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Nathalie Boutefeu has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.
Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
Dir. Claude Miller · With Patrick Bruel, Cécile de France, Ludivine Sagnier
Judith leads a double life between Switzerland and France. On the one hand Abdel, with whom she is raising a little girl, on the other Melvil with whom she has two older boys. Little by little, this fragile balance, made up of lies, secrets and back and forth, cracks dangerously. Trapped, Judith chooses to head forward, at the risk of losing everything.
Dir. Antoine Barraud · With Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone
