Review preview for Father Of My Children
Hansen-Love prefers to make her points through gesture and nuance and the film is all the better for it.
A French producer struggles to balance completing his roster of films with the demands of his young family.
(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2009; Director: Mia Hansen-Løve; Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve; Stars: Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing, Michaël Abiteboul, Manelle Driss, Sandrine Dumas, Eric Elmosnino, Dominique Frot, Alice Gautier, Libertad Gills, Valerie Lang, Harald Leander, Igor Hansen Love, Antoine Mathieu, Patrick Mimoun)
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Review preview for A Prophet
An unlikely, but highly effective, marriage of arthouse and mainstream sensibilities.
An illiterate teenager struggles when he is sent to jail, but after embarking on a series of "missions" for a gang leader, he begins to hatch plans of his own.
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2009; Director: Jacques Audiard; Writer: Thomas Bidegain and Jacques Audiard, based on an original screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit; Stars: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb, Hichem Yacoubi, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Gilles Cohen, Antoine Basler, Leïla Bekhti, Pierre Leccia, Foued Nassah, Jean-Emmanuel Pagni, Frédéric Graziani, Slimane Dazi)
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Review preview for Séraphine
The overall effect is touching without being sentimental.
Portrait of French 'outsider' artist Séraphine de Senlis.
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2008; Director: Martin Provost; Writer: Marc Abdelnour, Martin Provost; Stars: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich, Adélaïde Leroux, Nico Rogner, Françoise Lebrun, Hélène Hardouin, Serge Larivière, Léna Breban, Sandrine Bodenes, Muriel Riou, Dominique Pozzetto, Josette Ménard, Xavier Pottier)
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Philippe Lioret; Writer: Olivier Adam, Emmanuel Courcol, Philippe Lioret; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Derya Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Firat Ayverdi)
