Nicolas Silberg

Mesrine was the foremost criminal, public enemy N°1, the man most wanted in France, guilty of 39 crimes. "In the police or newspaper history, Mesrine broke all records". The film begins with his escape on May 8, 1978. Mesrine was the only man to escape from La Santé. We relive the 18 crazy months he spent on the run and his encounter with Sylvia who is swept into his madness. (imdb)

Pierrot, mechanician in Paris, falls madly for an older woman, a chemist, who at first refuses his love. Finally she accepts his love when she discovers she is affected by a deadly illness. In the background we see everyday stories of a community of Pierrot's younger and older friends.

Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years voluntarily locked up in his room. An encounter between two persons and two worlds where the relationship of the young man to this closed, strange and unknown universe rapidly turns tradegy. (Buddylist)

It tells the story of a widow, who returns to a former house that had been hers 18 years after her husband was killed. (Wiki)

Maurice, a reluctant boxer, dreams of becoming a violinist, but his father, a former boxing champion crippled by his bouts, has other plans for his 18 year old son. Concerned about his son's lack of machismo, the father arranges a tryst between Maurice and Nora, a femme fatale. Nora's jealous husband suddenly interrupts their romantic interlude, but ends up killed by Maurice. United by the tragedy, Nora and Maurice fall in love. He is then inspired to become a great fighter. (Letterboxd)

The Forest is both a vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family drama, and a glorious tribute to acting and theater - in other words, an Arnaud Desplechin film. With Michel Vuillermoz and Denis Podalydès as the nephew and his friend, Adeline D’Hermy as the niece, and Martine Chevallier in a stunning performance as the sublimely selfish aunt Raissa. Based on the play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.