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Julie Gavras
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Julie Gavras is a French film director and screenwriter. She is known for her film Blame It on Fidel (2006). In 1998, she directed a short film called Oh les beaux dimanches! produced in Marseille by Comic Strip. Two years later, she directed her first documentary, From Dawn to Night: Songs by Moroccan Women. It was based on a play by Alain Weber mounted at the Bouffes du Nord theater in Paris during the Festival d'Automne. It was broadcast on Arte. In 2002, her second documentary film was released theatrically in France: The Pirate, the Wizard, the Thief and the Children. The film looks at a class of nine-year-olds who make a film at school. Her first fiction feature film, Blame It on Fid…
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6.9Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.
The Ax
2005
6.2Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.
Eden Is West
2009
5.2Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.
Late Bloomers
2011
7.1A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Blame It on Fidel!
2006
No synopsis available yet.
The Pirate, the Wizard, the Thief and the Children
2002
6.8Documentary in which 8 Parisian adolescents with a silver-spoon upbringing are followed over the course of 15 years.
Les bonnes conditions
2018
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
6.9Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.
The Ax
2005
6.2Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.
Eden Is West
2009
Behind the camera
5.2Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.
Late Bloomers
2011
5.2Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.
Late Bloomers
2011
7.1A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Blame It on Fidel!
2006
7.1A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Blame It on Fidel!
2006
No synopsis available yet.
The Pirate, the Wizard, the Thief and the Children
2002
6.8Documentary in which 8 Parisian adolescents with a silver-spoon upbringing are followed over the course of 15 years.
Les bonnes conditions
2018
6.8Documentary in which 8 Parisian adolescents with a silver-spoon upbringing are followed over the course of 15 years.
Les bonnes conditions
2018
A young and handsome couple who have apparently succeeded socially and as a family, share a sunny Sunday with their adorable son and relatives and friends. But time passes and the dreamy Sunday returns to harsh reality...
Oh les beaux dimanches!
1998
A young and handsome couple who have apparently succeeded socially and as a family, share a sunny Sunday with their adorable son and relatives and friends. But time passes and the dreamy Sunday returns to harsh reality...
Oh les beaux dimanches!
1998
8.7No synopsis available yet.
La petite maison toujours dans la prairie
2024