Language: French – Page 3 – Wimbledon Film Club

Holy Motors

Surrealist comedy delivering a visual feast populated with gripping performances.

Monsieur Lazhar

In Montreal, an elementary school teacher hangs herself.

Polisse

A critically acclaimed French film, winner of the Cannes Jury Prize 2011 and 13 Cesar Awards also earning international praise.

The Kid With a Bike

A lean, direct narrative and a superb central performance provide emotional impact in this excellent drama.

In this two-hander, played by French acting legends Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant, Georges and Anne are two retired music teachers who have been blissfully married for at least 6 decades.

Thérèse Desqueyroux

In the south-west of France, in the late 1920s, Thérèse Laroque agrees to a marriage of convenience between wealthy families by marrying Bernard Desqueyroux, a bourgeois landowner.

In The House

A pupil writes increasingly evocative and erotic stories that engage his middle-aged teacher- events start to spiral out of control.

The Past

A film about moral choice and responsibility. A man goes to Iran, abandoning his wife and children in Paris. She asks for a divorce.

Lift to the Scaffold

Distinguished French director Louis Malle (1932-95) made his debut feature film at the age of 24 with this taut thriller, having won the Palme d’Or in 1956 for the documentary The Silent World, co-directed with Jacques Cousteau.

Timbuktu

Mauretanian director Sissako, who spent part of his youth in Mali, was inspired to make this film when he read an article in Paris newspaper in 2012 about the public stoning of an unmarried couple in the town of Aguelhok (for reportedly having children outside wedlock).

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