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Ambitious (Les Ambitieux)
Ambitious (Les Ambitieux)

Ambitious

An history of love and betrayal between a publisher (Karin Viard and a young author (Eric Caravaca), written and directed by Catherine Corsini.

Director: Catherine Corsini
Cast: Karin Viard, Eric Caravaca
Transporter 3
Transporter 3

Transporter 3

Jason Statham returns as former Special Forces mercenary Frank Martin who has relocated to Paris to continue his business of delivering packages without questions. Uk release on December the 5th. Co-written and produced by Luc Besson.

Director: Olivier Megaton
Cast: Jason Statham, Robert Knepper, Francois Berleand and Natalya Rudakova.
Mary
Mary

Mary

An actress (Binoche) becomes obsessed with Mary Magdelene after playing her in a film. A must for Abel Ferrara fans, Mary is the director's response to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine, Heather Graham, Marion Cotillard
Taken
Taken

Taken

An ex-soldier, whose daughter is kidnapped by slave masters while traveling in Europe, must track her down before she's shipped off. Directed by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, starring Liam Neeson.

Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Fear(s) of the Dark
Fear(s) of the Dark

Fear(s) of the Dark

Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Jerry Kramsky, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe, went back to the origins of their terrors and agreed to animate their drawings and inspire them, each one in his unique style, with the rhythm of their nightmares.

Director: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Jerry Kramsky, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire
Cast:
A Christmas Tale
A Christmas Tale

A Christmas Tale

London Film Festival. A dark, brilliantly observed and acidly funny depiction of a dysfunctional family reunited in the days before Christmas.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni, Laurent Capelluto, Emile Berling
Let's Talk About the Rain
Let's Talk About the Rain

Let's Talk About the Rain

London Film Festival. Personal relationships and political ideals come head to head in the witty drama about family, feminism and film making.

Director: Agnès Jaoui
Cast: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze
The Class
The Class

The Class

London Film Festival. Palme d'Or winning account of one term in a Parisian high school. Dramatic, funny and wonderfully observed.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Cast: François Bégaudeau
La Vie d'artiste
La Vie d'artiste

La Vie d'artiste

London Film Festival. A writer, an actor and a would-be chanteuse pursue elusive glory in Marc Fitoussi's brittle comedy about artistic disappointment.

Director: Marc Fitoussi
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Emilie Dequenne, Denis Podalydès
A Simple Heart
A Simple Heart

A Simple Heart

London Film Festival. Sandrine Bonnaire is at her best as a servant in a nineteenth-century household, in a spare, evocative adaptation of Flaubert's classic story.

Director: Marion Laine
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Marina Foïs, Pascal Elbé
Possibility of an Island
Possibility of an Island

Possibility of an Island

London Film Festival. An eerie vision of cloning, religion and the (questionable) future of humanity.

Director: Michel Houellebecq
Cast: Benoît Magimel, Patrick Bauchau, Ramata Koite
Parc
Parc

Parc

London Film Festival. Inventive French adaptation of John Cheever's suburban-dystopia novel Bullet Park.

Director: Arnaud des Pallières
Cast: Sergi Lopez, Jean-Marc Barr, Nathalie Richard
Nucingen Haus
Nucingen Haus

Nucingen Haus

London Film Festival. A tale of the unexpected about ghosts, memory and territorial disputes in an eerie old mansion.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Marc Barr, Audrey Marnay
Modern Life
Modern Life

Modern Life

London Film Festival. A masterful and uniquely moving portrait in Depardon's continuing series of films documenting the changing face of rural France.

Director: Raymond Depardon
Cast: