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Jacques Fieschi has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
Passages
2023
Romance · Drama
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Dir. Claude Sautet · With Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Dir. Claude Sautet · With Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Claire Nadeau
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.
Dir. Maurice Pialat · With Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Christophe Odent
An elderly billionaire woman gives hundreds of millions of euros to a younger gay artist she is close to. Her daughter files a complaint for abuse of a vulnerable person and a scandal erupts.
Dir. Thierry Klifa · With Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Marina Foïs
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 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
Dir. Nicole Garcia · With Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Àlex Brendemühl
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
Dir. Maurice Pialat · With Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina
Set in Paris the story follows Lisa, who, while on vacation with her husband, rekindles a passionate affair with her ex-boyfriend. But that may lead to a murder.
Dir. Nicole Garcia · With Pierre Niney, Stacy Martin, Benoît Magimel
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