Released Date:
2000-07-12
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Switzerland
Runtime:
180 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (953 Reviews)
Director:
Olivier AssayasOlivier Assayas
Jacques Chardonne (novel)
Jacques Fieschi
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife - and more talk when he decides to take her back. By this time he has been drawn to Pauline, niece of a Cognac distiller, and this precipitates him divorcing his wife, settling on her and his daughter the shares he owns in his family's porcelain factory. He resigns the ministry, marries Pauline, and moves to Switzerland and a tranquil life. On the death of his father he agrees to return home to save the factory, knowing the problems it will bring will change his life completely. So it proves, with service in the Great War having a further profound impact on him and those around him.
Released Date:
2002-07-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (10363 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques AudiardJacques Audiard
Tonino Benacquista
Young secretary Carla is a long-time employee of a property development company. Loyal and hardworking, first to arrive and last to leave, Carla is beginning to chafe at the limitations of her career and is looking to move up. But as a 35-five-year-old woman with a hearing deficiency, she is not sure how to climb out of her humdrum life, though she is confident in her own abilities. Into her life comes Paul Angeli, a new trainee she decides to hire. Paul is 25 years old and completely unskilled, but Carla covers for him when the need arises because of his other qualities - he's a thief, fresh out of jail and very good-looking. It's a case of good meeting bad.
Released Date:
2004-01-14
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
(501 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Marc MoutoutOlivier Gorce
Ghislaine Jègou
Jean-Marc Moutout
Philippe Seigner, a charming business school graduate from the French Pyrenees, starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is a delicate one, an audit at the Janson food cans factory in the provinces, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees, as his boss Hugo Paradis knew from the start. However, his Paris girl friend reproaches him collaborating with ruthless capitalism, as if any of the downsizing could be stopped or mitigated by him bowing out. Nevertheless, as he gets to knew the threatened staff better he considers risking his career when his boss orders him to chose who should go. Meanwhile the factory staff starts realizing what's about to happening.
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