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Yann Samuell has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.

As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
Dir. Yann Samuell · With Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe

A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.
Dir. Yann Samuell · With Elisha Cuthbert, Jesse Bradford, Austin Basis

Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This journey through happy days memories won't go as planned.
Dir. Gilles Legardinier · With John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant, Émilie Dequenne

A village in the South of France, 1960. A band of country boys aged 7 to 14, led by fearless young Lebrac, wages an uncompromising battle against their sworn rivals, the kids from the neighboring village. A war of honor and allegiance that's been kept alive for generations, in which humiliation is the most fearsome defeat and no tactic is too extreme, including attacking the enemy stark naked!
Dir. Yann Samuell · With Éric Elmosnino, Mathilde Seigner, Fred Testot

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The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.
Dir. Yann Samuell · With Sophie Marceau, Jonathan Zaccaï, Marton Csokas
In the depths of a British legend, the ghost of Eleanor Canterville is condemned to haunt the castle of his family and to scare away any inhabitant. It fulfills this task perfectly, helped by Gwilherm, his faithful servant. But when Otis, a family fleeing Parisian life, buy the castle, Eleanor is upset because she cannot scare this tribe of the twenty-first century. Worse yet, children ridicule and parents are unaware. Only Virginia Otis, aged fifteen, moved by the fate of Canterville Ghost, will seek to deliver from curse on it.
Dir. Yann Samuell · With Audrey Fleurot, Michaël Youn, Michèle Laroque