Emmanuel Salinger – MRQE

The Taste of Things

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.

Planetarium

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris.

Par accident

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique’s attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling…

Je ne suis pas mort

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: “I am not dead”

Au cas où je n’aurais pas la palme d’or

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Simon, a forty-year-old filmmaker, is more prone to shooting himself in the foot than he is to shooting films. After losing a bet, he shaves off his hair and discovers a strange bump on top of his scull. Believing he’s got a terminal illness, he gathers his family, friends and actors at his house in the Lilas neighborhood in Paris to shoot the comedy of his life !

Le Sentiment de la chair

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During a medical exam, Helena, a student in anatomical drawing, meets Benoit, a young radiologist. Their mutual fascination for the human body incites them to start a passionate romance. Helena’s capability to memorize every detail of Benoit’s body and Benoit’s irresistible curiosity to uncover the ‘interior’ secrets of Helena’s body lead them to a dangerous journey with no limits…

Belhorizon

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A group of friends blessed with the privileges of birth and status are about to leave for a short break. Carl is the first to arrive and discovers that the four-star hotel they’ve booked is nothing more than an ordinary family pension. This means the beginning of social clashes and unexpected approaches.

Triple agent

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor’s Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin’s Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.

Capitães de Abril

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship–which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar–and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

Kill by Inches

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An anxious young tailor dominated by his father, a master of the craft, is eager to do well with his clients; but his inadequacy in measuring leaves him frustrated and humiliated. His younger sister – an expert seamstress – arrives back in town, discovers his measuring weakness and begins a cruel reign of terror over him, humiliating him endlessly in front of customers. Pushed to the edge, the young tailor heads down the nightmarish road to insanity and murder.