Ariane Ascaride Movies

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and...

Emmanuelle lives in the suburbs near a shopping mall. Since her father's death, she feels increasingly out of sync with the world around her. Her...

A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that...

The life of a young woman is turned upside down after a violent assault, making her realize the fragility of her freedom.

Isabelle is an astronomer of French origin who lives in Italy in a large house surrounded by vineyards in the hills near Trieste. The sun shines on...

Michel is an eternal kid who dreams only of motorcycles and hangs out with his big son Léo and his friends. At fifty, he has to deal with the...

Maria, who's not as young as she used to be and who helps people older than her, is living from hand to mouth. She can't quite accept her precarious...

In Paris, the emotional and professional tribulations of a musician and his roommate. Freshly installed in Paris, David, a shy and clumsy musician,...

This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory...

"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls...

A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak northern coastal town of Dieppe. He lives...

Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a modern political film. Their arguments...

Mehdi is an algérien writer that fundamentalist violence has transformed into a potential target. How to live with fear when everything is...

A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.

By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days....

Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.

At Léon Blum High School in Créteil, France, a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class participate in a national...