Friday Night 2002  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Valerie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon, Helene de Saint-Pere, Helene Fillieres, Florence Loiret, Gregoire Colin, Gilles D'Ambra, Micha Lescot, Gianfranco Poddighe, Nordine Barour
While stuck in a Paris traffic jam, Laure (Valerie Lemercier) picks up a total stranger, Jean (Vincent Lindon), and the pair sets out on a romantic odyssey.
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L'Intrus 2004 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Intruder
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva, Bambou, Florence Loiret, Lolita Chammah, Alex Descas, Kim Dong-ho, Chang Se-tak, Park Hong-suk, Beatrice Dalle
Director Claire Denis' impressionist offering follows white-haired loner Louis Trebor (Michel Subor) who is estranged from his son, Sidney's (Gregoire Colin) family and lives in a cabin near the Swiss/French border. In need of a heart transplant, Louis undergoes a black market surgery and then heads to Tahiti in quest of another son who he abandoned years before. As in many impressionist films, the meaning of the story may rest with the individual viewer.
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Seventh Heaven 1997  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon, Francois Berleand, Francine Berge, Pierre Cassignard, Leo Le Bevillon, Sylvie Loeillet, Florence Loiret, Philippe Magnan, Anne Fassio, Eriq Ebouaney, Marc Rioufol
Mathilde (Sandrine Kiberlain) appears to have a nice life–attentive husband, one child, nice Paris apartment, good job–but she has been depressed recently. She even has been shoplifting toys, until she meets a man who turns out to by a hypnotherapist. He seems to cure her, and the emphasis shifts to her husband (Vincent Lindon) who has trouble communicating with her. A good job by the two stars.
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Time of the Wolf 2003 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Benichou, Lucas Biscombe, Anais Demoustier, Olivier Gourmet, Patrice Chereau, Brigitte Rouan, Beatrice Dalle, Rona Hartner, Hakim Taleb, Serge Riaboukine, Florence Loiret
When Anna (Isabelle Huppert) and her family arrive at their cabin, they are confronted by strangers. Gun shots fly, and the father is killed. Anna and children Ben (Lucas Biscombe) and Eva (Anais Demoustier) flee into a hostile world that suddenly lacks any apparent social order. After wandering through the eerie countryside, they arrive at a railroad station where they encounter other refugees waiting for salvation that may or may not come.
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Trouble Every Day 2001  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Beatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Raphael Neal, Jose Garcia, Helene Lapiower, Marilu Marini
An American doctor, Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo), and his bride, June (Tricia Vessey) are honeymooning in Paris when June learns that Shane refuses to consummate their marriage. It seems he has this fear that if he has sex with June he will devour her in an act of cannibalism. Seeking help, Shane tracks down a colleague, Dr. Leo Semineau (Alex Descas). But, it turns out that Leo's wife, Core (Beatrice Dalle), shares Shane's affliction and must be locked up in her own home to prevent her doing harm to unsuspecting souls. Could Shane and Core both be victims of Leo's experiments with the human libido?
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| 1. Friday Night (2002)
2. L'Intrus (2004)
aka: The Intruder
3. Seventh Heaven (1997)
4. Time of the Wolf (2003)
5. Trouble Every Day (2001)
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