3 Movies Starring Stanislas Merhar

Dry Cleaning

Dry Cleaning

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-01-29

Languages:

French, English, Russian

Countries:

France, Spain

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (865 Reviews)

Director:

Anne Fontaine

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Nicole and Jean-Marie Kunstler are a nice, hard working couple who have been married for 15 years. They operate a dry cleaning business that keeps them both too busy to take a vacation, or to change their routine. A fateful trip to a drag club leads them to encounter Loic and Marilyn, a brother-sister drag queen performing team. Their shows fascinate the couple, as both Nicole and Jean-Marie find themselves growing more and more attached to Loic. Loic brings to the surface all of their suppressed desires and emotions - willingly and unwillingly. A psychological examination into the effects one attractive young man's entrance into the lives of an ordinarily seeming couple could have.

The Captive

The Captive

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-09-27

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Belgium

Runtime:

118 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (954 Reviews)

Director:

Chantal Akerman

Cast:

Writer:

Chantal Akerman (scenario)

Eric De Kuyper (scenario)

Marcel Proust (inspired by the book "La prisonnière")

Fullplot:

An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.

L'hèritage

L'hèritage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-09-20

Languages:

French, Georgian

Countries:

Georgia, France

Runtime:

75 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (462 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Gèla Babluani

Temur Babluani

Jacques Dubuisson

Fullplot:

Three French hipsters and their translator travel through rural Georgia to claim a remote, ruined castle that one of them has inherited. En route, they encounter an old man and his grandchild who are on a journey to carry out a mysterious, morbid ritual designed to end a conflict between warring clans.

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