Le 6 Mars - Le Jaguar
Le Jaguar with Jean Reno, Patrick Bruel and Danny Trejo.
(1996) dir. Francis Weber| 100 min
Wanu, a shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign with his interpreter Campana. In a hotel elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin. Although Perrin is not very enthusiastic by this sudden attention given to him, he lets the shaman spend the night in his appartment. The next day Wanu has a heart attack. Unable to speak and laying in a hospital bed he demands to see Perrin.
And there begins for Perrin and Campana a wild journey through the Amazon forest to save the soul of Wanu.
In French with English subtitles.
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Le 13 Mars - L'Affaire Farewell
Farwell with Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, William Dafoe and Diane Kruger.
(2009) dir. Christian Carion | 113 min
Moscow in the early 80s, during the Cold War.
Sergei Grigoriev, a KGB colonel disappointed by the regime, decides to bring down the system. He gets in touch with a young French engineer in Moscow, Pierre Froment.
The highly confidential information he gave him soon raises the interest of the western secret services.
A man without stories, Pierre Froment, finds himself precipitated in the heart of one the most stunning espionnage story of the twentieth century. A case that goes beyond him and soon threatens his life and his family ...
In French with English subtitles.
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Le 20 Mars - Mesrine. L'instinct de la Mort
Mesrine, Killer Instinct, with Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France and Gérard Depardieu
(2008) dir. Jean Claude Richet| 113 min
The first part of an epic crime saga charting the rise to notoriety of infamous Jacques Mesrine in the 60s and 70s.
Picking up at the the time of Mesrine's release from the Army following the Algerian War, this first movie captures his descent into the criminal underworld, as he becomes embroiled with gangsters and develops his talent for armed bank robbery, kidnapping and prison breaks.
In French with English subtitles.
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Le 27 Mars - Le Professionnel
The Professional, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly and Cyrielle Clair
(1981) dir. George Lautner| 108 min
French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret service turns him in to the African authorities.
Baumont escapes jail and returns to France where he deliberately informes his former chiefs that he will finish the job and kill Njala.
In French with English subtitles.
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