Jean Badin

DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever – the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.

Jonas (Clément Sibony), a 23-year-old dad attempts to carry out an important Jewish tradition: burying the foreskin of his newly circumcised son. The forgetful father only has a few hours to complete the task... but have a group of hit men on his trail won't help matters much.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) está en su lecho de muerte. Ver fotografías trae recuerdos de su infancia, su juventud, sus amantes y la forma en que la Gran Guerra puso fin a un estrato social. Sus recuerdos no están en un orden particular, se mueven hacia adelante y hacia atrás en el tiempo. Marcel en varias edades interactúa con Odette, con la bella Gilberte y su marido condenado, con el barón de Charlus que busca el placer, con la amante de Marcel Albertine y con otros; presentes también en la memoria están la querida madre y abuela de Marcel. Parece como si vivir es recordar y capturar recuerdos es crear una obra de gran arte. Los recuerdos son paralelos al volumen final de la novela de Proust.

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Una abogada famosa por aceptar casos perdidos, decide defender a un joven acusado de matar a su tía psicoanalista. Todas las pruebas están en su contra, pero ciertos aspectos del crimen -como el extenso estudio que la muerta hizo de la psiquis del joven- van conformando una maraña de pistas y falsas pruebas.

En París suceden tres historias que, en principio, parece que no tienen nada que ver entre sí. Un viajante sale a comprar cerillas y regresa veinte años más tarde. Un catedrático de Universidad se hace pasar por mendigo. Finalmente, un hombre de negocios se inventa una familia ficticia en el extranjero para ocultar oscuros asuntos financieros.

In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if Shih-T’ao’s six poetic procedures for attaining the primal respiration or cosmic breath in painting were applied to one of the flagships of Western art, Velazquez’s Las Meninas. Ruiz wants the three cultures to interact and test each other like the paper, stone and scissors of the children’s game. The result is an insoluble dispute, a différend. No reconciliation or compromise is possible between these cultural outlooks.

Chile is seen through the eyes of a Chinese painter - a traditional painter who uses the concepts of XVIII century Shih-T'ao.

En 1944, un soldado alemán gallardo y una hermosa chica francesa se enamoraron profundamente, mientras que la Segunda Guerra Mundial hacía estragos. Más de cuarenta años después, Ernest Kestner, se retiró y recientemente viudo, deja su hogar adoptivo en Nueva York y regresa a Francia para visitar a su testaruda hija,de la cual esta distanciado, con la esperanza fugaz de encontrar el amor se vio obligado a dejar atrás.

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.

La película comienza con una premisa: un estudiante debe salir de Francia pues ha cometido una ilegalidad, un marinero le ofrece su puesto en un buque mercante que está por zarpar, pero a cambio de que escuche su historia. A partir de ahí, el relato no arranca verdaderamente, sino que explota, estalla en múltiples relatos de la vida del marinero y sus encuentros con diversos personajes (un ciego, una bailarina, un hombre de 90 años, un intelectual, entre otros).

Now Titus' father has died, the new emperor will be free to marry his beloved Bérénice. Also In love with Bérénice, Titus' friend Antiochus plans to flee Rome rather than face the marriage. However, public opinion about the pairing causes Titus to choose his duty to Rome over his love for Bérénice, and he sends his love rival to tell Bérénice the news...

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.

A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.

The young historian Elisabeth is traveling to Lyon on her own in order to explore the city tracing the life of Flora Tristan. Tristan, whose diary Elisabeth is carrying, was a 19th century socialist and feminist who influenced many contemporary activists and intellectuals yet fell into oblivion herself. Elisabeth tries to put together the clues she can find in Lyon wanting to reconstruct Tristan's life in the most sensual way.