Hélène Fillières – MRQE

Encore

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

The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really let himself go. Though a successful writer, and supposedly working on a book about ‘regret,’ he is barely functioning. He can’t sleep at night. During the day he is easily distracted, irresponsible and moody. He also ignores his patient live-in lover Aliette who has stuck by him for 10 years. As he mopes through another day, he gets into several awkward occasions. One of his students, Florence tells him off in a café. A young woman, Catherine hears this and afterward introduces herself as a fan. Later he decides to find her address and visit her apartment. There Abel meets Catherine’s roommate Aurore and the former’s jealous boyfriend Bruno for a tense scene. He is returning home when Abel encounters his brother’s former lover Olga and this creates more awkwardness.

Tontaine et Tonton (TV)

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

Two middle-aged friends meet a beautiful woman whom they set out to seduce. She invites them but only has eyes for one man: François Mitterrand.

Arès

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

In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.

À moi seule

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

A young woman tries to adjust to freedom after she spends eight years as a prisoner to a strange man.

Papas du dimanche, Les

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

Yeux de sa mère, Les

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography. Meanwhile, in Brittany, twenty-year-old Bruno, who lives with his parents, doesn’t yet know the consequences that this story will have on his existence…

Coupable

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

When the dead body of Mr Kaplan is found, a kitchen knife in the back, all eyes turn to the maid. When the widow reveals that her departed husband was incapable of giving her children, all eyes turn to the widow. Beneath this passionate crime, a modern day detective will discover that temptation, devotion, remorse and desire are the best fuels for killing love.

Lady Chatterley

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

In the Chatterleys country estate, monotonous days follow one after the other for Constance, trapped by her marriage and her sense of duty. During spring, deep in the heart of Wragby forest, she encounters Parkin, the estates gamekeeper. A tale of an encounter, a difficult apprenticeship, a slow awakening to sensuality for her, a long return to life for him. Or how love is but one with experience and transformation.

De particulier à particulier

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

After 10 years and two children together, Philippe and Marion, finally decide to take a honeymoon Holiday in Venice. At the train station, a abandoned bag filled with money will bring them to a different journey. A journey of doubt where reality never quite lies where it seems, leading from separation to reconciliation.

Friday Night

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

Paris, 1995. Laure is about to meet friends for dinner. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When she offers a handsome stranger a ride, Laure takes a highly charged, impossibly erotic detour.