"Dazzling...Buoyant...Sharp-eyed...and Sexy." - The New York Times
Shot in real time, Virginie Ledoyen delivers a tour de force performance in a film that is a clear descendant of the great early films of the French New Wave. The largely hand-held camera follows 19 year old Valerie on her first day on the job at a luxury hotel, a day in which she must reveal to her aimless boyfriend that she is pregnant and decide whether she wants to have a child with him.
Marie is a young woman who lives in sheer poverty in the fictional village and commune of Tellier (an allusion to La Maison Tellier) with her mother, a woman of obscure origins suspected to be a Romanichel sorcerer, and her pet buck. Marie and her mother are despised by the locals although Marie ...
"Riveting! AMEN is a must see!" - Andrew Sarris
From the acclaimed director of Z and MISSING, Costa Gavras presents a powerful and riveting account of the implementation of the Final Solution and the culpability of the Vatican in the extermination of millions in the Nazi Death Camps.
"A lovely and poignant drama...with rich characters and complex themes." - Los Angeles Times. "A delight." - The New York Times Summer of 1943. In an occupied France, not far away from the Spanis...
