Samuel Labarthe – MRQE

L’accompagnatrice

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

Emily accidentally tells her school nurse that her dementia-stricken grandpa almost got them killed, a rookie child-welfare agent is sent to their house to investigate. A botched extraction ensues and Emily is taken and placed with Sylvia, a new foster parent.

Love Street (V)

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

Raised in a French brothel, a young man (Patrick Timsit) falls in love with a prostitute (Laetitia Casta) during World War II.

Notre-Dame brûle

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

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Ces amours-là

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

A theater projectionist’s daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesnt share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.

L’école pour tous

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

A small-time criminal (Arié Elmaleh) tries to evade the police.

Trois couples en quête d’orages

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

Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience something of a crisis in their lives. Olivier, a doctor before becoming wheelchair bound, faces a bleak future after the break up of two relationships. The fact that Rémi and his wife Estelle are unable to have children puts an increasing strain on their marriage. And Pascale, a filmmaker, is on the point of leaving her husband to pursue an affair with an opportunistic career politician.

égarés, Les

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

Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler’s army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly comes to be depending much on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.

Charmant garçon

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

Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars’ restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and whiny. The latter falls in love with her. The game is going to be difficult.

La Bûche

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette’s husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba’s pregnancy, Sonia’s crumbling marriage, Stanislas’s overtures to Yvette, and Milla’s attraction to the man who’s her father’s rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?

Le Jardin des plantes

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research. He’s a coward, as is his debonair son, Armand, who has one daughter, Philippine. On her eighth birthday, Armand picks her up from her repressive boarding school and takes her to Fernand’s to celebrate. Father and son quarrel, and Armand leaves, only to be arrested and shot for violating curfew. In grief, the curmudgeonly Fernand does not tell Philippine, but invents a life for Armand as a captain of the Resistance. Fernand takes her from school to live with him and his sensible wife. Along the way, Philippine finds out the truth and Fernand discovers courage.