Lucas Belvaux • France • 2009
It’s an ostensibly average day for Stanilas Graff. A wealthy industrialist, he jets from his stately home to a cascade of business meetings—until his chauffeured car is hijacked, and he finds himself in the custody of kidnappers. With the ransom set at fifty million euros, both Graff's family and the multi-national corporation he runs scramble to pull together the funds as increasingly unsavory details of his life trickle into the media.
A taut study of power and privilege in contemporary France, Rapt doubles as a social-political thriller and a rich character study of a man defined largely by his ever-shifting circumstances. Lucas Belvaux's seventh feature premiered at CPH:PIX, the São Paulo International Film Festival, and Rotterdam.
Bruno Dumont • 2017 • France
Juliette Binoche stars in a modern Belle Époque-era period critique.
The bourgeois Van Peteghem family are no strangers to the bliss of upper-class existence. Perched atop the cliffs ...
Jean-Luc Godard • Switzerland • 2018 • Fragments of cinema; art informing reality or vice versa?
Fragments of cinema, canonical and obscure, fill the frame. They appear acid-washed, saturated, disintegratin...
Pierre Salvadori • France • 2018
Yvonne is a police officer in Marseille. She is also the widow of Santi, a local hero recently memorialized by a statue in the town square. Only Santi wasn't as virtuous...
