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Xavier Giannoli has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
Dir. Xavier Giannoli · With Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste

Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.
Dir. Xavier Giannoli · With Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau

France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?
Dir. Xavier Giannoli · With François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos, Gérard Depardieu

Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.
Dir. Xavier Giannoli · With Vincent Lindon, Galatea Bellugi, Patrick d'Assumçao