"The Artist (film) The Artist is a 2011 French comedy-drama film in the style of a black-and-white silent film. Written, directed, and co-edited by Michel Hazanavicius, and produced by Thomas Langmann, the film stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood, between 1927 and 1932, and focuses on the relationship of an older silent film star and a rising young actress as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the ""talkies"". ""The Artist"" received highly positive reviews from critics and won many accolades. Dujardin won Best Actor at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival,"
"Delicacy (film) Delicacy () is a 2011 French romantic comedy-drama directed by David and Stéphane Foenkinos based on a novel of the same name by David Foenkinos. Nathalie, a young attractive woman is in love with a young attractive man, François. He proposes and they marry (portrayed in something resembling a ‘dream’ sequence), honeymoon, and are immediately pressured by family to have children. Nathalie takes a new job, hired partially because her new boss is sexually interested in her. One day, François goes out to jog and is killed in a traffic accident. Nathalie is devastated. After wallowing in pity"
"its main subject with warmth and heart."" Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" gave 3.5 out of 4 stars, commenting that ""Tomboy"" is ""tender and affectionate"". IndieWire called it the third best Lesbian movie of all time. Autostraddle called it ""excellent."" Tomboy (2011 film) Tomboy is a 2011 French drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma. The story follows a 10-year-old tomboy, Laure, who moves during the summer holiday with her family to a new neighborhood. At that time of life, when everything is still open, she experiments with her gender identity. The film opened to positive reviews, with"
"The Art of Love (2011 film) The Art of Love () is a 2011 French comedy film directed and written by Emmanuel Mouret. The film stars Mouret himself, Pascale Arbillot, Ariane Ascaride, Frédérique Bel, François Cluzet, Julie Depardieu, Judith Godrèche, Stanislas Merhar, Elodie Navarre, Laurent Stocker and Gaspard Ulliel, and is narrated by Philippe Torreton. ""The Art of Love"" premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival on 7 August 2011. Although it garnered rather mixed reviews by film critics, it won the Best Screenplay Award at the Montréal World Film Festival, and the Foreign Press Award at Filmfest Hamburg. ""The"
"The Beloved (2011 film) Beloved () is a 2011 French film written and directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Catherine Deneuve, Miloš Forman, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Paul Schneider, Michel Delpech and Chiara Mastroianni. The story is set in the 1960s through the 2000s in Paris, Reims, Montreal, Prague and London. While not a musical, the characters use musical 'narration' and 'dialogues' throughout the film. The film is produced by Why Not Productions. The project received 228,000 euro in support from the Ile-de-France Regional Support Fund for Technical Film and Audiovisual Industries. Apart from the French investment, 20% of the 6.8-million-euro"
"Carnevale. The Intouchables The Intouchables ( ), also known as Untouchable (UK), is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama film directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. Nine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the second biggest box office hit in France, just behind the 2008 film ""Welcome to the Sticks"". The film was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. The film has received several award nominations. In France, the film won the César Award for Best"
"The Intouchables The Intouchables ( ), also known as Untouchable (UK), is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama film directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. Nine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the second biggest box office hit in France, just behind the 2008 film ""Welcome to the Sticks"". The film was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. The film has received several award nominations. In France, the film won the César Award for Best Actor"
"has an approval rating of 63%, based on 68 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 53 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating ""mixed or average reviews"". Delicacy (film) Delicacy () is a 2011 French romantic comedy-drama directed by David and Stéphane Foenkinos based on a novel of the same name by David Foenkinos. Nathalie, a young attractive woman is in love with a young attractive man, François. He proposes and they marry (portrayed in something resembling a ‘dream’ sequence), honeymoon, and are immediately pressured"
"a distillation of the filmmaker's passions and crotchets, and of his tendency to pass draconian judgment on characters the audience is not supposed to like. . . . his ""Midnight"" strikes not sublime chimes but the clangor of snap judgments and frayed fantasy."" Quentin Tarantino named ""Midnight in Paris"" as his favorite film of 2011. The film was well received in France. The website Allocine (Hello Cinema) gave it 4.2 out of 5 stars based on a sample of twenty reviews. Ten of the reviews gave it a full five stars, including ""Le Figaro"", which praised the film's evocation of"
"Q (2011 film) Q is a 2011 French drama film directed by Laurent Bouhnik. It was released in the United States as ""Desire"". Set in Cheg, France and in a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people are turned upside down after they meet Cecile, a character who symbolizes desire. Cecile is a 20-year-old woman whose father recently died and she sets about to bury her grief by having sexual relations with various lovers of people that she knows and doesn't know. Chance is Cecile's boyfriend and a petty criminal who loves her, but"
"budget came from the United Kingdom and 10% from the Czech Republic. Filming started on 18 October 2010. The film closed the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The French release was 17 August 2011 through Le Pacte. It also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2011. The Beloved (2011 film) Beloved () is a 2011 French film written and directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Catherine Deneuve, Miloš Forman, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Paul Schneider, Michel Delpech and Chiara Mastroianni. The story is set in the 1960s through the 2000s in Paris, Reims, Montreal, Prague and London. While"
"Café de Flore (film) Café de Flore is a Canadian drama film, released in 2011. Directed, written, and edited by Jean-Marc Vallée, the film garnered 13 nominations for the 2012 Genie Awards. The title refers not to the popular café on Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, but to a Matthew Herbert song of the same name which the film uses to represent its musical current. The film cuts between two seemingly unrelated stories. One, set in present-day Montreal, focuses on Antoine, a successful club DJ torn between his new girlfriend Rose and his still-complicated relationship with his childhood friend and ex-wife"
"follows a young engaged couple in Paris who see their lives transformed. It debuted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2011. Allen said he wanted to ""show the city emotionally,"" during the press conference. ""I just wanted it to be the way I saw Paris – Paris through my eyes,"" he added. The film was praised by critic Stephanie Zacharek. ""Midnight in Paris"" won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and became his highest-grossing film, making $151 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. His next film, ""To Rome with Love"", was a Rome-set comedy released"
"the ""Variety"" wrote ""Mouret's rep and stellar cast mean local biz should be strong [...], but it will take more than art for 'Love' to transcend borders"" and gave the film a mixed review. The ""Time Out"" gave it three out of five stars, naming it the ""frothy fun"". Dan Fainaru of the ""Screen Daily"" reviewed ""The Art of Love"" positively. On 28 August 2011, Emmanuel Mouret won the Best Screenplay Award at the Montréal World Film Festival. The film was also honoured with the Foreign Press Award at the Hamburg Film Festival. The Art of Love (2011 film) The"
"the final nominees. After four weeks, by 25 November 2011, ""The Intouchables"" had already become the most-watched film in France in 2011. After sixteen weeks, more than 19 million people had seen the film in France. On 10 January 2012, ""The Intouchables"" set a record, having been number one for ten consecutive weeks since its release in France. The film has grossed $166 million in France and $444.7 million worldwide as of 12 May 2013. On 20 March 2012, ""The Intouchables"" became the highest-grossing movie in a language other than English with $281 million worldwide. It broke the previous record"
"independent romantic comedy ""Language of a Broken Heart"", which was selected for the Hollywood Film Festival in 2011. French featured in the rock musical film """", which was released in 2014. In 2011, French starred alongside Jason Ritter in the short film, ""Atlantis"", a romance film centered around two strangers who fall in love in the lead up to the final launch of the NASA space shuttle ""Atlantis"". and had a leading role in the independent thriller ""The Red House"". French also had a guest role on the television series ""Up All Night"". In 2012, it was announced that French"
"On June 8, 2012, at the Canadian Comedy Awards, ""French Immersion"" was nominated for best film, Jefferson Lewis and Kevin Tierney for best writing, Tierney for best direction, and Oluniké Adeliyi for best female performance. Gavin Crawford won for best male performance. Steven Page's song ""A Different Sort of Solitude"" garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012. French Immersion (film) French Immersion, subtitled It's Trudeau's Fault in English and C'est la faute à Trudeau in French, is a Canadian comedy film, released in 2011. The dialogue in this film is a"
"The Names of Love The Names of Love () is a 2010 French romantic comedy film directed by Michel Leclerc, written by Leclerc and Baya Kasmi, and produced by Antoine Rein, Fabrice Goldstein and Caroline Adrian. The film recorded 764,821 admissions in Europe. The film was awarded two César Awards in 2011, including Best Actress for Sara Forestier and Best Original Screenplay. The former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin makes a cameo appearance. The film is semi-biographical, documenting the life of a young woman who uses sex as a weapon to influence right-wing individuals and conservative Muslims. Bahia Benmahmoud (Sara"
"of 4.7/10. Down by Love Down by Love () is a 2016 French drama film directed by Pierre Godeau. Based on the life of Sorour Arbabzadeh and Florent Goncalves in 2010, a young woman (born in 1987) is detained at a prison for women in Versailles, where she encounters Florent Goncalves, the prison director. She is sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in The Affair of the Gang of Barbarians. She is released in January 2012. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, ""Down by Love"" has an approval rating of 33%, based on 6 reviews, with an"
"in 2002. Langmann married French journalist Céline Bosquet on June 21, 2013. Thomas Langmann Thomas Langmann (born 24 May 1971) is a French film producer and actor, known for producing ""The Artist"" (2011), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Picture as producer in 2012. Langmann began his career as an actor in his father's films when he was a teenager, earning Cesar Award nominations for Most Promising Newcomer for ""Les années sandwiches "" in 1988 and ""Paris s'éveille"" in 1991, as well as a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1993 for ""Le nombril du monde"". He"
"and consumed with the drudgery of daily existence, until he meets Agnès, a beautiful business woman, onto whom he projects his hopes and desires. His charisma and persistence seduces Agnès, who quickly wearies of his emotional burdens. When she severs all ties with Amadou, he sinks into destruction and violence. The Invader (2011 film) The Invader () is a 2011 French-language Belgian drama film directed by Nicolas Provost. Kabongo received a Magritte Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The film was shown at several international film festivals in 2011, including the Toronto International Film Festival; was nominated for several awards,"
"personal life is as messy as his books are carefully plotted."" Unforgivable (2011 film) Unforgivable () is a 2011 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, and Mélanie Thierry. The film is an adaptation of Philippe Djian's novel ""Unforgivable"" which received the Jean Freustié award in 2009. It was previously called ""The Angels Terminus"". The film premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2011 Cannes film festival. Francis, an aging successful writer of crime novels, arrives in Venice where he plans to rent out an apartment to live in peace and quiet for the next"
"of Denis Villeneuve's ""Incendies"" at the 83rd Academy Awards, and with ""War Witch"" marking the third consecutive nomination in 2013. Sophie Nélisse, at 11 years old, tied for the youngest Genie winner in the history of the award ceremony. Nina Petronzio was also 11 when she won Best Actress for ""Vincent and Me"" in 1991. Monsieur Lazhar Monsieur Lazhar is a 2011 Canadian French-language drama film directed by Philippe Falardeau and starring Mohamed Saïd Fellag, Sophie Nélisse and Danielle Proulx. Based on ""Bashir Lazhar"", a one-character play by Évelyne de la Chenelière, it tells the story of an Algerian refugee"
"him, out of shame. She is there for drug possession, but she is innocent. The next time she allows Yann to visit her with Slimane. Une vie meilleure Une vie meilleure, also known by its English release title A Better Life, is a 2011 French film directed by Cédric Kahn and starring Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti and introducing Slimane Khettabi. Yann (Guillaume Canet) and Nadia (Leïla Bekhti) fall in love. Nadia has acquired a crumbling building in a Paris suburb and the couple decide to renovate it to launch a restaurant. But things turn upside down, high financing costs make"
"Tomboy (2011 film) Tomboy is a 2011 French drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma. The story follows a 10-year-old tomboy, Laure, who moves during the summer holiday with her family to a new neighborhood. At that time of life, when everything is still open, she experiments with her gender identity. The film opened to positive reviews, with critics praising the directing and the performers, particularly Zoé Héran as the lead. The film explores a theme of ambiguous gender. Writer/director Céline Sciamma said, ""The movie is ambiguous about Mikael's feelings for Lisa. It plays with the confusion. I wanted"
"Amélie Amélie (also known as Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain; ; ) is a 2001 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation. The film was a co-production between companies in France and Germany. Taking in over $33 million in a limited theatrical release, it is to date the highest-grossing"
"released theatrically in France on 27 November. As of March 2012, it was also distributed in Switzerland, Belgium, Canada and Hungary. The film will be theatrically released in Germany on 17 May 2012. ""The Art of Love"" received mixed to positive reviews. The ""Première"" magazine gave it two out of four stars, describing the cast performances as ""convincing"", but also calling the film ""predictable"". Isabelle Zirbi of the ""Les Cahiers du cinéma"" praised Emmanuel Mouret's directing and writing ideas, awarding the film with three out of four stars. ""Le Nouvel Observateur"" reviewed the film more positively, naming it a ""delicious"
"depression. ""Amoureux fou"" is a Québécois comedy of manners with a fine cast. The film garnered six Genie Award nominations at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991: Girard and Proulx won their awards. Love Crazy (1991 film) Love Crazy (), also released as Madly in Love in some markets, is a Canadian romantic comedy film, directed by Robert Ménard and released in 1991. A 40-year-old ad man, Rémy (Rémy Girard), meets a former lover, Sarah (Nathalie Gascon), and finds himself head-over-heels in love with her all over again. Sarah’s husband (Jean Rochefort) is philosophical and figures she will soon tire"
"playing the environmentalist Marie, alongside Jean Dujardin and François Cluzet. In 2011, Cotillard starred in Woody Allen's ""Midnight in Paris"" alongside Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson and Kathy Bates, as Adriana, a fictionalized mistress of Pablo Picasso with whom Owen Wilson's character, Gil, falls in love. The film made US$151 million worldwide on a US$17 million budget. She appeared with Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh's thriller film ""Contagion"" (2011). She also ranked on the top of ""Le Figaro""s 2011 list of the highest paid actors in France in 2010, the first time in nine"
"received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 43%, based on 14 reviews. Metacritic gave the film a rating of 53/100, based on 10 reviews. Late Bloomers (2011 film) Late Bloomers is a 2011 French drama film directed by Julie Gavras and starring William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini. The film premiered on 18 February 2011 at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. It was released theatrically in France by the Gaumont Film Company on 13 July 2011. A couple, Adam (William Hurt) and Mary (Isabella Rossellini), are both heading into their sixties, but react to"
"A View of Love A View of Love () is a 2010 French romantic mystery film written and directed by Nicole Garcia and starring Jean Dujardin. Set mainly in the south of France, it tells the story of three pied noir children parted when Algeria became independent. Years later two meet again, one a married real estate agent and the other a mysterious woman being used to defraud his firm. A recurrent parallel is with the play Iphigénie, in which the three children had acted together, where two princesses compete for the flawed hero but one dies tragically. In the"
"Unforgivable (2011 film) Unforgivable () is a 2011 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, and Mélanie Thierry. The film is an adaptation of Philippe Djian's novel ""Unforgivable"" which received the Jean Freustié award in 2009. It was previously called ""The Angels Terminus"". The film premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2011 Cannes film festival. Francis, an aging successful writer of crime novels, arrives in Venice where he plans to rent out an apartment to live in peace and quiet for the next year while writing a new novel. Through his search he meets"
"Down by Love Down by Love () is a 2016 French drama film directed by Pierre Godeau. Based on the life of Sorour Arbabzadeh and Florent Goncalves in 2010, a young woman (born in 1987) is detained at a prison for women in Versailles, where she encounters Florent Goncalves, the prison director. She is sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in The Affair of the Gang of Barbarians. She is released in January 2012. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, ""Down by Love"" has an approval rating of 33%, based on 6 reviews, with an average rating"