Jean-Claude Carrière

In 1930 Marseilles, two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for a quirky family. When a young girl is murdered, Celestine believes that the groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and sets about to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Screen greats Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche lead this romance epic, nominated for Best Cinematography and Adapted Screenplay at the 1989 Academy Awards.

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of their matriarch.

Willem Dafoe is Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh in this biographical drama from the director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Surrealist director Luis Buñuel's 1967 drama about a young housewife who spends her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.

Cannes 2010 was the year of Juliette Binoche. She graced the Festival’s poster; then she took the Best Actress Award for her role in this tantalising film...

Afghanistan wartime drama based on director Atiq Rahimi’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel. A partly allegorical tale, The Patience Stone follows a Muslim wife (Golshifteh Farahani) tending to her formerly abusive soldier husband who now lies comatose after being shot at war. With him in her care, she is able to speak to him for the first time without fear of censorship.