RRRrrrr !!!

!
rrrr
Réalisateur : ALAIN CHABAT 
Interprète :
GERARD DEPARDIEU   ALAIN CHABAT   ROBINS DES BOIS (LES)
Année : 2003
Genre : COMEDIE      Zone: 2
Editeur : UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE S.A.S.
Label : STUDIO CANAL

Region 2 DVD - In French, with English and French subtitles
Comédie préhistorique? à l’époque où les poules avaient des dents? qui verra l’affrontement entre la tribu des Cheveux Sales et celle des Cheveux Propres. Le chef des Cheveux Sales envoie un espion voler la recette du shampoing... Mais le premier crime de l’histoire de l’humanité vient bouleverser cette quête. Après "Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopatre", Alain Chabat signe une comédie pré-hystérique qui a fait trembler le box omouth.

BIENVENUE CHEZ LES CH'TIS (WELCOME TO THE STICKS)

!
welcome_to_the_sticks

Rated: M15+
Actors: Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret, Dany Boon, Zoe Felix, Anne Marivin, Kad Merad
Director: Dany Boon
Distributor: Roadshow Home Ent
Release Year: 2008
Running Time: 106 minutes

Region 4 - In French, with English subtitles

* Presented at the 2009 French Film Festival *
A film phenomenon in its home country of France, the hilarious Welcome To The Sticks (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis) is a heartwarming comedy. When actor and comedian Dany Boon set out to poke fun at the stereotypes the southern French perpetuate about their northern counterparts, he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams: in making the most successful French movie of all time. The light-hearted and good-natured humour centring on regional differences and local traditions is the same the world over, making this a universally entertaining film.

LES CHORISTES (AKA THE CHORUS)

!
Choristes

Actors: Francois Berleand, Gerard Jugnot, Kad Merad

Director: Christophe Barratier

Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtiltes

When he takes a job teaching music at a school for troubled boys, Clément Mathieu is unprepared for its harsh discipline and depressing atmosphere. But with passion and unconventional teaching methods, he's able to spark his students' interest in music and bring them a newfound joy! It also puts him at odds with the school's overbearing headmaster, however, locking Mathieu in a battle between politics and the determination to change his pupils' lives!

THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (LA SCIENCE DES REVES)

 
!
science of sleep

Encoding: Region 4 - Suitable for Australia, New Zealand

Rated: M

Actors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Director: Michel Gondry

Distributor: Madman Entertainment

Label: Directors Suite

Feature: Original theatrical trailer, Cast interviews, Making of

Audio: Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, English, French

Subtitles: English

Release Year: 2006

Running Time: 105 minutes

While slumbering, he is the charismatic host of "Stéphane TV," expounding on "The Science of Sleep" in front of cardboard cameras. In real life, he has a boring job at a Parisian calendar publisher and pines for Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the girl in the apartment across the hall. While Stéphanie is initially charmed by Stephane, she is confused by his childishness and shaky connection to reality.
Stéphane's co-worker, Guy (Alain Chabat) a vulgar but practical man, offers advice on the opposite sex, but Stéphane is too far in the clouds to listen. Unable to find the secret to Stephanie's heart while awake, Stéphane searches for the answer in his dreams.

THE DINNER GUEST

 
!
dinner_guest
Director: Laurent Bouhnik
With: Daniel Auteuil, Valérie Lemercier, Thierry Lhermitte
Rated: PG
Label: MADMAN FILMS
Release Date: 14/01/2009

Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles

Poor Gérard is at his wit's end. A middle-ranking Parisian cling film expert, he has been unemployed for years and is nearing desperation. Salvation finally arrives in the form of an exciting new job in Indonesia, almost! Before he is officially offered the job, his prospective new boss wants to check out his life, his wife and, most upsetting of all, her culinary skills! Luckily for the hapless Gérard, his suave and successful neighbour Alexandre, a high-flying image consultant, offers to help the hare-brained couple. Light-hearted and fast-paced, The Dinner Guest is a crazy comedy of manners, managers and mad mishaps!

THE VALET (LA DOUBLURE)

!
the_valet

Rated: M
Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Ledoyen, Kristin Scott-Thomas
Director: Francis Veber
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Feature: Making of, Alice's Choice, Behind the Scenes with Karl Lagerfeld, Fashion Parade, Featurette on Alice Taglioni, Site visit with the production desiger, The Valet's Valet, Theatrical trailer
Release Year: 2006
Running Time: 85 minutes

Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles

When French tycoon Pierre Levasseur (Daniel Auteuil) is spied with his supermodel mistress Elena (Alice Taglioni), the pictures end up on the front page of a Paris daily. Telling his powerful wife Christine (Kristen Scott Thomas)-who holds a controlling stake in the companies he runs- that there must have been a mistake, he declares Elena was actually with the other fellow in the photo. Trying to keep one step ahead of his dubious wife, Pierre engineers it so a naive car-park valet, Veber's recurring fool François Pignon (Gad Elmaleh), appears to be Elena's boyfriend, moving her into his flat and his life. As Pierre's web of deceit widens, so do the possibilities of discovery-and with them disaster after hilarious disaster.

THE CLOSET

!
CLOSET

Actors: Michel Aumont, Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu, Michele Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte, Jean Rochefort

Director: Francis Veber

Encoding: Region 4 - Suitable for Australia

Rated: M15+

Release Year: 2001

Running Time: 84 minutes

Region 4 DVD - In French and English, with English subtitles

Francois Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a rubber factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing happening: he spreads the rumour that he's gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in Francois Pignon's life - and other people's too - is drastic!

THE DINNER GAME

 
!
dinner game

Actors: Catherine Frot, Francis Huster, Thierry Lhermitte, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Vandernoot, Jacques Villeret

Director: Francis Veber

Rated: M15+

Format: PAL

Release Year: 1998

Running Time: 80 minutes

Region 4 - In French and English, with English subtitles

Wealthy publisher Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte), faces his greatest social challenge in this calssic French comedy of errors.
He is supposed to find a "guest" (who must be an idiot), to bring to a dinner sponsored by his friends, who are wealthy and obnoxious yuppies engaged in a never-ending game of oneupmanship.
Little does Pierre realise that Francois is a giant among idiots who will have systematically destroyed half his life - quite innocently - before entrees even reach the table...
This calssic French farce has taken Australia by storm, don't miss out on a seat at The Dinner Game, a film set for 'classic comedy' status that will be talked about for years!

LE GRAND BLOND AVEC UNE CHAUSSURE NOIRE

!
grand_blond
Réalisateur : YVES ROBERT
Acteur(s) : Pierre Richard , Bernard Blier , Jean Rochefort
Genre :COMEDIE / VIDEO
Distributeur : PARAMOUNT
Année du film : 1972
Date de sortie : 01/03/2008
Editeur : GAUMONT
Region 2 DVD - In French, with French and English subtitles
Pour tromper un collègue trop zélé, Perrache, adjoint du chef d’un service secret, choisit Perrin pour jouer à ses dépends le rôle d’un redoutable espion international. Pourquoi lui ? Parce qu’il porte des chaussures dépareillées…

LES COMPERES

!
comperes

Actors: Pierre Richard Gérard Depardieu

Director: Francis Veber

Year: 1983

Distributor: AV Channel

Rating: M

Running Time: 87 mins

Region 4 - In French, with English subtitles

When her teenage son Tristan runs away, Christine gets in touch with two of her ex-boyfriends: François (Pierre Richard), a fragile neurotic, and Jean (Gérard Depardieu), a hard-edged journalist. Convincing both men that they are Tristan's true father, she sends these two incompatible characters to the South of France in search of their 'son'—with neither François nor Jean aware they are searching for the same boy. In their second film together, Richard, Depardieu and director Veber demonstrate their impeccable comic talent to great success.

LA CHEVRE

!
la chevre

Actors: Gerard Depardieu, Pierre Richard

Director: Francis Veber

Distributor: The AV Channel

Label: Directors Suite

Rated: M

Release Year: 1981

Running Time: 95 minutes

Region 4 - In French, with English subtitles

Unable to find the daughter of a businessman, a private eye have to work with a distracted and badlucky publicist under the theory that only someone as absent-minded as the vanished girl can find out where she is.

VEBERS'S COMEDY - LA CHEVRE + LES COMPERES - LES FUGITIFS

!
vebers

Actors: Pierre Richard Gérard Depardieu

Director: Francis Veber

Distributor: AV Channel

Rating:M

Running Time: 267 mins

Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles

3 Disc Box Set

Three uproarious films directed by the king of French farce, Francis Veber. Each starring Pierre Richard as the bumbling fool François, and Gerard Depardieu as the robust straight man, these three side-splitting films first brought the Odd Couple of French cinema to the world's attention, and showcase the ageless comedy of director Veber, who has gone on to make such classics as THE DINNER GAME and THE CLOSET.

La Chèvre
When Campana (Depardieu) is unsuccessful at finding a klutzy missing girl, her father enlists François' help because he shares her bad luck.

Les Compères
An old girlfriend convinces both François and Jean Lucas (Depardieu) that they are the father of her missing son, and sends them off to locate the boy.

Les Fugitifs
When ex-bank robber Jean Lucas is taken hostage by François in his first attempt at bank robbery, the police assume Lucas is up to his old tricks, forcing the two on the run together.

NEW FRENCH CINEMA - COMEDIES

!
new_french_cinema_comedies

Format: Triple DVD Video (PAL)
Label: MADMAN
Country Of Origin: FRANCE
Release Date: 12/11/2008
Rated: M15+

Region 4 - In French with English subtitles

A collection of French funnies! Contains: OSS 117, The Valet and Priceless.

MOLIERE

!
moliere2

Rated: PG

Directed by Laurent Tirard

With Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante

Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles

In the tradition of Shakespeare in Love, Molière invents a fanciful yarn based on speculative historical fiction taken from a piece of real life -- in this case, the mysterious disappearance of the French playwright for several months in 1644 - and concocts a thoroughly irresistible and lavish story of intrigue, romance, comedy and artistic inspiration.
Boasting an extraordinary cast, sumptuous production values and a witty and sophisticated script, director Laurent Tirard's romantic period drama reveals the tantalizing mystery behind the birth of France's greatest dramatist.
As Molière, the magnetic Romain Duris displays all of his usual seductive intensity, but also pulls off goofy Gallic charm. There’s something of a modern rock star to him, almost a cousin to Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow

MOLIERE

!
moliere

Réalisateur : LAURENT TIRARD 
Interprète : FABRICE LUCHINI   ROMAIN DURIS   EDOUARD BAER
Année : 2006
Genre : COMEDIE DRAMATIQUE / VIDEO
Editeur : WILD SIDE VIDE

Region 2 DVD - In French, with French subtitles

En 1644, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière (Romain Duris), a une très haute opinion du théâtre et s’obstine à écrire des tragédies, invariablement médiocres. Criblé de dettes, il est jeté en prison d’où il sort grâce à l’intervention d’un certain Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini), qui lui propose un marché inattendu… Après l’épatant Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités, son premier long-métrage, Laurent Tirard a brodé en 2007 cette fantaisie historique audacieuse, réjouissante et décomplexée, sur le mode de Shakespeare In Love. Partant d’un fait historique avéré (la mystérieuse disparition de Molière durant six mois en 1644), le cinéaste et son scénariste Grégoire Vigneron ont imaginé, à l’issue d’un intense travail de documentation, une intrigue romanesque et désopilante, où l’on retrouve, par la magie de la fiction, les plus piquants personnages des futures pièces du célèbre dramaturge. Autour d’un Romain Duris fougueux et romantique, Fabrice Luchini, Edouard Baer, Laura Morante ou Ludivine Sagnier semblent se délecter de leurs répliques spirituelles, empruntées au répertoire, ou façonnées “à la manière de”. Plus on avance dans le film, plus l’émotion est palpable, et la comédie de mœurs se révèle au final une attachante mise en abyme de la création artistique. Jubilatoire !

2 DAYS IN PARIS

 
!
2daysinparis

Director:

Rated: MA15+

Actors: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg 

Region 4 - In French with English subtitles

2 Days in Paris follows two days in the relationship of a New York based couple; a French photographer, Marion, and an American interior designer, Jack-as they attempt to re-infuse their relationship with romance by taking a vacation in Europe. Their trip to Venice didn't really work out--Jack came down with gastroenteritis. They have higher hopes for Paris. But the combination of Marion's overbearing non-English speaking parents, flirtatious ex-boyfriends, and Jack's obsession with photographing every famous Parisian tombstone and conviction that French condoms are too small, only add fuel to the fire. Will they be able to salvage their relationship? Will they ever have sex again? Or will they merely manage to perfect the art of arguing?

RUSSIAN DOLLS (LES POUPEES RUSSES)

!
russiandolls

With : Romain Duris, Cécile de France, Kelly Reilly, Audrey Tautou, Irene Montalà, Kevin Bishop 
Director : Cédric Klapisch

Rated: M15+

Region 4 - In French, with English subtitles

They came from Paris, Rome, London and Berlin to the Spanish Apartment - where a year changed a lifetime. Now they're back and Xavier, Martine, Wendy, Isabelle and William reunited for a wedding in St Petersburg, Russia. With their carefree student days behind them, the gang are facing the career and relationship dilemmas that come with turning 30.

LE PERIL JEUNE (DOUBLE DVD COLLECTOR)

!
peril_jeune
Réalisateur : CEDRIC KLAPISCH
Acteur(s) : Nicolas Koretzky , Romain Duris , Julien Lambroschini
Genre :COMEDIE / VIDEO
Distributeur : PARAMOUNT
Année du film : 1994
Date de sortie : 01/03/2008
Editeur : GAUMONT
Region 2 - In French with no subtitles

Bruno, Momo, Alain et Léon se retrouvent quelques années après la fin du lycée pour assister à l'accouchement de Sophie, la copine de Tomasi, leur meilleur ami mort d'une overdose une semaine auparavant. Tour à tour ils confrontent leurs souvenirs fragmentaires et contradictoires de cette année de Terminale au lycée Montesquieu.

DVD 1 “Du son mono au son 5.1” : comparaison avant/après remastérisation DVD 2 “Ten Years After” : les comédiens se retrouvent 10 ans après le tournage (35’) “Nous sommes jeunes et beaux” : les essais des comédiens (35’) “Le périple jeune” : l’aventure d’un téléfilm devenu phénomène de cinéma (26’) “L’âge bête ne passera pas” : Cédric Klapisch et les scénaristes dévoilent le secret du film “Berroyer pas baba” : les années 70 revues et corrigées par Jackie Berroyer, Bande-annonce

3 IS A CROWD (JE RESTE!)

!
three_crowd

Genre: Movie-Romance
Label: MADMAN FILMS
Directed by Diana Kurys
With Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Charles Berling
Release Date: 10/09/2008

Region 4 - In French with English subtitles

THREE'S A CROWD is a witty and fresh satire about the nature of love, marriage and modern relationships from one of France's favourie directors, the irrepressible Diane Kurys!
Marie-Dominique has been married to Bertrand for 15 years. They have a young son, a lovely home and a seemingly blissful marriage. But Marie-Dominique has reached the end of her rope, sick of her husband's obsession with cycling and his self-centred ways, she embarks upon a passionate affair with Antoine, a lonely scriptwriter who treats her with the respect and understanding which Bertrand lacks. Marie-Do soon arrives at the decision to end things with Bertrand in order to begin a new life with Antoine. But Bertrand refuses to leave their apartment...

APRES VOUS

!
APRES VOUS

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Maryline Canto, Jose Garcia, Sandrine Kiberlain, Michele Moretti

Studio: Madman Ent.

Rated:  M15+

Release Year: 2003

Running Time: 110 minutes

Region 4 - In French with English subtitles

Antoine (Auteuil), a maitre d’ at an upmarket Parisian brasserie, prevents the suicide of a stranger (Garcia) and attempts to reinvigorate the man's zest for life. But it soon becomes clear that Louis will be forever gripped by a single obsession: Blanche, the love of his life and the woman who drove him to despair. Blanche isn’t interested in Louis, and even worse, she becomes attracted to Antoine. For a principled man like Antoine, it’s a situation of the utmost delicacy - complicated by the fact that Blanche is extremely beautiful!

Featuring the once-in-a-lifetime comic pairing of Daniel Auteuil and Jose Garcia, Pierre Salvadori’s intelligent, sophisticated and very human comedy is a delightful portrait of male friendship developing in the unlikeliest of situations.