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French Film Festival · 2011

French Film Festival 2011

Christophe Honoré Showcase

Programme

3 films · 2 reviews

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Les Chansons D'Amour

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Love, life, poetry, passion, sensitivity, all magnificently exalted in song – quite a lot of songs actually – for your cross-Channel delectation and savouring.

Chris · 4 out of 5
An exceedingly French musical about a menage a trois in Paris.

(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Christophe Honoré; Writer: Christophe Honoré, Gaël Morel; Stars: Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, Clothilde Hesme, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet)

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Close To Leo (Tout contre Léo)

When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested.

(Year: 2002; Director: Christophe Honoré; Writer: Diastème, Christophe Honoré; Stars: Yaniss Lespert, Pierre Mignard, Marie Bunel, Rodolphe Pauly, Jérémie Lippmann, Dominic Gould, Louis Gonzales, Joana Preiss, Alex Beaupain, Assaad Bouab, Sylvie Contant, Julien Honoré, Laurent Honoré, Anna Kerivel, Gwen Le Gac)

Dans Paris (Inside Paris)

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Dans Paris is about love – between brothers, father, girlfriends – and suicide... adding dollops of languor and a good deal of sex.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
Love, sex, suicide and depression filmed Truffaut style.

(Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Christophe Honoré; Writer: Christophe Honoré; Stars: Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Joana Preiss, Guy Marchand, Marie-France Pisier, Alice Butaud, Héléna Noguerra, Judith El Zein, Annabelle Hettmann, Mathieu Funck-Brentano, Lou Rambert-Preiss)

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