Marc Cholodenko

French superstar Catherine Deneuve stars in this downbeat drama about the fine line between love and need. Deneuve plays Hélène, an attractive but aging housewife who keeps a lover, a young artist named Paul (Xavier Beauvois). Hélène is strongly attracted to Paul, but isn't sure if he's interested in her mind, her body, or merely her checkbook... (All Movie Guide)

Using extended, extreme close-ups that visually isolate the characters from their environment and also serve to reinforce their intimate, yet emotionally dissociated encounters, the film illustrates the ambiguous and indeterminate structure of Paul and Markus' lives as they struggle to reconcile with an idle intellectualism that has replaced their once determined, youthful idealism. (Acquarello - Strictly Film School)

A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers.

Movie star Carole is living half a world away from her filmmaker husband when she meets Francois. (spout.com)

J'Entends Plus La Guitare draws on the filmmaker's long-term relationship with Nico, who passed away three years before this film was made, to tell the story of addictive love between Marianne, a pensive German woman and Gerard, her articulate, indecisive French lover. Gerard lets his emotional and chemical dependency shelter him from the responsibilities he cannot bear to accept, and Marianne uses hers as a weapon to draw him irrevocably closer to him. (www.silentmovietheatre.com)

A film director creates familial strife when he won't cast his actress wife in a role that she inspired.

Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie and they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking about love, the relationship between former lovers... (imdb)

In France during the 70s, drama unravels when an experimental photographer starts taking highly erotic pictures of her nine year old daughter.

A couple living together in Paris, he a painter, she a film actress, befriend a couple of film extras who fall in love with each other. All four go to Rome where their relationships undergo profound changes as emotions shift and change. (tiff.net)

A theater actor is torn between the woman he lives with, and the woman he loves. But she cheats on him. (imdb)

Nathalie loves a man who is no longer interested in her. The man who does love her mainly gives her heartache. She has fleeting and chance encounters with people who are usually at odds with each other. They plunge unthinkingly into barren adventures, quarrel and do not recognise happiness when it comes their way.