Movies: Jacques Boudet

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WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star....

A sleeping car employee seeking a well-deserved rest is prevented from doing so by the crowing of his neighbor's rooster. Just as he's about to settle the score, he's presented with a gift: a rubber band around the annoying bird's beak temporarily pu...

Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promises to send him a copy. But when nothing arrives during the next months, Idris becomes worried. His fa...

Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's her weekend, but her agent has booked her to MC a Rotary club dinner in Vichy. She takes them with h...

Naïma is twenty years old. She does the housework at Étienne's, an ancient gastronomic critic. One day, she surprises the old man with a wine bottle and reveals a real talent for the oenology. Étienne suggests then showing her his cellar which contai...

Maverick director Melvin Van Peebles translates his own satirical novel to the screen with this multi-national portrait of race, class, and hypocrisy. The film's title refers to the name of a haute cuisine restaurant run by a self-satisfied conservat...

A famous English writer, Lewis Lafoly, forty and languidly elegant, meets Rosennn Auroch, a young and radiant woman on Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean in 1909......

One day in 1986, François Mitterrand forgets his black felt (his initials) in a Lyons restaurant. Daniel Mercier, a young executive who has just been reprimanded by his superior, who judges that the computerization of its business plan is stupid, ste...

A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives....

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A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz...

Jean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor. Julie, scathing and capricious, provokes Henri and Jean....

The life of Etienne-Jules Marey, the 19th century pioneer of photography and cinema, famous for studying animal and human locomotion....

In the storeroom of the bakery where she works, twenty-seven-year-old Luna dreams of a Prince Charming and a life in a castle. On the same day, she will cross paths with a trash can full of dollar notes and a young man who stutters. What do we do wit...

Raymond is a very lonely peasant who lives so detached from the world that the peasants of the village nearby his family house consider him as dead for more than 30 years. None sees him but people know he is around and, as all secretly reproach thems...

Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy w...

As an elderly couple stroll through the streets of Paris on Bastille Day, their feelings intermingle and their emotions return....

A young man encounters three men separately. Three stages of a journey, three moments of apprenticeship....