J'AI TOUJOURS REVE D'ETRE UN GANGSTER

J' AI TOUJOURS REVE D' ETRE UN GANGSTER ( I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GANGSTER) (French)

The Story:
A French motorway diner forms the backdrop to the four interconnecting stories.

Story (1): Franck (Edouard Baer) botching a hold-up at the diner; the waitress Suzie (Anna Mouglalis), however, takes pity on him and shares her own story. She reveals that she too had considered robbing the place until getting disheartening peak at the anemic cash register.

Story (2): Two incompetent kidnappers Leon (Bouli Lanners) and Paul (Serge Lariviere) snatch a teenage girl Malaury (Selma El Mouissi), from her rich family but, unfortunately for them, she is suicidal and her family don’t want her back.

Story (3): Two ageing French rock stars (Alain Bashung and Arno playing themselves) who meet by chance and discuss their careers over a meal at the diner.

Story (4): Four former gangsters smuggle an old friend out of the hospital for a nostalgic trip to their former hideout, only to discover that the familiar log cabin has long since been razed and replaced with a modest diner that provides no means for lying low.

As many characters, as many different destinies, though led more by accident and mistake than by grand design. But due to a love affair that links their fates, they finally manage to catch a glimpse of a better future.

Starring:
Anna Mouglalis, Edouard Baer, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Laurent Terzieff, Venantino Venantini, Roger Dumas, Alain Bashung, Arno, Bouli Lanners

Directed By:
Samuel Benchetrit

Release:
2007

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SEPARTION CITY

The Story:

Simon (Joel Edgerton) and Pam (Danielle Cormack) previously a golden couple find themselves in smug and comfortable suburbia with two small children a sex life on hold and a marriage in limbo. At a yoga class for young mothers Pam meets the utterly gorgeous cellist, Katrien, who is quickly embraced by a bunch of young couples who call themselves the family group.

Katrien (Rhona Mitra) followed her love-rat husband Klaus (Thomas Kretschmann) to New Zealand in the hope that their love would flourish. Instead, she catches him in bed with a young art student and her marriage falls apart. Katrien’s sudden availability and vulnerability knocks the disillusioned Simon completely sideways. Hurt, confused and lonely, Katrien is susceptible to Simon’s infatuation and sexual tension ignites.

Their mutual attraction must be secret from the family group as it escalates and proves impossible to resist. They mumble and fumble a number of opportunities until a meticulously planned clandestine rendezvous in Berlin turns into a wild and crazy farce that threatens to rip their lives apart...

Starring:

Rhona Mitra, Joel Edgerton, Thomas Kretschmann, Danielle Cormack, Michelle Langstone, Les Hill, Alan Lovell, Jodie Rimmer, Stephanie Paul, Michelle Langstone, Grant Roa, Blerim Destani, Phil Brown.

Directed By:

Paul Middleditch

Release:

2009

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TRANSSIBERIAN

The Story:
Set on the titular Transsiberian, a train that travels from outer Mongolia to Russia. An American couple trying to patch up marital differences with a railroad trip across Russia, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jesse (Emily Mortimer) hope the travel will ease their communication predicament.

On the train, they meet a younger couple, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara), and immediately try to play gracious tourists, befriending the newcomers, who are charming, but well-versed in illegal activities. When Grinko (Ben Kingsley), a Russian drug enforcement officer, boards the train, he sniffs trouble around Jesse, turning his attention to the skittish woman as he hunts for smugglers, leaving the couple at the mercy of the Russian police.

Starring:
Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega, Thomas Kretschmann

Directed By:
Brad Anderson

Release:
2008

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WAZ

The Story:
In New York, grizzled detective Eddie (Stellan Skarsgård) is working with rookie Helen (Melissa George) on a series of grisly murders. The bodies have been carved with the letters W-delta-Z, which turns out to be part of a genetic survival theory being studied by a creepy scientist (Paul Kaye).

The killings are clearly not random, tracing back to a vicious assault on a woman (Selma Blair) by a group of thugs (Ashley Walters, Tom Hardy and Sally Hawkins) who all walked free. And Eddie seems to be a bit too connected to them.

Starring:
Stellan Skarsgard, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters, John Sharian, Larry Cowan, Tom Hardy, Sally Hawkins, Paul Kaye, Sheila Kerr, Michael Liebman, Roy McManus, Igor Smiljevic, Michael Wildman

Directed By:
Tom Shankland

Release:
2008

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