Catherine Corsini

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Catherine Corsini

Born May 18, 1956 · Dreux, France (age 70)

Catherine Corsini (born 18 May 1956) is a French filmmaker.

Known For

SummertimeSummertime · 2015
Summertime
★ 6.72015
MovieDramaRomance
In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.
LeavingLeaving · 2009
Leaving
★ 6.02009
MovieDramaRomance
A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.
An Impossible LoveAn Impossible Love · 2018
An Impossible Love
★ 6.62018
MovieDramaRomance
A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
The DivideThe Divide · 2021
The Divide
★ 6.62021
MovieDrama
Raf and Julie, a couple on the verge of breaking up, find themselves in an emergency ward bordering on collapse on the evening of a Parisian Yellow Vest protest. Their encounter with Yann, an angry and injured demonstrator, will shatter each person's certainties and prejudices. Outside, the tension escalates.
The Very Merry WidowsThe Very Merry Widows · 2003
The Very Merry Widows
★ 5.52003
MovieComedy
Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's money. Both women will meet several men in the course of the movie. Even the cynical Renée will fall deeply in love again. But even after getting married, Laurence and Renée don't seem to be able to love their husband for a long time. Will they manage to get rid of their rich, loving but irritating husbands? Will their husbands survive the experience? Or will true love triumph at the end?
De particulier à particulierDe particulier à particulier · 2006
De particulier à particulier
★ 5.32006
MovieDrama
After 10 years and two children together, Philippe and Marion, finally decide to take a honeymoon Holiday in Venice. At the train station, a abandoned bag filled with money will bring them to a different journey. A journey of doubt where reality never quite lies where it seems, leading from separation to reconciliation.
ReplayReplay · 2001
Replay
★ 5.12001
MovieDramaRomance
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries, but finds time to see the, by now quite accomplished actress, Nathalie. They fight through the years, La Repetition following them as their friendship comes together and breaks up frequently, while never actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.
LoversLovers · 1994
Lovers
★ 5.51994
MovieRomanceDrama
In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older and ostensibly free-wheeling half-sister, learning to trust himself and become independent.

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Youth Without GodYouth Without God · 1996
Youth Without God
★ 7.01996
MovieDramaTV Movie
This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It attempts to provide insight as to why certain German youths were so easily lead into becoming Nazis by using two narrators, one a teacher who challenged the movement and another by a student who embraced it. Pabst teaches a group of teenage boys, all of whom seem to be young Nazis. The trouble begins when Pabst and a WW I vet are assigned to take the class to a military camp and a nature outing for urban kids. While there a boy is brutally murdered and they blame one local girl. During her trial, Pabst speaks out against Hitler and becomes pariah. Still he continues investigating the death, at great personal expense until at last he brings the real killer to justice.

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