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Astrid Whettnall has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
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Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.
Dir. Xavier Giannoli · With Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau
When an explosion at an oil well threatens hundreds of lives, a crack team is called upon to make a deadly desert crossing with nitroglycerine in tow.
Dir. Julien Leclercq · With Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Ana Girardot

A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
Dir. Jalil Lespert · With Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Nikolai Kinski

In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It was written by a certain Henri Pick, a cook who died two years earlier and who, according to his widow, had never read a book in his life or written anything but a shopping list... Did he have a secret life? When the book becomes a huge best-seller, Jean- Michel Rouche, a skeptical and stubborn literary critic, teams up with Joséphine, Pick’s daughter, to unravel the mystery.
Dir. Rémi Bezançon · With Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, Alice Isaaz

A driven American exec heads to Paris determined to acquire a champagne brand by Christmas — and accidentally falls for the heir to the bubbly empire.
Dir. Mark Steven Johnson · With Minka Kelly, Tom Wozniczka, Xavier Samuel

Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…
Dir. David Oelhoffen · With Matthias Schoenaerts, Reda Kateb, Adel Bencherif