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The July Selection
Every month, Sacreblue! highlights francophone films from the SBS catalogue.
These movies will be available for the whole month for free on SBS On Demand.
Here is our July selection of SBS French films, cuddle up on the couch for a cozy movie night!
Marinette (2023)
Cast: Garance Marillier, Émilie Dequenne, Alban Lenoir, Fred Testot, Sylvie Testud, Caroline Proust, June Benard, Yamé Pertzing
Genre: Drama, Biography
Marinette Pichon is a sport star, activist and LGBTQ+ icon. She was the first French female football player to sign a professional contract, working in France and the United States she scored an impressive 81 goals across 112 international matches. Learn more about her beginnings and achievements through Virginie Verrier’s biopic, based on Pichon’s own autobiography ‘Ne jamais rien lâcher’.
Marinette was strategically released one month prior to the 2023 Women’s Wordl Cup. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Fetsival in the United States.
Presented in partnership with Nine Orchard and the Seward Park Conservancy, the film is part of Unifrance and Villa Albertine’s Young French Cinema program.
Watch it on SBS on Demand here.
Black Box / Boîte noire (2021)
Director: Yann Gozlan
Cast: Pierre Niney, Lou de Laâge, André Dussollier, Sébastien Pouderoux, Olivier Rabourdin, Guillaume Marquet, Mehdi Djaadi, Aurélien Recoing, André Marcon, Anne Azoulay, Marie Dompnier, Grégori Derangère, Octave Boussuet, Philippe Maymat, Boris Ravaine, Gaël Giraudeau
Genre: Thriller
French-Belgian mystery thriller Black Box centers around Matthieu, a young and talented black box analyst at the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety.
He is tasked with discovering the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand-new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens to the tracks again, he starts detecting some seriously disturbing details. Going against orders, he begins his own rogue investigation – an obsessional and dangerous quest for truth that will quickly threaten far more than his career…
Premiering at the 2021 Alliance Française French Film Festival, the film went on to received five nominations at the 47th César Awards including best actor and best original screenplay.
and won the 2021 Reims Polar Prix du public award.
Watch it on SBS on Demand here.
Belle and Sébastien (2013)
Director: Nicolas Vanier
Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier, Dimitri Storoge, Andreas Pietschmann, Urbain Cancelier, Tom Sommerlatte, Mehdi El Glaoui, Jan Oliver Schroeder
Genre: Adventure
Based on the 1966 novel and 1965 French TV Series, Belle and Sébastien is the first of a film trilogy centering around 7-year-old orphan Sébastien and his newfound furry friend, “the beast”, or as he likes to call her “Belle”. Together they try to foil a Nazi plan to capture French resistance fighters on the Franco-Swiss Border.
Garnering international enthusiasm, the film became the most popular at the Italian box-office in less than a week, and was awarded Best Film at the 2014 Ukranian Children KinoFest film festival.
Watch the film on SBS on Demand here.
