May 6, 2007. France’s run-up to the presidential elections. Read More »
Tag Archives: Denis Podalydès
The Ordinary People AKA Rien de personnel (2009) Mathias Gokalp, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Denis Podalydès, Mélanie Doutey
A pharmaceutical company throws a gala party where all the employees from the top to the bottom are invited. Read More »
Omar Killed Me AKA Omar m’a tuer (2011) Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Denis Podalydès, Maurice Bénichou
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal Read More »
Skirt Day AKA La journée de la jupe (2008) Jean-Paul Lilienfeld, Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydès, Khalid Berkouz
An average school teacher is about to fall into a big depression due to threats Read More »
The Officers’ Ward (2001) François Dupeyron, Éric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Derangère
The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. Read More »
Laissez-passer / Safe Conduct (2002) Bertrand Tavernier, Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Kady, Biography, Drama, History
In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get “in between the wolf’s teeth and avoid being chewed up”. Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.
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