Bernard Blancan

Bernard Blancan

Birth : 1958-09-09, Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

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Bernard Blancan

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Scarlet
Maître d'oeuvre chantier
In northern France, Juliette grows up alone with her father, Raphaël, a veteran of the First World War. Passionate about singing and music, one summer the lonely young girl meets a magician who promises that scarlet sails will one day take her away from her village.
What's Wrong with My Family?
Bernard
Céline and Mathieu, a couple in their thirties who are farmers, are fighting relentlessly to adopt a child without any progress in their file. One day, they meet Darius and Julien, a homosexual couple who have started the process of GPA in Canada. The idea made its way, why not them? They ask themselves many questions, they hesitate. But despite their family's hostility to surrogate motherhood, they decided to go ahead.
Gare au Fenwick
Bernard
Alan, a withdrawn and solitary young man, usually finds solace in his inner world. Today is the big day: he’s leaving the family home to enter working life.
Le bruit des trousseaux
Greilich Professeur de maths
Alexis Pasquier, a young French teacher, begins his first day of classes at the Nancy prison. There he meets Léa, a young woman with whom he falls madly in love. Two worlds open up to him: true love and the prison environment. He will never be the same anymore.
Grand garçon
Paul is thirty years old and can’t seem to settle down. When his father tells him that his grandmother would love to see him with a girlfriend before dying, he goes on a quest to find a girl with whom he can make it happen.
Cyrano, My Love
Racist Customer
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.
Apollo ou la vie sauvage
Apollo
In the not-too-distant future, humanity will be confronted with an inexorable energy crisis. To face it, a team of astronauts in suspended animation is sent to another galaxy to collect uranium. Seventy-four years later, Apollo disembark on this wild planet where the resources seem miraculous.
1971, Motorcycle Heart
Le journaliste
Toril
Jean-Jacques
Hotaru
Bernard
“You have a gift. Down here, your gift is useless. So we’re gonna show you the most beautiful things. You’re gonna have more memories than everyone else. And then, you will sleep. You won’t wake up.”
After the Ispeguy Pass
Martial lost his father after the Ispeguy Pass. Since that day, he strangely persists in repairing the damaged vehicle. Maybe to keep him close, just a little more before growing up.
Cosmodrama
The reporter
Maybe the 1960s, maybe the future. Seven astronauts wake up in a spaceship, not knowing where they have come from nor where they are heading. As the ship operates by itself, they have ample time to meditate, rather scientifically, on matter, life and the universe.
The Connection
Commissioner Lucien Aimé-Blanc
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
Être vivant
Le narrateur
A male voice describes, with ruthless precision, the physical and mental journey of a man who has just become homeless.
Le Weekend
Gendarme Chiffre
Two reckless romantics on a doomed weekend in Normandy find themselves sharing their idyllic love nest with a disturbed fugitive.
Landes
Darrouy
A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and that time stood still:her workers,circa 1920,do not receive any salary and ,like the peasants in the middle ages,have to bring their production to their landlady. But her progressive ideas come up against men still remembering WW1 and against her bourgeois peers.Her foreman ,first bewildered ,is finally won over by his boss' resilience and strength of character.For her own good,the young heiress is too ahead of her time though.
Eat
Principal
A woman recovering from an eating disorder re-encounters someone from her past.
La Loi De Mon Pays
Lucien Grammatico
Carmen
Vincent
Junior
Le Prof de Maths
Junior is a 13-year-old tomboy with pimples. After being diagnosed with stomach flu, Junior's body undergoes a bizarre metamorphosis.
The Silence of Joan
Carpenter
In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite.
Main basse sur une île
Le Lézard
Outside the Law
Faivre
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
The Rebel, Louise Michel
Henri Rochefort
A fiercely active Communard, Louise Michel is condemned for taking arms against Bismarck. Along with thousands of other revolutionaries, she is deported to New Caledonia, whilst, back in Paris, a young parliamentarian Georges Clemenceau campaigns for a truce with the Communards. During her exile, Louise Michel becomes a teacher and wins the admiration of the other deportees, inspiring them to rise up against the colonial order…
The Evening Dress
Le principal du collège
Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. Juliette's fascination turns into all-consuming obsession, forcing revelations from both the girl and her teacher.
No Pasaran
Bouzigue
Leaving
Rémi
Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.
London River
Ouvrier Forestier
After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
Le voyage de la Veuve
Thabar
Crossfire
Pierre Wazemme
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.
Le voyage aux Pyrénées
The guide
Getting away from it all causes more problems than it solves in this comedy from the French writing-directing team of Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu. Alexandre Darou (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and his wife Aurore Lalu (Sabine Azema) are a pair of well-known actors who need a break from the tension and fast pace of their lives in show biz. Adopting the names "Mr. and Mrs. Go," Alexandre and Aurore head for a village high in the mountains of Southwest France, where they hope to enjoy some relaxing downtime and they won't be bothered. However, Alexandre and Aurore underestimated their own fame, and it isn't long before everyone in the town knows that a pair of movie stars are in their midst. As the couple head into the hills, Alexandre and Aurore discover they don't have much of a talent for roughing it, and while she believed that getting away from the city would help her deal with a recent bout with nymphomania, getting back to nature only increases her appetite for other men.
Charlotte Corday
Marat
Set in July 1793 during the outbreak of the French Revolution and the unleashing of the Reign of Terror, a young girl from Caen named Charlotte Corday plots to assassinate Jacobin newspaper editor Jean-Paul Marat.
Shock Resistant
Le visiteur
A mysterious old lady dwells in an abandoned apartment block. She lives alone but will simply not leave the place.
Days of Glory
Sergent Roger Martinez
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
Un an
Castel
Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her bedroom. Without being able to reconstruct the course of the last few hours, but convinced that she was not completely to blame, she decides to flee. Wherever she is, all bridges are cut, a certain Louis-Philippe, however, curiously always knows how to find her and keeps her informed of the outcome of the "affair". But Louis-Philippe does not tell everything. What is he hiding? Who is who? Who is lying, fabricating, denying, who is the other's denier? And what really happened?
A Summer Day
Deputy mayor
The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance.
Le temps de la désobéissance
Bauer
In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police stations. Soon the beautiful friendship between the two policemen will shatter with all the suffering and disappointment that implies.
Nina's House
Emile
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
A Song of Innocence
Jacques
Antoine Santana - Issues of class, gender roles and parenting bubble to the surface in this 19th-century tale about a shepherd girl (Isild Le Besco) who farms off her own newborn to a wet nurse in the countryside so that she can earn high wages nursing the infant of a wealthy couple. The two young mothers soon become friends, but trouble arises when the bourgeois hubby takes issue with his wife fraternizing with the help. Émilie Dequenne and Grégoire Colin star. - Isild Le Besco, Émilie Dequenne, Grégoire Colin
Peekaboo
Raymond - un paysan qui vend sa ferme à contre-coeur
Raymond (Bernard Blancan) is a very lonely peasant who lives so detached from the world that the peasants of the village nearby his family house consider him as dead for more than 30 years. None sees him but people know he is around and, as all secretly reproach themselves to not have helped the young Raymond after his all family death before he disappeared, they consider the family house as haunted by Raymonds ghost.When Frédéric (Antoine Chappey), Caroline (Lucia Sanchez) and their children come from the city to install themselves in the countryside, they know nothing about these villages tells and find in Raymonds family house a rare opportunity.
For intérieur
Le père
The tale of a little boy named Cricket and his close grandfather, a true collector of memories who will pull off his dream of flying away in the most moving way.
Je suis un assassin
le gendarme
A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.
Inguélézi
Accident man
When her husband dies, Geneviève loses her bearings. She runs away from her loved ones. But in the trunk of his car a clandestine man hid. He is Kurdish, his name is Khader and understands that she must drive him to England.
Virus au paradis
Serge, l'éleveur de poulets
Deadly virus transmitted by human cough spreads quickly with the help of migratory birds. Scientists race against time in search of a cure.
Red Knight
Le sergent de Guillaume
11th Century AD. In a world that burns with the heat of battle, a world torn apart by Crusades, one knight traverses the desolate wastes laid bare by bloody conflict. Prepare yourself for a descent into a brutal hell, where armies clash and blood flows like rivers, and where a sharp blade is the only means of defense against an army of evil.
The Pharmacist
Mathieu
An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.
Because of a Boy
Swimming Coach
When Vincent finds himself a victim of outing in his high school, he must accept to live with the drastic changes it provokes, and redefine his relationships with his friends and family.
Un moment de bonheur
Edmond, le pêcheur
Philippe, 25 ans, débarque un matin à Arcachon, où vit sa soeur. C'est un jeune homme qui n'a pas d'attache et à qui on se confie facilement. Il est saisonnier et travaille dans la restauration. Betty, 20 ans, est une jeune mère pleine de vie et de tendresse pour son fils, Damien, 5 ans. Ils vivent encore dans la cellule familiale et les relations entre Betty et son père sont conflictuelles. Damien est perturbé par cette ambiance. Sa mère trouve du travail, quitte le foyer familial et acquiert de l'indépendance. Betty et Philippe se croiseront...
We Need a Vacation
Le père de Lucien et de José
It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place for a vacation with their parents but not Lucien and Adama whose parents can't afford the expense. While the big brothers of the housing estate are busy breaking the law Lulu and Adama manage to sneak into their neighbors' trailer. The two stowaways are elated until they reach their destination: a nudist camp...!
A Considerable Disturbance
Freddy, the soccer coach
Laurent's fate is to be a soccer superstar. But he happens to fall in love with a Fabienne, 40. He is only 18, and his career is about to fall apart...
La beauté du monde
A sensitive young lady painter retreats to the countryside, where she can bask in the presence of beauty, possibly at the expense of an awareness of the needs of other living beings.
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast
Coco
After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follow. The adults see nothing, but struggle with all their might when tragedy strikes. Naturally, the two girls bear the brunt of the impact. The film is an homage to the distant and primitive world of childhood, which shapes each of us.
Conte philosophique
Someone is waking up from the hypnosis of the cinema and goes out to investigate the world.