Cannes Special

Sunday, 4th July at 9pm (Paris time)

A wacky comedy about the excesses of artificial intelligence.
Jérem moves into his grandmother's house to write his first rap album. There he meets the beautiful So, an investigator for the start-up Digital Cool. She persuades him to try out Yves, a revolutionary intelligent refrigerator that is supposed to simplify his life!

By Benoît Forgeard

★ Closing film (Directors' Fortnight, Cannes 2019)

Thursday, 8th July at 9pm (Paris time)

A hilarious and completely farcical thriller.
Yvonne discovers that her dead husband was not the brave and honest policeman she thought he was, but a really dirty cop. Determined to make amends for the wrongs he committed, she crosses paths with Antoine, who has been unjustly imprisoned for eight long years...

By Pierre Salvadori

★ Prix SACD (Directors' Fortnight, Cannes, 2009)
★ 9 nominations (Césars 2019)

Sunday, 11th July at 9pm (Paris time)

Inspired by real events: the struggle of a rape victim.
During a party in Tunis, a student is raped by police officers. She has to fight for the respect of her rights and her dignity, from hospitals to police stations, amid scorn and intimidation. How can justice be obtained when it is on the side of the executioners?

By Kaouther Ben Hania

★ Official selection Un certain regard (Cannes, 2017)
★ Student Jury Prize (Angoulême 2017)

Thursday, 15th July at 9pm (Paris time)

A macabre discovery leads a student to conduct his own investigation.
Mathias goes to Paris to study forensic medicine. A man threatens him while on the train and then disappears. The next day, he discovers a severed head in his luggage. After his initial fright, he becomes fascinated by this fragment of human remains...

By Arnaud Desplechin

★ Official selection at the Cannes Film Festival (1992)
★ César Award for Most Promising Actor (Emmanuel Salinger, 1993)

Sunday, 18th July at 9pm (Paris time)

A meeting that awakens painful memories.
Thérèse Langlois is intrigued by a tramp who looks a lot like her husband, deported by the Germans fifteen years earlier. She decides to follow him, just long enough to make sure it's really him! But the man has amnesia. Thérèse, patiently, now tries to awaken the memories...

By Henri Colpi

★ Palme d'or (Cannes, 1961)
★ 1961 Louis Delluc Prize

Monday, 5th July at 12:35pm (Paris time)

The influence of Quebec cinema.
From the Croisette, Cannes, Catherine Beauchamp examines the impact that the famous international film festival has on the careers of Quebec personalities and salutes the success of Quebecois productions.

Thursday, 7th July at 9pm (Paris time)

Intimate portraits of artists under the eye of photographer Philippe Doumic.
Godard, Bardot, Truffaut, Moreau, Belmondo, Deneuve... In the 1960s, Philippe Doumic created many portraits of the rising stars of French cinema. Some of his shots have become emblematic of the New Wave and very famous whilst others have remained little known.