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Isabelle Sadoyan has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
Dir. Jaco Van Dormael · With Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
Dir. Daniel Vigne · With Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier

All the people in this countryside area, can count on Jean-Pierre, the doctor who auscultates them, heals and reassures them day and night, 7 days a week. Now Jean-Pierre is sick, so he sees Natalie, a young doctor, coming from the hospital to assist him. But will she adapt to this new life and be able to replace the man that believed to be irreplaceable?
Dir. Thomas Lilti · With François Cluzet, Marianne Denicourt, Isabelle Sadoyan

An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
Dir. Claude Miller · With Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier
A father enlists the help of an airport employee on a quest to find his daughter's teddy.
Dir. Julien Hervé, Philippe Mechelen · With Kad Merad, Malik Bentalha, Guy Marchand