Patrick Chesnais

True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor. (imdb)

A self-absorbed writer (Jean-Pierre Bacri) becomes obsessed with his psychologist's watch, supposedly worn by John F. Kennedy the day he was assassinated.

Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. (imdb)

Pierre Foret is funny and that is his tragedy. That is also his job he warms up the audience on a TV set. Pierre Foret is funny but he would rather be good-looking. Or an actor. Or a singer. A matter of credibility. Pierre Foret cannot take it any more. He has not slept in six nights. He has kidnapped Clovis Costa, the singer, the Idol, and sequesters him in the apartment he grew up in. No way out... (twitchfilm.net)

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same... (imdb)

French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.

The Celliers are just like any other family, every one of its members is as mad as a hatter. Mady, a 60 year old housewife, spends her days with never a good word to say about her children and husband Henry, a strange man who seems to have been in regression ever since his retirement. Antoine, their eldest son, is incapable of running a business...

A CHANGE OF PLANS follows a group of four French couples who converge in an apartment over the course of one lengthy summer's eve and spend the time chatting about life, personal goals, relationships and sex (rottentomatoes.com)

In Paris, the successful forty and something year old book editor Diane Clovier is married with the lawyer Philippe Clovier and they have teenage son and daughter. Diane meets the young engineer Emilio that is the roommate of the writer François Narou that is working with her, and they have an intense love affair. Meanwhile, Philippe is defending their neighbor that has killed her unfaithful husband sticking a fork in his neck and one day he overhears a phone conversation of Diane and her lover.

Jean-Claude is a 50 year old bailiff who lives alone and has a boring life. At weekend he usually visits his rude, old father in the retirement home. But then he takes tango lessons and meets the beautiful Françoise.

Two young women figure out that the best way to be promoted in the company, is to sleep with the CEO.

In 1968, while Paris is burning with the student revolt, five friends stand out. They have a leader with the code name of Nechayev. They slowly slide to terrorism, together with the other revolutionary network. Some time later, Nechayev is betrayed and disappears in mysterious circumstances in Gibraltar.

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation. (imdb)

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women. (imdb)

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in... (imdb)

A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client. (imdb)

César-winning French cinema icon Fanny Ardant stars in this sophisticated and sexy drama about a married woman in her sixties tumbling into an affair with a much younger man. (tiff.net)

A story that focuses on the problematic relationship between Paul Marseul, owner of a prestigious vineyard in Saint Emilion and his son, Martin, who works with him on the family estate. Paul is a demanding and passionate wine-maker but is a domineering father. He is not happy that his son may one day succeed him. He dreams of a son who is more talented, more charismatic . . . and more in line with his own aspirations. (IMDb)

An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble. (imdb)

Therapist woman helps a man who broken heart and suicideable.

Under the reign of Napoleon, François Vidocq, the only man to be escaped of the greatest penal colony of the country, is a legend of the low-Parisian fund. Left for dead after its last spectacular escape, the ex-penal colony prisoner tries to make him forget under the traits of a single trader. (imdb)

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded .

Tragicomedy on a film set. Jonathan, the director, does not manage to obtain from Gérard, the actor, that he plays the key scene of the film as he wrote it. (unifrance.org)

When Claire comes home to her dad Albert, living with his friend Gedeon, the house gets explosive. The three will see the past coming back when a cop investigates around the house.

Five couples with their love lives reencounter with their previous romantic partners, making them rethink and reflect on their current lives. (imdb)

A slice-of-life drama about Louise, an 12-year-old girl left to her own devices over the summer following her parents' divorce. Her mother (Dominique Valadie) is a renowned concert pianist, anxious to begin a second life free of entanglements. Her father (Patrick Chesnais) is a workaholic industrialist, distracted to the point of denial about the collapse of his marriage. (https://www.spectacletheater.com)

A group of adventurers sets out to rob a gold mine in the heart of French Guiana. But the operation does not go as planned, and, during their flight, their helicopter must land in disaster in the middle of the jungle. They got their hands on six hundred kilograms of gold, but now have to carry it on their backs in a very hostile environment. Everything contributes to making their long march impossible. And the cohesion of the group is eaten away by the gold fever. (imdb)

Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits from people who won't let him rest. (imdb)

A dozen sketches featuring earthy characters who go to the extremes of their wickedness, powerlessness or madness.

Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.