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Philippe Laudenbach has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s.
The Intervention
2016
Comedy · Drama
After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach
Professor Henri Laborit uses three people's stories to discuss behaviourist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety: René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing; Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite; and Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
Dir. Alain Resnais · With Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.
Dir. Valérie Donzelli · With Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, Gabriel Elkaïm
Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his dreams, one loved her like a friend. Except that Charlie is dead and none of them - not Boris, an accomplished businessman, not Elie, a night owl scriptwriter, and not Maxime, still living at home with his mother - know how to deal with it. But because she asked them to do so, they abruptly decide to undertake a journey together, heading for Corsica and the house that Charlie loved so much. Except that here they are stuck in a car together for over 500 miles. It's going to be a long journey. Boris, Elie and Maxime, three men, three generations, no affinity. But by the time they arrive at their destination, they will have realized one majorly important thing: Charlie has changed their lives forever.
Dir. Hugo Gélin · With François-Xavier Demaison, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Pierre Niney
In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit, Alphonse, with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, where he ran a café. Bernard speaks of his fiancée, Muriel, whom Hélène has not met. The past is obscured by guilt, misperceptions, and missed possibilities. Appearances deceive, things change. As Hélène and Alphonse try to sort out a renewal, everyone seems off-kilter just enough to hint that all cannot end well.
Dir. Alain Resnais · With Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée
Vigilante, a small armored truck company, is in full crisis mode. Victim of three violent hold-ups in a year, which left no survivors, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and its employees are extremely worried. Some even suggest a complicity between the robbers and the firm. It is in this difficult context that a man, Alexandre Demarre, one morning presents himself to start his first day of work at Vigilante.
Dir. Nicolas Boukhrief · With Albert Dupontel, Jean Dujardin, François Berléand
A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely Muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence, the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions.
Dir. Xavier Beauvois · With Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
Four prisoners discover a handwritten book of black magic in their cell, and decide to use it to escape.
Dir. Eric Valette · With Gérald Laroche, Philippe Laudenbach, Clovis Cornillac
A woman at the age of 50 moves back in with her parents after her husband leave her for a younger woman.
Dir. Valérie Lemercier · With Valérie Lemercier, Denis Podalydès, Patrick Timsit
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Dir. Gabriel Le Bomin · With Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré, Olivier Gourmet
A mature podiatrist, his girlfriend and her teenage children travel Ibiza to live a crazy holidays.
Dir. Arnaud Lemort · With Christian Clavier, Mathilde Seigner, Léopold Buchsbaum
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