Two brothers, Pierre and Vladimir, wonder if their Russian grandparents, Lily and Constantin, worked for the Soviet secret services in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s. Their research begins in Russia. After meetings and conversations, yellowish photos and vodka glasses, a lost world begins to...
Contemporary Paris, mid-July. Guillaume arrives in the capital to caretake a large apartment until the end of the summer. Lucie, the apartment’s owner, and a friend of his mother’s, welcomes him… then suddenly disappears.
Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.
Two limping souls in their sixties collide – literally – on a street corner. What begins as a clumsy accident becomes a quiet spark. Over coffee, they linger. They talk. And just like that, an unlikely intimacy begins to bloom. The Slug and the Snail traces the gentle unfurling of a connection...
What happens in a brief love affair when a young woman meets a man in Paris and takes him back on a vacation to visit her mother in the Cevennes mountains.
