Benjamin Lavernhe – MRQE

Modi – Three days on the Wing of Madness

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A seventy-two-hour whirlwind in the life of bohemian artist Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi to his friends, follows a chaotic series of events through the streets of war torn Paris in 1916. On the run from the police, his desire to end his career and leave the city is dismissed by fellow artists Maurice Utrillo, Chaim Soutine and Modis muse, Beatrice Hastings. Modi seeks advice from his art dealer and friend, Leopold Zborowski however, after a night of hallucinations, the chaos in Modis mind reaches a crescendo when faced with an American collector, Maurice Gangnat, who has the power to change his life.

En fanfare

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.

Jeanne du Barry

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.

Choses humaines, Les

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

The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mothers new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine that posits opposing truths.

Délicieux

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

France, 1789 – just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very first restaurant in France.

Antoinette dans les Cévennes

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

Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey.

Going Away

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

Two unlikely friends a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.

Mon inconnue

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

A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

L’odyssée

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

The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.

Le Goût des merveilles

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

Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he’s not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.