AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX ON FEBRUARY 28, 2025

SQUAD 36

| 2025 – 123′ –  Thriller, Crime, Action, Film & Literature.
Written by: Olivier Marchal.
Based on the Novel by: Michel Tourscher.
Directed by: Olivier Marchal.
Starring: Victor Belmondo, Tewfik Jallab, Yvan Attal, Juliette Dol, Soufiane Guerrab, Sonia Bendhaou.
In English or In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

Transferred to the Anti-Crime Brigade, a senior officer probes the deaths of two ex-colleagues and disappearance of another, exposing a bitter feud within the police force. 

 

 

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD

| 1961 – 93′ – Classic, Drama, Film & Literature.
Written by: Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Directed by: Alain Resnais.
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Francoise Bertin, Francoise Spira, Jean Lanier, Luce Garcia-Ville, Karin Toche-Mittler.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 1961. Academy Award Nomination 1962 (Best Original Screenplay).
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber / Rialto Pictures release. |

In this unconventional French drama, a group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback. X (Giorgio Albertazzi) is convinced that he has met the beautiful A (Delphine Seyrig) before in the Czech resort town of Marienbad, and implies they had a romantic relationship. M (Sacha Pitoeff), who may be A’s husband or boyfriend, confronts her mysterious suitor, leading to conflict and questions about the truth behind his story. Elegantly enigmatic and dreamlike, this work of essential cinema features exquisite cinematography and an exploration of narrative still revisited by filmmakers today.

 

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HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

| 1960 – 92′ – Classic, Drama, Film & Literature.
Written by: Marguerite Duras.
Based on the Book by: Marguerite Duras
Directed by: Alain Resnais.
Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1959.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

Alain Resnais’ feature debut is one of the most influential films of all time.  With an innovative structure and an award-nominated script by Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour is a masterwork that weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish. The deep conversation between a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) and a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple — lovers turned friends — recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

 

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A WOMAN’S LIFE

| 2017 – 125′ – Drama, Film & Literature.
Written by: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon.
Based on the Novel by: Guy de Montpassant.
Directed by: Stéphane Brizé.
Starring: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, Clotilde Hesme.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2016. Winner Louis-Delluc Prize 2016.
Official Competition COLCOA 2017.
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release. |

Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis-Delluc for 2016, A Woman’s Life brings a formalistic rigor to Guy de Maupassant’s essential French novel Une Vie; the result is a rare costume drama that refuses to romanticize the world it depicts. Spanning the life of the aristocratic but essentially powerless Baroness Jeanne Le Perthius des Vauds, the saga begins in Normandy 1819, when Jeanne is leaving the convent where she has been raised and educated. Jeanne’s sheltered and idyllic upbringing sets her up for a lifetime of bitter disappointments beginning with an arranged marriage to Julien de Lamare. Her imagined prince charming quickly turns into a philandering ne’er-do-well after he gains control of Jeanne’s inheritance. Tight framing, elliptical scenes, and shifting timelines lend immediacy to this moving depiction of a woman boxed in by a repressive society organized first and foremost to preserve the privilege of a few highborn men. Judith Chemla’s meticulous performance as Jeanne earned a nomination for a 2017 Best Actress César Award.

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OPENING IN US THEATRES ON MARCH 21, 2025, FOLLOWED BY A DIGITAL RELEASE.

BEING MARIA

| 2025 – 100′  – Drama, BIOPIC
Written by: Jessica Palud, Laurette Polmanss.
Directed by: Jessica Palud.
Starring: Anamaria Vartolomei, Matt Dillon, Yvan Attal, Marie Gillain, Céleste Brunnquell, Stanislas Merhar, Giuseppe Maggio.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2024.
Official Competition TAFFF 2024 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release. |

It’s the early 1970s. The illegitimate daughter of a French character actor, Maria (Anamaria Vartolomei) is an aspiring young actress, herself. At 19, she miraculously lands the female lead in a groundbreaking feature film by a brilliant up-and-coming Italian director. She’ll be playing opposite one of America’s most formidable movie stars. But what seems like a dream come true turns out to be a nightmare. The actress is Maria Schneider. Her co-star is Marlon Brando. The director is Bernardo Bertolucci. The movie is Last Tango in Paris. A highly erotic art film, its raw depiction of rape and graphic sexuality led to international controversy and drew various levels of censorship around the world. The MPAA gave the film an X rating. Bertolucci and Brando both received suspended two-month prison sentences in Italy. But long before the advent of #MeToo and intimacy counsellors, the real toll of the brutal, intentionally calculated on-set sexual and emotional manipulation fell upon Schneider. It devastated her entire life.

THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. PIVET

| 2015 – 105′ –  Drama, Adventure.
Written by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant.
Based on the Book by: Reif Larsen
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Starring: Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Maillet, Callum Keith Rennie, Judy Davis, Julian Richings, Niamh Wilson, Dominique Pinon.
Official selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2013. 3 César Award nominations.
In English.
A Tribeca Shortlist release. |

 

T.S. is invited to the Smithsonian to receive an award for inventing a perpetual motion machine. Without telling any of his family, he boards a freight train heading to Washington, D.C., to attend the ceremony.

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