Direction: Laurent Cantet

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast Aurélien Recoing · Karin Viard · Serge Livrozet · Jean-Pierre Mangeot

Synopsis Recently fired from his job, but unable to confess the truth to his close-knit family, Vincent spends his days driving around the countryside, talking into his cell phone and staring into space. Vincent fabricates a new job for himself so...

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast Jalil Lespert · Jean-Claude Vallod · Chantal Barré · Véronique de Pandelaère

Synopsis The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the...

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast François Bégaudeau · Nassim Amrabt · Laura Baquela · Cherif Bounaïdja Rachedi

Synopsis The Class (Entre les murs) (2008) follows a year in the life of a dedicated French teacher working in a multicultural middle school in Paris. Through his interactions with a diverse group of students, the film explores the challenges of...

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast Isabel Santos · Jorge Perugorría · Fernando Hechavarría · Néstor Jiménez

Synopsis A terrace overlooking Havana. Five friends gather to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile. From dusk to dawn, they reminisce about their youth, the group they used to form, the faith they had in the future...

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast Rabah Nait Oufella · Antoine Reinartz · Aleksandra Yermak · Sofian Khammes

Synopsis Who is this Karim D. ? The new young writer whom the media can't get enough of? Or his alias, Arthur Rambo, the author of old hate-fuellled messages which are dredged up, one day, from social media websites?

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast Marina Foïs · Matthieu Lucci · Florian Beaujean · Mamadou Doumbia

Synopsis La Ciotat, the South of France. Antoine attends a summer writing workshop in which a few young people have been selected to write a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The creative process will recall the...

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast Charlotte Rampling · Karen Young · Louise Portal · Ménothy Cesar

Synopsis Haiti, late 1970's. Sea, sex and sun for Ellen, Brenda and Sue, three North American ladies, on the wrong side of forty or fifty-odd, going through an enchanted interlude. Lonely, forsaken, neglected by men in their native countries, they can...

Direction Laurent Cantet · Benicio del Toro · Julio Medem · Gaspar Noé

Cast Josh Hutcherson · Emir Kusturica · Daniel Brühl · Jorge Perugorría

Synopsis A young American boy is trying to break into the acting business, and goes to Cuba during a film festival.

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast Raven Adamson · Katie Coseni · Madeleine Bisson · Claire Mazerolle

Synopsis Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast Frédéric Pierrot · Catherine Baugué · Marc Adjadj · Nathalie Bensard

Synopsis In December of 1999, François organizes a retreat to a small island for himself, some friends, and their children to avoid the craziness of Paris during the turn of the millennium. Things quickly become tense between François and the young...

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast Jean Lespert · Jalil Lespert · Julia Minguet · Mario Bels

Synopsis 18 year old Eric, on vacation in the South with his parents, decides to escape the stifling situation especially with his 50 year old father, and join a group of fellow youth.

Direction Miguel Albaladejo · Alain Berliner · Laurent Cantet · Ildikó Enyedi

Cast Frédéric Pierrot · Michael Degen · Manfred Zapatka · Catherine Baugué

Synopsis A mini-series of 10 films depicting the approaching turn of the millennium seen from the perspectives of 10 different countries.

Direction Laurent Cantet

Cast John Bertin · Michel Brun · Nicolas Garriga · Sarah Baglieri

Synopsis A few high school students are organizing a demonstration in the bar where Serge is working as a waiter for his father. He tries to join in...