Comedy Drama – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:37:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 JO’S BOY https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/jos-boy/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/jos-boy/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:02:41 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=21103

JO’S BOY

| 2011 – 97′ – Comedy Drama, Comedy, Coming of Age.
Written by: Philippe Guillard.
Directed by: Philippe Guillard.
Starring: Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Marchal, Vincent Moscato, Jérémie Duvall, Karina Lombard, Lionnel Astier, Darren Adams.
Official Competition COLCOA 2011 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Gaumont release. |

 

Grandson of a rugby legend, son of a rugby legend and a rugby legend himself, Jo Canavaro is raising his son, Tom, on his own in a small village in the south-west of France. To the great displeasure of Jo, thirteen-year-old Tom is as good at math as he is useless on the rugby field. For a Canavero, the legend can’t stop there, even if it means setting up a rugby team specifically for Tom, despite the wishes of the whole village and of Tom himself.

 

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MA VIE EN ROSE (My Life in Pink)

| 1997 – 90′ – COMEDY DRAMA, LGBTQ+, COMING OF AGE, CLASSIC,
A France-Belgium Coproduction
Written by: Alain Berliner, Chris Vander Stappen.
Directed by: Alain Berliner.
Starring: Georges du Fresne, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent, Michèle Laroque, Marie Bunel, Marine Jolivet, Catherine Hirsh, Peter Belay.
Official Selections Cannes Directors Fortnight 1997, San Sebastian International Film Festival 1997. Golden Globe Winner for Best Foreign film 1998.
In French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |

 

Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl – and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt – as the intense reaction of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.

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JULES AND JIM

| 1962 – 105′ – COMEDY DRAMA, ROMANCE, CLASSIC.
Written by: François Truffaut.
Directed by: François Truffaut,Jean Gruault.
Based on the Book by: Henry-Pierre Roché.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Marie Dubois, Boris Bassiak, Annie Nelsen, Sabine Haudepin.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

 

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules (Oskar Werner) strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim (Henri Serre). Both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), but it’s Jules who wins her hand. After the war, Jim visits Jules, Catherine and their daughter in their Austrian home and discovers not only that his feelings for Catherine are unchanged, but also that they’re reciprocated.

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RAINING CATS AND DOGS

| 2021 – 90′ –  Comedy Drama.
Written by: Edouard Deluc, Chloé Larouchi, Laura Piani.
Directed by: Edouard Deluc.
Starring: Philippe Rebbot, Pablo Pauly, Elodie Bouchez, Laurence Calamy, Jean-Luc Bideau, Brigitte Fossey, Solène Rigot.
Official selection La Rochelle Film Festival 2019 (winner Best Feature).
Official Competition COLCOA 2021.
In French with English subtitles.
A Mhz Choice release. |

 

The ever-affable, ever-bumbling Philippe Rebbot stars as Jean, the captain of a bateau-mouche tour boat, with a tendency toward tippling, who’s going through a seriously bad patch!  Struggling to make ends meet, evicted from his apartment, then laid-off from his job, Jean risks losing joint custody of his three beloved children. Then he meets Victor, a similarly hapless, itinerant musician… and the unlikely duo joins forces in an attempt to stay afloat.

 

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MY PIECE OF THE PIE

| 2011 – 109′ –  Comedy Drama, Romance.
Written by: Cédric Klapisch.
Directed by: Cédrick Klapisch.
Starring: Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche, Audrey Lamy, Jean-Pierre Martins, Marine Vacth, Raphaële Godin, Fred Ulysse, Kevin Bishop.
Official Competition COLCOA 2011.
In English or in French with English subtitles.
An IFC Films release. |

 

France, a single mother from the blighted industrial north, and Steve, a hotshot trader with a keen eye for the killer deal, are thrown together when he’s looking for a cleaner and she’s looking for a job.

 

 

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GREEK SALAD

| 2023 – 8 x 52′ –  Season 1 – Series – Comedy Drama, Romance, Coming of Age.
Created and Written by: Cédric Klapisch, Thomas Colineau, Agnès Hurstel, Paul Madillo, Eugène Riousse, Charlotte de Givry.
Directed by: Cédric Klapisch, Antoine Garceau, Lola Doillon.
Starring: Aliocha Schneider, Megan Northam, Romain Duris, Kelly Reilly, Aggy K. Adams, Anna Kameníková, Fotinì Peluso, Amir Baylly, Cécile de France.
In English or in French with English subtitles.
An Amazon Prime release. |

 

Tom’s and Mia’s grandfather has just died. He bequeathed them a building in Athens, where Mia is supposed to be studying. Tom joins her to oversee their inheritance and use the proceeds of its sale to launch his start-up based in NY… Only to discover that his sister has actually dropped out of school and that her anti-capitalist activities will complicate liquidating their joint bequest.

 

 

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GIRL ON THE BRIDGE

| 1999 (re-releasing: 2024) – 90′ – Comedy Drama, Romance, Classic.
Written by: Serge Frydman.
Directed by: Patrice Leconte.
Starring: Vanessa Paradis, Daniel Auteuil, Claude Aufaure, Nicola Donato, Jacques Vertan, Isabelle Spade, Natacha Solignac.
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release. |

 

Girl on the Bridge is one of director Patrice Leconte’s (The Hairdresser’s Husband) most intoxicating romances. Shot in gorgeous B&W, it follows the whirlwind courtship of carnival knife thrower Gabor (Daniel Auteuil) and lonesome wanderer Adele (Vanessa Paradis). Despairing of her future, Adele leaps into the Seine before being rescued by Gabor, and unexpectedly becomes the new assistant, and target, for his act. He flings knives at her across Europe, their love growing with each death-defying act. Living so close to the edge, how long can the luck of these lovers hold out?

 

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THE CONCERT

| 2010 – 120′ – Comedy Drama, Music & Dance.
Written by: Radu Mihaileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc, Thierry Degrandi, Héctor Cabello Reyes.
Directed by: Radu Mihaileanu.
Starring: Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dimitry Nazarov, François Berléand, Valeri Barinov, Miou-Miou, Lionel Abelanski, Alexander
Komissarov, Guillaume Gallienne.
Five César Awards Nomination including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay. Golden Globes Nomination for Best International Feature 2011.
Official Competition COLCOA 2010.
In French with English subtitles.
A Lionsgate release. |

During the Brezhnev era, Andrei Filipov was the greatest conductor in the Soviet Union and he directed the famous Bolshoi Orchestra. But after refusing to abandon his Jewish musicians, including his best friend Sacha, he was fired at the height of his glory. Thirty years later, he is still working at the Bolshoi, but… as a cleaner. One evening, when Andrei has stayed late to polish the director’s desk, he comes across a fax addressed to the Bolshoi management: it is an invitation from the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for the orchestra to come and perform there. Suddenly, Andrei has a crazy idea: why not bring together his old musician friends, who now get by doing menial work, and take them to Paris, passing them off as the Bolshoi Orchestra? It is the long-awaited occasion for them to at last get their revenge.

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COMING SOON IN US THEATRES AND ON DIGITAL.

THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS

| 2024 – 102′ – Drama, Comedy, Comedy Drama.
Written by: Michel Gondry.
Directed by: Michel Gondry.
Starring: Pierre Niney, Blanche Gardin, Frankie Wallach, Camille Rutherford, Françoise Lebrun, Vincent Elbaz, Mourad Boudaoud, Sting, Lucas Noël.
Official Selection: Directors Fortnight Cannes 2023.
In French with English subtitles.
A XYZ Films release. |

Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing. A semi-autobiographical comedy about a filmmaker struggling to complete his new film, The Book of Solutions debuted at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, eight years after Gondry’s previous film. With César Award-winning actor Pierre Niney channelling Gondry’s imaginative, innovative and anxious energy into the role of Marc, the director of a tumultuous film production, The Book of Solutions provides a tantalising insight into why Gondry took so long to make his next film.” 

 

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NATHALIE

| 2004 – 100′ – Drama, Romance.
Written by: Anne Fontaine, Jacques Fieschi, François-Olivier Rousseau, Philippe Blasband.
Directed by: Anne Fontaine.
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu,Wladimir Yordanoff, Judith Magre, Rodolphe Pauly, Evelyne Dandry, Aurore Auteuil, Ida Techer.
Official Selections: Toronto International Film Festival 2003, Rendez-vous With French Cinema in New York 2004, Chicago International Film Festival 2004.
Official Competition COLCOA 2004.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

 

Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, and Gérard Depardieu star in this story of an unusual love triangle. When Catherine’s husband is unfaithful, she doesn’t want revenge — she’s curious. She wants to share the experience, but in secret, so hires an elite prostitute to seduce her husband and report back to Catherine. Her desire to remain in control of the situation is soon tested by other desires.

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