Dry Cleaning 1997 N/R, 97 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Anne Fontaine Cast: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar, Mathilde Seigner, Nanou Meister, Noe Pflieger, Michel Bompoil, Christopher King, Gerard Blanc, Betty Petristy
A middle-aged couple, Nicole (Miou-Miou) and Jean-Marie Kunstler (Charles Berling), has been married 15 years and run a successful dry cleaning business, but life has become too routine UNTIL they take in Loic (Stanislas Merhar)–the brother part of a brother/sister drag queen act. Once Loic is in their home, he turns their lives inside out, which leads to the demise of everything Nicole and Jean-Marie have ever known.
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How I Killed My Father 2001 N/R, 98 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama aka: My Father and I
Director: Anne Fontaine Cast: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Regnier, Amira Casar, Stephane Guillon, Hubert Kounde, Karole Rocher, Marie Micla, Nicole Evans, Philippe Lehembre
Successful 44-year-old gerontologist Jean-Luc's (Charles Berling) absentee father, 70-year-old Maurice (Michel Bouquet), suddenly returns–broke and need of a home. Jean-Luc's wife, Isa (Natacha Regnier), welcomes Maurice into their home, but tensions build between father and son.
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Nathalie... 2003 N/R, 105 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Anne Fontaine Cast: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Beart, Gerard Depardieu, Wladimir Yordanoff, Judith Magre, Rodolphe Pauly, Evelyne Dandry, Christian Aaron Boulogne, Aurore Auteuil, Idit Cebula, Serge Boutleroff, Sasha Rucavina
Middle-aged Catherine (Fanny Ardant) believes her husband, Bernard (Gerard Depardieu), is cheating on her and hires Parisian prostitute Nathalie (Emmanuelle Beart) to seduce him and report back on his performances–week after week.
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| 1. Dry Cleaning (1997)
2. How I Killed My Father (2001) aka: My Father and I
3. Nathalie... (2003)
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