Romantics Anonymous (2011)

What happens if you mix Chocolat and Amélie? It's certain that Romantics Anonymous doesn't happen. Despite a juicy set-up (two clinically shy people fall in love and hilarity ensues), it falls criminally short of anything good. The worthy efforts of its two leads (Isabelle Carré and Benoît Poelvoorde) do nothing to save this flat film from falling face down in the mud.

This Is France Calling: The Refuge (2009)

Paris - the city is buzzing with energy. Metro rattles the bridges over the banlieux homes, the headlights of the rush hour are sparkling on the Seine.

The city is alive, but it looks and feels dead.

It's getting dark and a teenage boy is walking on a residential street. He goes into a building, goes up a few floors and in through the cracked-open door. It is a large flat, barely furnished. He looks around to see the person that buzzed him in. We then hear a twang from a guitar from one of bedrooms - very Ry Cooder. Somebody sniffles.