Cédric Klapisch Collection - 12-DVD Box Set ( Casse-tête chinois / Ma part du gateau / Paris / Les poupées russes / Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) / L'auberge espagnole / Peut-être / Un air de famille / Chacun cherche son chat / Le péril jeune / Riens du tout / C. Klapisch, ce qui le meut ) ( Chinese Puzzle / My Piece of the Pie / Paris / Russian Dolls / Not for, or Against (Quite the Contrary) / The Spanish Apartment / Maybe / Family Resemblances / When the Cat's Away / Good Old Daze / Little Nothings / Cédric Klapisch, ce qui le meut )

Cédric Klapisch Collection - 12-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Casse-tête chinois / Ma part du gateau / Paris / Les poupées russes / Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) / L'auberge espagnole / Peut-être / Un air de famille / Chacun cherche son chat / Le péril jeune / Riens du tout / C. Klapisch, ce qui le meut
Alternate Title: Chinese Puzzle / My Piece of the Pie / Paris / Russian Dolls / Not for, or Against (Quite the Contrary) / The Spanish Apartment / Maybe / Family Resemblances / When the Cat's Away / Good Old Daze / Little Nothings / Cédric Klapisch, ce qui le meut
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
French ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1229 min + Extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Deleted Scenes
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Storyboards
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1992 – 2013 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Cedric Klapisch
Patrick Fabre

Written By:
Cedric Klapisch
Santiago Amigorena
Alexis Galmot
Agnès Jaoui
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Patrick Fabre

Actors:
Romain Duris ..... Xavier Rousseau
Audrey Tautou ..... Martine
Cécile De France ..... Isabelle
Kelly Reilly ..... Wendy
Sandrine Holt ..... Ju
Flore Bonaventura ..... Isabelle de Groote - la babysitter
Jochen Hägele ..... Hegel et Schopenhauer - les philosophes allemands
Benoît Jacquot ..... Monsieur Rousseau - le père de Xavier
Pablo Mugnier-Jacob ..... Tom Rousseau
Margaux Mansart ..... Mia Rousseau
Amin Djakliou ..... Lucas
Clara Abbasi ..... Jade
Li Jun Li ..... Nancy
Sharrieff Pugh ..... Ray
Peter McRobbie ..... L'agent bureau immigration
Karin Viard ..... France
Gilles Lellouche ..... Steve Delarue
Audrey Lamy ..... Josy, la soeur de France
Jean-Pierre Martins ..... JP, le mari de Josy
Raphaële Godin ..... Mélody
Fred Ulysse ..... Le père de France
Kevin Bishop ..... Nick, le broker
Marine Vacth ..... Tessa
Flavie Bataillie ..... Lucie
Tim Pigott-Smith ..... Mr. Brown
Philippe Lefebvre ..... Le PDG dans la fête
Lunis Sakji ..... Alban
Juliette Navis ..... Julie, l'analyste financière
Camille Zouaoui ..... Jessica
Adrienne Vereecke ..... Mallaury
Fabrice Luchini ..... Roland Verneuil
Romain Duris ..... Pierre
Joffrey Platel ..... Rémy
Mélanie Laurent ..... Laetitia
Karin Viard ..... La boulangère
Albert Dupontel ..... Jean
Zinedine Soualem ..... Mourad
Annelise Hesme ..... Victoire
Audrey Marnay ..... Marjolaine
Xavier Robic ..... Présentateur télé
Farida Khelfa ..... Farida
Suzanne Von Aichinger ..... Suzy 'Miss Bidoche'
Marco Prince ..... Disco
François Cluzet ..... Philippe Verneuil
Juliette Binoche ..... Élise
Kevin Bishop ..... William
Evguenya Obraztsova ..... Natacha
Irene Montalà ..... Neus
Gary Love ..... Edward
Lucy Gordon ..... Celia Shelburn
Aïssa Maïga ..... Kassia
Martine Demaret ..... Mère Xavier
Pierre Cassignard ..... Platane
Olivier Saladin ..... Gérard
Pierre Gérald ..... Grand-père
Zinedine Soualem ..... M. Boubaker
Marie Gillain ..... Caty
Vincent Elbaz ..... Jean
Simon Abkarian ..... Freddy Karparian dit Lecarpe
Zinedine Soualem ..... Mouss
Dimitri Storoge ..... Loulou
Natacha Lindinger ..... Caprice
Jocelyn Lagarrigue ..... Gilles - télesurveillance
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam ..... Le Directeur du Dépôt
Diane Kruger ..... La call-girl du Directeur
Thierry Levaret ..... Le Vigile
Michaël Abiteboul ..... Bernard - Le King
Robert Plagnol ..... Le Journaliste Caprice
Michaël Tissier ..... Anthony Karparian, le fils de Freddy
Didier Menin ..... Concierge Marriott
Thierry Flamand ..... Le Journaliste
Romain Duris ..... Xavier
Judith Godrèche ..... Anne-Sophie
Cristina Brondo ..... Soledad
Federico D'Anna ..... Alessandro
Barnaby Metschurat ..... Tobias
Christian Pagh ..... Lars
Xavier De Guillebon ..... Jean-Michel
Wladimir Yordanoff ..... Jean-Charles Perrin
Javier Coromina ..... Juan
Iddo Goldberg ..... Alistair
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Ako
Romain Duris ..... Arthur
Géraldine Pailhas ..... Lucie
Julie Depardieu ..... Nathalie
Emmanuelle Devos ..... Juliette
Bass Dhem ..... Achille
Léa Drucker ..... Clotilde
Hélène Fillières ..... Rosemonde
Dominique Frot ..... Artémise
Mathieu Genet ..... Ulysse
Olivier Gourmet ..... Jean-Claude
Lise Lamétrie ..... Mafalda
Riton Liebman ..... Mathieu
Marceline Loridan Ivens ..... Madeleine
Olivier Py ..... Green man
Jean-Pierre Bacri ..... Henri
Jean-Pierre Darroussin ..... Denis
Catherine Frot ..... Yolande
Agnès Jaoui ..... Betty
Claire Maurier ..... Madame Ménard - la mère
Wladimir Yordanoff ..... Philippe
Alain Guillo ..... Le Présentateur
Sophie Simon ..... La Mère 1967
Cedric Klapisch ..... Le Père 1967
Antoine Chappey ..... Le Voisin
Chantal Gouard ..... Une amie de la mère
Viviane Ordas ..... Une amie de la mère
Aurélie Remacle ..... Betty 1967
Nicolas Taeb ..... Henri 1967
Ludovic Taeb ..... Philippe 1967
Garance Clavel ..... Chloé
Zinedine Soualem ..... Djamel
Renée Le Calm ..... Madame Renée
Olivier Py ..... Michel
Arapimou ..... Gris Gris, le chat
Rambo ..... Rambo, le chat
Simon Abkarian ..... Carlos
Frédéric Aufray ..... Photographer
Olivier Barny ..... Un ouvrier ébéniste
Jane Bradbury ..... Un mannequin
Joël Brisse ..... Le peintre Bel Canto
Olympe Brugeille ..... Madame Brugeille
Franck Bussi ..... Mec aggressif
Marilyne Canto ..... La femme flic
Aline Chantal ..... Madame Doubrowsky
Romain Duris ..... Tomasi
Vincent Elbaz ..... Alain Chabert
Nicolas Koretzky ..... Maurice 'Momo' Zareba
Julien Lambroschini ..... Bruno
Joachim Lombard ..... Leon
Julie-Anne Roth ..... Marie
Hélène de Fougerolles ..... Christine
Élodie Bouchez ..... Sophie
Lisa Faulkner ..... Barbara
Caroline Damiens ..... Moroni
Jacques Marchand ..... English Teacher
Christine Sandre ..... Philosophy Teacher
Nathalie Krebs ..... History and Geography Teacher
François Toumarkine ..... Biology Teacher
Hélène Médigue
Fabrice Luchini ..... Lepetit
Daniel Berlioux ..... Jacques Martin
Marc Berman ..... Pizzuti
Olivier Broche ..... Lefèvre
Antoine Chappey ..... François
Jean-Pierre Darroussin ..... Domrémy
Aurélie Guichard ..... Vanessa
Billy Komg ..... Mamadou
Odette Laure ..... Madame Yvonne
Elisabeth Macocco ..... Madame Dujardin
Marc Maury ..... Johnny Bonjour
Pierre-Olivier Mornas ..... Roger
Jean-Michel Martial ..... Hubert
Maïté Nahyr ..... La directrice de coordination
Fred Personne ..... Monsieur Roi
Patrick Fabre

Synopsis:

***WARNING***2 Films "When the Cat's Away" & "Cédric Klapisch, ce qui le meut" do NOT have English - French audio only***
Chinese Puzzle (2013)
A 40-year-old father's life is complicated when the mother of his two children moves to New York.
My Piece of the Pie (2011)
A single mother enrolls in a housekeeper training program...
Good Old Daze (1994)
A series of flashbacks, revealing a group of young men during their senior year of high school...
Paris (2008)
Pierre suffers from a serious heart disease and is waiting for a transplant...
The Russian Dolls (2005)
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
The Spanish Apartment (2002)
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona...
Maybe (1999)
Arthur discovers that a ceiling panel in his bathroom is a time portal to the Paris in the future...
Family Resemblances (1996)
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant.
When the Cat's Away (1996)
Chloe is going on holidays and entrusts her beloved cat to Madame Renée's care.
Little Nothings (1992)
A French department store manager tries to improve business by adopting American techniques...
Not for or Against (2003)
Caty is a camerawoman whom a group of criminals ask to film their exploits.

Chinese Puzzle / Casse-tête chinois (2013) - French audio with English & French subtitles
Xavier is now forty years old. So are Wendy, Isabelle and Martine. At forty you are supposed to be more mature and live a a steadier life than at twenty. But not Xavier. Well, to be fair, he has made some progress in the field of thoughtfulness (he has even become a writer) but as concerns his everyday life, it is far from well-ordered. To be totally honest it is not entirely Xavier's fault if his wife Wendy has suddenly left him for a new companion in New York and taken their two children with her. Realizing he can't stand living without them, Xavier decides to settle down in Big Apple in order to remain close to them. He finds a home in Chinatown and it does not take long before trouble comes his way.

My Piece of the Pie / Ma part du gâteau (2011) - French audio with English & French subtitles
France, a single mother from the blighted industrial north, and Steve, a hotshot trader with a keen eye for the killer deal, are thrown together when he's looking for a cleaner and she's looking for a job. When Alban, Steve's 3-year-old son, arrives on the doorstep to stay with his dad, Steve might need more than a cleaner. And France might need some payback from the man who almost single-handedly shut down the factory where she worked...

Paris (2008) - French audio with English & French subtitles
Centers on a Parisian who is ill and who wonders whether he is going to die. His condition makes him look with new eyes at all the people he encounters. As he faces death, his life, the life of others and that of the whole city suddenly take on a new significance. Market gardeners, a baker, a social worker, a dancer, an architect, a homeless person, a university professor, a model and a Cameroonian illegal worker--all these people, whose lives are very far apart, are brought together in the city of Paris.

The Russian Dolls / Les Poupées russes (2005) - French audio with English & French subtitles
"Russian Dolls" belongs to a long line of airy French films that induce a pleasant buzz of Euro-envy. As its attractive characters, on the verge of 30, whiz between Paris and London on the Eurostar express and jaunt off to St. Petersburg for a wedding, you wish their American screen counterparts were as comfortable in their skins and as relaxed about sex. These people know how to enjoy themselves; their Hollywood peers find it difficult to stop competing long enough to take a deep breath and drink in the moment. That said, "Russian Dolls," written and directed by Cédric Klapisch, has not much on its mind beyond updating the lives of characters some of us already know. These are mostly the same people (played by the same actors) who shared a Barcelona apartment in Mr. Klapsich's 2002 comedy, "L'Auberge Espagnole.

Not for or Against / Ni pour, ni contre (2003) - French audio with English subtitles
"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.

The Spanish Apartment / L' Auberge espagnole (2002) - French audio with English & French subtitles
The story follows Xavier (Romain Duris), a 24-year-old Frenchman, who leaves his girlfriend Martine (Audrey Tautou) and his country for the ERASMUS programme in Barcelona, a prerequisite for a job with the French government. On the flight over, he meets a young "uncool" French couple who let him stay in their flat while he searches for a place to stay. Xavier manages to find an apartment with other people from all around Europe, including England, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Denmark with whom he becomes good friends. Martine pays Xavier a visit and returns sad. Xavier eventually has an affair with the French neurologist's wife (Anne-Sophie), with whom he has been exploring the city. One of his roommates, Wendy from London, has a visiting brother named William who is quite abrasive and rude, resulting in some funny dialogues. Xavier's girlfriend has an affair and breaks up with him over the telephone. Xavier becomes somewhat depressed and asks his friend the neurologist for help. Anne-Sophie tells her husband about the affair and he tells Xavier not to see his wife again. Then Wendy has an affair with an American; her boyfriend Alister makes a surprise visit, and William pretends that the American is his lover. At the end of the film, Xavier returns to Paris and gets the job at the Ministry but runs away on his first day at work and becomes a writer.

Maybe / Peut-être (1999) - French audio with English subtitles
Science fiction. Arthur and his girlfriend Lucie are on their way to a Millennium party on New Year's Eve, 1999. When upon arriving they repair to a bathroom to have sex, Arthur's careless attitude annoys Lucie and she leaves. Left alone, Arthur notices sand falling onto his shoulders. When he makes his way via the top floor to daylight, he beholds a fantastic new world - a version of Paris years in the future, in a North African desert-style climate. Arthur is confronted by an old man, Ako, who claims to be his son, conceived on January 1st, 2000. Ako pleads with Arthur to return to his own `world' and impregnate his girlfriend so that Ako and his descendants can actually exist - rather than disappear.

Family Resemblances / Un air de famille (1996) - French, Spanish, German audio with English, Dutch & French subtitles
A reunion at a restaurant/bar becomes the occasion for a seriocomic outburst of family grudges and resentments. The widowed matriarch is at the center of the proceedings, holding court and criticizing her grown-up children for their failures and missteps. Mother's favorite son Phillipe, is a business executive with a slow-witted wife, Yolande, whose birthday is the reason for the gathering. Less favored siblings include Henri, who runs the shabby restaurant inherited by their father, and Betty, a headstrong, single 30-year-old, who is secretly having an affair with the restaurant bartender, Denis.

When the Cat's Away / Chacun cherche son chat (1996) - French audio
A lonely young make-up artist, living in a crumbling old suburb of Paris, is distraught when her only friend, her cat, goes missing. In her search for her pet, she gets to know her neighbourhood and its inhabitants - and eventually finds romance.

Good Old Daze / Le Péril jeune (1994) - French audio with English & French subtitles
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... Through the pasts of the five main characters, a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.

Little Nothings / Riens du tout (1992) - French audio with English subtitles
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.

Chinese Puzzle / Casse-tête chinois (2013)
A 40-year-old father's life is complicated when the mother of his two children moves to New York. Since he can't bear them growing up far away from him, he decides to move there as well.

My Piece of the Pie / Ma part du gâteau (2011)
After losing her job at a local factory, a single mother enrolls in a housekeeper training program, soon landing work cleaning the Paris apartment of handsome but cocky power broker.

Paris (2008)
Love and life pose dilemmas for a handful of friends in the City of Lights in this romantic drama from French filmmaker Cedric Klapisch. Pierre (Romain Duris) has enjoyed a successful career as a dancer performing in Parisian nightclubs, but when he's diagnosed with a serious heart condition, his doctor warns him that the strain of his work could kill him. Pierre must reinvent his life, and as he ponders his future and his mortality, he turns to his sister, Ãlise (Juliette Binoche), a social worker and single mother, for help. Ãlise is facing some life changes of her own; she's tired of being alone, and has developed an infatuation with Jean (Albert Dupontel), a grocer who sells his wares in the city's open-air market. But Jean is recently divorced and is still preoccupied with his former wife, Caroline (Julie Ferrier). Pierre also finds himself falling from afar for a lovely college student named Laetitia (Melanie Laurent), but he has a rival for her affections in Roland (Fabrice Luchini), one of her professors, who is considerably older than her.

The Russian Dolls / Les Poupées russes (2005)
Sequel to L'AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE (POT LUCK). Five years after sharing a flat with a group of international students in Barcelona, Xavier, now in Paris, earns a living penning made-for-TV romantic movies and ghost-writing celebrity biogra- phies. His sentimental life is chaotic, rhythmed by one-night stands and unfinished romances. A trip to Russia may well reconcile him with love.

Not for or Against / Ni pour, ni contre (2003)
A not-so-worldly twentysomething gets caught up with some shady Parisians in director Cedric Klapisch's 2003 crime comedy-drama Not for or Against. Wallflower camerawoman Caty (Marie Gillain) is three years into her career and residency in the French capital with little to show for it in the friend category, never mind the fact she is hopelessly single. While on the job filming an interview with a prostitute, Caty gets a tip from the hooker for a quick and profitable money-making possibility. Following up on the lead, Caty meets the handsome Jean (Vincent Elbaz) who offers to pay her to film him while he robs a store. After some perfunctory soul-searching, Caty impetuously decides to take the offer. This start in crime leads her into Jean's gang of criminals, which she rather quickly becomes a member of. As the thieves tend to spend their loot about as quickly as they accumulate it, they begin planning an enormous caper that will enable them to live more comfortably - if they manage to survive its undertaking.

The Spanish Apartment / L' Auberge espagnole (2002)
As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier, an economics student in his late twenties, signs on to a European exchange program in order to gain working knowledge of the Spanish language. Promising that they'll remain close, he says farewell to his loving girlfriend, then heads to Barcelona. Following his arrival, Xavier is soon thrust into a cultural melting pot when he moves into an apartment full of international students. An Italian, an English girl, a boy from Denmark, a young woman from Belgium, a German and a girl from Andalusia all join him in a series of adventures that serve as an initiation to life.

Maybe / Peut-être (1999)
What if you could step 70 years into the future from a portal in your bathroom? French director Cedric Klapisch asks this question and many others in this oddball sci-fi flick. The film opens at a wild Buck Rogers-themed New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. After smoking a requist amount of drugs, 25-year-old Arthur (Romain Duris) and his girlfriend Lucie get in the millennial spirit with a spontaneous romp in the bathroom. She is aching to have a kid, though Arthur is more ambivalent on the matter, and at the critical moment, he withdraws. Later, he uses that same bathroom for its intended purpose, and he discovers a ceiling panel that transports him to the sun drenched Paris of the 21st century, which could easily be mistaken for northern Africa. Much of the city looks like a Moroccan souk set amid the Sahara. Only the occasional Mansart roof and the now much shorter Eiffel Tower poking out of the sand reminds Arthur that he is indeed in Paris. He soon meets a white-haired old man named Ako (played by New Wave veteran Jean-Paul Belmondo) who informs him that he his Arthur's son. Ako and his offspring beseech the still vacillating Arthur to impregnate Lucie ASAP so that they may exist.

Family Resemblances / Un air de famille (1996)
In this black comedy from France, a family gathers in a tavern, ostensibly to celebrate a birthday, but poking each other's sore spots turns out to be the main order of business. Henri (Jean-Pierre Bacri) runs a saloon that he inherited from his father called "The Sleepy Dad," and in the near-empty bar, he plays host to several members of the family as they mark the 35th birthday of his sister-in-law, Yolande (Catherine Frot). Henri's sister, Betty (Agnès Jaoui), is 30, single, and not very happy about it; his brother (and Yolande's husband), Phillipe (Vladimir Yordanoff), runs a growing software company; Mother (Claire Maurier) is the siblings' strong-willed matriarch; and Henri's dog is on hand, whom someone describes as "like a rug, but alive." It's not been a good day for most of them: Phillipe is convinced that his business will go out the window as a result of the ugly tie that he wore on television; Betty is depressed about the sad state of her current relationship; Henri has just learned that his wife is leaving him; and Mother is tossing caustic barbs at everyone left and right. Henri's bartender Denis (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is the one neutral party on hand, and he provides the voice of reason in the midst of the bickering.

When the Cat's Away / Chacun cherche son chat (1996)
When the Cat's Away is a gentle French comedy that explores the problems and anxieties of contemporary urbanites. When Chloe (Garance Clavel), a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée (Renée Le Calm), who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.

Good Old Daze / Le Péril jeune (1994)
This French comedy-drama chronicles the reunion of five high school friends who come to witness the birth of a child whose father, a former friend, recently died. The boys graduated in 1975 and now, five years later they have come to a Parisian hospital to await the birth. As they wait, the try to understand the circumstances that caused their friend Tomasi, a formerly happy-go-lucky guy, to become a drug addict and die of an overdose. They also begin to reminisce about their senior year. They talk about everything from their experiences with girls and drugs, to their relationships with teachers and parents. Those times are depicted in detailed flashbacks.

Little Nothings / Riens du tout (1992)
Visitors to Paris are forever regaling those back home with outrageous tales of rude or even abusive behavior by shopkeepers, sales attendants, and (in general) just about anyone whose business puts them in contact with the public. Even ordinary Parisians seem prone to this sort of behavior. On the one hand, it is easy to sympathise with the aggrieved tourist; on the other, what if your home were the object of interest for uninterrupted hordes of barely civilized strangers, poking and prying into its every nook and cranny? In this comedy, which was remarkably popular in France (and Paris!), an American-trained store manager (Fabrice Luchini) attempts to inculcate his staff with such unlikely notions as "service" and "the customer is always right," using the latest corporate training techniques. Some of these techniques are humorous in themselves, like the "trust" exercises which became so popular a few years back, or the technique of "bonding" in natural situations, joining together to win challenge matches, etc. The poor idealistic manager who attempts to accomplish this radical transformation in his staff is ill prepared for his program's odd result: the staff now has considerable ésprit de corps, but of a quite different kind than he had envisioned.

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