It's rare to find a director who really likes and knows how to look at a woman through the camera.
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Is the only actress in the history French Cinema to get four César awards, the first in 1982 for "Possession", the second in 1984 for "L'Eté meurtrier", the third for "Camille Claudel" in 1989 and her last in 1995 for "La Reine Margot".
Bon voyage (2003) An actress, a writer, a student, and a government worker band together in an effort to escape Paris as the Nazis move into the city.
Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003) During the early 1960s, Paris was an explosion of life. As the old gave way to the new, everything was in flux and the city was filled with an energy that promised cultural shifts and social change. Against this background, in a working class neighborhood, two unlikely characters--a young Jew and an elderly Muslim--begin a friendship. When we meet Moise, also known as Momo, he is in effect an orphan even tough he lives with prostitutes who treat him with genuine affection. Momo buys his groceries at the neighborhood shop, a crowded dark space owned and run by Ibrahim, a silent exotic looking man who sees and knows more than he lets on. After Momo is abandoned by his father, Ibrahim becomes the one grownup in Momo's life. Together they begin a journey that will change their lives forever.
Adolphe (2002)
The Repentant (2002)
Diabolique (1996) The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The strain starts to tell on the two women as a retired police investigator who is looking into the disappearance on a whim begins to think that they know more than they are telling, and their mental state is not helped when their victim is seen, apparently alive and well by one of the pupils.
