Cézanne et moi (2016)

 

The parallel paths of the lives, careers and passionate friendship of post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Emile Zola. Both left their hometown to conquer the art scene in Paris.

Well-made biographical drama is focused on the legends' complex and explosive friendship, with fully believable performances by Canet and Gallienne, and enhanced by Jean-Marie Dreujou's remarkable camerawork, but somehow neglects to explore or even explain the protagonists' importance in art and literature history.

Les femmes de l'ombre (2008)

In 1944, in London, a lieutenant assigns his sister to convince three other women to form a five-woman task force under his command to rescue a British geologist from a German hospital in the countryside.

Well-made, old-fashioned WWII espionage thriller with a good cast and lots of action that manages to keep the tension high till the end.