Ten feature films directed by the stylish French film-maker, Patrice Leconte (right), will be screened at the IFC in Dublin over the next five weeks, beginning next Saturday with the 1978 comedy, Les Bronzes, one of his seven earliest movies which went unreleased outside of France before Leconte made his international breakthrough in 1989 with the moody, haunting and hypnotic Simenon adaptation, Monsieur Hire, which is also included in the season. Leconte went on to make such notable films as The Hairdresser's Husband, from an idea triggered by the erotic potential of an individual's sense of smell, and the acerbic 17th century-set satire, Ridicule, which are also featured in the IFC retrospective, as is his recent The Girl on the Bridge, an unconventional love story with Daniel Auteuil as a circus knife thrower and Vanessa Paradis as a hapless young woman he saves from suicide. The latest Leconte picture, La Veuve de Saint-Pierre, which will be shown at Cannes next month, will open here in July.