Pascal Bonitzer – MRQE

Victor comme tout le monde

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Imbued with Victor Hugo, the actor Robert Zucchini searches for his place between the stage and life. Every evening, he fills theaters by sharing his love of words. Until the day his daughter, whom he hasnt seen grow up, reappears.

Le Tableau volé

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

André Masson, an auctioneer at Scotties, receives a letter from a lawyer claiming that a common worker in the suburbs of Mulhouse owns a painting by Egon Schiele. Andrés first reaction is to believe that it can only be a fake. He decides to make the trip to Mulhouse anyway and against all odds, the painting turns out to be a masterpiece gone missing in 1939. This could undoubtedly be the turning point of his career, but after a brief investigation, he realizes that he has in his hands a looted work of art.

Tout de suite maintenant

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

Nora is a bright young professional whose new job at a financial firm turns out to be a trial by fire when she learns that her bosses share a tumultuous history with her prickly mathematician father. Meanwhile, an interoffice romance with a competitive colleague leads to even more complications, leaving Nora to navigate a minefield of delicate relationships as she climbs the corporate ladder.

Cherchez Hortense

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

Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise hell go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge…

Le Grand alibi

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

Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit…

Je pense à vous

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

Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermanns loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair he once had with Diane, in a highly subjective manner. She soon discovers the contents of the work, which Hermann tries to hide from her, and takes on a lawyer to defend her privacy. But this is only the beginning of a mess that simply gets worse and worse, leading to an unexpected, brutal ending.

Petites coupures

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

Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his political beliefs battered by the wind of history, Bruno seems to have lost his bearings.

Rien sur Robert

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

Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.

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.