Romantic Comedy – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:03:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 YOU CHOOSE! https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/you-choose/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/you-choose/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:42:46 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=21090

YOU CHOOSE!

| 2017 – 95′ –  Comedy, Romantic Comedy, French Food & Wine.
Written by: Eric Lavaine.
Directed by: Eric Lavaine.
Starring: Alexandra Lamy, Arnaud Ducret, Jamie Bamber, Anne Marivin, Sabrina Ouazani, Jérôme Commandeur.
Official Competition COLCOA 2017.
In French with English subtitles.
An Under The Milky Way release. |

This breezy confection is the ideal vehicle for actor Alexandra Lamy’s comic madness. Juliette has perfected the art of indecision. At the age of 40, she defers to her father, or her two besties, Joëlle and Sonia, for all of life’s questions, from what to eat for lunch to what to do for a living. When her exasperated fiancé dumps her, Joëlle and Sonia decide that the best thing for her to do is find a new beau immediately. Juliette leans into the task at hand, and is soon rewarded with Etienne, a charming foodie with a well-equipped kitchen. Then disaster strikes, in the form of a Scotsman named Paul. With his lean profile and fat wallet, Paul is every woman’s idea of a catch. To make matters worse, both men make proposals of marriage. When her usual advisors refuse to make the choice for her, Juliette has only one choice left: stall, stall, stall.

 

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APRÈS VOUS https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/apres-vous/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:05:56 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20947 APRÈS VOUS

| 2005 – 101′ –  Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Romance.
Written by: Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin, Danièle Dubroux, David Léotard.
Directed by: Pierre Salvadori.
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Kiberlain, José Garcia, Marilyne Canto, Michèle Moretti, Garance Clavel, Fabio Zenoni.
Official Competition COLCOA 2004.
In French with English subtitles.
A Paramount Pictures release. |

Antoine works in a bar in Paris. One evening on his way home from work, he intervenes when a man tries to commit suicide. He feels strangely guilty about having saved the man’s life and constantly tries to help him make things better. No matter what Antoine does, he can’t get Louis’s mind off Blanche, the woman of his dreams, his sole obsession, the reason why he wanted to die. Antoine decides to look for her, but doesn’t let Louis know. However things don’t happen the way he planned. Blanche isn’t alone and she’s beautiful…

 

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WILD TARGET https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/wild-target/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/wild-target/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:58:58 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20944

WILD TARGET

| 1993 – 87′ –  Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Crime, Classic.
Written by: Pierre Salvadori.
Directed by: Pierre Salvadori.
Starring: Jean Rochefort, Marie Trintignant, Guillaume Depardieu, Patachou, Serge Riaboukine, Wladimir Yordanoff, Olga Poliakoff.
In French with English subtitles.
A Synergetic Distribution release. |

 

Victor Meynard is a professional killer. His domineering mother rules his life as he pursues a brilliant career in the family tradition. During a hit, he comes across Antoine, a young man whom he takes under his wing and trains as his successor while working on his new contract : Renée Dandrieux, a glamourous thief who deals in fake paintings and breaks every rule.

 

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SEX (RE)EDUCATION https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/sex-reeducation/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/sex-reeducation/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:26:50 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20923

OPENING ON DIGITAL ON FEBRUARY 11, 2025.

SEX (RE)EDUCATION

| 2025 – 10 x 26′ – Season 1 – Series – Comedy, Romantic Comedy.
Created by: Clémence Azincourt, Alice Vial.
Written by: Clémence Azincourt, Alice Vial, Clément Marchand.
Directed by: Alice Vial.
Starring: Féodor Atkine, Sylvie Granotier, Irène Jacob, Justine Lacroix, Clémence Azincourt, Jean-Louis Garçon.
Official Competition TAFFF 2023.
In French with English subtitles.
A Mhz Choice release. |

When Jacques’ daughter puts him in a high-end seaside retirement home, he thinks he’s being put out to pasture. Until he meets Rose, a vibrant, beautiful septuagenarian with whom he immediately falls madly in love… and tirelessly lusts after. Albeit, with subtlety and tenderness, but totally without taboos. However, their love affair wreaks havoc in the home, and deeply shakes the lives of everyone around them — their families, the staff, the management and the other residents. Yet, galvanized by their love and desire, Jacques and Rose are determined to live out their late-in-life passion against all odds, overcoming the small inconveniences and major obstacles in their path.

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IT HAPPENED IN SAINT-TROPEZ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/it-happened-in-saint-tropez/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/it-happened-in-saint-tropez/#respond Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:33:16 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20789

IT HAPPENED IN SAINT-TROPEZ

| 2013 – 125′ – Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Romance.
Written by: Danièle Thompson, Christopher Thomson.
Directed by: Danièle Thompson.
Starring: Eric Elmosnino, Lou de Laâge, Kad Merad, Clara Ponsot, Max Boublil, Monica Belluci, Ivry Gitlis, Valérie Bonneton.
Official Competition COLCOA 2013 (Opening Film).
In French with English subtitles.
An Under The Milky Way release. |

 

Brothers Zef and Roni could not be more different; different career paths, different taste in women, one all religious austerity, the other enjoying the high-life. All they have in common is their ageing and addle brained father, and their daughters who are best friends. So when the funeral of Zef’s wife falls on the day of Roni’s daughter’s wedding this stroke of unfortunate timing that brings to a head the simmering antagonism between the two brothers.

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JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/jane-austen-wrecked-my-life/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/jane-austen-wrecked-my-life/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:28:39 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20567

OPENING IN US THEATRES IN 2025 BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE

| 2025 – 94′ – Romance, Romantic Comedy, Comedy.
Written by: Laura Piani.
Directed by: Laura Piani.
Starring: Camille Rutherford, Pablo Pauly, Annabelle Lengronne, Charlie Anson, Liz Crowther, Alan Fairbarn, Alice Butaud, Frederik Wiseman.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |

Agathe, hopelessly clumsy yet charming and full of contradictions, finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books in the legendary British Bookshop, Shakespeare & Co, in Paris. Invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she must confront her insecurities to finally fulfill her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to wasting her sentimental life.

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SHAFTED https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/shafted/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/shafted/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:16:58 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20557

SHAFTED

| 2025 – 6 x 52′ – Season 1 – Series,  Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy.
Written by: Noémie Saglio, Estelle Koening, Julien Teisseire.
Directed by: Noémie Saglio, Olivier Rosemberg.
Starring: Manu Payet, Guillaume Labbé, Vincent Heneine, Antoine Gouy, Ariane Mourier, Mélanie Bernier, Olga Kurylenko.
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

 

An outrageous comedy about four friends Cédric, Tom, Jérémie and Tonio, whose romantic and professional lives are turned upside down by the women in their lives.

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I KISSED A GIRL https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/i-kissed-a-girl/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/i-kissed-a-girl/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:34:04 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20553

I KISSED A GIRL

| 2015 – 90′ – Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, LGBTQ+.
Written by: Noémie Saglio, Maxime Govare.
Directed by: Noémie Saglio, Maxime Govare.
Starring: Pio Marmaï, Lannick Gautry, Adriane Gradziel, Camille Cottin, Frank Gastambide, Frédéric Pierrot, Isabelle Candelier, Sébastien Castro, Nicole Ferroni, Diane Tell.
Official Competition Alpe d’Huez Film Festival, COLCOA 2015.
In French with English subtitles.
A Gaumont release. |


Jérémie (Pio Marmaï), 34, wakes up in an apartment he doesn’t know, next to a woman he doesn’t know. She is Adna, a stunning Swede, as funny as she is attractive. The beginning of a fairy tale? Not quite. Because Jérémie is about to get married… to another man.

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REMAKE https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/remake/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/remake/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:29:48 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20550

REMAKE

| 2007 – 91′ – Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy.
Written by: Antoine de Caunes, Peter Stuart, Jeanne le Guillou.
Directed by: Antoine de Caunes.
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Jean Rochefort, Isabelle Nanty, Damian McCann, James Gerard, Charles Dance, Bryonie Pritchard, David Stanley.
Official Competition COLCOA 2007.
In French with English subtitles.
An Under The Milky Way release. |

 

Alice d’Abanville, an immensely famous London stage actress, and Louis Ruinard, a cult French film director, are two extraordinary personalities. But this legendary pair haven’t seen each other in thirty years. What do you do with the great love of your life thirty years later when you no longer have anything in common?

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ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/romantics-anonymous/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/romantics-anonymous/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:14:13 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20543

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ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS

| 2010 – 80′ – Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy.
Written by: Jean-Pierre Améris, Philippe Blasband.
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Améris.
Starring: Isabelle Carré, Benoît Poelvoorde, Lorella Cravotta, Lise Lametrie, Swann Arlaud, Pierre Niney, Alice Pol, Grégoire Ludig, Jacques Boudet, Stephan Wojtowicz.
Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2010, Tribeca International Film Festival 2011.
In French with English subtitles.
A Giant Interactive release. |


Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde), the boss of a chocolate factory, and Angélique (Isabelle Carré), a talented chocolate maker, are two highly emotional people. Their shared passion for chocolate brings them together and they both fall in love with each other, without daring to let on. Unfortunately, their pathological timidity tends to keep them apart. But they’ll overcome their lack of self-confidence, at the risk of revealing their feelings.

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