French film

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Marion Barbeau, a Paris Opera dancer making her acting debut, is terrific as an injured performer who finds strength in a contemporary dance company.

Elise, a ballet prima donna, believed she had a perfect life with a loving boyfriend and a successful career. However, one catastrophic night, her world falls apart as she discovers her partner’s infidelity before suffering a serious injury on stage. Now, she faces a recovery period that may take two years, with the possibility of never being able to dance professionally again.

In search of physical and emotional healing, Elise escapes to Brittany, leaving Paris behind. Surrounded by friends, a new love interest, and the liberating world of contemporary dance, she rebuilds her relationship with her reserved father and rediscovers her true self.

Ballet-trained Paris Opera principal Marion Barbeau’s body-and-spirit performance is magnetic and heartwarming.

Barbeau, a trained ballet dancer in the Paris Opera, gives a beautiful performance that communicates the emotional interiority that exists in the physicality of dancing. – The Guardian

Breezy, charming love letter to the art form, its tightknit communities, and what nourishes the impulse to find healing expression in movement. – Los Angeles Times

Presented with the support of the French Embassy and the Institut Français.

100% Rotten Tomatoes

• RISE [EN CORPS]
• France, 2021 | Language: French | 120 minutes | Cert: 15
• Director: Cédric Klapisch
• Cast: Marion Barbeau, Pio Marmaï, François Civil, Denis Podalydès, Muriel Robin
• Foreign language films are subtitled.  Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
• A short film may be shown before the feature.
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A young woman is murdered in this unnerving, fictionalised version of a real case that haunts the police officers unable to solve it. A gripping true-crime drama.

Set in the foothills of the looming Alps, this deeply atmospheric thriller follows Yohan Vives, an ambitious, disciplined young detective as he takes up a post at the Grenoble police station. His first case as the bureau’s new chief is a tough one. A young woman named Clara Royer has been murdered as she walked home from a party, apparently by someone who knew her. Vives teams up on the case with an older partner, Marceau, whose long career with the Police Judiciaire (the criminal investigation department) has started to take its toll.

Their investigation delves into Clara’s sexual relationships with the men who now constitute the prime suspects in her murder and their often disturbing attitudes toward her. But the film is just as interested in the attitudes of the men responsible for solving such cases, and how those attitudes—toward gender, sex, and violence—inform their work. As a judge observes to Vives at one point in his investigation, “There is something seriously amiss in the relationship between men and women.”

Based on two chapters of a true crime book, “18.3 – A Year with the Judicial Police,” and an actual unsolved case, this immersive police procedural is ultimately a powerful portrait of the society that produces criminals and detectives alike, those who commit the crimes and those responsible for solving them as best they can.

🏆Winner of six César Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Dominik Moll.

🏆 Winner of the Lumière award for Best Film.

French film-maker Dominik Moll has given us a gripping true-crime procedural, a desolate study of the ubiquity of evil and misogynist violence and the abyss of unknowing into which everyone finds themselves gazing… a brutally engrossing drama. – The Guardian

Critic’s Pick. A refreshingly grounded picture of crime-fighting. – The New York Times

This taut and piercing thriller is one of Moll’s stronger works to date, using a genre template to delve into issues of violence, gender and policing in contemporary France. – Hollywood Reporter

93% Rotten Tomatoes

• THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH [LA NUIT DU 12]
• France, 2022 | Language: French | 115 minutes | Cert: CLUB
• Director: Dominik Moll
• Cast: Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Anouk Grinberg, Mouna Soualem, Pauline Serieys
• Foreign language films are subtitled.  Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
• A short film may be shown before the feature.
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Familial tensions, criminal hijinks and unexpected romance collide in the uproariously entertaining new comedy from the multi-talented Louis Garrel (A Faithful Man), about the misguided attempts of a dedicated son who, in trying to protect his mother, finds himself embroiled in an elaborate heist.

Lyon, present day. When widowed marine biologist Abel (played by director Garrel) learns that his impulsive mum Sylvie is once again re-marrying – this time to an inmate she met whilst teaching theatre in prison – he’s much more than uncomfortable. Doubting that convicted burglar Michel is capable of turning over a new leaf, Abel’s protective streak kicks in, and so with the help of his best friend Clémence, he begins tailing his new stepfather’s movements. Their amateur sleuthing is quickly uncovered by Michel and triggers an unlikely – and bold – business proposition for them both.

Joyfully paying homage to the great crime capers of the French New Wave, and partly inspired by events from his own life, Garrel’s witty and beautifully constructed film is a delirious mix of comedy, romance, suspense and action, with several twists too good to spoil. Selected as the special Gala Screening to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival – where it drew a thunderously positive response – this hilarious, quintessentially French comedy aims to please and does so effortlessly.

Few caper comedies have this much heart, and few romantic dramas offer such an appealingly nutty plot. – Wall Street Journal

A humanistic story wrapped in a fun, punchy exterior, much like the French synth-pop music throughout its soundtrack. – New York Times

The Innocent is the first movie of Cannes 2022 to give me that belly aching, knee slapping laughter that I desperately needed. – Deadline Hollywood

It’s a broad, enjoyable, light-hearted movie with a fair few not-insignificant plot holes, but a genuinely surprising storyline that keeps you guessing to the end. – The Guardian

100% Rotten Tomatoes

• THE INNOCENT
• France, 2022 | Language: French | 99 minutes | Cert: 15a
• Director: Louis Garrel
• Cast: Roschdy Zem, Anouk Grinberg, Noémie Merlant, Louis Garrel
• Foreign language films are subtitled.  Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
• A short film may be shown before the feature.
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