The Clockmaker of St. Paul
Tavernier's first film and one of his best. The superb Philippe Noiret stars as a watchmaker who must reevaluate his life after his son is arrested for murder.
Jean Gabin as Inspector Maigret [Maigret Sets a Trap | Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case | Maigret Sees Red]
This three-film collection features screen great Jean Gabin (Touchez pas au grisbi) as Georges Simenon’s legendary, pipe-smoking sleuth.
Mademoiselle Chambon
An elegant, moving tale of an unexpected romance between a married man (Vincent Lindon) and his son's homeroom teacher (Sandrine Kiberlain, Lindon's former wife) — and their attempt to keep their desires from turning into a full-blown affair. A modern-day Brief Encounter, crafted with enormous…
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Maigret is summoned by the Countess to the Château de Saint-Fiacre, where she shows him a letter she has received predicting the day on which she will die.
The Measure of a Man
Vincent Lindon (Mademoiselle Chambon) gives his Cannes Film Festival-winning performance as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses, interviews via Skype, a workshop critique of his self-presentation by fellow …
A Woman's Life
Adapted from the novel Une vie by Guy de Maupassant, Stéphane Brizé’s follow-up to his Cannes and César Award winner The Measure of a Man explores the restrictive social dictates and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy.