Vincent Byrd Le Sage

A peaceful island will do anything to ward off the reputation of 'vacation paradise.'

A young Parisian perfume creator discovers lost roots, danger and romance on the paradisiac island of Martinique.

A young Parisian woman of Caribbean descent returns to her native island of Guadeloupe looking for the father she has never known.

Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a house painter.

“The River” ponders whether you can go home again, particularly if you’ve never been there. When Alfa (French rapper Stomy Bugsy) kills his drug-dealer boss in retaliation for a friend’s death, his brother cryptically suggests he leave Paris and “go toward the river.” Accompanied by sassy Senegalese cousin Marie (Auriele Coulibay), he embarks on a road trip back to his disdained African roots. Pic possesses a picaresque charm, plus feisty persona of Marie. But Bugsy is so unflaggingly morose, it’s hard to understand what Marie sees in him. Pic, yet to find a distrib in France, stands little chance in the U.S.