GILLES LELLOUCHE

KOMPROMAT (2022)
Starring Gilles Lellouche, Joanna Kulig, Mikhail Gorevoy, Sasha Piltsin, Mikhail Safronov, Aleksey Gorbunov and Igor Jijikine. Directed by Jérôme Salle.

Mathieu is a gregarious and dedicated diplomat who accepts a posting to Irkutsk as the head of Siberia’s Alliance Française. He hopes the change will be good for his family and struggling marriage, but before long Mathieu’s staging of cultural events and support of artistic expression sees him fall afoul of local authorities. Accused of a terrible crime, he soon realises someone has fabricated a case with Russia’s Federal Security Service; he has been framed. Arrested, imprisoned and isolated, Mathieu has nowhere to turn. Defending himself is impossible, the French authorities are helpless... it seems he has no choice: to try and escape.

FAREWELL, MR. HAFFMANN (2022)
Starring Daniel Auteuil, Gilles Lellouche, Sara Giraudeau, Mathilde Bisson, Anne Coesens and Nikolai Kinski. Directed by Fred Cavayé.

Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man whose only goal is to start a family with Blanche, the woman he loves. François works for Mr. Haffmann, a talented Jewish jeweler. Under the German occupation, the employer and employee are forced to strike a deal which, over the following months, will upend the fate of them all.

WE'LL END UP TOGETHER (2020)
Starring François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche, Laurent Lafitte, Benoît Magimel, Pascale Arbillot, Valérie Bonneton, José Garcia, Joël Dupuch and Clémentine Baert. Directed by Guillaume Canet.

It’s been years since middle-aged restaurateur Max has received his friends at his gorgeous summer house in the chic beach community of Cap Ferret. The group have traditionally reconnected there for his birthday, but since things didn’t exactly go as planned last time, they haven’t seen much of one another. It turns out Max is divorcing and his villa is up for sale, so when pals Marie, Vincent, now-famous actor Eric and his hapless buddy-turned-assistant Antoine arrive unannounced to celebrate a significant milestone, it’s not necessarily a welcome surprise.

C'EST LA VIE (2018)
Starring Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve, Vincent MacAigne, Alban Ivanov, Eye Haidara, Suzanne Clément, Hélène Vincent, Benjamin Lavernhe and Judith Chemla. Directed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache.

Max has been a caterer for thirty years. He’s organised hundreds of parties, he’s even a bit over it all. Today it’s a magnificent wedding, yet another one, in a seventeenth century château. This time, Pierre and Héléna are getting married. As usual, Max has coordinated everything: he’s hired his brigade of waiters, cooks, and dishwashers, advised the couple on a photographer, reserved the orchestra, arranged the oral decorations, in short, all the ingredients have been brought together so that the celebration is a success... But the law of series will soon come to disturb the finely timed planning, so that each moment of happiness and emotion risks turning into a disaster or chaos. From the preparations until to dawn, we will experience the action behind the scenes of this party through the gaze of those who work and who must count on their single common quality: the sense of a party.

THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX (2013)
Starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Stanley Weber, Yves Jacques, Francis Perrin, Isabelle Sadoyan, Catherine Arditi, Jérôme Thibault and Max Morel. Directed by Claude Miller.

When the free spirited Therese agrees to marry her neighbour Bernard Desqueyroux, it is more of a business deal with their two properties becoming one vast estate. Married life in 1920’s provincial France does not to agree with Therese who quickly finds herself stifled not only by the tedium of her surroundings but the intellectual mediocrity of her husband.

Her dreams of a life in Paris and the means to escape there look to become more of a reality when she decides to apply her poisonous outlook in literal terms, lacing her husband’s medicine with arsenic.

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SINK OR SWIM (2019)
Starring Guillaume Canet, Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Efira, Leïla Bekhti, Marina Foïs, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jonathan Zaccaï, Mélanie Doutey and Noée Abita. Directed by Gilles Lellouche.

A group of 40-something guys, all on the verge of a mid-life crisis, decide to form their local pool’s first every synchronized swimming team - for men. Braving the skepticism and ridicule of those around them, and trained by a fallen champion trying to pull herself together, the group set out on an unlikely adventure, and on the way will rediscover a little self-esteem and a lot about themselves and each other.

SINK OR SWIM (2019)
Starring Guillaume Canet, Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Efira, Leïla Bekhti, Marina Foïs, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jonathan Zaccaï, Mélanie Doutey and Noée Abita. Directed by Gilles Lellouche.

A group of 40-something guys, all on the verge of a mid-life crisis, decide to form their local pool’s first every synchronized swimming team - for men. Braving the skepticism and ridicule of those around them, and trained by a fallen champion trying to pull herself together, the group set out on an unlikely adventure, and on the way will rediscover a little self-esteem and a lot about themselves and each other.