Charlotte Gainsbourg is a sucker for crazy releationships - Persécution trailer

Charlotte Gainsbourg fair picks the movies that have that crazy mucked up relationships as recently seen in Lars Von Trier's Antichrist and now she is in the thick of it in Persecution.
This movie is the latest offering from French director Patrice Chéreau who is known for his 1990's movie La reine Margot (Queen Margot) which which shown him in the limelight despite the inaccuracies in the history/facts of the movie.  

Charlotte Gainsbourg plays a woman called Sonia in a love/hate relationship with Daniel played by Romain Duris and out of the blue a mysterious man (Jean-Hugues Anglade)
turns up at Daniels home. Suddenly Sonia splits with Daniel and fingers pointat Sonia as if the man's arrival was a ploy of hers but long after she's gone the man still harrasses Daniel. Questions are now asked who this man is and why he's really here?
Watch the trailer below and you'll see it's not going to be about a failed relationship but more a dangerous and mysterious game.The movie was shown last month at the London Film Festival but I dont have info of an release in the indie/arthouse cinemas in Uk or Ireland, though December 9th it will get a cinematical release in France.

The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to insinuate himself in his life. The man's persistence takes its toll on Daniel and Sonia, leaving Daniel alone with nagging questions of "Why?"- IMDB

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La Bella Gente (The Beautiful People)

Here is the first trailer for La Bella Gente or Beautiful People directed by Ivano De Matteo. The movie centers around a couple who pick up a young Ukrainian Prostitute on the side of the road and they take the girl home and try and try to re-habilitate her. Things go pearshaped whe the couples son arrives home and he becomes fatuiated with her. Things look like its going to be a big happy ending but looking deep into the movie its more a question of lifes morality and trying to do good and the price they pay in trying.
This is De Matteo's debut movie and like many good new movies its doing its rounds in the festivals network. The trailer howver doesnt give much of the story away, anyway enjoy....

Jessica Hausner's Lourdes trailer

One great thing I like about Film Festivals is the fact there is many movies that make the premiere and sometimes only appearance in that particular country. Lourdes seems to be one of those movies that seems to float around the world's main festivals and rarely see's a film run in a cinema apart from the movies origin.

Lourdes is a low key drama with some comedy moments about Christine (Sylvie Testud) a wheelchair bound woman  who goes to Lourdes, France on a pilgramage. She's not really looking for a cure but more company and friendship to cure her of her isolation.

Some people may find the movie hard to understand due to the deepness and special bond Lourdes has for many people worldwide but director/wroter Jessica Hausner
does seem to find the right balancefor the movie by not overstepping the mark, just have to look at the accolades the movie has picked up in the festivals.



Lourdes Trailer

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