Happily Ever After 2004  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Yvan Attal
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat, Emmanuelle Seigner, Alain Cohen, Angie David, Anouk Aimee, Claude Berri, Aurore Clement, Kitu Gidwani, Keith Allen, Johnny Depp
Parisian 40-year-olds (Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat, and Alain Cohen) are unhappy in their current romances, and each searches in his own unique way for solutions in the war between the sexes.
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The Housekeeper 2002 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emilie Dequenne, Brigitte Catillon, Jacques Frantz, Axelle Abbadie, Catherine Breillat, Apollinaire Louis-Philippe Dogue, Amalric Gerard
Barely out of her teens, Laura (Emilie Dequenne) goes to work as a housekeeper for an older man, newly divorced Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri). Against Jacques' better judgment, Laura and he become intimate–a decision that brings both pleasure and pain to Jacques' sexual ego.
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Lucie Aubrac 1997  R, 116 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Patrice Chereau, Jean-Roger Milo, Eric Boucher, Heino Ferch, Bernard Verley, Jean Martin, Marie Pillet, Maxime Henry
This love story is based on the true story of a French Resistance fighter, Lucie Aubrac (Carole Bouquet), who organized a rescue mission in 1943 to save her husband, Raymond (Daniel Auteuil), slated by the Nazis for execution in a Lyon prison.
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Manon of the Spring 1986  PG, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Hippolyte Girardot, Elisabeth Depardieu, Gabriel Bacquier, Margarita Lozano, Yvonne Gamy, Ticky Holgado, Jean Bouchaud
Manon (Emmanuelle Beart) seeks revenge against Cesar (Yves Montand) and his nephew, Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil), for the death of her father in this excellent follow-up to "Jean de Florette."
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One Wild Moment 1977 R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Victor Lanoux, Christine Dejoux, Agnes Soral, Martine Sarcey, Peter Bonke, Robert Bahr, Tessa Bouche
Divorced father Pierre (Jean-Pierre Marielle) takes his teen daughter, Martine (Christine Dejoux), on vacation with his friend Jacques (Victor Lanoux) and Jacques' daughter, Francoise (Agnes Soral). Francoise comes on to Pierre, and an affair begins. When Francoise tells her father of the affair (leaving out who the lover is), Jacques asks Pierre to help him find out who he is. Remade in 1984 as "Blame it on Rio."
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Va Savoir 2001 PG-13, 150 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Who Knows?
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler, Jacques Bonnaffe, Helene de Fougerolles, Bruno Todeschini, Catherine Rouvel, Claude Berri, Attilo Cucari, Bettina Kee
When Camille (Jeanne Balibar) returns to Paris, starring in a play for an Italian touring company, she reunites with her old flame, Pierre (Jacques Bonnaffe). Meanwhile, her co-star-director-lover, Ugo (Sergio Castellitto), has no problem finding another love interest in Do (Helene de Fougerolles) whose brother Arthur (Bruno Todeschini) chases after Pierre's current lover. Confusing? You bet!
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| 1. Germinal (1993)
2. Happily Ever After (2004)
3. The Housekeeper (2002)
4. Jean de Florette (1986)
5. Lucie Aubrac (1997)
6. Manon of the Spring (1986)
7. One Wild Moment (1977)
8. Uranus (1991)
9. Va Savoir (2001)
aka: Who Knows?
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