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CAST

BY THE SEA (2015)
Starring Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Niels Arestrup, Richard Bohringer, Melvil Poupaud and MÉlanie Laurent. Directed by Angelina Jolie.

An American writer named Roland and his wife, Vanessa arrive in a tranquil and picturesque seaside resort in 1970s France, their marriage in apparent crisis. As they spend time with fellow travellers, including young newlyweds Lea (Laurent) and François, and village locals Michel and Patrice, the couple begins to come to terms with unresolved issues in their own lives.

NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (2013)
Starring Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling, MÉlanie Laurent, Jack Huston and Lena Olin. Directed by Billie August.

Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons), a Swiss professor of old languages, saves a Portuguese beauty from committing suicide when she is about to take a lethal leap. Right after this incident he comes across a book written by Portuguese author Amadeu do Prado (Jack Huston). It is a novel about the resistance against the late Portuguese ruler António de Oliveira Salazar and he gets obsessed with it. He starts to dedicate his life to the study of Portuguese history in general and Amadeu do Prado's oeuvre in particular.

NOW YOU SEE ME (2013)
Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Michael Kelly and Common. Directed by Louis Leterrier.

An elite FBI squad are in a game of cat and mouse against The Four Horsemen, a magic super-team of the world's greatest illusionists. The Four Horsemen pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, and then funnel the millions of stolen profits into their audiences bank accounts, while staying one step ahead of the law.

FBI Special Agent Dylan is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes—and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist. But he’s forced to partner with Alma, an Interpol detective about whom he is instantly suspicious. Out of desperation he turns to Thaddeus, a famed magic debunker, who claims the bank heist was accomplished using disguises and video trickery. One thing Dylan and Alma agree on is that the Horsemen must have an outside point person, and that finding him (or her) is key to ending the magicians’ crime spree. Could it be Thaddeus? Or Alma? Or could it really be... magic?

REVIEWS Now You See Me - It's all smoke and mirrors

OPERATION FINALE
Starring Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Mélanie Laurent, Nick Kroll, Joe Alwyn, Haley Lu Richardson, Lior Raz, Michael Aronov, Peter Strauss and Ohad Knoller. Directed by Chris Weitz.

The thrilling true story of the 1960 covert mission of legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths.

DIRECTOR

GALVESTON (2019)
Starring Ben Foster, Elle Fanning, Beau Bridges, Adepero Oduye, Lili Reinhart, María Valverde, Robert Aramayo and C.k. McFarland. Directed by Mélanie Laurent.

Debt Collector and sometime-killer Roy senses that his boss, a dangerous, violent and pitiless loan-shark, wants him dead, and his next routine assignment is indeed a death-trap. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy is not the same as what he does to them...after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is just about alive. Before making his getaway, Roy discovers young prostitute Rocky hiding in the back room, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees New Orleans to Galveston - an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. Rocky is too young, too tough, too sexy - and far too much trouble, especially when she makes a detour to liberate her 3 year old sister from the clutches of their seedy step-father. Like the smoke dancing upwards from a barrel of a gun, there’s no way things are going to end well.

REVIEWS Galveston - Elle Fanning & Ben Foster save an uneven crime drama

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…