Anne Kessler

Dracula

Old Lady

In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.

Winter Boy

Sonia

Lucas is a 17-year-old gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother with whom he now lives alone, Lucas will have to fight to rediscover hope and love.

In Safe Hands

Adoption service educator

Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.

Two Pianos

Anna

Returning to France after a long exile, pianist Mathias Vogler reunites with his mentor, Elena, to prepare a concert. In a park, an encounter with a child who looks just like him will lead him to Claude, the woman he once loved.

Saint-Jacques… La Mecque

Edith

Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.

Private Fears in Public Places

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Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers personals and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?

Everybody Is a Killer

Mme Weckman

A psychoanalyst gives a strange advice to a mechanic whose marriage is falling apart: to take the blame for a murder, any murder, to impress his beautiful and indifferent wife, and his patient does just that.

Love Without Pity

Adeline

25 year-old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings.

My Wife's Girlfriends

Edmée

A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.

Guermantes

Anne

Paris, sum­mer 2020. Actors from “la Comédie-Française”, France’s most pres­ti­gious the­ater, rehearse Christophe Hon­oré’s new play, an adap­ta­tion of Mar­cel Proust’s “The Guer­mantes Way”. When the show is sud­den­ly can­celed, the dra­ma group decides to go ahead with it any­way, in the name of art and for the joy of act­ing together.

L'Hôtel du libre-échange

Angélique, femme de Pinglet

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La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué

Self

La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)

Cyrano de Bergerac

Le tire-laine / La duègne / Une sœur

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Le Mariage de Figaro

Susanne

A staging of Beaumarchais's play "The Marriage of Figaro" by Christophe Rauck.

Un soir au club

Laura

Simon Nardis was once an internationally renowned jazz pianist but for the past ten years he has led a more orderly life as a husband and father. But all that changes when he walks into a jazz club by chance one evening. He comes face-to-face with the demons he thought he had tamed: music, alcohol and doubts about himself. He wonders if he really is happy...

The Monkey's Paw

Marie Mercier

French countryside, 19th century. A peasant woman finds herself in possession of a magical object: a monkey's paw that can grant wishes. She decides to use it, only to realize that the wishes are actually curses she must endure until the end...

Tartuffe ou L'imposteur (Comédie Française)

Mariane

Tartuffe is a hypocritical impostor who manages to manipulate Orgon, a wealthy widowed bourgeois, by feigning devotion. Orgon ends up offering his daughter Mariane in marriage to Tartuffe, while he disowns his son Damis and intends to donate all his possessions to Tartuffe. Elmire, Orgon's young wife, whom Tartuffe is courting, will attempt to expose him, while the royal family intervenes to prevent the ruin of Orgon's family.

Vincennes Neuilly

Sophie

Jérôme and Sophie are "foreigners". They evolve in a world whose rules seem to them as many constraints and adopt unusual behaviors which can disorientate their interlocutors. They say they are brother and sister and many people prefer to believe them and be satisfied with this version for fear of supporting a situation that is too scabrous. Only Olivia accepts to assume the situation. Her taste for derision and her humor allow her to overcome the provocations of the couple and to take an ascendancy on them.

Le Dindon

Clotilde Pontagnac

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Stricteternum

A little house in the suburbs in the middle of nowhere. A car trapped in the snow. The great desperation of a couple who kill time in front of the television. And this strange impression of déjà-vu. But you better hold on because at any moment everything could change.