Valérie Mairesse

An actress, Céline, is hired by the famous director Milan Zodowski to star in a mysterious film shooting in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. She arrives there to discover that the crew consists only of a sound engineer and a unit manager and that Milan stubbornly refuses to leave the cabin where he has locked himself in. Céline realizes that the shoot won’t be happening. She then chooses to face her destiny. This plunge into reality forces her to open up to herself and to others…

An ogre breaks his teeth the day before Saint-Festin, the ogres’ great celebration day. A magician botches his trick of sawing a woman in half, and loses his assistant’s legs. An overequipped hiker gets stuck in the elevator for several days. An old man falls in love with a runaway pair of legs. A mother asks her neighbour to look after her children on the eve of Saint-Festin… In one building, the lives of ten next-door neighbours, or the neighbours of neighbours, intertwine as they grapple with the dramas, joys, surprises and dangers of everyday life.

He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” in the form of a fiction offered by M6. Exit the brewery. The artist has chosen to shoot his film at the Froufrou, the restaurant at the Théâtre Édouard-VII, in Paris, a chic establishment with rococo decor, more solemn and therefore more appropriate to important moments in life, to his big announcements that make the subject of a series of sketches. They are interpreted by a cast of stars just as prestigious as that of his comrade Muriel Robin a few weeks ago in I Love you coiffure , on TF1. As a common thread, Pierre Palmade in the role of the host busy satisfying his customers, while ensuring that his mother (Marthe Villalonga), his competitor (Florence Foresti) and her cook husband (Jean Leduc) do not transform the evening in disaster.

As an unforgettable storm lashes the Breton town of Perros-Guirec, a ten-year-old boy goes missing.

A mother never knew who her daughter's father was. When the daughter starts to crave an answer, they both return to their home region of Picardy to find out.

Popolo, el mago, tiene un número de magia estrella: la mujer cortada en dos. Pero un accidente complica su vida en el circo al cortar en dos a su querida ayudante. Para que lo perdone, Popolo le promete llevarla de vacaciones a un lugar paradísiaco. Para ello tendrá que encontrar un nuevo trabajo.

The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.

Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages...

Un hombre experto en hacer vino sabe que tiene que ceder su puesto a su hijo, pero él no ha heredado su talento.

At a turning point in his life, Thomas Lebey, a famous writer, decides to return to the location of his first love. That was in 1960 in a small coastal resort town in the south of England. Sheila was 17 and he was not yet 20.

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.

The movie, for the most part, charts the AIDS epidemic in France from 1980 – present through the microcosm of a family, but particularly through their gay son Nicolas, who narrates the story.

Anne-Marie vive en un mar de indecisiones; por un lado tiene una vida cómoda con su marido Gilbert, un rico cirujano plástico; tienen una bonita casa, una doncella, muebles caros... por otro lado, tiene un amante, Leo, con el que piensa fugarse a China y no sabe cómo decírselo a su marido. Un día, Gilbert muere en un accidente de tráfico, lo que aparentemente la libera de sus ataduras. Anne-Marie se siente libre, y decide rehacer su vida... pero no contaba con su familia.

Since childhood, the farmer's daughter Sarah Minarel neighbors considered a strange child and bullied her. When she grew up and became an attractive girl, nothing changed. But Sarah paid no attention to the antics of neighbours, because was busy with interesting work — at the request of staff taxidermist Pacton she catches a rare bird…

Francia /// Pierre, un joven bisexual que vive en la provincia francesa, mantiene una relación incestuosa con su hermana Lucie. Ambos descubrieron desde pequeños a utilizar el poder de su sexualidad y cuando Pierre muere, Lucie busca una explicación a su temprana vida sexual. Basada en un recuerdo del director Pascal Arnold.

A female detective investigates the case of a young mother whose infant left behind has died.

Un matrimonio entra en crisis tras veinte años de feliz convivencia. Cécile es una hermosa maestra que está profundamente enamorada de su marido Alain, un hipocondríaco que está convencido que va a morir. Él no quiere alarmar a su mujer, quien confunde su extraño comportamiento con una infidelidad. Cécile pide ayuda a Pascal, el marido de su amiga Agnès, que es policía, para que siga a su marido en todos sus movimientos. El resultado será totalmente inesperado. Es parte de una Trilogía estrenada a la vez junto con Después de la vida y Escapando. La acción se desarrolla en la misma ciudad, en el mismo periodo de tiempo y con los mismos personajes. Aunque con diversos puntos de vista y distinto ambiente narrativo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Un día, Jojo ve en televisión al famoso abogado Maurice Jacquard que celebra su vigesimoquinto triunfo ante los tribunales. Incapaz de aguantar su matrimonio ni un minuto más, concierta una cita con el letrado y le comunica que ha matado a su mujer (lo cual no es cierto). Haciendo las preguntas apropiadas consigue averiguar cuáles serían las circunstancias atenuantes que podrían exculparlo en caso de asesinarla.

Irene is an ordinary married woman living in Amiens, in the North of France. She works in a bank where, one day, she finds herself duty-bound to strip a client of her credit card and check book for ten years. Later on, while walking in a park Irene notices a mysterious homeless woman wearing a yellow coat. At a time she witnesses her shoplifting in a store. One night, on her way back home, she is attacked by the mysterious woman.

A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.

The beautiful Parisian courtesan Marguerite Gauthier (Cristiana Réali), who is called a "Lady of The Camellia" because of the preference for these flowers, has many devotees among Parisian aristocrats. He really loves one - young Armand Duval (Michaël Cohen). Under the influence of the beloved father's pleas, and despite himself, he declares to Armand that he no longer loves him. She is suffering from tuberculosis, but if possible, she is in company, and renews contacts with rich devotees. Armand tries to forget about her. One evening, at a party, their paths cross again.

Sylvie Drapier is an attractive 40-year old surgeon, specializing in liver transplants, who heads a department in the foremost clinic of a small country town. Divorced, she lives alone with her eight-year-old son, David. One night, returning home from a major operation, Sylvie is violently assaulted and raped in the garage of her building. In the furious struggle with the rapist, she manages to scratch him with a brooch. Several weeks later, the rapist attacks a pharmacist, but this time, the victim escapes by severely injuring him. The assaulter is hospitalized and must undergo a liver transplant, an operation which only Sylvie Drapier can perform...

Two business students hatch a perfect plan: buy their own school.

A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.

Fabrice is an otherwise brutish truck driver who loves the disciplines involved in bicycle racing. He's no champion and doesn't appear to care much whether he wins any or not. In the crowded spaces of his world, the aloneness that comes with being a racer in training affords him a much-needed solitude and peace of mind. It's probably best for the people around him, too. In fact, it would be good if he could remain on his bike forever, because his nearly insane fear and distrust of others leads him to some pretty obnoxious behavior, especially with the women in his life.

Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are filled with musicians, mimes, clowns and acrobats of pickpockets who practice their craft each, displaying a colorful rainbow and sounds. At every corner, there is something going on that should not be missed - especially if it's something forbidden. However, some people are concerned about something else. One is Carlo Goldoni young lawyer of 27 years, he dreams only theater and he thinks only the part that wants to ride. Alas, the money was also hard to find at that time than now. His two friends, Antonio Vivaldi and Gian Battista Tiepolo are better known than him but they are also looking for this rare bird: a patron, who was not on ONLY the desire but also the means to sponsor a work of art.

Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.

After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...

A fat and disgusting man is rejected by society... A vitriolic adaptation of the famous comic strip by Reiser.

Mientras su familia se reúne para celebrar su cumpleaños, el periodista Alexander se siente angustiado por la desoladora falta de espiritualidad que caracteriza al mundo contemporáneo. Sus peores temores se confirman cuando, durante la fiesta, llega la noticia de un inminente conflicto nuclear: la Tercera Guerra Mundial. El final, definitivo e irreversible, está cerca. En ese momento están con él su angustiada esposa, sus dos hijos, un amigo médico y un peculiar cartero, que lo convence de que una de sus criadas es una bruja que tiene el poder de salvar al mundo mediante un último sacrificio.

In the docks of Bordeaux a well-known homosexual was murdered. Police Inspector Michel Verta starts investigating, when he falls in love with Bernard, a handsome young musician. This not only threatens his family life but also his integrity, for he is married with a child and Bernard is one of the murder suspects.

Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.

Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.

Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.

Julio Cesar esta disfrutando de unas lujosas vacaciones en una colonia Romana en el norte de Africa, mientras en Roma estalla una gran revuelta obrera. Un mecanico de nombre Ben-Hur, se elige a si mismo como dirigente sindical, pero termina siendo detenido en una manifestacion publica. El gobernador le da a elegir entre un innoble fin en la arena o una oportunidad participando en un complot para matar a Cesar.

In the cloakroom of Bunny's Bar, a shabby striptease box, Anita, a cloakroom lady, celebrates her last night of work: she has to join Paul in Metz to start a new life.

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti wants only to flee her wife to find her mistress Valerie. Misunderstandings when Vallier joined them. They must flee in the desert a jealous husband...

Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not an easy task, because there is a political and social pressure.

Eleven-year old Dora (Nathalie Manet) is forced to chase after clues concerning her inventor-father's death while being chased by thugs working for big industry. Not only is she seeking to understand her father's mysterious death, but some of the clues he gave her indicate that he invented something unusual which the big companies want. She barely escapes being kidnapped and is helped in her search by a magical fairy and an aspiring actress.

After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of war ensues.

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film.

Victor es un reputado cineasta que decide llevar a la pantalla la pieza de Tchékov "Las tres hermanas". Para ello convoca a las tres actrices elegidas para preparar el papel en una ciudad cerca del lago Léman. Ellas son la francesa Julie, que es su ex mujer y a la que todavía ama, la italiana Cécilia y Esther, la más joven de todas y que pronto comienza a exasperar a Julie.

The three ex-wives of a real estate developer join forces to get revenge on him.

Tras nueve años sin estrenar una película, Varda vuelve con un film feminista que narra la histora de dos amigas de vidas diferentes. (FILMAFFINITY)

El film sigue la suerte de tres pícaros durante y después de la ocupación nazi de Francia. René (Depardieu) es un vulgar delincuente de poca monta; Fernand (Piccoli) es un policía corrupto; y Krista (Kristel) es la madama del burdel que ellos frecuentan.

Una sátira de las películas de Emmanuelle

Made at a time when Iran had a seemingly revolving door for incoming European directors and bottomless funding for their projects, Plaisir d'amour en Iran is a short, sort of love story between a handsome Iranian (Ali Raffi) and a visiting French woman (Valérie Mairesse). The film was shot at the Shah Masjed in romantic Esfehan.

An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.

Jean-Pierre Marielle y Jean Rochefort interpretan a un ginecólogo y un gigoló agotados de cualquier sugerencia sexual femenina. El doctor no soporta ver una vagina más, mientras que el gigoló está exhausto de la exigencia sexual de las mujeres. Ambos deciden refugiarse en una villa con la única compañía de los sacerdotes del lugar, pero el casto encierro se torna en pesadilla al presentarse un regimiento de mujeres armadas.

Un joven y un policía son asesinados por el matón de un político de derechas que se halla en plena campaña electoral. El comisario Verjeat sigue las huellas del asesino, pero en las altas esferas hay alguien a quien no le conviene esa investigación. Por esa razón, Verjeat es ascendido y destinado a Montpellier... (FILMAFFINITY)

Es la historia de dos cirujanos, Pierre Losseray y Jean Pierre Berg, que con 15 años de intervalo, y en la misma ciudad de provincias, son empujados al suicidio por las fuerzas retrógradas de su profesión, personalizadas en el profesor Brezé, cirujano, miembro del consejo de la orden. En la lucha que el viejo Brezé mantiene contra ellos, están permitidos toda clase de golpes: chantajes, embustes, acusación profesional y campañas de difamación. Toda esta estrategia es incapaz de derribar la reputación de los cirujanos, el uno, figura aclamada; el otro, médico clínico adorado por sus enfermos, irreprochable y competente.