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Lionel Dray has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
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Captain Fantastic
2016
Drama · Comedy

The First Beautiful Thing
2010
Comedy · Drama

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
Drama · Comedy

The Movie of My Life
2017
Drama

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
2011
Drama

The House by the Sea
2017
Drama

Just Like Our Parents
2017
Drama

Beginners
2011
Drama · Romance

In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a fabulous life. From then on, Esther will do everything in her power to keep this promise. Through decades of trials and miracles of life, this film is the story of a true, funny and moving story, that of an incredible destiny and the greatest love there is: that of a mother for her child.
Dir. Ken Scott · With Leïla Bekhti, Jonathan Cohen, Joséphine Japy

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve · With Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka

Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.
Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne