Anne Parillaud – MRQE

Promised Land (2004/II)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“Promised Land” tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of one girl who most fight for her freedom.

Une pour toutes

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

Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Paris – New York plane and will sit next to wealthy men. Their task is to seduce the rich and pull them out of money. But the fraudsters do not suspect that Comissaire Bayard and his young assistant are closely watching them…

À la folie

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

Clearly, things have got to change for Elsa. After another sleepless night on the sofa, she heads out the door and gets on a train bound for Paris, away from her husband and two kids. Still wearing her bedroom slippers, she shows up on the doorstep of her younger sister, Alice, an up-and-coming artist. Alice lives with her handsome young lover, Franck. Elsa quickly realizes that this is the life she might have had, a life that has somehow eluded her. She determines that, if she cannot enjoy this bohemian existence, then neither will Alice.

Diane Kurys, best known for the Oscar-nominated Entre Nous, has made a disturbing film about the dark side of intimacy and the pitfalls of mutual dependency. Kurys notes that it is “mainly a film about passion—a passionate relationship between women—perhaps sisters [it] makes no difference; in the realm of passion, anything is possible.”

Starring French powerhouse actresses Anne Parillaud (La Femme Nikita) and Béatrice Dalle (Betty Blue), Six Days, Six Nights is a marvelously acted and magically photo-graphed exploration of interpersonal relationships between sisters, friends, lovers, husbands and wives.

L’imbroglio nel lenzuolo

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

1905, the cinematograph has reached Southern Italy, and casts fear among the people to whom it seems a devilish trick. They call it “o ‘imbroglie din t’o lenzuolo” – “The Trick in the Sheet”, as white sheets were used for screening.

Dans ton sommeil

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

Sarah’s life is in pieces after the brutal death of her 18 year-old son. One night, her car accidentally hits Arthur, a young man the same age as her boy who is running from a burglar. Sarah sympathizes with him and takes him in, only to be tracked down by the burglar whose murderous rage towards Arthur forces her to take action.

Une vieille maîtresse

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

Demandez la permission aux enfants

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

Dead Girl

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ari Rose is a failing actor who cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy. He first dreams about and then meets in real life a mysterious woman named Helen. A seemingly mutual obsession ensues, but gradually spirals downward into a web of desire and misperception.

Deadlines

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

Tout pour plaire

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

Three women in their late thirties, one with marital problems, one trying to be perfect, and a spinster, discuss their relationship to men.