Paris – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:51:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 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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AD VITAM

| 2025 – 90′ – Action, Thriller, Drama.
Written by: Guillaume Canet, Rodolphe Lauga, David Corona.
Directed by: Rodolphe Lauga.
Starring: Guillaume Canet, Stéphane Caillard, Nassim Lyes, Zita Hanrot, Alexis Manenti, Johan Heldenbergh, Etienne Guillou-Kervern, Jamel Blissat.
In English or French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

 

After escaping an attempted murder, Franck Lazareff must find his wife Leo, who has been kidnapped by a mysterious group of armed men. He is caught up by his past and plunged into a state affair that is beyond him.

 

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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.

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LA MAISON

| 2024 – 10 x 52′ – Series – Drama, Paris, Fashion.
Created by: José Caltagirone, Valentine Milville.
Written by: José Caltagirone, Valentine Milville.
Directed by: Fabrice Gobert, Daniel Grou.
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Amira Casar, Carole Bouquet, Zita Hanrot, Vincent Colombe, Sophie Froissard, Pierre Deladonchamps, Antoine Reinartz, Anne Consigny, Florence Loiret Caille, Corentin Fila, Park Ji-Min.
In French with English subtitles.
An Apple TV+ release. |

 

“La Maison,” is a drama set within an iconic Paris-based high-fashion atelier. A behind-the-scenes look at the contemporary, ever-evolving world of fashion and aspirational French elegance and luxury, “La Maison” follows two illustrious, dysfunctional and powerful rival families as they vie for dominance in the cutthroat world of high fashion.

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PARIS POLICE 1905

| 2022 – 6 x 52′ – Series – Drama, Crime, History, Paris.
Created by: Fabien Nury.
Written by: Fabien Nury, Xavier Dorison.
Directed by: Julien Despaux, Frédéric Balekdjian.
Starring: Jérémie Laheurte, Evelyne Brochu, Thibaut Evrard, Marc Barbé, François Raison, Mathilde Weil, Vincent Debost, Alexandre Trocki, Eugénie Derouand, Christian Hecq.
In French with English subtitles.
A Mhz Choice release. |

 

When the Paris police’s vice squad – on the orders of Police Chief Lépine – begin to clean prostitutes off the city’s streets, a man’s body is found in the Bois de Boulogne. Inspector Antoine Jouin is entrusted with the investigation. From the creators of Paris Police 1900. 

 

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PARIS POLICE 1900

| 2021 – 8 x 52′ –  Series – Drama, Crime, History.
Created by: Fabien Nury.
Written by: Fabien Nury, Benjamin Adam, Alain Ayroles, Thibault Valetoux.
Directed by: Fabien Nury, Julien Despaux, Frédéric Balekdjian.
Starring: Jérémie Laheurte, Evelyne Brochu, Thibaut Evrard, Marc Barbé, Eugénie Derouand, Patrick d’Assumçao, Alexandre Trocki, Hubert Delattre.
Official Competition COLCOA 2021 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Mhz Choice release. |

Paris, 1899.  On the heels of the Dreyfus Affair and the scandalous death of President Félix Faure, the French Republic is reeling from rampant anarchy and the violent rise of extreme-right and anti-Semitic movements.  Former police chief Louis Lepine is called out of retirement to restore order… just as a suitcase filled with female body parts is found floating down the Seine.  And an ambitious young detective leaps into action, in an attempt to right a few societal wrongs.  This elegant, gripping, high-end Canal+ thriller, inspired by historical figures and true events, has been called “the new Spiral.”  Murder, blackmail, conspiracies, coups — welcome to the Belle Epoque!

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DIVINES

| 2016 – 105′ – Drama, Coming of Age, Paris.
Written by: Houda Benyamina, Romain Compingt, Malik Rumeau
Directed by: Houda Benyamina.
Starring: Oulaya Amamra, Kevin Mischel, Jisca Kalvanda, Farid Larbi, Déborah Lukumuena, Yasin Houicha, Majdouline Idrissi,Bass Dhem.
Official Selection Director’s Fortnight Cannes 2016 (Winner Camera d’Or). Winner of three César Awards 2017 winner: Best First Feature, Best Supporting Actress (Déborah Lukumuena), Best Promising Actress (Oulaya Amamra).
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix release. |

In a housing estate on the outskirts of Paris, a teenager who is hungry for her share of power and success becomes a runner for a drug dealer. When she meets a male dancer, a window of opportunity offers a different kind of life.

 

 

 

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FAMILY BUSINESS

| 2019~2021 – 18 x 30′ – 3 Seasons – Series – Comedy, Paris.
Created by: Igor Gotesman.
Written by: Igo Gotesman, François Uzan, Olivier Rosemberg, Matthieu Rumani, Nicolas Slomka, Julien Lilti, Carine Prevot.
Directed by: Igor Gotesman.
Starring: Jonathan Cohen, Gérard Darmon, Julia Piaton Liliane Rovère, Olivier Rosemberg, Ali Marhyar, Lina El Arabi, Louise Coldefy, Majida Ghomari, Alexandra Vandernoot, Raphaël Quenard.
In English or in French with English Subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

 

Learning that cannabis will be legalized, Joseph, a failed entrepreneur, decides to transform, with the help of his family and friends, the kosher butcher shop of his father and open the first marijuana coffee shop in France.

 

 

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APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD

| 2016 – 105′ – Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi, Paris.
Written by: Franck Ekinci, Christian Desmares.
Based on the Work by: Jacques Tardy.
Directed by: Franck Ekinci, Christian Desmares.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Tony Hale, Susan Sarandon and J.K. Simmons (English voices). Academy Award®-winner Marion Cotillard, Philippe Katerine, Jean Rochefort, Bouli Lanners, Olivier Gourmet, Anne Coesens, Marc-André Grondin, Macha Grenon (French voices).
Official Selection: Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2015 (Winner Crystal Award), César Award Nomination 2016 (Best Animated Feature).
In English or in French with English subtitles.
A Gkids Films release. |

From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Persepolis and the mind of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi comes a riveting sci-fi adventure set in an alternate steampunk universe. Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Ten years later, April (voiced by Academy Award® nominee Marion Cotillard) lives alone with her dear cat, Darwin, and carries on her family’s research in secret. But she soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy and far-reaching conspiracy, and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered dirigibles and cyborg rat spies. Also features a new English dub with the voices of Paul Giamatti, Tony Hale, Susan Sarandon and J.K. Simmons!

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MOOD INDIGO

| 2014 – 125′ – Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Paris.
Written by: Michel Gondry, Luc Bossi.
Based on the Novel by: Boris vian.
Directed by: Michel Gondry.
Starring: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Omar Sy, Aïssa Maïga, Charlotte Le Bon, Sacha Bourdo, Philippe Torreton, Laurent Lafitte, Alain Chabat, Vincent Rottiers, Natacha Régnier, Zinedine Soualem.
Official Selections: Toronto International Film Festival 2015, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York 2016.
In French with English subtitles.
A Drafthouse Films release. |

 

Set in a surreal Paris, Duris plays wealthy bachelor Colin, whose hobbies include developing his pianocktail (a cocktail-making piano) and devouring otherworldly dishes prepared by his trusty chef Nicolas. At a party, Colin meets Chloé (Audrey Tautou) and, before they know it, they re plunging headfirst into a romance that is tested when an unusual illness plagues Chloé.She develops a strange condition requiring that she always be surrounded by fresh flowers, or she will die.

 

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