Jean-Pierre Améris

Born both blind and deaf, Marie Heurtin experienced no education until her parents brought her to a convent. There, Sister Marguerette worked with Marie, first teaching her basic communication, and then self-expression.

French rom-com set in a chocolate factory that chronicles the awkward and masked romance between two abnormally shy people, both suffering from "hyper-emotionalism"

French adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1869 novel (the sixth big-screen version), from the director of Romantics Anonymous. Taking a theatrical tone, the story follows Gwynplaine (Marc-André Grondin) whose facial scar leaves him with a kind of permanent smile.