19th Annual Boston French Film Festival 2014
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- DirectorArnaud LarrieuJean-Marie LarrieuStarsMathieu AmalricKarin ViardMaïwennAfter a brief affair with her seductive professor, a young student mysteriously disappears. As the police and the girl's stepmother tighten the noose on the cryptic tutor, he experiences a long-forgotten feeling. Is love the perfect crime?
- DirectorAnne VillacèqueStarsKarin ViardNoémie LvovskyJacques GamblinSometimes it doesn't take much to ruin a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, one wrong reaction and suddenly everything goes off track. Nothing seems to be going right for Christine. Jean is leaving her, Sylvette and Ulrich, her oldest friends, are a little less friendly these days. It's all falling apart. But life is always full of surprises. The lives of two couples, falling in and out of love, as weekends go by.
- DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsIsabelle HuppertKool ShenLaurence UrsinoA stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsRomain DurisAudrey TautouGad ElmalehWealthy, inventive bachelor Colin endeavors to find a cure for his lover Chloe after she's diagnosed with an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
- DirectorMarguerite AbouetClément OubrerieStarsAïssa MaïgaTella KpomahouTatiana RojoLove stories in Yopougon, a neighborhood of the Ivory Coast capital.
- DirectorRebecca ZlotowskiStarsTahar RahimLéa SeydouxOlivier GourmetGary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancée of Toni.
- DirectorFrançois-Xavier VivesStarsMarie GillainJalil LespertMiou-MiouCirca 1920: A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsMichel HouellebecqMathieu NicourtMaxime LefrançoisThe author Michel Houellebecq is abducted by three amateur kidnappers.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsMelvil PoupaudAmanda LangletGwenaëlle SimonAs a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him.
- DirectorValeria Bruni TedeschiStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiLouis GarrelFilippo TimiA family is forced to sell their Italian home.
- DirectorKatell QuillévéréStarsSara ForestierFrançois DamiensAdèle HaenelThe story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.
- DirectorAntonin PeretjatkoStarsVimala PonsGrégoire TachnakianVincent MacaigneHector, who met Truquette at the Louvre on July 14, has only one concern since then: seduce this girl. The best way to do so is by taking her to the sea. Pator, his friend, is accompanying him along with Truquette's girlfriend, Charlotte.
- DirectorJulie BertuccelliStarsMaryam AboulgilaFelipe Arellano SantibanezMiguel Angel Cegarra MonsalveHow to integrate into French society when you are a young immigrant newly arrived in Paris? Just join the school of La Grange aux Belles where, whether you are named Agnieszka, Eduardo, Kessa, Maryam or Youssef, you can improve your French and gradually adapt both to the French school system and to the way French people act and think... Julie Bertuccelli followed the days of the special needs class at La Grange welcoming foreign students from all over the world during the 2011-2012 school year and makes us witness to the positive spirit that prevails there under the wise guidance of Brigitte Cervoni, their inspired French teacher.
- DirectorMartin ProvostStarsEmmanuelle DevosSandrine KiberlainOlivier GourmetViolette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, a relationship based on the quest for freedom through writing for Violette and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.
- DirectorThierry de PerettiStarsFrançois-Joseph CulioliAziz El HadachiHamza MezianiA group of beautiful but morally bankrupt teenagers live the fast life in the dark side of beautiful Corsica, but things spiral out of control when one of their number wants to confess their crimes.
- DirectorAxelle RopertStarsCédric KahnLaurent StockerLouise BourgoinBoris and Dimitri are brothers. They are both doctors in the 13th district of Paris and always work together. They devote all their time to their patients. One day, they start looking after a diabetic child raised by her single mother, Judith. They both fall passionately in love with Judith. This sudden attraction will create turmoil in their strong relationship.
- DirectorIsabelle CzajkaStarsEmmanuelle DevosJulie FerrierNatacha RégnierJuliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night. Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.
- DirectorSophie FillièresStarsEmmanuelle DevosMathieu AmalricAnne BrochetPomme and Pierre's constant bickering has turned their relationship into a comedy of manners that becomes farcical when Pomme decides to leave Pierre and live in the forest.
- DirectorJustine TrietStarsLaetitia DoschVincent MacaigneArthur HarariOn 6 May 2012, the day of the second round of the French presidential election, TV journalist Laetitia is late leaving home for her assignment covering the events on Rue de Solférino (at the headquarters of the Socialist Party) when her ex, Vincent, shows up a day late to his court-appointed time to visit their two daughters.