The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007  PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow, Isaach De Bankole, Emma de Caunes, Gerard Watkins, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Based on French "Elle" editor Jean-Dominique Bauby's best-selling memoir, this story shows how Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) suffers a stroke and the psychological torment he endures when he suffers "locked-in syndrome" in which his brain is working, but he is not able to speak nor move his body. The one thing Bauby can do is blink one eye, and, with help from speech therapist Henriette (Marie-Josee Croze), he is able to form sentences by blinking when she calls out a letter in the alphabet. As a result, Bauby is able to author a manuscript revealing what it is like to be trapped inside one's body and relating fantasies that he has imagined. The film received four Academy Award nominations including Best Director.
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Les Revenants 2004  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Fantasy
aka: They Came Back
Director: Robin Campillo
Cast: Geraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frederic Pierrot, Victor Garrivier, Catherine Samie, Djemel Barek, Marie Matheron, Saady Delas, Maurice Garrel, Dan Herzberg, Gerard Watkins, Alain Guillo
In a small French city, 13,000 dead souls have risen from their graves and returned to life and want to come back living as they had in their past lives. But mixing past and present lives proves difficult, and when complications ensue, they meet at night and seem to be searching for other solutions.
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Love Me If You Dare 2003  R, 93 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Yann Samuell
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe, Josephine Lebas-Joly, Gerard Watkins, Emmanuelle Gronvold, Laetizia Venezia Tarnowska, Gilles Lellouche, Elodie Navarre, Julia Faure, Frederic Geerts, Nathalie Nattier
During their lifelong friendship, Julien and Sophie have traded back and forth a tin box with the understanding that the one who has possession of the box must complete a dare given by the other one. An innocent game when it began for two eight-year-old children, but over the years, the game has taken on new boundaries.
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Taken 2008  G, 94 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Goran Kostic, Katie Cassidy, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Holly Valance, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Gerard Watkins, Arben Bajraktaraj, Nathan Rippy, Camille Japy
Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) retired from the CIA in order to be closer to his 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), who now divides her time between Bryan and Bryan's ex-wife Lenore (Franke Janssen). After agreeing to her family's strict set of rules, Kim sets off on a trip to Paris with her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy). Kim and Amanda land in Paris, but are kidnapped by Albanian sex traffickers while Kim is checking in by phone with Bryan. Now, Bryan talks to the kidnappers and delivers a warning to them. Knowing that he has only 96 hours in which to save the girls, Bryan heads for Paris where he uses his surveillance skills and works against evil forces in his search for his beloved daughter.
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| 1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
2. Les Revenants (2004)
aka: They Came Back
3. Love Me If You Dare (2003)
4. Taken (2008)
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