Antonin Chalon has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Persian Lessons.
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
Dir. Vadim Perelman · With Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay
Éric and Patrice have been friends since high school. Over the years, they have both taken very different paths: Éric has become a hedonist, has a string of girlfriends and is always on the look out for a new one; Patrice has become a monogamous father with a very ordered life. After a drunken evening, the two childhood friends find themselves cast back into 1986, when they were 17 years old. This return to the past is a dream opportunity to try to change the path their lives will take. What will they do with this second chance?
Dir. Dominique Farrugia · With Franck Dubosc, Kad Merad, Alexandra Lamy
