Actor · 1944–2004

Ticky Holgado

3: briefs
13:00: average
39 min: in total

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Manon des Sources

Claude Berri · 1986

A 1986 French drama, directed by Claude Berri and adapted from Marcel Pagnol’s novel, concluding the story begun in Jean de Florette. Set in rural Provence ten years later, it follows Manon Cadoret as she uncovers the truth behind her father’s death and orchestrates a slow, water-based reckoning against those who ruined him. Starring Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, and Emmanuelle Béart, it is a formally restrained, morally exacting film about inheritance, silence, and the physical reality of justice.

13:00

The City of Lost Children

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro · 1995

Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s 1995 science fiction film constructs a decaying, steampunk-adjacent port city where dreams are harvested, children kidnapped, and bodies augmented. Ron Perlman plays a strongman searching for his abducted brother, aided by a resourceful orphan and a salvaged scientist. Its power lies in tactile worldbuilding — costume, lighting, set design — rather than plot mechanics. Though critically admired for its visual imagination, its narrative opacity divides viewers. It is arthouse science fiction that prioritises atmosphere over explanation.

13:00

Amélie

Jean-Pierre Jeunet · 2001

Audrey Tautou plays Amélie Poulain, a Paris waitress raised in near-isolation who discovers a box of childhood keepsakes hidden in her apartment and, after tracking down its owner, decides to spend her life secretly engineering happiness for the people around her while avoiding her own romantic chance with a man named Nino. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2001 film, shot with heavy digital colour grading and built almost entirely from small, invented rituals, became one of the highest-grossing French films ever released internationally.