like young lovers. On a hike together one afternoon, Pomme declares her independence by deciding to stay in the woods rather than return to an underwhelming life with Pierre. Pierre tries to get back to normal, despite his worry over her whereabouts and the indelible sense that he’s missing his better half. Meanwhile, Pomme begins an extended meditation in the forest on where her own life should go next, with or without Pierre. In the end, both are left to contemplate the strength and meaning of each other’s commitment.

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| 2011 – 100′ –  Comedy / Romance –
Written by Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc.
Directed by Michel Leclerc.
Starring Jacques Gamblin, Sara Forestier, Carole Franck, Zinedine Soualem.
Official selection COLCOA French Film Festival. César Awards winner for Best Actress (Sara Forestier) & Best Original Screenplay.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release.|

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Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results – until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. Bound by common tragic family histories (the Algerian War and Holocaust under Vichy), the duo improbably falls in love. Amid the bubbly amour, humorous lasciviousness and moments of sheer madness, filmmaker Michel Leclerc and co-writer Baya Kasmi (FAMILY SHAKE – COLCOA2019)  inject satirical riffs on such hot-button sociopolitical issues as Arab-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism, immigration, and racial and cultural identity. 

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A FAITHFUL MAN

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Nine years after she left him for his best friend, journalist Abel (Louis Garrel) gets back together with his recently widowed old flame Marianne (Laetitia Casta). It seems to be a beautiful new beginning, but soon the hapless Abel finds himself embroiled in all sorts of drama: the come-ons of a wily jeune femme (Lily-Rose Depp), the machinations of Marianne’s morbid young son (Joseph Engel), and some unsavory questions about what exactly happened to his girlfriend’s first husband. Shifting points of view as nimbly as its players switch partners, the sophomore feature from actor/director Louis Garrel—co-written with the legendary Jean-Claude Carrière—is at once a beguiling bedroom farce and a playful inversion of the patriarchal tropes of the French New Wave.

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