Catherine Vinatier

Consent (2023)

In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions ...

One Fine Morning (2022)

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair. ...

Féminines (2020)

Mon cœur (2018)

BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)

Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving th ...

Domestic Life (2013)

Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she has an ...

Tennis Elbow (2012)

Like every year, it's time for the big match between Philippe and Yannick, father and son. Like every year, the son is a little stronger. Like every year, the father is a little older. It's never easy for a champion to relinquish their title. ...

Cornouaille (2012)

A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12. ...

The Year After (2007)

Emmanuelle lives in the suburbs near a shopping mall. Since her father's death, she feels increasingly out of sync with the world around her. Her mother is distracted, high school bores her. She has just turned 17 and, this particular year, her life will t ...

A Good Year (2006)

Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers. ...

Chamonix (2002)

Nine people tell an anecdote, tall story or dramatic narrative straight into the camera. ...

Clement (2001)

Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women. ...

Le premier pas (2000)

New Dawn (1999)

On the spur of the moment, 30-year old Alain gives up his well-paid job as a tester of computer games, but is uncertain over what do next. He takes up the offer of a place on a course to learn how to operate a bulldozer, although this means spending time a ...

Les Vacances (1997)

Anne doesn't have enough money to take her daughter, Mélody, away from the small provincial town where they live for a few days during the summer holidays. In the face of her daughter's disappointment and incomprehension, she does all she can to find the ...

Rai (1995)

Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence are a ...