Mélanie Doutey
1) Avanti
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Louise and Manu have very different ways of dealing with grief. While Manu chooses to move forward, Louise is disoriented, literally: she can only move backward. One day, she meets Camille who reassures her about her condition and reveals to her the existence of a discreet community, "those who live better from behind". With them, Louise learns to move forward by going backward. A short film by French star and actress Mélanie Doutey (La French, Les...
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Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings, he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin Gaetan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of them all. But Pierre Michel will soon understand that to get results, he...