Philippe Théaudière

Movies

Hot Desires
Director of Photography
The lovelife from Michel and his wife has become pretty boring, and so everyone goes for his own way. But as the lovepairs meet in the shared summer residence, the chaos is just perfect, and everyone plays a little game with each other...
Favourites of the Moon
Director of Photography
The story revolves around two objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century aristocratic portrait. As these items are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to another, a giddy round dance of excess begins to take shape, one which suggests that if history doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose other co-writing credits include Repulsion and Tess, Otar Iosseliani uses a feather-light touch to expose the futility of class and social order, making a bagatelle of the concerns of rich and poor alike.
Burning Snow
Director of Photography
The beautiful Muriel comes to spend her vacation with her friend but everyone mistakes her for a notorious girl named Lorna. Now they are trying to find out whether she is really Muriel or Lorna.
Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française
Director of Photography
On april 24 1982 when Orson Welles was invited to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur from François Mitterand a lively filmed interview took place in the french Cinémathèque.
L'ouvreuse n'a pas de culotte
Director of Photography
Anna is unemployed, but her friend Catherine finds her a job in a very particular cinema. This is a porn room where the show takes place both on the screen and in the dark.
The Virgin of Pessac
Director of Photography
In 1979, under the presidency of the city mayor, the people of Pessac elect a virtuous and gracious maiden from amongst the residents, following a tradition that comes from times immemorial.
Tire pas sur mon collant
Director of Photography
Secretaries by profession, Joëlle and Béatrice are invited to spend a dream stay in Marrakech. However, this invitation is actually the result of a misunderstanding, Joëlle having been mistaken for the daughter of her boss, an important CEO. But it does not matter after all, because once arrived there, in a luxury hotel, the two young women are determined to seduce all the handsome boys on vacation.
The Pig
Director of Photography
In the French countryside it's the day for peasants to kill a big fat pig. The slaughter goes on for a great part of the day as they work to store 140kg worth of meat.
Young Girls in Ecstasy
Director of Photography
The friends who attended the same boarding school meet and take turns telling their recent romantic experiences. These turn out to be as varied as they are crisp, from the initiation of a student by a teacher to the misunderstanding in the company of a lord, through the false English but true seducer, the swimmer obsessed with his physical condition and, obviously, love in a group (Le Chat Qui Fume).
Lamerique
Director of Photography
Short film by Michel Lemoine shot simultaneously to "Les Petites Saintes y touchent."
Les Confidences érotiques d'un lit trop accueillant
Director of Photography
A stripper takes an old lover back to her apartment and tells him the sordid history of her own bed.
The Bitches
Director of Photography
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes very jealous.
Olivier Messiaen and the Birds
Director of Photography
"A renowned composer and organist, Olivier Messiaen was also a great teacher. Michel Fano, who took his composition class at the Paris Conservatory, films some of the privileged moments of his teaching. This film, co-directed with Denise Tual, also shows Messiaen as a devotee, an ornithologist, and a synaesthete, evoking the fundamental concepts of his inspiration with an often sparkling ease (the musician imitating certain bird songs in a manner reminiscent of Rouch recreating the cries of wizards for certain films). In this way, the film boldly collides sequences with visual or sound correspondences, the directors succeeding in dragging us into the world of mystery and dreams dear to the musician." (François Waledisch)
Marianne Bouquet
Director of Photography
Marianne, the beautiful wife of Michael, loves her husband very much, but Michael cannot resist the lure of illicit sex. His sexual escapades are seemingly endless. Marianne's faithfulness has its limits and when she meets and beds the handsome Philip she must make a decision...to wait for the man she married to return to her or start her life a new with someone else. The passions of the heart and body come together in an explicit, searing tale of love and lust and a woman ready to bloom emotionally and sexually!
Kisss.....
Director of Photography
Numéro zéro
Director of Photography
A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother, Odette Robert. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production — he is seated at the table with her, pours her some whiskey, speaks with the camera operator, manipulates the clapboard at the head and tail of the reels, and even takes a phone call. Robert, who was seventy-one, speaks rapidly and tells the story of her life, starting from her early childhood in villages in the Bordeaux region of France. A shorter version of the film ("Odette Robert") was edited in 1980 to be broadcast on television on TF1. The complete film only gained exposure in 2002, when it was salvaged by Boris Eustache, Thierry Lounas, João Bénard da Costa, Jean-Marie Straub, and Pedro Costa.
Love Life in Luxembourg
Director of Photography
The story of a hotel boss that, from time to time, observes the couples in the rooms and even films them.
The Wild Child
Assistant Camera
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.
The Virgin of Pessac
Director of Photography
This landmark documentary by Jean Eustache, filmed in 1968, hilariously exposes small-town pomposity and naiveté as it chronicles the preparations for an annual contest to crown a village’s most virtuous young woman.
The Smugglers
Director of Photography
Two young women leave claustrophobic city life behind and move to a small border town. There they meet a border guard, involved in smuggling to and from the country. Both women fall for him, resulting in jealousy.
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
Director of Photography
Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.
La Soirée
Director of Photography
Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper.