Dropping the rom-com genre on its head and then blowing it away with gale-force winds, this winner of four awards at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival will knock you out with its superb acting and twist on gender roles. Sweet natured Arnaud is still grappling with his father’s death when he is thrown head over heels, literally, during an impromptu beach wrestling match with strong-willed Madeleine, a girl wholly intent on joining an elite army regiment. When Arnaud happens into a job building a garden shed for her parents, he falls further in love with the intense, solemn-faced, apocalypse preaching, sardine guzzling paratrooper-wannabe. In fact, he is so enamored, he follows her to a two-week boot camp training session, the ultimate test not just of their survival skills, but of their potential romance. This crowd-pleaser has serious cinematic chops, and an ending that will leave feminists with plenty to talk about.