Yvan Attal
1) The Patriots
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Language
Français
Description
Espionage, personal integrity, and political commitment are the main themes running through this French thriller that chronicles a young man's journey from idealism to disillusionment and maturity.
2) Rapt
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for four Cesar Awards (including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor), Lucas Belvaux's edge-of-your-seat thriller -- inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French industrialist Edouard-Jean Empain -- features a career-defining performance by Yvan Attal (Munich, My wife Is an actress) as a millionaire playboy who is abducted and held for ransom for 60 days.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Writer-director Yvan Attal (My wife is an actress) takes a "funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire" (Jami Bernard, NY Daily News) in Happily ever after, a bittersweet comedy about the battle of the married sexes. Starring Attal and real-life amour Charlotte Gainsbourg (21 Grams), Happily ever after uncovers a web of marital deceit and sexual combustion connecting a handful of Parisian friends, spouses and lovers.
4) The Patriots
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
Français
Description
At 18, Ariel Brenner leaves Paris and his family to live in Israel. He secretly joins the Mossad, the Isreali secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist... We will assist to the methods, the manipulations, the abuses, the machiavellism, the doubts of secret agents.
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Français
Description
It starts with three men, they're in the early forties and they're thinking about their lives. Vincent lives with Gabrielle, Georges with Nathalie. They each have a 5 year old boy and they feel like they're suffocating, becoming " bourgeois " and trapped by a society, that's forced them to work, marry and have kids… They're jealous of Fred's freedom, the third man, a bachelor who sleeps with pretty girls and has no schedule.
Author
Series
Captain Marleau volume 4
Language
Français
Description
After a mock pistol duel leads to tragedy, Marleau's investigation points to murder.
7) Rapt
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Language
Français
Description
Stanislas Graff, a powerful industrialist, is kidnapped one morning from in front of his building by a group of gangsters. So begins a nightmare where he's humiliated, abused, and treated inhumanely. Although he resists, allowing his kidnappers no hold over him, he accepts everything without rebelling or any kind of cry or complaint; he responds with dignity to barbarity. Outside, his world slowly collapses when his true nature is revealed.