Released Date:
2010-01-20
Languages:
French, English, Russian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
135 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (7639 Reviews)
Director:
Joann SfarJoann Sfar (graphic novel)
Joann Sfar (screenplay)
Declan May (dialogue)
Lucien Ginsburg, a rebellious French Jewish boy with a grotesque imagination, hates playing the piano like his father, a bar professional, and manages to be admitted to Montmartre Academy as painter, where he befriends an SS officer who helps him survive he occupation. After the war, he chooses to become a performing artist and adopts the stage name Serge Gainsbourg. His unorthodox songs bring him success, even his parents's approval, and lots of lovers, yet his marriages are all utter failures.
Released Date:
2011-06-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1997 Reviews)
Sandrina Jardel (screenplay)
Joann Sfar (comic book series)
Joann Sfar (screenplay)
Algiers, 1920s. Rabbi Sfar has more than one problem. His beautiful daughter Zlabya is becoming a teenager and above all, his parrot-killing cat has just started talking. The delivery of a box from Russia further complicates things when a painter is discovered inside, more dead than alive. He is on a quest for a hidden tribe and its mythical city in Africa. Convinced that the city exists, he sets off on an incredible adventure, taking with him the Rabbi, his cat, a wise old Arab Sheikh and an eccentric Russian millionaire.
Released Date:
2011-10-05
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
114 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1429 Reviews)
Director:
Julie DelpyGenres:
ComedyReleased Date:
2014-12-17
Languages:
French, Sign Languages, Spanish
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (8880 Reviews)
Director:
Eric LartigauVictoria Bedos (original idea)
Thomas Bidegain (adaptation)
Stanislas Carrè de Malberg (screenplay)
Eric Lartigau (adaptation)
The Bèliers are ordinary people: Rodolphe and Gigi are married, have two children and run their farm for a living. Ordinary people? Well, almost... since three of them, Dad, Mum and their son Quentin, are deaf. Which is not the case of the boy's big sister, Paula. And not only can she speak but her music teacher scouts her beautiful voice as well. He offers her to sit for the entrance exam of the Maètrise de Radio France, a vocal elite choir in Paris. Her parents, who rely on her as their ears and mouth in the outside world, take the news badly. Paula, who hates the idea of betraying her parents and her brother, goes through a painful dilemma...
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