6.8

La rafle.

2010, France, Germany, Hungary

• Actors: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué, Hugo Leverdez, Joseph Weismann, Oliver Cywie, Mathieu Di Concerto, Romain Di Concerto, Sylvie Testud, Anne Brochet, Roland Copé, Jean-Michel Noirey, Rebecca Marder, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Catherine Allégret, Thierry Frémont, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Frédéric Moulin, Isabelle Gélinas, Armelle, Caroline Raynaud, Charlotte Driesen, Sandra Moreno, Maurice Vaudaux, Salomé Sebbag, Nastasia Juszczak, Ariane Seguillon, Nadia Barentin, Catherine Hosmalin
• Genre: Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Rose Bosch
• Available languages:
  • French French.

1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sewn on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of life in an occupied Paris, on the Butte Montmartre, where they've taken shelter. At least that's what they think, until that morning on July 16th 1942, when their fragile happiness is toppled over. From the Vélodrome D'Hiver, where 13 000 Jews are crammed, to the camp of Beaune-La-Rolande, from Vichy to the terrace of the Berghof, La Rafle follows the real destinies of the victims and the executioners. Of those who orchestrated it all. Of those who trusted them. Of those who fled. Of those who opposed them. Every character in this film has existed. Every event, even the most extreme, transpired on that summer of 1942.

  7.4

Beginners

2010, USA

• Actors: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox, Mary Page Keller, Keegan Boos, China Shavers, Melissa Tang, Amanda Payton, Luke Diliberto, Lou Taylor Pucci, Bambadjan Bamba, Hana Hwang, Samuel T. Ritter, Jennifer Lauren, Reynaldo Pacheco, Jodi Long, Bruce French, Leslie Shea, Michael Chieffo, Jennifer Hasty, Rodney Saulsberry, June Sanders, Catherine McGoohan, Terry Walters, Lana Young, Algerita Wynn Lewis, Regina McKee Redwing, Sunday Burke
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Mike Mills
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's 2003. Thirty-eight year old graphic artist Oliver Fields has just lost his father Hal Fields to cancer, after Oliver's mother Georgia Fields passed away five years earlier. Oliver is naturally a sullen man due to his growing up relationship with his parents (his mother who had a unique view on life) and watching his parents' cordial but somewhat distant relationship with each other, but is more so now because of his personal family loss. Oliver embarks on a relationship with Anna, a French actress. Oliver is hoping that his re-energized relationship with Hal following Georgia's death and Hal's new outlook on life during that time will show Oliver how to act in a loving relationship. After Georgia's death, Hal came out of the closet and began to live with a joie de vivre that did not exist before, which included an open relationship with a much younger man named Andy. Oliver's relationship with Anna has other obstacles, including Anna's own vagabond lifestyle and Oliver needing to take care of who was originally Hal's very needy Jack Russell terrier, Arthur.

  8.3

Inglourious Basterds

2008, USA, Germany

• Actors: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Jacky Ido, B.J. Novak, Omar Doom, August Diehl, Denis Menochet, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Mike Myers, Julie Dreyfus, Richard Sammel, Alexander Fehling, Rod Taylor, Soenke Möhring, Samm Levine, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Petra Hartung, Volker Michalowski, Ken Duken, Christian Berkel
• Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
• Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.

  6.8

Paris

2008, France

• Actors: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel, Mélanie Laurent, François Cluzet, Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche, Zinedine Soualem, Julie Ferrier, Olivia Bonamy, Maurice Bénichou, Annelise Hesme, Audrey Marnay, Xavier Robic, Farida Khelfa, Suzanne Von Aichinger, Kingsley Kum Abang, Judith El Zein, Emmanuel Quatra, Nelly Antignac, Joffrey Platel, Renée Le Calm, Sabrina Ouazani, Hubert Saint-Macary, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Joseph Malerba, Georges Happy, Anne Benoît, Nina Bonherry
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Cédric Klapisch
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment. When Elise, his sister with three kids and no husband, moves in to his place to care for him, Pierre does not change his new habits. And instead of dancing himself, it is Paris and the Parisians who dance before his eyes.

  7.2

Indigènes

2006, Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium

• Actors: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Mathieu Simonet, Assaad Bouab, Benoît Giros, Mélanie Laurent, Antoine Chappey, Aurélie Eltvedt, Thomas Langmann, Thibault de Montalembert, Dioucounda Koma, Philippe Beglia, Momo Debbouze, Abdelkim Bouchareb, Abdelhamid Idjaini, Abdeslam Arbaoui, Francis Arnould, Roger Arnould, Omar Bekhaled, Nadji Beida, Julie De Bona, Franck Bonetto, Jean-Pierre Boudhar, Allal Boukhari, Abdelrahim Bouzine, Ken Brekke, Mylène Caverzazi
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Rachid Bouchareb
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Algeria, 1943, through Italy and France, to Alsace in early 1945, with a coda years later. Arabs volunteer to fight Nazis to liberate France, their motherland. We follow Saïd, dirt poor, an orderly for a grizzled sergeant, Martinez, a pied noir with some willingness to speak up for his Arab troops; Messaoud, a crack shot, who in Province falls in love with a French woman who loves him back; and Abdelkader, a corporal, a budding intellectual with a keen sense of injustice. The men fight with courage against a backdrop of small and large indignities: French soldiers get better food, time for leave, and promotions. Is the promise of liberty, equality, and fraternity hollow?