Daniel Langlet
1945 - 2008Life and Nothing But
Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. Brusquely, Dellaplane offers her 1/350,000th of his time, but as their paths cross and she sees his courage and resolve, feelings change. After he finds a surprising connection between her missing husband and a local teacher, Irène makes Dellaplane an offer. This man of action hesitates: has he missed his only chance?
Life and Nothing But
The Wing or The Thigh?
Claude Zidi
Louis de Funès, Coluche
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
The Wing or the Thigh?
One Deadly Summer
Jean Becker
Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
One Deadly Summer
Waiting for the Moon
Jill Godmilow
Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett
Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
Waiting for the Moon
Paris s'éveille
Olivier Assayas
Judith Godrèche, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Adrien is 19 years old. He has not met his father, Clément for 4 years. Adrien returns home and the two try to better understand each other. Clément lives together with Louis, a twenty-something girl who wants to be an actress. The boy starts a flirt with Louise which pushes the father-son relationship back to a crisis...
Paris Awakens
La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
Danielle Jaeggi
Michal Bat-Adam, Thérèse Liotard
Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this young Czech and his bag stuffed with forbidden texts, marginal films and music. She will strive to make them known with the help of her new friends.
La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Gianfranco Mingozzi
Fabrice Josso, Serena Grandi
It's 1914. Sixteen-year-old Roger returns home to spend his summer vacation. His initial efforts are unsuccessful, but World War I breaks out and men are seen marching off to battle. Roger goes overboard when he is presented with several amorous opportunities.
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Tapage Nocturne
Catherine Breillat
Dominique Laffin, Marie-Hélène Breillat
A filmmaker engages in a routine series of sexual encounters to pass the time while editing her latest film. When one man refuses to play by her rules, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to him.
Night After Night
Juillet en septembre
Sébastien Japrisot
Laetitia Gabrielli, Anne Parillaud
Juillet is a young orphan girl who returns to the town she was born in to find her mother. She tries to befriend her yuppie neighbors Marie and Jacques with comic consequences. The thrilling part (supposedly) of the film finds Marbas as a timid psycho killer who targets pretty young women.
Juillet en septembre
Une Vie à t'attendre
Thierry Klifa
Nathalie Baye, Patrick Bruel
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn't seen in twelve years.
Une Vie à t'attendre
