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HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE (2020)
Starring Juliette Binoche, Noémie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Noémie Lvovsky, Edouard Baer, François Berléand, Marie Zabukovec, Anamaria Vartolomei, Lily Taïeb and Pauline Briand. Directed by Martin Provost.

It’s 1968. The immaculate and morally upright Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband Robert have been running Van der Beck’s School of Housekeeping and Good Manners in the lush regions of Alsace for over two decades, with the help of Paulette’s eccentric stepsister Gilberte and the school’s communist-fearing, ex-Resistance nun Marie, Therese.Their mission: to train teenagers to become perfect housewives, in times when women were expected to be largely subservient.

After an accident turns clockwork order into chaos, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of financial ruin. Forced to assume executive responsibilities, she is flustered even more by an encounter with her long-lost first love, André, who becomes relentless in his desire to rekindle their romance. Meanwhile, a sweeping nationwide protest movement is transforming the society around them, encouraging the school’s pupils to challenge authority and question their own desires and beliefs... Before long the entire group undertakes a journey of liberation, one that will transform all their lives.

MONSIEUR CHOCOLAT (2017)
Starring Omar Sy, James Thiérrée, Clotilde Hesme, Olivier Gourmet, Frédéric Pierrot, Noémie Lvovsky, Alice De Lencquesaing, Alex Descas, Olivier Rabourdin and Thibault De Montalembert. Directed by Roschdy Zem.

From the circus to the music hall, from anonymity to glory, this is the incredible story of Monsieur Chocolat, the first black artist of the French stage. The duo he formed with Footit met with huge and popular success in Belle Epoque Paris, before fame, easy money, gambling, and discrimination wore out their friendship and Monsieur Chocolat's career. The film retraces the story of this remarkable artist.

ROSALIE BLUM (2016)
Starring NoÉmie Lvovsky, Kyan Khojandi, Alice Isaaz, AnÉnome and Philippe Rebbot. Directed by Julien Rappenau.

Thirty-something Vincent Machot is a hairdresser, like his father before him. Life rotates around work, his overbearing mother who lives in the apartment upstairs, and a womanising cousin constantly trying to set him up. But one morning Vincent experiences a powerful déjà-vu when he meets the gaze of a grocery store clerk, Rosalie Blum. Intrigued by this mysterious woman, he begins following her...

LA BELLE SAISON (2016)
Starring CÉcile De France, IzÏa Higelin and NoÉmie Lvovsky. Directed by Catherine Corsini.

1971. Delphine, a girl of humble means, travels to Paris to look for a life beyond the limitations of her family and rural upbringing, hoping to gain financial independence. There she meets the dynamic Carole (Cecile de France), and begins a life-changing affair.

REVIEWS La Belle Saison - Another French film with nothing significant to say

MY OLD LADY (2014)
Starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dominique Pinon, Michael Burstin, Elie Wajeman, Noémie Lvovsky, Stéphane De Groodt and Stéphane Freiss. Directed by Israel Horowitz and Israel Horovitz.

Mathias, a down-and-out New Yorker, travels to Paris to liquidate a huge, valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. Once there, however, he discovers a refined old woman Mathilde living in the apartment with her daughter Chloé.

Mathias quickly learns that the apartment is a "viager" – an ancient French system for buying and selling apartments – and that he will not actually get possession of the apartment until Mathilde dies.

While working with a Parisian real-estate dealer (Dominique Pinon), to sell his contract for the apartment, Mathias discovers that Mathilde and his father were more to each other than mere tenant and landlord...

REVIEWS My Old Lady - Sins of the father

FAREWELL, MY QUEEN (2013)
Starring Léa Seydoux, Diane Kruger, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois, Noémie Lvovsky, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Lolita Chammah, Vladimir Consigny, Dominique Reymond and Anne Benoît. Directed by Benoît Jacquot.

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.

REVIEWS Farewell, My Queen - Lust and war at Versailles