Alex Descas – MRQE

L’intérêt d’Adam

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

4-year-old malnourished Adam is admitted to hospital off the back of a court ruling. Head paediatric nurse Lucy allows Adams mum Rebecca to stay by her sons side, despite the strictly limited visiting times set by the judge. When Rebecca digs her heels in and refuses to leave Adam, things become complicated. In the interest of the child, Lucy does everything she can to help this mother in distress.

L’honneur de ma famille (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this French comedy, Algerian Nora (Seloua Hamse) tells her parents she works the nightshift at a hospital emergency ward, but in truth, Nora and her friend Carol (Karole Rocher) cross the border each night to work the bar at a large disco. Nora’s travel plans are interrupted by a surprise pregnancy, and after the French father rejects her, she then informs mom, who decides that landing a husband is vital to maintain the family’s honor. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.

L’homme qui venait d’ailleurs (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a colleague. Soon, he is facing something else than racism: fear of foreigner. His office is desperately empty.

Rapt

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.

A Casa

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single perpetual dream: that of a young man who no longer wants to wake up, immersed as he is in this world of fascinating spectres.

Let the Sunshine In

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

Maya (2018/I)

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in Syria and then heads to India after months in captivity.

Meurtre à Pacot

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.

The Limits of Control

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.

35 rhums

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lionel, a widower, has raised his daughter, Josephine, on his own since she was young. The two are used to living alone, depending solely on one another. But, now that Josephine is older, Lionel is beginning to realize they cannot stay isolated forever.