Julie Ferrier Movies
Love and life pose dilemmas for a handful of friends in the City of Lights in this romantic drama from French filmmaker Cedric Klapisch. Pierre (Romain Duris) has enjoyed a successful career as a dancer performing in Parisian nightclubs, but when he's diagnosed with a serious heart condition, his doctor warns him that the strain of his work could kill him. Pierre must reinvent his life, and as he ponders his future and his mortality, he turns to his sister, Élise (Juliette Binoche), a social worker and single mother, for help. Élise is facing some life changes of her own; she's tired of being alone, and has developed an infatuation with Jean (Albert Dupontel), a grocer who sells his wares in the city's open-air market. But Jean is recently divorced and is still preoccupied with his former wife, Caroline (Julie Ferrier). Pierre also finds himself falling from afar for a lovely college student named Laetitia (Melanie Laurent), but he has a rival for her affections in Roland (Fabrice Luchini), one of her professors, who is considerably older than her. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, (more)
- 2008
Laurent Chouchan's comedy Ca Se Soigne? follows the plight of Tom Bledish (Thierry Lhermitte of The Dinner Game), a musician who appears to have everything going for him; with a ravishing wife and a covetable new appointment to a job as the head of the Parisian symphony orchestra, it seems that circumstances could not possibly improve - and indeed, his fate soon takes a cruel downturn when he's stricken by a bout of severe clinical depression. Despite a myriad of treatments, nothing seems to work, and indeed Tom begins to wonder if he'll ever regain his zest for life. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thierry Lhermitte, Julie Ferrier, (more)
- 2008
Léa Fazer's workplace-oriented romantic comedy Notre univers impitoyable (Our Pitiless World) stars Jocelyn Quivrin and Alice Taglioni as Victor and Margot. A couple deeply entrenched in the throes of love, the two also happen to work in the same law consultancy firm - and find themselves placed in an extremely difficult position when the company announces that it plans to promote one employee to legal partner. This forces the lovers to go head to head with one another in a most unwelcome competition. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alice Taglioni, Jocelyn Quivrin, (more)
