N°26 - Rendez-Vous Biarritz TVFI 5 to 9 sept. 2011 (Fictions)


Mario,

Following our email conversation, please find, in this newsletter, all the programs Marie-Laure is presenting at the rendez-vous.

Thanks a lot for answering.

Have a nice day.

Mélanie TAHTANE
Assistante de  Production
Alizés Films / Film and Picture
19 rue de Bassano
75116  PARIS
Tél : 01.47.23.90.35
Fax : 01.47.20.19.36

Xanadu - 8x52'

For 40 years at Xanadu, porn filmmaking and family life have lived peacefully together, without the slightest cultural clash. Everything changes after a traumatic attack by a young and deranged person. During a commemorative celebration for the dazzling porn star Elise Jess, Alex’s ex-wife, gunshots break out. The Valadine’s oldest son is in the line of fire. He collapses.
Who is holding a grudge against the “porn” family? How can the Valadines free themselves from their past? Will Alex finally let his children, Sarah and Lapo, take over the family business?

10 - 10x26'

New Year’s Eve in Geneva. Ten around a poker table.
Simply a game of cards between friends? But the stakes are high and poker-faced glances fly… So who are these people and what brings them together ? All we can be sure of is that this game will be played out in 10 episodes and end in a police bust.
In ten episodes we find out - bit by bit - what makes these players tick, their links, loyalties, misloyalties, and their shady secrets. So what got them all to sit at this table, some of them with much more on the cards than a straight poker game…

My Two Darlings - 90'

Hadrian sets off in search of the woman he loves, Barbara, who vanished in Corsica without a news. During his research, Hadrian meets Emmanuel, another lover of Barbara, also looking for her. They discover that the young woman led a double life. In the midst of their duel lands Juliet,Barbara's daughter, they never knew existed. The will assemble all their forces to find the missing.

The Friend Zone - 26x26'

Hugo Belasta, 21, works in a manga shop and lives with his two best friends – JB who loves women a lot, and Sybil, who dreams of winning the Nobel prize. Hugo has one problem : he can not keep a girlfriend!

Everything changes when he discovers an ancient and mysterious book allows him to control the fate and events ! But beware: events only, not feelings.

Despite this, he will try everything to seduce Moira, the neighbor across the street and his dream girl.

Queen Of Heart / Queen Of Spade - 2x90'

Martin adores women. When his ex-wife tells him she is going to get married again, his daughter, Isabelle moves with him. He then finds out that his new girlfriend Marion has given away a piece of information he told her in confidence and that she is pregnant, his whole world tilts.

A beautiful young woman has been found dead, struck by a crossbow bolt in the throat, coldly killed like a beast of prey by a singularly calculating murderer. But why this woman, and why like that? What Martin doesn't know is that the killer is very close, almost at arm's length...

The Afghan Trap - 90'

Nadia, a doctor based in Afghanistan, is captured by the Taliban. The officer taken hostage with her is shot dead, while Nadia is set free on the orders of a Pashtun chief fighting alongside the Taliban. Her superiors are surprised that she has been
Spared. She knows the man who ordered her to be freed : Hassan Walli. She met him ten years ago in Paris… The intelligence services give Nadia a mission : contact Hassan through his sister, and convince him to rally to the Karzai government underpinned by the allied forces.

The House Of The Rochevilles - 5x90'

Villeblanche, the ancestral estate and home of the Rocheville family, tells the story of this French family as it weathered the fickle winds of history from 1893 to 1968.
The house under influence. War destroys the Rochevilles' solidarity. While Charles becomes a collaborator, Fabio and Sylvana join the resistance. Tensions stemming from the conflict and then liberation will send Villeblanche into mourning: Victor is killed by the militia's bullets and Charles is arrested... Eugénie must now manage the estate on her own.

Crimson Winter - 90'

A third girl has been murdered in the middle of the festive season.
Superintendent Rousseau is not convinced by the serial-killer hypothesis which the newspapers keep churning out.
Mariella De Luca, a young, reckless inspector with secrets, joins the superintendent's team despite the latter's misgivings. After hours of discussion, an arrangement is finally reached, and the team is able to solve a case which involves a personal history buried - like the city beneath the snow - under the weight of Italian politics.

Camus - 90'

Albert Camus, a life - Camus seen through women's eyes. From The Rebel to The First Man and The Fall, the last ten years of Albert Camus's turbulent life. In these ten years, this "faithful infidel", who would be proved right about so many issues, would achieve worldwide recognition while enduring the biggest crisis of his own existence. Saved by love, but swept along by the Absurd, the Camus we discover through this film is the private man, full of integrity and a disquieting humanity.

The King, The Squirrel And The Grass Snake - 2x94'

In 1651, at the height of the Fronde rebellion, Fouquet was already 35 years old.
By the end of this mini-series, having spent almost 20 years in prison, Fouquet dies, the victim of poisoning. The series recounts Fouquet’s inexorable rise, his financial acumen, his success with women, the building of his château, Vaux-le-Vicomte, which prefigured Versailles, and his struggle with Colbert, who brought about his downfall and left him to rot in in a gloomy, remote fortress.

Bitter Tropics - 6x52'

Code Enforcement Black, hope of the abolition of slavery with the Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention of 1794, and finally violence and disenchantment with the restoration of slavery in French territories in 1802. For us to discover these dark pages of history of France, Adele, Amedee, Manon, Koyaba are some heroes that we follow for 25 years of their struggle for freedom.