Dear friends,

The Rendez-Vous in Biarritz is around the corner ! You will find hereinbelow the titles presented by Film & Picture in the videotheque.

Let me also suggest you my last open slots for a meeting :

Monday 10^th : 5.00 pm

Tuesday 11^th : 3:30, 4.30, 5.30 pm

Wednesday 12^th : 10.00 am, 12.30, 3.00, 3.30, 4.00 pm

Looking forward to hearing from you !

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Marie-Laure Hébrard

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SERIES 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Nicolas GUICHETEAU

Cast : Julie DEPARDIEU
Bernard YERLÈS
Xavier GUELFI
Sara MARTINS
Andréa FERRÉOL

Alexandra Ehle is a coroner at the Bordeaux forensic institute. Fanciful and free- thinking, she devotes herself completely to what she considers her mission: restoring to the dead their dignity and human appearence, and giving them justice. So she conducts her own investigations, despite the warnings of police commander Antoine Doisneau. Instead of collaborating with him, she takes a cheeky pleasure in staying one step ahead.
During this latest inquiry, body parts have been found in different locations in the region. From the first observations, Alexandra is convinced that all the parts belong to one and the same victim. But the puzzle still needs to be solved to discover who she was and what led her to this tragic end.

4,2 million viewers / 17,7% market share

DIRECTOR(S) : Franck MANCUSO

Cast : Sagamore STEVENIN
Caroline ANGLADE
Elodie NAVARRE

A young fisherman discovers the body of Morgane near the entrance to Douarnenez harbour. According to Celtic legend, this is the exact location of the sunken city of Ys.

And, oddly, the young woman was at the carnival the previous day and is still dressed as Dahut, the princess who brought about the downfall of the ancient city. Morgane, known to be an unscrupulous seductress, could have been murdered by a former lover or a rival. Or her murder could be linked to her father, the owner of the local sardine cannery, who rules over the town as its mythical king once did. One thing is certain, the murder scene echoes that of Dahut, drowned for her vices.

Tristan and Marion Legay are police investigators and a couple in their private life. When they arrive in Douarnenez, they immediately bump into old friend Katell. It should be a happy reunion, but it soon brings up an unsettling past.

DIRECTOR(S) : François GUÉRIN

Cast : Isabel OTERO
Marwan BERRENI
Sara MORTENSEN
Laurent OLMEDO

Police Commander Louise Chaland is investigating the murder of a controversial sculptor with the help of her son Sylvain, who has become a priest. The body was discovered alongside one of his works, which has been daubed with Latin inscriptions. They soon establish a link with the disappearance of a relic of Saint Martin, the patron saint of the city of Tours.

Their investigation leads them to a shelter for the needy, run by François Delcourt and his daughter, who was in love with the murdered artist. Clues start to reveal the disturbing fascination some inhabitants of Tours have with the missing relic. Louise and Sylvain will discover the rich historical and religious heritage of the city as the secular mother and pious son come to some sort of a reconciliation.

4,4 million viewers / 20,4 % market share

DIRECTOR(S) : Emmanuel RIGAUT

Cast : Mimie MATHY
Mathieu DELARIVE
Philippe CAROIT
Selma COUCHY
Catherine ZAVLAV

Behind the ramparts of the beautiful village of Saint-Paul de Vence, on the Côte d’Azur, the body of a young woman is found in the swimming pool of a luxury hotel.

To solve the case, the local police have to cooperate with Captain Marie Jourdan from Lyon, an atypical cop and a hard nut to crack, who won't go easy on the local VIPs. But her behaviour soon reveals deeper reasons for her presence.

4,7 millions of viewers / 21,2% of market share

DIRECTOR(S) : Eric DURET

Cast : Florence PERNEL
Vincent WINTERHALTER
Isabel OTERO
Garance THENAULT
Jean-Claude ADELIN

Maussane, at the very heart of the French region of Provence, with its olive trees and its charming squares.

Deputy prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and local police commander Paul Jansac are investigating the murder of Caroline Autiero, wife of an old mill-owner.

Working together, Elisabeth and Paul lift the veil on a dark and secret story.

Soon, three heirs of olive-grower Virgile Vendroux are dead, one from suicide, another murdered and the third in an accident where the motorbike turns out to have been tampered with.

Anonymous letters provide new leads to follow, but raise questions: who is helping the investigators? And who was manipulating the victims? Is it Laetitia Vendroux, a beautiful beekeeper and Virgile’s daughter? Or her brother Mathias, watchman at the Glanum archaeological site? Or Virgile’s ex-wife, Mathilde?

The truth could be even more complex. Virgile has led a double life, with another family and another son, who isn’t his own but whom he loves as such. Now an adult, this secret son moves to Maussane and meets Laetitia. But, more importantly, he is on a mission to avenge Virgile.

Our investigators must unravel complicated family affairs and vested interests to solve the mystery. Psychological know-how will be as necessary as regular policing methods.

4,7 million viewers & 20,4% market share

DIRECTOR(S) : Didier LE PÊCHEUR
Claude-Michel ROME
Jacques MALATERRE
Philippe VENAULT
Christophe DOUCHAND
Thierry BINISTI

Cast : Josiane BALASKO
Gérard JUGNOT
Daniel PREVOST
Richard ANCONINA
Zabou BREITMAN
Victoria ABRIL
Jean-Pierre DARROUSSIN
Charlotte de TURCKHEIM

In court, the accused awaits the jury's decision. As the legal engine rolls on, he or she is all alone except for the counsel for the defence. No matter how serious the case, the accused has the right to be defended by a criminal defence lawyer. 

Who are those men and women who dedicate their lives to providing counsel for the defence? How does it feel to defend someone when everything seems to accuse them? In this series, great actors don the black robes of the criminal lawyer over the course of one or three films.

MINI SERIES

DIRECTOR(S) : Clément MICHEL


Cast : François VINCENTELLI
Julia FAURE
Olivier BARTHÉLÉMY


Selected by La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2017, CoLCoA French Film Festival 2018 & Luchon Festival 2018

At the age of 35, Hector happens to meet his childhood love Louise, and falls in love with her all over again. But there's a big problem. He's gay and has been in a loving relationship with a man for several years. His life is turned upside down. He soon realises that he doesn't want to have to choose between his two loves, Louise and Jérémie. How long can he keep the secret of his double life, the cause of both suffering and joy?

WEB SERIES

DIRECTOR(S) : Jules THÉNIER
Maxime POTHERAT

Cast : Mehdi MESKAR
Eric PUCHEU
Denis D’ARCANGELO
Nanou HARRY
Claudine CHARREYRE
Franck FARGIER


Best Web Series at La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2017 Best LGBT Series at UK Web Fest 2017 Selected by the Rio WebFest 2017 as the Best Diversity Series and Best Actor for Mehdi Meskar Selected by the Seriencamp Festival 2017 Selected by the Roma Web Fest 2017 Selected by the Swiss Web Festival 2017 Selected by the DubWebFest 2017 Selected by the Soflowebfest 2017 Selected by the Toulouse French Speaking Web Series Festival 2017

Hicham runs away from his home and comes to Lyon, looking for Thibaut, a young man who tried to kiss him a few years before.

Thibaut is an activist at the local LGBT Center. Hicham discovers his world, apprehensive but enthusiast. However, as Hicham begins a journey to find his own identity, he comes to understand that Thibaut himself isn't exactly who he appears…

DIRECTOR(S) : Guillaume CREMONESE

Cast : Bertrand USCLAT
Vincent DEBOST
Louise COLDEFY
Kevin GARNICHAT

Best Comedic Web Series at Seattle Web Fest 2017 Best European Serie at International Online Web Festival 2016 Best International Web Series – Special Mention at Roma Cinema Doc 2016 Best Comedy & Best Foreign Series at Minnesota Web Fest 2017

Bertrand is now "on a break" with his girlfriend Magalie. While he pretends to be travelling around the world, he is actually staying with his upper-floor neighbor Gus, an army veteran who has hacked all the webcams in the building, including Magalie’s.

Shocked at first but frightened of losing Magalie to Henry, her new roommate, Bertrand teams up with Gus to spy on his "ex"-girlfriend.

TV MOVIES

DIRECTOR(S) : Yann SAMUELL

Cast : Émilie DEQUENNE
Lorette NYSSEN
Jérôme ROBART
Myveck PACKA
Melchior LEBEAU

14-year-old Tania starts to become aware that the boys at school are interested in her at the same time as she learns that her mother has breast cancer.

Her careless teenager's life, a round of school and squabbling with her mother, is suddenly weighed down by a battle she is determined to win, overcoming the disease and all its ordeals: the treatment, the physical debilitation, the hair loss, the pity...

With humour, insolence and vitality, mother and daughter become closer. To help Cathy get better, Tania will do anything, even help out the PE teacher, whom she hates but who has taken a shine to her mother. But Cathy is feeling mutilated. Can she accept to love and be loved again? And how will Tania, now aware of her own femininity, deal with the clumsy amorous advances of a male classmate?

DIRECTOR(S) : Adeline DARRAUX

Cast : Caroline ANGLADE
Julie DE BONA
Arnaud BINARD
Sophie BROUSTAL
André MARCON

Juliette is attending the baptism of Lucas, the son of her best friend Claire. But the young mother, weakened by her childbirth, shows disturbing signs of depression.

The day after the ceremony, Juliette receives a desperate phone call from Claire: Jérôme, her husband, and their baby have been murdered... and she has just confessed to the crime. Has she gone crazy? Juliette drops everything to go to her friend, whom she can’t believe has become a criminal...

DIRECTOR(S) : Christophe CHARRIER

Cast : Félix MARITAUD (BPM - Beats Per Minute)
Ilian BERGALA
Marie DENARNAUD
Aure ATIKA

Two moments of Jonas’s life intertwine, each reflecting the other: in 1995, when he was a secretive teenager, and 18 years later, as an attractive and impulsive thirty-something looking for balance in his life. His life was turned upside-down when he was 14 and met Nathan, a charismatic friend who was both intriguing and daring. Now an adult, this memory still haunts Jonas and he’s unable to shake free of it. He walks through the town of his past, trying to put his life in order like the blocks in Tetris that he frantically played on his Game Boy as a teen.

DIRECTOR(S) : Philippe NIANG

Cast : Théo FRILET
Émilie de PRESSAC
Bruno DEBRANDT
Julie FERRIER

France, 1911. Louise Perreau is struggling financially to raise her 10-year-old son Gaston. The prospect of a new job in Paris brings her the hope of a better life. She has to enrol her son at Les Vermiraux, where children are supposed to get a good education.

But the institution is in fact a horrible place where the young boarders are abused and exploited. A revolt breaks out, staff are violently attacked and the site is wrecked. A young judge starts a legal action against the ringleaders, but also against the two local bigwigs in charge of the institution.

DIRECTOR(S) : Eric DURET

Cast : Sara MARTINS
Théo FRILET
Antoine DULERY
Florence PERNEL
Philippe LAUDENBACH

A week before her wedding, Agathe Plichard, a pretty young woman of mixed race, is found drowned in the Creuse river. The police treat the case as an accident but her fiancé, Felix Bricourt, is convinced she was murdered.

He decides to investigate by himself, despite the wishes of his family, a wealthy dynasty of the region. Won over by Felix’s resolve, police inspector Carole Levasseur also decides to find out the truth. The murder of an independent journalist changes the course of the investigation, stirring up the past and unveiling the forgotten “Children of the Creuse” affair.

DIRECTOR(S) : Jacques MAILLOT

Cast : Bernard LE COQ
Esther GARREL (Call Me By Your Name)
Grégory MONTEL
Cécile FISERA

Based on a true story.

Martin is 60. Adèle is 25. He is unhealthy, grumpy and shy. She is cheeky, brazen and provocative. He is looking for his son, she is looking for her father. The two missing persons were living together as a couple, and when Martin and Adèle call at their old address, the new occupant tells them they have moved abroad.   

The pair investigate this troubling disappearance, which has been ignored by the police, and find out, at the risk of their own lives, that their relatives were in fact murdered. Together, they unravel the complicated relationship between Gabriel and Aurélien, get their own lives back on track and learn to live without them.

DIRECTOR(S) : Isabelle CZAJKA

Cast : Nacima BEKHTAOUI
Samir BOITARD
Olivia COTE
Hedi ZADA

Mila is a cop and she’s back in Marseille after a few years away. She’s a loner, damaged and always on her guard. She’s looking for her father, whom she hasn’t seen for fifteen years. 

Fouad is running for mayor in the city’s 14th district. He’s clever, charming and ready for anything to attain his goals. He’s very successful and his mother is proud of him.

Mila and Fouad are brother and sister, but that’s all they have in common.

Returning to the city, Mila realises that her family has been ravaged by a terrible secret but is striving to keep up appearances, while a police investigation threatens to shatter the family completely.

Through complicated relationships and the twists of the inquiry, Night Watch pulls us into a dark story of murder, all in the family.

DIRECTOR(S) : Virginie SAUVEUR

Cast : Claudia TAGBO
Hadja TRAORÉ
Amer ALWAN
Alice BELAÏDI
BIYOUNA

Best TV Movie, Best Scenario & Best Original Score Awards at Luchon Festival 2018 Public Prize at FIPA 2018 Best TV Movie Award at COLCOA Festival 2018

Sira, a former refugee, works as a translator for OFPRA (the French Office for the Protection of Stateless Persons and Migrants). She unscrupulously fleeces her clients, selling them fictions she creates to convince the authorities. But a series of encounters will work away at her cynicism...

522 000 viewers / 2,4% market share

DIRECTOR(S) : Serge MEYNARD

Cast : Sara MARTINS
Thierry GODARD
Anne SUAREZ
Christian RAUTH
Michèle MORETTI

Grand Prix Television « French TV movie » at the Cognac Polar Festival 2017

Luisa has all she needs to be happy: she lives with Mathieu, the man she loves, and Arthur, Mathieu’s 6-year-old son by his first wife, who died in an accident. But Arthur, whom Luisa has been raising like her own, suddenly disappears from school and no one claims a kidnapping.

The lies on which the young woman built her relationship with Mathieu are coming back to haunt her. Suspected by both Mathieu and the police, Luisa has to fight to prove her innocence while a trap closes around her.

4 million viewers / 16,8% market share

DIRECTOR(S) : Marion SARRAULT

Cast : Stanley WEBER
Mathilde OLLIVIER
Gérard DESARTHE
Dominique LABOURIER
Jean-Baptiste ANOUMON
Alain CHAMFORT

Selected by La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2017

The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.
A family with close ties to a church that is facing up to the modernising approach of Pope Francis. Madeleine de Waquin-Fournier is head of the clan, while Charles, a brillant young priest with a bright future ahead of him, falls in love with a novice nun.

DIRECTOR(S) : Gilles MIMOUNI

Cast : Isabelle CARRÉ
Nicolas CAZALÉ
Olivier SITRUK
Reda KATEB

Luis is a dreamer. Funds carrier by happenstance, only to make a living, he turns outlaw on a whim, holding up his own van - and, incidentally, his two best friends' peace of mind. Much more down to earth than he is, Emma and Sam have both become lawyers. Is there a limit to friendship’s debts ? At the heart of a trio built up on the games of childhood, torn between the impetus of the heart and that of reason, Emma has to face serious choices. Because overnight, Luis and his five million euros swag, becomes all at once a star of the media, a police priority and a prime target. This is a modern Jules et Jim on the run, a chase against time and reality’s hangover. A romantic thriller about the dilemmas of grownups.

DIRECTOR(S) : Nader T. HOMAYOUN

Cast : Golab ADINEH
Babak HAMIDIAN
Michel VUILLERMOZ
Aurélia PETIT

Public Prize & Jury Prize at CoLCoA Film Festival 2016 Best TV Movie, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Score Awards & Public Prize at Luchon Festival 2016

While supposedly taking mud baths in Korea, the "paterfamilias" of a family from Tehran's Grand Bazaar dies of a sudden heart attack in... Brive-la-Gaillarde in provincial France!

His wife and his oldest son travel to France to bring his body home and to investigate the circumstances of his death. They are in for one surprise after another...

DIRECTOR(S) : Olivier PÉRAY

Cast : Pascal DEMOLON
Lola NAYMARK
Gabriel GARNIER
Tatiana HURTADO ARIZA

Selected by La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2015

Following his mother’s death, Etienne goes travelling in Colombia. All of a sudden, his father Michel stops hearing from him. Michel is a steelworker in the Brest dockyards who has never travelled and speaks no foreign languages, yet decides to go looking for his son.
Travel soon teaches him how outmoded his certainties and values are. Forcing himself to expand his horizons as he follows in Etienne's footsteps, perhaps he will finally learn to understand his son.

DIRECTOR(S) : Christophe DOUCHAND

Cast : Delphine CHANEAC
Thierry NEUVIC
Laure MARSAC

Lili, a working girl from Paris, is joining her boyfriend for a wedding party in the countryside. She gets bored during the party, until her eyes catch Luc’s... It’s love at first sight.

Lili is allergic, vegetarian and very parisian. Luc is a farmer in love with his region. Due to unexpected circumstances, she is forced to stay there for a while. Quickly she discovers her true emotions and... the unexpected beauty of nature.

4,7 million viewers – 18,3% market share

DIRECTOR(S) : Christophe DOUCHAND

Cast : Guillaume CRAMOISAN
Claire BOROTRA
Evelyne DANDRY

Charles, a 35 years-old business executive, is sentenced to 10 days of community service : he has to help a regional non-profit organization, settled right in the middle of nowhere, to rebuild an abandonned bakery.

What requires real handyman skills ! It was created by Françoise, who works with her daughter Alice (35, divorced, vineyard farmer) and her grand-daughter Charlotte (13). Charles falls deeply in love with Alice. But how can his love become reality taking into account the fact that he is a pure urban guy, and an allergic to wine one ! While he’s about to make a decision, he is being offered the job of his dreams in Hong-Kong...

DIRECTOR(S) : Nicolas HERDT

Cast : Thierry NEUVIC
Lola DEWAERE
Féodor ATKINE
Smadi WOLFMAN

Claire an eight-month pregnant young nurse is targeting Aline, main witness of a huge legal case.
48 hours earlier, David, her companion, has taken possession of a suitcase full of money that was not intended to him. Big mistake !

They’re broke, what should they do? Give the money back or keep it? And who should they return it to? They have no idea that a hitman is in their footsteps. The countdown has started.

3,5 million viewers / 14,9% market share

DIRECTOR(S) : Pierre-Antoine HIROZ

Cast : Bruno WOLKOWITCH
Pénélope-Rose LEVEQUE
Pierre DERENNE
Danièle EVENOU
Micky SEBASTIAN

Sandra, who just got out of jail, travel to Chamonix to meet, for the first time, her father Paul, the only alive member of her family.

But between Paul, a lonely and unsociable man, and Sandra, a shy and wild girl, the cohabitation won't be easy, especially when rumor on Sandra spread in town... Will The father and her daughter be able to climb the mountains that separate them?

2,8 million viewers / 11,4% market share

DOCUMENTARIES

DIRECTOR(S) : Francesco LAZZOTI
Gérard GOLDMAN
Paul BEGIN
David SCHOUMANN

Cast : Catherine DENEUVE
Isabelle HUPPERT
Carole BOUQUET
Mathilda MAY
Angela MOLINA

6 of the greatest European directors seen through the eyes of their favourite actresses.

What matters here is less the critical or analytical angle of the director’s films or life than a sensitive and intimate approach, mixed with admiration, emotions, doubts and shared moments. For 26 minutes we follow “those two” with an insider’s perspective, letting each actress tell the story of “her” director, in her own way.

With the help of photo archives, movie excerpts, interviews and previously unheard anecdotes, each episode is the portrait of a master of cinema, told by one of his iconic actresses. Through the testimonies of their entourage and heirs, this series makes these filmmakers eternally contemporary.

Episodes : Claude CHABROL, Luis BUNUEL (also available in 52' version), Philippe DE BROCA (also available in 52' version), Ettore SCOLA, Dino RISI, Michelangelo ANTONIONI