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Pascale Arbillot has 20 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel
A young man seeking his sexual identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.
Dir. Ruben Alves · With Alexandre Wetter, Pascale Arbillot, Isabelle Nanty

Gauthier, a young journalist, learns from his mother that he is the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, a popular French singer whose heyday stretched unevenly from the 1960’s to the nineties. Guy is currently promoting a new album of old material and heads on tour. Armed with a camera, Gauthier decides to follow Guy, recording his daily routine and his concerts to create a documentary portrait.
Dir. Alex Lutz · With Alex Lutz, Tom Dingler, Pascale Arbillot

Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.
Dir. Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière · With Fabrice Luchini, Patrick Bruel, Zineb Triki

The sequel to Little White Lies ("Les petits mouchoirs"), set 7 years later. The group of friends, which had separated, reunites for the surprise birthday party organized for Max.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche

Having cleared his name, genius mechanic Lino has only one goal in mind: getting revenge on the corrupt cops who killed his brother and his mentor.
Dir. Guillaume Pierret · With Alban Lenoir, Stéfi Celma, Pascale Arbillot

Car genius Lino returns to conclude his vendetta against Areski and the corrupt commander who ruined their lives in this turbo-charged trilogy finale.
Dir. Guillaume Pierret · With Alban Lenoir, Stéfi Celma, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he discovers an unattractive, bad-mannered dog in his garden, he decides to adopt him and both start developing an unexpected friendship that inevitably upsets Henri’s family and neighbors.
Dir. Yvan Attal · With Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Eric Ruf

Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
Dir. Jérôme Commandeur · With Jérôme Commandeur, Laetitia Dosch, Pascale Arbillot
Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The perfect picture crumbles when Ève discovers that Henri is cheating on her. On an impulse, she finds revenge with Jonas, a perfect young Austrian guy. But he’s not who she thought he was. This will lead them to an irreversible spiral.
Dir. Marc Fitoussi · With Lucas Englander, Karin Viard, Pascale Arbillot

When a jaded actor meets a down-on-her-luck waitress in Paris, their unexpected love story begins — but will it survive the glare of the spotlight?
Dir. Lisa-Nina Rives · With Omar Sy, Sara Giraudeau, Pascale Arbillot
Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
Dir. Blandine Lenoir · With Agnès Jaoui, Thibault de Montalembert, Pascale Arbillot

Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her skills, the craft of dressmaking, her only wealth. In the frenetic world of Haute Couture, Esther will give Jade la beauté du geste, a way to reach beyond herself.
Dir. Sylvie Ohayon · With Nathalie Baye, Lyna Khoudri, Pascale Arbillot
Vali and Mina are two sisters who are polar opposites, pushed apart by life’s hardships and trials. One is a singer, a dreamer and emotional. The other is a therapist, distant and rational. Their loving father has finally found the perfect opportunity to bring them together, if only for a weekend, in order to hopefully patch things up between them: Vali has an audition in Paris and it’s mina who has to accompany her despite her contempt for her sister’s passion.
Dir. Géraldine Nakache · With Leïla Bekhti, Géraldine Nakache, Patrick Timsit
Pierre is the highly successful CEO of a large family-owned company. Before signing the deal of the century, he has to settle one last formality: obtain the signature of his cousin Adrien who owns 50% of his firm. This sweet, idealistic dreamer, who makes one blunder after another, is so happy to see Pierre again that he wants to spend time with him and delay the moment of signing. So Pierre has no choice but to take his cousin with him on a turbulent business trip during which his patience will be put to the test.
Dir. Jan Kounen · With Vincent Lindon, François Damiens, Pascale Arbillot
Jeanne, a brilliant architect has a new assignment: renovate the sumptuous Daguerre mansion owned by an eccentric family, head of a Board Game empire. When the landlord and patriarch Cesar is found dead, everyone present becomes a suspect. Suddenly Jeanne’s mission turns intoa life-size investigation to expose the murderer...
Dir. Nicolas Pleskof · With Alice Pol, Miou-Miou, Eddy Mitchell
A former french President, Nicolas, decides to persuade another one, François, to campaign together in order to return to the front stage of politics.
Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Jean Dujardin, Grégory Gadebois, Doria Tillier
One evening, when they come home, Mr. and Mrs. Prioux are astounded to find that a certain Patrick has moved into their place. This strange young man has returned home to his parents in order to introduce his wife.
Dir. Sébastien Thiery, Vincent Lobelle · With Christian Clavier, Catherine Frot, Sébastien Thiery
François and Charlotte directed together a gourmet hotel and restaurant on the edge of the sea, but their marital relationship is not fixed beauty: obsessive hard, Francis wants his first star in the Michelin Guide while Charlotte, at the dawn of the quarantine, dreams of a first child. This already complicated situation will literally explode the day where Charlotte's first husband, Alex, disembarked in their lives while everyone believed him dead in the terrible tsunami of 2004...
Dir. Florent-Emilio Siri · With Gérard Lanvin, Pascale Arbillot, Franck Dubosc
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah.
Dir. Gad Elmaleh · With Gad Elmaleh, Pascale Arbillot, Manu Payet
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