Posts Tagged ‘France’

Marie Antoinette

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Actors: Dunst, Kirsten | Schwartzman, Jason | Davis, Judy | Torn, Rip | Byrne, Rose | Argento, Asia | Shannon, Molly | Henderson, Shirley | Huston, Danny | Faithfull, Marianne | Nighy, Mary | Armesto, Sebastian | Dornan, Jamie | Clément, Aurore | Gallienne, Guillaume
Directors: Coppola, Sofia
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Based on Antonia Fraser’s book about the ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France, ‘Marie Antoinette’ tells the story of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria to her later life in France.

Mr. Bean’s Holiday

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Actors: Atkinson, Rowan | Baldry, Max | Campos, Steve | Dafoe, Willem | Debac, Stéphane | Dyer, Clint | Gaston-Dreyfus, Gilles | Rochefort, Jean | Roden, Karel | Varoclier, Pierre-Benoist | Caunes, Emma de | Hosmalin, Catherine
Directors: Bendelack, Steve
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Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation trip to France as well as a camcorder. After boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves a barrier for Bean, as he struggles to get across the city to catch a train to the south of France from the Gare de Lyon. Taking time to order a meal, he finds the consumption of a seafood platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Emil, a Russian film director on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival to use his camcorder to record his boarding, but accidentally causes Emil being left behind at the station. Bean attempts to cheer up the director’s son Stepan as the train continues south but matters are made more hectic by the fact that Emil has reported his son to have been kidnapped and Bean losing his wallet and essential travel documents at a pay phone where he and Stepan attempt to contact Emil. Heading in the direction of Cannes, Bean finds himself in the cast and disrupting the flow of a commercial being shot by the egotistical director Carson Clay. He and Stepan finally hitch a ride with the young and vivacious actress Sabine who is heading to Cannes to attend the premiere of Clay’s film, in which she appears. After Bean sneaks into the showing, his camcorder images are destined to enliven the proceedings.

Secondhand Lions

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Actors: Caine, Michael | Duvall, Robert | Osment, Haley Joel | Sedgwick, Kyra | Katt, Nicky | Lucas, Josh | O'Neill, Michael | O'Connell, Deirdre | Balfour, Eric | Kane, Christian | Haberer, Kevin | Vaugier, Emmanuelle | Ozturk, Adam | Stone, Jennifer | Musso, Mitchel
Directors: McCanlies, Tim
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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter’s mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he’s going to do with it.

Divorce, Le

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Hudson, Kate | Lhomme, Jean-Marie | Watts, Naomi | Buchet-Deàk, Esmée | Pivert, Jean-Jacques | Poupaud, Melvil | Samie, Catherine | Labarthe, Samuel | Caron, Leslie | Thierry Lhermitte | Richard, Nathalie | Gruen, Samuel | Wyckoff, Peter | Lonnoy, Sandrel | Close, Glenn
Directors: Ivory, James
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French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.

Funny Face

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | Astaire, Fred | Thompson, Kay | Auclair, Michel | Flemyng, Robert | Dovima | Parker, Suzy | Hartnett, Sunny | Del Val, Jean | Gibson, Virginia | England, Sue | Lee, Ruta | Gerry, Alex | Castiglioni, Iphigenie | Booth, Nesdon
Directors: Donen, Stanley
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Fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton’s (Audrey Hepburn) dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer.

Charade

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Actors: Grant, Cary | Hepburn, Audrey | Matthau, Walter | Coburn, James | Kennedy, George | Minot, Dominique | Glass, Ned | Marin, Jacques | Bonifas, Paul | Chelimsky, Thomas | Aslan, Grégoire | Bernier, Marcel | Delfosse, Raoul | Drake, Colin
Directors: Donen, Stanley
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Regina Lambert returns to Paris from a ski holiday in Switzerland to find that her husband has been murdered. She is later told by CIA agent Hamilton Bartholemew that Charles Lambert was one of five men who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among his possessions, and Regina can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day she is visited by Peter Joshua, whom she had met briefly while on holiday. When her husband’s former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by Charles, start calling her looking for the money, Peter offers to help find it. Thus begins an elaborate charade in which nothing is what it seems to be.

Double Team

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Thriller
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Rodman, Dennis | Rourke, Mickey | Freeman, Paul | Lindinger, Natacha | Cavalli, Valeria | Benedict, Jay | Devaux-Vullion, Joëlle | Bilotta, Bruno | Opinato, Mario | Russell, Grant | Dunn, William | Tzarfati, Asher | Diem, Rob | Samuels, Ken
Directors: Tsui, Hark
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Having retiring from the CIA, where he was an anti-terrorist operative, Jack Paul Quinn spends his days poolside at his house in Nice, France with his pregnant wife Katherine Rose Quinn. But international terrorist Stavros, an old enemy of Quinn’s, has resurfaced, and the CIA wants Quinn to come out of retirement, and go after Stavros. Quinn reluctantly accepts the assignment. Quinn goes to Antwerp, Belgium and hooks up with flamboyant arms dealer Yaz, who has the newest fully-automatic weapons. With Quinn’s assembled delta-force, an ambush is set for Stavros at a local amusement park. Stavros arrives, and greets his girlfriend…and his son. Quinn finds himself unable to shoot Stavros with his son. This moment of hesitation is costly, and Quinn’s entire team is killed off in a shoot-out with Stavros’ men — a shoot-out in which Stavros’s son and girlfriend are both killed. Quinn chases Stavros into a nearby hospital, and they battle it out in a nursery full of newborn babies. Quinn is knocked out cold, and Stavros escapes, vowing revenge on Quinn for the deaths of his son and girlfriend, not knowing that Quinn was not the agent who killed them. When Quinn comes to, he finds himself in “The Colony,” a place where “those who are too valuable to kill and too dangerous to set free” use their special skills around the world as “the last line of defense against global terrorism.” Using virtual reality and mouseless-graphical-user-interfaces, they solve all the world’s bombings, hijackings, and terrorist attacks. The only problem is that no one can ever leave The Colony. That’s why Quinn’s superiors tell Katherine that Quinn is dead. Not long after his arrival, Quinn finds evidence that Katherine is being targeted by Stavros, and so Quinn hatches an elaborate plan to escape from the Colony so he can protect Katherine. Once out of The Colony, Quinn hooks up with Yaz, and they learn that Stavros has kidnapped Katherine and taken her to Rome, planning to get revenge on Quinn through the baby, which Katherine has given birth to. Quinn and Yaz set out for Rome to rescue Katherine. It all comes to a head in a Roman coliseum in a showdown featuring a tiger, land mines…and the baby.

Catch Me If You Can

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Hanks, Tom | Walken, Christopher | Sheen, Martin | Baye, Nathalie | Adams, Amy | Brolin, James | Howe, Brian | Hughes, Frank John | Eastin, Steve | Ellis, Chris | Finn, John | Garner, Jennifer | Lenehan, Nancy | Pompeo, Ellen
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.

Chocolat

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Binoche, Juliette | Molina, Alfred | Depp, Johnny | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Dench, Judi | Parent Koenig, Aurelien | Gil-Martinez, Antonio | Cardona, Hélène | Pratt, Harrison | Connell, Gaelan | Commelin, Elisabeth | Cook, Ron | Tardieu, Guillaume | O'Conor, Hugh | Wood, John | Olin, Lena | Stormare, Peter | Caron, Leslie
Directors: Hallström, Lasse
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1960, small town France. Vianne Rocher and her pre-teen daughter move into town and open a chocolate shop just as lent is beginning. The town’s small-minded mayor can’t accept this and does his best to shut her down, but her warm personality and incredible chocolates manage to win over many townsfolk. Things get shaken up even more when a group of river drifters, led by Roux, stop into town (to the even greater distress of the mayor) and Vianne takes up with him. Meanwhile, she’s been helping Josephine out of her abusive marriage and her equally freethinking landlord, Amande Voisin, get together with her grandson, Luc, whose mother doesn’t approve of Amande’s ways.

Maximum Risk

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Henstridge, Natasha | Anglade, Jean-Hugues | Grenier, Zach | Ben-Victor, Paul | Senger, Frank | Miltsakakis, Stefanos | Van Keeken, Frank | Hemblen, David | Audran, Stéphane | Moran, Dan | Burda, Donald | Kaman, Rob | Lovelle, Herb | Costanzo, Denis
Directors: Lam, Ringo
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A policeman takes his twin brother’s place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a badge, the policeman must find the answers to some tough questions, none harder than what the heck is an accordian player doing in a sauna.