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French Film Festival · 2011

French Film Festival 2011

Discovery Horizons

A quartet of films by first or second time directors.

Programme

4 films · 1 review

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All The Sons (Tous les soleils)

A widower strikes up a relationship at the same time as his teenage daughter is experiencing first romance.

(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Philippe Claudel; Writer: Philippe Claudel; Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Neri Marcorè, Clotilde Courau, Lisa Cipriani, Anouk Aimée, José Luis Roig, Xavier Boulanger, Aude Koegler, Philippe Rebbot, Marie Seux, Margot Lefevre, Jean-Marie Holterbach, Patricia Joly, Emilie Gavois-Kahn, Fayssal Benhamed)

Robert Mitchum Is Dead (Robert Mitchum Est Mort)

A charming road movie in the vein of Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law.

(Year: 2010; Director: Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn; Writer: Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn; Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Pablo Nicomedes, Bakary Sangaré, Danuta Stenka, André Wilms, Nils Utsi, Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewelina Walendziak, Maria Bock, Timothée Régnier, Ulla Bogue, Gilles Haezebrouck, Cyril Haezebrouck, Sarada Riefstahl, Étienne Charry)

Top Floor, Left Wing (Dernier étage gauche gauche)

Three men end up barricaded in a suburban flat after a botched hostage-taking attempt.

(Country: Francee; Year: 2010; Director: Angelo Cianci; Writer: Angelo Cianci; Stars: Hippolyte Girardot, Mohamed Fellag, Aymen Saïdi, Judith Henry, Michel Vuillermoz, Julie-Anne Roth, Georges Siatidis, Thierry Godard, Lyès Salem, Tassadit Mandi, Aïssa Bussetta, Bruno Henry, Cédric Weber, Frederic Frenay, Tim Rauhut)

Two Frogs In The West (2 Frogs dans l'Ouest)

Review preview for Two Frogs In The West

It’s clearly an earnest and (probably) autobiographical effort from Papineau, but there’s no refuge to be found amongst such details as the film blunders on for what seems like an eternity.

Robert Munro · 1 out of 5
Marie Deschamps, a 20-year-old French-Canadian girl, quits college to go travel and learn English in Western Canada.

(Year: 2010; Director: Dany Papineau; Writer: Grégoire Bédard, Dany Papineau, David Uloth; Stars: Mirianne Brulé, Dany Papineau, Jessica Malka, Brandon Barton, Juan Riedinger, Anik Vermette, Germain Houde, Diane Lavallée, Valérie Chevalier, Charlie David, Bruno Baronet, Adam Bergquist, Rick Tae, Bill Marchant, Linda Darlow) , Official site