Jacques Bonnaffé – MRQE

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.

Anton Tchékhov 1890

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

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is improving and Anton Chekhov gets the Pushkin prices and admiration of Tolstoy. But when one of his brothers died of tuberculosis, Anton saw it as a personal failure and wants to escape his fame and his love.

Lemming

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

After the death of his boss’s wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased…

My Name Is Hmmm…

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

Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a “luminous journey” in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous father; he, far from his native Scotland and the sad memory of his lost wife and daughter. In the course of a few days, a few words, Céline experiences her first true moments of childhood and lightness, exhilaration and trust. Peter goes towards the last days of a life that he offers, like a sublime and aging angel, to this wounded child.

Violette

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

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette’s quest for freedom through writing and on Simone’s conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.

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.

36 vues du Pic Saint Loup

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

Vittorio stops to help Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. When they meet again, Vittorio discovers that Kate has rejoined a circus after a long time away. He begins to learn about the troupe’s buried past and Kate’s connection to it, while experiencing the magic of the circus.

La Fabrique des sentiments

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

A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she’s looking for love. Can a couple of minutes be the key to finding true love?

La Tourneuse de pages

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

Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher’s daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her parents decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Although Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, she unfortunately gets distracted by the president of the jury’s offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes her page turner, waiting patiently for her revenge.

Itinéraires

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

It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and a tattoo. But above all a guilt forever anchored. It is now up to him to rebuild his life.