Caroline Detournay

Películas

Jerk
Editor
"Jerk" is an imaginary reconstruction – strange, poetic, funny and somber – of the crimes perpetrated by American serial killer Dean Corll who, with the help of teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, killed more than twenty boys in the state of Texas during mid-70s.
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
Editor
From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen. But, before his death in 1991, three years after learning of his HIV-positive status, he engraved in his literary and photographic work "the places of [his] suffering", "the stations of [his] way of the cross". With his thin body and sunken cheeks, the handsome man with curly hair that he was, the one whose clear gaze radiated from the seaside photos, fought a fierce battle against AIDS. A fight of every moment against the decay of the body, observed and commented with a methodical care in his autobiographical novels, in particular "To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life" (1990) and "The Compassionate Protocol" (1991), and of which he testified on television on the set of "Apostrophes"...
Babyracer
Director
Babyracer no ve la pista como un círculo, la ve como un camino sin fin. Tiene miedo, podría perderse y nunca encontrar la línea de meta.
Wonders in the Suburbs
Editor
Joëlle y Kamel Mrabti son dos miembros esenciales en el gabinete del nuevo alcalde de Montfermeil, Emmanuelle Joly. Sin embargo, son una pareja que se está divorciando. Toda la plantilla del alcalde trabaja para implementar una nueva política educativa que pasa por la creación de la denominada "Montfermeil Intensive School of Languages", una Escuela de Idiomas en el que se impartirán los 62 idiomas que se hablan en las afueras de la ciudad de París. Además, también pretende ser un centro educativo para cuestiones básicas en la vida de aquellos que estudien en él. Aunque la propuesta resulta ser un éxito, los miembros de la plantilla del alcalde atraviesa algunos momentos realmente complicados.
The Exiled
Editor
Marcelo Novais Teles, a young Brazilian, arrives in Paris to become an actor. But he is caught up in a very intense love as well as professional life; that's when he choses to film everything as time progresses. Dinner, parties, rehearsals, friendly and family meetings, falsely profound conversations, trips to Europe, etc. THE EXILED is the magnificently happy montage of these sequences, home movie of an obvious and chronic happiness, where the insolence of youth and its beauty are displayed. There are many well-known faces of actors who have become famous since then, which adds to the charm continuously lavished by these innocent images. Self-portrait in the form of a generational portrait, where the love of art crosses the art of living, the exile here is in the land of happiness.
Pearl
Editor
Lea Pearl es una culturista cuya vida se limita a levantar pesas. La mujer está obsesionada con ganar la competición internacional de Heaven. Para ello, se ha recluido en un hotel anónimo, pasa la mayoría de sus horas diarias entrenando en el gimnasio, sin hablar a nadie, excepto a su entrenador Al. Cuando llega el día de la competición, Lea parece estar dispuesta a arrasar en la misma. Sin embargo, todo se va al traste cuando el ex novio de la culturista llega a la exhibición, acompañado por el hijo común de ambos, de quien Lea no ha querido saber nada.
Dream Fragments
Editor
A rich land economically and culturally, Algeria fluctuates today between despair and the hope of a new beginning. Then there is a series of suicides at the heart of society. The coast and the sea. Images flow into and over each other poetically like a Fata Morgana.
Free Bullet
Director
Nioumoune Island, Senegal. Boniface, a young priest torn between his desires, escapes from his parish. The edge of his makeshift boat, it crosses a disturbing maze of mangroves. In search of freedom, he began a journey that will confront his past, his hidden desires and the vastness of the Mauritanian desert.
Brando
Editor
A short film about unfulfilled masochistic desire with a score by Scott Walker & Sunn O))).
Bloody Beans
Editor
Un grupo de niños se baña en una playa, hasta que el conflicto comienza: se trata de la Guerra de Independencia de Argelia, reinterpretada enteramente por niños de seis a catorce años en un viaje surreal en el que los adultos representan el poder colonial opresor.
Dust of America
Assistant Editor
A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its inhabitants, as they are exposed in their silent but eloquent home movies.
Douar de Femmes
Sound Editor
At a dangerous time in Algeria, 'Douar de Femmes' is a story of ordinary women who manage to defend themselves in extraordinary situations. The film focuses on a small village that has been attacked more often by terrorists from the surrounding mountains. While the men work, the women learn how to handle machine guns and explore the area. “Fear has armed us,” says the young woman Sabrina. But despite that fear, people get married, children come and keep watch.