There are albums that don’t let you skip a single track. Not (just) because every song is a hit, but because each one carries the story forward. Olivia Rodrigo’s new album is exactly that: her most complete and emotionally cohesive work to date. And yes, as you’ve probably guessed, it’s been on repeat ever since. That’s why we decided to give visual form to the cinematic universe of "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love". Press play and let the story unfold.

You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love

Two people, always together, always apart. The most sweeping romantic drama of recent years, based on the book of the same name by Sally Rooney, became the first major television phenomenon of the '00s, lured viewers into its emotional maelstrom and made stars of its protagonists overnight.

Normal People

Normal

Monia Chokri, known from Xavier Dolan’s early films, steps behind the camera for an elegant yet incisive piece of cinema in the spirit of Rohmer. Α sharp, delicate essay on the tension between desire and social standing.

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A university intellectual, long immersed in a world of ideas and social expectations, meets a craftsman who awakens in her an old, almost forgotten desire. Their attraction becomes a catalyst, but as it grows stronger, the class and social barriers between them become impossible to ignore. Can passion withstand the weight of convention?

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Best Foreign Film | César Awards | 2024
Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2023

The Nature of Love

The first film directed by Greta Gerwig, back in 2008. In probably the most famous film of the mumblecore movement at the time, alongside genre pioneer Joe Swanberg, she finds her future footing in a must-see cinematic diamond in the rough.

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A couple maintains their relationship despite the distance that separates them, but the problems are not lacking and are constantly growing. Without explaining how or why, we watch the decline of a relationship which can happen to anyone.

Nights and Weekends

In his intoxicating directorial debut, Oscar-winning Barry Jenkins rises from the ashes of American mumblecore with a true cinematic gem. A tender, intoxicating study of love as a function of class, race, and culture, set against the breathtakingly photographed backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.

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Maika, a passionate social activist, meets Joan, a successful and affluent professional, at a party. After an unexpected one-night stand, the following morning begins awkwardly, yet slowly gives way to an undeniable emotional connection. As they wander through San Francisco and open up to one another, political, cultural, and philosophical differences begin to surface. Caught between attraction and ideology, Maika and Joan must confront whether love can truly bridge the distance between them.

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Official Selection - New Directors | Chicago International Film Festival | 2008
Nomination for Best First Feature | Film Independent Spirit Awards | 2008

Medicine for Melancholy

Andrzej Zulawski's great and stormy film, an unforgettable memory from the European cinema of the 70s that gave Romy Schneider the opportunity to face a very demanding role, delivering a sensational performance.

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A photographer meets Nadine, a second-rate actress who stars in cheap soft porn movies. Wanting to help her, he borrows a substantial sum from a loan shark to finance the play "Richard III" in which he will finally give Nadine a role worthy of her talent. The latter is in a dilemma between the photographer she loves very much and her husband who has helped her in the past.

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Best Actress (Romy Schneider) | César Awards | 1976

That Most Important Thing: Love

A lot of people swear to this day that this is the most beautiful film ever created and 4K restoration catapults this beauty to the moon. A hallmark of Wong Kar Wai's career, with shots, colours, music and slow motion coming together in a celebration of the senses.

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Chow, editor-in-chief of a newspaper, moves with his wife to a new house. There he meets Li-zhen, the beautiful woman living next door, wife of a commercial agent, who is usually on business trips. Chow's wife is also often away from home. One day they will realize that their spouses are lovers and will find themselves in the footsteps of an erotic desire that neither of them admits is their own.

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Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Cannes Film Festival | 2000
Best Foreign Language Film | César Awards | 2001
Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001
Best Actress (Maggie Cheung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001
Best Film Editing | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001

In the Mood for Love

One of the most beloved films of recent years, Joachim Trier's comic drama (with generous doses of romance, tragedy and existential despair) is awarded at Cannes for Renate Reinsve, makes it to the Oscars, and reflects on absolutely contemporary personal and social impasses.

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Thirty-year-old Julie doesn't know what she wants out of life. And while her boyfriend wants to start a family, she suddenly falls in love with someone else. A chronicle of four years in the life of a young woman who is asked to explore the complicated paths of life and love while struggling for her career. All of which will make her understand herself better and bring her face to face with a more realistic view of who she really is.

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Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2022
Nomination for Best International Film | Oscars | 2022
Best Actress (Renate Reinsve) | Cannes Film Festival | 2021
Nomination for Best Actress (Renate Reinsve) | BAFTA | 2022

The Worst Person in the World

Awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1963 for having an extraordinary moment in the history of cinema, a technicolor musical with Michel Legrand’s wonderful compositions, as magical as cinema and as bittersweet as life.

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A young girl lives with her widowed mother, the owner of an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a twenty-year-old car mechanic with whom she plans to secretly get married. However, after announcing it to her mother, she forbids her to do so. When the young man decides to present himself in the army and departs for Algeria, the girl discovers that she is pregnant. After her mother’s insistence, she is forced to accept a precious stone dealer’s marriage proposal.

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Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 1965
Nominated for Best Original Song | Oscars | 1966
Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 1964
OCIC Award | Cannes Film Festival | 1964

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

The ultimate romantic masterpiece of recent years. With deep philosophical and existential concerns, Celine Song's directorial debut united the fate of three people, leaving no viewer with dry eyes.

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Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are separated when Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, Hae Sung decides to visit Nora for a few days in New York where she lives with her American husband Arthur. Confronted with the ghosts of a life they did not live, they come face to face with the concepts of destiny, love and the choices that make up a life.

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Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2024
Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2024
Official Selection - International Competition | Berlin Film Festival | 2023

Past Lives

A virtuoso adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel, featuring a devastating plot twist and an unforgettable final act, in which Vanessa Redgrave’s glistening gaze relentlessly searches for the “atonement” promised by the title.

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Teenage Briony, consumed by jealousy over her older sister’s romance with the housekeeper’s son, accuses him of a crime he did not commit, irrevocably shattering all of their lives.

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Best Original Score | Oscars | 2008
Nomination for Best Picture | Oscars | 2008
Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Saoirse Ronan) | Oscars | 2008
Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | Oscars | 2008
Best Motion Picture - Drama | Golden Globes | 2008
Best Film | BAFTA | 2008
Prize of the Forum for Cinema and Literature | Venice Film Festival | 2007

Atonement

Nominated for 14 Oscars and winner of six, Damien Chazelle’s film revisits the myth of classic Hollywood and redefines it through a cinematic language overflowing with color, melody, and emotion.

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In a Los Angeles where song and dance burst to life at every turn, a musician and an aspiring actress fall into a dazzling romance as they each chase their dreams.

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Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2017
Best Director | Oscars | 2017
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Emma Stone) | Oscars | 2017
Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Ryan Gosling) | Oscars | 2017
Best Cinematography | Oscars | 2017
Best Original Score | Oscars | 2017
Best Original Song | Oscars | 2017
Best Production Design | Oscars | 2017

La La Land

In his memory-driven narrative, Hou Hsiao-Hsien transports us to the future, filming present-day images as though they belong to a bygone era. With echoes of Wong Kar-Wai’s world, it bittersweetly captures a world that appears still, yet moves uncontrollably.

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Taipei, the year is 2011. A female voice, off-camera, looks back to the start of the century, narrating a chapter of her life marked by drift and uncertainty. Her name is Vicky - young, lovely, and aimless. Caught in an on-again, off-again relationship and torn between two men, Hao-Hao and Jack, she floats through a series of emotional entanglements, revealing a hazy portrait of lost time and fleeting youth.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2001
Technical Grand Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2001
Silver Hugo Best Film | Chicago International Film Festival | 2001
Best Director | Ghent Film Festival | 2001

Millennium Mambo

Anaïs Demoustier and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi shine in an archetypal French romantic comedy full of vitality, passion, and unpretentious charm, reflecting the sweeping power of love.

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An impulsive young woman falls for her older lover's female partner, becoming entangled in a complex emotional journey of self-discovery, desire, and unexpected twists.

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Official Selection - Critic's Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2021