Movies: Lolita Chammah

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there....

Marie (and her three fathers) are taking A-levels. Marie passes. She spends the summer in the country with her mother, Sylvia, who has returned from America with her Californian husband who has two sons. Marie falls in and out of love for the first t...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is ...

Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and uncertainty. 76-year-old misanthrope Georges runs a bookshop in Paris – or has he merely been forced to ...

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing....

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After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep he...

There’s Evelyne who loves Albert, who loves Arthur, who loves the girl who plays the actress, who loves the man driving the convertible. There’s the night which only loves itself and death which only loves once. It would take more breath to kiss ever...

Benedict missed Mother's funeral. He was stuck in the Eurostar. In the offbeat as always, and a little pitiful, he joined the family home to find his brother, his two sisters - and in a merry bazaar, many memories. There, in the remnants of his child...

Axèle is a photographer, Camille is a writer. They have been awarded an arts residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome. Camille is accompanied by her husband, the famous writer Marc Landré. When a strange rivalry takes shape between them, Camille bonds ...

Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival....

The wealthy Deville family loses their fortune at the same time the unassuming Ricci family suddenly become internet millionaires; things look bleak until their mutual banker suggests Mr. Deville goes to work for the Riccis!...

In fifteen minutes, Olivier receives a “quickie”. But is it as simple as that?...

During the summer, Gabriel, a teenage father, falls in love with the mysterious Corey, the girlfriend of Joel, his best friend, who, deeply hurt, reveals the truth about Gabriel's past....

The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representat...

Gaby mustn’t be left alone at night. Yet that’s exactly what her boyfriend Vincent does, to test her love for him. She struggles against her natural instincts and quickly exhausts the patience of the local guys. But Gaby decides to turn to castle war...

Elisabeth and Charles search for a link between three very different murders....

For the 9th consecutive year, the Revelations Committee of the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques took care to distinguish 16 actresses and 16 actors whose performances particularly marked the year 2014. Mathieu César, a talented photographer wit...

A silent, musical and sexy movie. A theme: the loving parade. Characters who make tours (of magic, sometimes). In each the reverse angle, the other, in each or almost their song, as a fiction (a decoration) surrounds their character....

A young woman invents the love she does not get and she needs. She has always done that, since childhood. It has become a disease. When Nicolas leaves her she refuses to believe it. He will love her anyway, it is needed, she needs it....