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CAST

THE INNOCENTS (2017)
Starring Lou De LaÂge, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek, Vincent MacAigne, Joanna Kulig, Eliza Rycembel, Katarzyna Dąbrowska, Anna Próchniak, Helena Sujecka and Mira Maludzińska. Directed by Anne Fontaine.

It's December 1945, and the Second World War is finally over. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, finds herself in Warsaw treaEng the last of the French soldiers returning from the front. One night, a nun appears at the clinic, begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent on urgent business. What Mathilde finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth. As Mathilde enters the sisters' fiercely private world, secrets rise to the surface, and modernism and science clash with faith and tradiEon. The nuns go about their strict daily rituals, but inside the convent's chilly stone walls, echoing with their melancholic chants, a dangerous revoluEon is taking place.

REVIEWS The Innocents - A heart-wrenching story of brutality, faith and resolve

THE WAIT (2016)
Starring Juliette Binoche and Lou De Laage. Directed by Piero Messina.

In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne has arrived from France, declaring herself to be the girlfriend of Anna’s son, Giuseppe, who has invited her to the house to spend Easter together. But this is news to Anna, and Giuseppe is not yet there.

Despite the disruption to her routine, Anna invites her young guest to stay, and as the two women await Giuseppe’s arrival, they slowly begin to form a connection. Jeanne, dislocated and a little mysti ed at rst, gradually gives in to the charms of the volcanic island. She swims in the nearby lake and makes new friends, while Anna – watched over by a long-time family friend – comes out of her shell. Yet still, her son’s absence remains unexplained...

BREATHE
Starring Joséphine Japy, Lou De Laâge, Isabelle Carré, Roxane Duran, Claire Keim, Radivoje Bukvić, Thomas Solivérès, Camille Claris, Louka Meliava and Louise Grinberg. Directed by Mélanie Laurent.

When Charlie – an attractive but self-doubting 17-year-old – meets the charismatic, forthright and unruly Sarah, they immediately form an intense and exhilarating bond. Sarah offers both companionship and support for Charlie at a time when she desperately needs it, while her unstable mother copes badly with impending divorce. But their inseparable, idyllic existence soon steers into dangerous territory…