Online Cinéclub - 14th April

See you up there (Au revoir là-haut) is a 2017 French drama film written and directed by and starring Albert Dupontel, adapted from the novel The Great Swindle (Au revoir là-haut in French) by Pierre Lemaitre.

In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, Edouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard's life. The two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as companions in misfortune. On the ruins of the carnage of WWI, condemned to live, the two attempt to survive. Thus, as Pradelle is about to make a fortune with the war victims' corpses, Albert and Edouard mount a monumental scam with the bereaved families' commemoration and with a nation's hero worship.

Redoubtable (Le Redoutable), also known as Godard Mon Amour (US), is a 2017 French biographical comedy-drama film written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius about the affair of revered filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard with Anne Wiazemsky in the late-1960s.

Girl of the sun (Les filles du Soleil) – 2018

Bahar (Golshifteh Farahani), is the commander of the all-female Kurdish Battalion, Girls of the Sun, who are fighting to take back their town from extremists. French war Journalist, Mathilde (Emmanuelle Bercot), travels to Kurdistan and begins documenting the struggles, hardship and exceptional resilience of the female fighters. Through her tough exterior, the underlying personal stakes of Bahar’s mission become apparent, and her battle to save her home, family and country culminate in an explosive dramatic and inspirational war story.

Dheepan is a 2015 French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's Persian Letters, as well as the 1971 film Straw Dogs, with guidance from Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who stars as the title character.The film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was later shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

The concert ( Le Concert ) is a 2009 French comedy-drama film by Radu Mihăileanu, starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010. It was also nominated for two Magritte Awards in the category of Best Film in Coproduction and Best Editing for Ludo Troch in 2011, and Best Foreign Film at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. An acclaimed Russian conductor, demoted to cleaner during the Soviet era, schemes to book himself and his former musicians into a prestigious Parisian show. They arrive in Paris only to fall into disarray, even as the young French violin soloist who has agreed to play with them begins to realise her connection to their collective past.