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La tête en friche

La tête en friche

Jean Becker 2010 1h 22m 7.3

An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.

Deux jours à tuer

Deux jours à tuer

Jean Becker 2008 1h 25m 7.6

Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.

The Luzhin Defence

The Luzhin Defence

Marleen Gorris 2000 1h 49m 6.0

Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.

Dialogue avec mon jardinier

Dialogue avec mon jardinier

Jean Becker 2007 1h 49m 7.0

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

Effroyables jardins

Effroyables jardins

Jean Becker 2003 1h 35m 7.5

Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.

Foon

Foon

Mika Tard, Benoît Pétré 2005 1h 22m

A weird and wonderful anti-Grease!

Bon rétablissement !

Bon rétablissement !

Jean Becker 2014 1h 21m

After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed.

Quatre garçons plein d'avenir

Quatre garçons plein d'avenir

Jean-Paul Lilienfeld 1997 1h 30m 8.0

The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a supposedly funny story.