Drama – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:39:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 CULTE https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/culte/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/culte/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:07:57 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=21108

CULTE

| 2024 – 6×52′ – Season 1 – Series – Drama.
Created by:  Matthieu Rumani, Nicolas Slomka.
Written by:  Matthieu Rumani, Nicolas Slomka, Marina Rollman, Jean-Alain Laban .
Directed by: Louis Farge
Starring:  Marie Colomb, Anaïde Rozam, César Domboy, Sami Outalbali,  Nicolas Briançon, Jacqueline Corado, Lila Guennas, David Marsais.
In French with English subtitles.
An Amazon Prime Original release. |

 

In 2001, Isabelle, Raphaël, Karim, and their teams had less than four months to get a new show on the air: Loft Story, a French remake of the Big Brother format. In France, they are the first ones to produce a ‘reality TV’ show and have to invent everything from scratch. Culte is a fictional series inspired by real events.

 

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COMING TO US THEATRES IN 2025 BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

MALDOROR

| 2025 – 155′ –  Drama, Crime, Thriller. A Belgium/France Co-Production.
Written by: Fabrice du Welz, Domenico La Porta.
Directed by: Fabrice du Welz .
Starring: Anthony Bajon, Alba Gaia Bellugi, Alexis Manenti, Sergi Lopez, Laurent Lucas, David Murgia, Béatrice Dalle, Lubna Azabal.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

 

When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to “Maldoror”. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a dangerous sex offender. When the operation fails, fed up with the limits of the legal system, Chartier embarks on a solitary hunt to bring down the culprits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

]]> https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/maldoror/feed/ 0 CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/cleo-from-5-to-7/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/cleo-from-5-to-7/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:52:23 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=21097

CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7

| 1962 – 89′ –  Drama, Classic.
Written by: Agnès Varda.
Directed by: Agnès Varda.
Starring: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothee Blank, Michel Legrand, Jose Luis de Villalonga, Loye Payen, Lucienne Marchand.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1962 (winner Silver Bear).
In French with English subtitles.
A Max release. |

 

Selfish pop singer Cléo (Corinne Marchand) has two hours to wait until the results of her biopsy come back. After an ominous tarot card reading, she visits her friends, all of whom fail to give her the emotional support she needs. Wandering around Paris, she finally finds comfort talking with a soldier in a park. On leave from the Algerian War, his troubles put hers in perspective. As they talk and walk, Cléo comes to terms with her selfishness, finding peace before the results come back.

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 SISTER

| 2012 – 97′ –  Drama, Coming of Age.
Written by: Ursula Meier, Antoine Jaccoud, Gilles Taurand.
Directed by: Ursula Meier.
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston, Gillian Anderson, Jean-François Stévenin, Yann Tregouët, Gabin Lefebvre, Dilon Ademi.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2012 (winner Silver Bear).
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release. |

 

Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Ursula Meier’s film follows a young boy who lives with his older sister (Léa Seydoux) in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. While she drifts in and out of jobs and relationships, he takes on the responsibility of providing for them by stealing equipment from rich tourists to resell to the local kids down in the valley.

 

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]]> https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/sister/feed/ 0 YVES SAINT LAURENT https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/yves-saint-laurent/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/yves-saint-laurent/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:38:57 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=21087

YVES SAINT LAURENT

| 2014 – 106′ –  Biopic, Drama, Fashion, Period & History.
Written by: Jalil Lespert, Marie-Pierre Huster, Jacques Fieschi.
Directed by: Jalil Lespert.
Starring: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet, Marie de Villepin, Nikolai Kinski, Ruben Alves, Astrid Whettnall.
In French with English subtitles.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2014. 7 Nominations Cesar Awards 2015.
In French with English subtitles.
An Anchor Bay Entertainment release. |

Paris, 1957. Barely 21 years old, Yves Saint Laurent is handed the reins of the prestigious fashion house founded by Christian Dior, who has recently died. During his first fashion show, which is a triumph, he meets Pierre Bergé. This encounter will change his life. Lovers and business partners, three years later the two men become partners and form the Yves Saint Laurent label. Despite his obsessions and his inner demons, Yves Saint Laurent gets ready to revolutionize the world of fashion with his modern and iconoclastic approach.

 

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]]> https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/yves-saint-laurent/feed/ 0 WHO BY FIRE https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/who-by-fire/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/who-by-fire/#comments Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:49:50 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20937

OPENING IN US THEATRES ON MARCH 14, 2025.

WHO BY FIRE

| 2025 – 135′ – A Canada/France Co-production, Drama, Coming of Age.
Written by: Philippe Lesage.
Directed by: Philippe Lesage.
Starring: Noah Parker (II), Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Arieh Worthalter, Paul Ahmarani, Sophie Desmarais, Antoine Marchand-Gagnon, Guillaume Laurin, Carlo Harietta, Irene Jacob, Laurent Lucas.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024, New York International Film Festival 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A KimStim release. |

A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multigenerational tensions and anxieties in this disquieting, impeccably mounted coming-of-age drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage (Genesis, New Directors/New Films). Ostensibly a merry reunion between well-known film director Blake Cadieux (Arieh Worthalter, 2024 César winner for Best Actor for The Goldman Case) and his longtime friend and former collaborator Albert Gary (Paul Ahmarani), the vacation gradually becomes something far more complex and less stable, especially with the combustible admixture of Albert’s teen son’s best friend, Jeff (Noah Parker), and Albert’s self-asserting daughter Aliocha (Aurélia Arandi-Longpré). Long-simmering middle-aged resentments surface, set against the anxieties of the young, all captured sensitively by Lesage, who in recent years has proven unparalleled in evoking the psychological contours of teenagers finding their paths through treacherous emotional landscapes. Featuring thrillingly choreographed dinner sequences of mounting tension, Who by Fire confirms Lesage as a major contemporary filmmaker, with its assured tonal negotiation of the naturalistic and the oneiric, the joyous (especially an epic dance interlude to The B-52s) and the ominous.

 

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THE PASSENGERS OF THE NIGHT

| 2022 – 101′ –  Drama, Coming of Age.
Written by: Mikhaël Hers, Maud Ameline, Mariette Désert.
Directed by: Mikhaël Hers.
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Quito Rayon Richter, Noée Abita, Megan Northam, Thibault Vinçon, Emmanuelle Béart, Laurent Poitrenaux, Didier Sandre.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022.
In French with English subtitles.
A KimStim release. |

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end, and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home. With them, Talulah experiences the warmth of a family for the first time. Although she suddenly disappears, her free spirit has a lasting influence. Elisabeth and her children grow in confidence and begin to take risks, changing the trajectory of their lives. 

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CASSANDRE

| 2015 – 16 x 90′ – Season 1~4 – Series – Crime, Drama, Mystery.
Created by: Bruno Lecigne, Mathieu Masmondet.
Written by: Fred Monard, Thomas Evanno, Alysse Hallali, Thibault Martin, Marie-Cécile Françon.
Directed by: Floriane Crépin, Eric Le Roux.
Starring: Gwendoline Hamon, Alexandre Varga, Dominique Pinon, Jessy Salomée Ugolin, Emmanuelle Bougerol, Sören Prévost, Vincent Jouan, Yann Sundberg.
In French with English subtitles.
A Mhz Choice release. |

 

Parisian cop Florence Cassandre (Gwendoline Hamon, Perfect Murders, Murder In…) moves to Annecy and takes a new job investigating crimes in the stunningly beautiful Haute-Savoie region near the Swiss border. As a city girl, she’ll have to adapt to a team that isn’t expecting her and to a world where neighbors have known each other for generations. Yet the countryside is far from quiet, and it turns out the crimes committed in Annecy and the surrounding region are no less intriguing and complex than those in the big city. The cast also includes Alexandre Varga (who played Mathieu in Alice Nevers and Raphael in Pacific Criminal), Dominique Pinon (Amélie, The Island of 30 Coffins) and Jessy Salomée Ugolin (Storm Warning, Love and Trouble in Paris).

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]]> https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/cassandre/feed/ 0 BONJOUR TRISTESSE https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/bonjour-tristesse/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/bonjour-tristesse/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:31:18 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20927

OPENING IN US THEATRES IN 2025.

BONJOUR TRISTESSE

| 2025 – 94′ – Drama, Romance, Films & Literature.
Written by: Durga Chew-Bose.
Based on the book by: Françoise Sagan.
Directed by: Durga Chew-Bose.
Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Aliocha Schneider, Nailia Harzoune, Claes Bang, Lily Mclnerny.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Greenwich Entertainement release. |

At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile (Lily McInerny) is languishing by the French seaside with her handsome father, Raymond (Claes Bang) and his lover Elsa (Naïlia Harzoune) when the arrival of her late mother’s friend Anne (Chloë Sevigny) changes everything. Amid the sun-drenched splendour of their surroundings, Cécile’s world is threatened and, desperate to regain control, she sets in motion a plan to drive Anne away with tragic consequences. An adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s unforgettable coming of age novel by the same title, Durga Chew-Bose’s Bonjour Tristesse masterfully captures the complexity of relationships between women and how they wield influence over one another’s fates.

 

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OPENING IN THE US IN 2025.

BLOCK PASS

| 2025 – 98′ – Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+, Coming of Age.
Written by: Bérénice Bocquillon, Antoine Chevrollier, Faïza Guène.
Directed by: Antoine Chevrollier.
Starring: Sayyid El Alami, Amaury Foucher, Damien Bonnard, Florence Janas, Arthus, Léonie Dahan-Lamort, Mathieu Demy, Laëtitia Clément.
Official Selection Cannes Critics Week 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release. |

 

Willy and Jojo are childhood friends who never leave each other’s side. Training at the motocross track is their way to beat boredom. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo’s secret. 

 

 

 

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