Louis-Do de Lencquesaing – 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.

La Mort viendra

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

Tez kills for money. Charles Mahr, a legendary gangster, hires her to avenge the murder of one of his couriers. Once in Brussels, she gets caught up in the thicket of an intrigue in which she herself becomes the prey. Tez has to decide whose instrument she wants to be.

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.

La Réparation

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

A few hours before his third Michelin star was awarded, a renowned chef disappeared with his second chef during a hunting trip. His daughter Clara found herself alone at the head of the restaurant, harassed by paparazzi. Two years later, she received an invitation to a renowned gastronomic congress in Taiwan.

Limonov: The Ballad

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

A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonovs life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.

Retour à Séoul

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born, before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.

Lost Illusions

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

Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzacs classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.

Choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait, Les

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

Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime, her boyfriend Francois cousin. Francois had to leave in a hurry for Paris to cover for a sick colleague. For four days, while waiting for his return, Daphne and Maxime get to know each other and share very intimate stories that bring them closer…

Invisibles, Les

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A budding electronica artist gives up his shot at stardom to pursue a woman from a telephone dating network.

Brice 3

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

Brice is back. The world has changed, but not him. When his best friend, Marius, calls for help, he goes on a wild adventure that will lead him to the other side of the world… Travel shapes youth but will he remain the king of the “casse” ?