Anne Fontaine
1) Gemma Bovery
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this cheeky literary mash-up of Flaubert's classic novel Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery and her husband move to the Norman village where the novel was written a century earlier.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Claire, a young woman of great beauty, arouses the uncontrollable jealousy of her stepmother Maud, who goes so far as to plan her murder. Rescued at the last moment by a mysterious man who takes her in on his farm, Claire decides to remain in the village, a decision that will awaken the emotions of its inhabitants. One, two, and soon seven men will fall under her spell!
3) Nathalie…
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains graphic sexual content and may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. Cohen Film Collection presents Anne Fontaine's drama of intrigue and infidelity. A rich woman (Fanny Ardant) hires an elite prostitute (Emmanuelle Béart) in order to verify the faithfulness of her husband (Gérard Depardieu). Before long, the experiment gets out of control.
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Warsaw, December 1945: the second World War is finally over and French Red Cross doctor Mathilde is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked nun appears at the clinic begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy. A non-believer, Mathilde enters the sisters’ fiercely private world, dictated...
5) Night Shift
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In this moody Police drama set in Paris, Virginie, Erik and Aristide work as police officers in a local brigade, trying to hold their personal and emotional lives together while dealing with daily occurrences of violence in homes and on the streets. One night, they are assigned an unusual mission and must drive a migrant back to the border for unspecified reasons. On their way to the airport, Virginie discovers the prisoner will be sentenced to death...