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The Passengers of the Night Trailer — Mikhaël Hers‘ The Passengers of the Night / Les Passagers de la Nuit (2022) movie trailer has been released by Madman Films. The Passengers of the Night trailer stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Noée Abita, Quito Rayon Richter, Megan Northam, Thibault Vinçon, and Emmanuelle Béart. Crew Maud Ameline, Mariette Désert, and [...]

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There’s something about French films. The impeccably styled but lived-in interiors, the laid-back sensuality that feels like real-people sex, the cigarettes upon cigarettes upon cigarettes. The country’s entire oeuvre (has the word ever been more apropos?) feels like a smoky exhalation of the words “le cinéma.” That said, French films get away with certain things American films wouldn’t dare, for better or for worse. In “The Passengers of the Night” (“Les passagers de la nuit”), which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as a newly divorced mother, meaning takes a backseat to mood, and character development happens on a whim. Still,

The film opens on election night in 1981. As the winds of change sweep the streets of Paris, bursting with youthful optimism, Elisabeth (Gainsbourg) is on the precipice of a less welcome change. Her marriage over, and she is filled with uncertainty about how to support her two teenage kids,...

Foreign film nominations for Biancanieves, Gravity and Great Beauty.Scroll down for full list of nominations

Guillaume Gallienne’s Me, Myself And Mum (Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table!) and Abdellatif Kechiche’s Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (aka Blue is the Warmest Colour) are the hot favourites in France’s upcoming Cesar awards.

The Académie Des Arts et Technique du Cinéma unveiled the nominations for the César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.

Actor Gallienne’s debut feature Me, Myself and Mum - a big screen adaptation of his autobiographical, one-man comedy show about his complicated relationship with his mother - secured 10 nominations.

They comprised best film, best first film, best director, best actor, best supporting actress, best adaptation, best editing, best sound, best set design and best costumes.

The film was produced and distributed by Gaumont, which also picked up another four nominations for The Young...

Adele and Me, Myself and Mum lead French Cesar nominations.Scroll down for full list of nominations

Abdellatif Kechiche’s Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (aka Blue is the Warmest Colour) and Guillaume Gallienne’s Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table! (aka Me, Myself And Mum) are the hot favourites in France’s upcoming Cesar awards.

France’s Académie Des Arts et Technique du Cinéma unveiled the nominations for the César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.

The 39th Cesar ceremony, presided by Intouchables star Francois Cluzet, will take place on February 28.

Nominations (so far)Best FILM9 Month-Stretch (Neuf mois ferme)Me, Myself and Mum (Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!)Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du Lac)Jimmy P. (Jimmy P. Psychothérapie d’un Indien des Plaines)The Past (Le Passé)Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la Foururre)Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (La Vie d’Adèle...

Love Like Poison / Un Poison Violent

Director: Katell Quillévéré

Written by Katell Quillévéré

2010, France

With a title borrowed from Serge Gainsbourg, it should be no great surprise that Katell Quillévéré’s feature debut Love Like Poison combines subversiveness with musical eclecticism and a touch of bawdy humour. Quillévéré isn’t trying to pick up the mantle of Claude Chabrol — this is a coming-of-age drama set in rural Brittany and punctuated with some unexpected English folk songs. Even if you’ve had your fill of adolescent angst, narcotic experiments and clandestine gropings, the fearless performance here of young Clara Augarde is reason enough to watch.

The story begins in church, with 14-year-old Anna (Augarde), being distracted during Holy Communion by winsome choirboy Pierre (Youen Leboulanger-Gourvil) giving her the eye. This is the first of several occasions in the film, when Anna’s behaviour during a religious service doesn’t meet the...