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Charlotte Gainsbourg observa a su madre, Jane Birkin, como nunca lo ha hecho, sin reservas. Usando una cámara, se exponen mutuamente y dan pasos en falso, dejando espacio para que se desarrolle una relación maternofilial.
Self (archive footage)
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
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Agnès Vincent-Deray, the widow of director Jacques Deray, made this short documentary on the production of LA PISCINE in 2019, on the occasion of that film's fiftieth anniversary. It features interviews with actors Alain Delon and Jane Birkin as well as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean-Emmanuel Conil, who wrote the novel on which the screenplay was based. Released in the US in 2021 as a special feature on the Criterion release of La Piscine.
Self (archive footage)
Self - Subject
With her dreamy eyes, her sylph silhouette and her wicker basket, Jane Birkin won the hearts of Gainsbourg and the French. Kaleidoscopic portrait of a multi-faceted pop heroine.
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Self (archive footage)
As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and prolific father... Roger Vladimir Plémiannikov, a.k.a. Roger Vadim, tried everything until his death in 2000. Portrait of a man at the cutting edge of fashion and trends.
Elise
Elise Lafontaine has a secret routine. Every morning and evening for many years, she has been waving at the express train that passes her house. One fateful day, she finds a letter from the train conductor in her garden and her lonely life is turned upside down. She engages in a promising correspondence through poetic and thoughtful letters where the two anonymous writers share their worlds with each other. But Elise’s fairytale is cut short when the train line permanently detours for a shorter route to Paris. Not willing to do without her daily delight, Elise prompts a daring escape from her comfort zone and sets out to find the train conductor.
The Caller (voice)
A married couple is woken in the dead of night by a mysterious phone call. Unable to sleep, they are drawn into an unsettling examination of their fears and desires.
Lili Rousseau
The head of a famous artist with a sordid past is found in the catacombs in Paris. In his studio, Commissaire Rousseau and the young profiler Mariella De Luca discover a second decapitated body, his wife's. The mystery deepens when another head is found a few days later.
Self
Molly Hutchinson
Alexandre Taillard es un hombre alto, atractivo, carismático y el Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del país de las luces, Francia. Su política se rige por conceptos tan diplomáticos como la legitimidad, la transparencia y la eficacia, se muestra contrario a los neoconservadores estadounidenses y ataca a la codiciosa corrupción tanto rusa como china. Cuando Arthur Vlaminck termina sus estudios de la ENA consigue un empleo para trabajar en el departamento de comunicación del ministro Taillard, y se convierte en el encargado de redactar cada uno de sus discursos. El joven inexperto deberá abrirse paso entre los consejeros y el jefe de gabinete para poder hacerse un hueco en un entorno estresante, lleno ambición y donde las puñaladas traperas están a la orden del día. Arthur será testigo de cómo se manejan los hilos del mundo de la política a la vez que se hará más fuerte la amenaza de los tecnócratas.
Self
Haewon, a film student and aspiring actress, feels abandoned. Her mother is about to emigrate to Canada and Haewon has decided to end her affair with one of her professors, a much older married man.
Psicologa
Una mujer soltera regresa a Sarajevo 16 años después del asedio que sufrió la ciudad durante la guerra de los Balcanes. En esta vuelta le acompaña su hijo adolescente, que nunca llegó a conocer a su padre.
Self
Es ésta una muestra más del interés de Scorsese por el mundo de la música. En este caso muestra el viaje musical y personal de George Harrison y su constante búsqueda de un equilibrio entre lo físico y lo espiritual. Además de las consabidas imágenes de archivo, incluye el testimonio de amigos y familiares sobre la vida del antiguo Beatle.
Louise
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group of Kurdish men and before long she also meets Philippe - all of whom are quite smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal's father Cheto, a devout Muslim, comes to Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to force Siba to return to her homeland, but the young woman has now had a taste of freedom.
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Self
Nelly
Chantal, Gabrielle and Nelly, three fiftyish women, decide to make the trip to the wedding of an ex together.
Kate
Después de la muerte del propietario y fundador de un circo, la compañía decide recurrir a Kate, la hija del fallecido, que hace quince años que se marchó. No tienen muchas esperanzas de que acepte su ofrecimiento, pero Kate, finalmente, regresa con ellos. Vittorio, un italiano que se siente atraído tanto por la personalidad de Kate como por el mundo del circo, decide también unirse a ellos. Cuanto más se familiariza con ese mundo más curiosidad siente por saber las razones que llevaron a Kate a dejar la compañía y después a volver a ella.
Self/La croupiere
Documental autobiográfico de la directora Agnes Várda. La realizadora francesa explora sus memorias, de forma cronológica, a través de fotografías, videos, entrevistas, representaciones y narraciones de su vida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Self - Host
Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring Steve Ben Israel of the Living Theater, the puppet creator Peter Schumann, the photographer Alain Dister, the American black dramatist Amiri Baraka and a hypnotic ride, punctuated by the electrified performances of Jimi Hendrix.
Anna
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?
Screenplay
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?
Director
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?
Jane
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.
Renée
Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's money. Both women will meet several men in the course of the movie. Even the cynical Renée will fall deeply in love again. But even after getting married, Laurence and Renée don't seem to be able to love their husband for a long time. Will they manage to get rid of their rich, loving but irritating husbands? Will their husbands survive the experience? Or will true love triumph at the end?
Self
Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of Alain Delon. From Luchino Visconti to Otto Preminger, through Zulawski and Costa Gravas, she turned with the greatest. The directors interview those who knew her, who loved her, go back to the filming locations, make archive images speak for themselves... and try to detect the part of mystery that Romy Schneider conceals for ever.
Self
Pénélope
A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his murder. The next day the young man's opera diva mother informs him that his estranged father has been in Paris... until the previous night when he was murdered. Seeking help with a psychiatrist, the young man comes across an eccentric actress who has come totally unhinged by the death of that psychiatrist, the infamous Docteur Rey. At first mistaking her for the doctor, the young man embarks on a madcap mystery, reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, with Paris as the backdrop.
Jane
Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired from her job... For Hortense, mobile phone in hand, the frantic quest for sexual satisfaction begins in a traffic jam... For both Luis and Maurice, the unexpected appearance of a loved one pitches them into a world of dreams and nightmares. While some of the characters know each other, others come into contact by chance. One woman profits from all this, the other is shattered. One will have gone looking for trouble, the other will have asked for nothing. There'll be no fatalities.
Louise Vernet
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events conspire to draw Antoine towards the same lover.
Self
Extensive compilation of clips, interviews, TV appearances and other media excerpts that feature Serge Gainsbourg, one of France's greatest 20th century singers and artists.
Francie Montmorency
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece enjoys romantic frolics with a soldier and a hidden guerrilla fighter. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with considerable wit and unwanted advice.
Mab
Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, Cinderella must keep her new step-mother from murdering the only family she has left. Add in an anti-social mermaid literally living in a cave, a bored prince with an ear for rock n' roll, and the glamour of the 1950's and one'll find that this story can't grow old.
Mrs. Fortescue
Un matrimonio americano -los Willis- se traslada a vivir a París con su hija. Allí, la familia adoptará un niño francés abandonado por su madre adolescente. La vida de los Willis es como la de tantas familias, aunque con la peculiaridad de que son americanos en el extranjero.
Jane
Famosas canciones populares francesas son interpretadas por los protagonistas de esta película en la que una joven se enamora, como consecuencia de un equívoco, del jefe de su admirador. Los malentendidos entre los diversos personajes provocan divertidas situaciones.
Caroline
Una niña llamada Garance es secuestrada y asesinada. Casi veinte años después del trágico suceso, sus padres se han separado, y la madre se ha casando con otro hombre y ha tenido otra hija. Sin embargo, no ha podido superar el dolor y los recuerdos la atormentan constantemente. Un día, los testigos de la desaparición de Garance empiezan a ser brutalmente asesinados.
Nikos' Former Love (voice)
A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.
Celle qui dit radin
Fábula que celebra el centenario del cine. En ella intervienen de forma desinteresada Harrison Ford, Depardieu, De Niro, Jane Birkin, Belmondo, Anouk Aimée, Deneuve, Delon, Moreau, Lollobrigida, Di Caprio, Martin Sheen, Dean Stanton, Léaud y muchos otros.
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Liz
Edouard Frenhofer es un artista famoso y muy respetado, que vive cómodamente en la campiña francesa. A la edad de 60 años, considera que su carrera como pintor ha terminado, porque no siente ninguna inspiración para crear. Pero le queda por terminar un cuadro que lleva parado más de 10 años, el retrato desnudo de su musa, su mujer Liz. El problema es que ya no siente ningún tipo de entusiasmo por su mujer. La solución la encontrará en Marianne, la novia de su protegido Nicolás, que posará para él.
Lejos de ser una mera versión acortada de 'La belle noiseuse' (1991), Rivette ofrece un nuevo montaje del mismo material con importantes diferencias de punto de vista. Aquí se trata más bien de la perspectiva de Marianne.
Self
En 1991, la ONG Amnistía Internacional encargó 30 cortometrajes a 30 realizadores franceses, para montar un film colectivo que denunciara casos concretos de violación de los derechos humanos por razones políticas.
Director
En 1991, la ONG Amnistía Internacional encargó 30 cortometrajes a 30 realizadores franceses, para montar un film colectivo que denunciara casos concretos de violación de los derechos humanos por razones políticas.
Liz
Nicholas, un joven artista parisino, viaja con su novia Marianne a un pequeño pueblo de provincias para visitar a Edouard Frenhofer, un famoso pintor que vive allí aislado del mundo. Nicholas intenta persuadirlo para que pinte su último gran cuadro: "La bella mentirosa", con su novia como modelo.
Self
Violet Harrison
“Red Fox” tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based on the book by Gerald Seymour, with a screenplay by James McManus, it tells the story of when Geoffrey Harrison (Brian Cox), a top executive with British Defence Industries, is kidnapped in Paris and, when held to ransom, his company and the British Embassy are unwilling to meet his captors demands. Wanting to avoid publicity and secure a lucrative French defence contract, matters are made worse when the British and French Governments refuse to negotiate with the kidnappers. Archie Carpenter (John Hurt), Head of Internal Security at BDI, is assigned to investigate the kidnapping, and finds an unexpected ally in an Paul de Vigny (Didier Flamand), an agent with the French MI5. As Harrison’s fate hangs in the balance, Carpenter risks his life in the fight to save him but the nightmare has only just begun…
Caroline
Desgarradora crónica sobre la institución familiar: una joven parisina va a un pequeño pueblo de la Costa Azul para acompañar a su padre, que se está recuperando de una operación quirúrgica. Tavernier consiguió que Bogarde volviera al cine después de un retiro de once años.
Assistant Director
Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Thomas insists on bringing his friend Juliette, a girl of his own age with whom he enjoys a close platonic relationship. When it comes to physical love, Juliette is wise beyond her years. She will only sleep with men older than herself and has no intention of committing herself to a long-term relationship.
Frankie
Joy
Story
A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?
Mary-Jane
A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?
Calamity Jane / Claude Jade / Joan Arc
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
Chant
Elle
In this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow's summer home in southern France. Once there, the woman becomes quite jealous because she knows that many women have been at this house with him. She herself is not as experienced as he and secretly dreams of having many different lovers. Time passes and things become increasingly tense between them and they begin verbally attacking each other. Finally they make peace and love.
Cicada
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
Laura
Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the manager of the orchestra in which he plays. But is she really helping him or is she exploiting his dependence on her? A man who has been through the same experience as Simon, offers to help him...
Johanna
The plot centers around old Beethoven's fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a lengthy custody battle against his brother's former wife. Beethoven thought she was a bad influence on the boy. Sadly, the nephew isn't receptive to Beethoven's "overtures", and resents his boorish uncle's efforts on his behalf. The nephew is a complete nonentity, lacking in both interest and talent. He seems to wish only to be left alone.
Magda
En Sudáfrica, una solterona asesina a su padre porque éste ha violado a la esposa del capataz negro de la plantación.
Marie Taylor, Katherine Mansfield
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The publisher's girlfriend Marie (who physically resembles Mansfield) and Murry become friends. Marie gradually learns that Murry not only profited greatly from his publication of Mansfield's writings, but that as her editor he sacrificed the real Mansfield to his own romantic dream, and even that he published her letters and journals against her expressed wishes.
Emily
Tras la representación en formato teatro de apartamento de una de sus obras, el autor teatral Clément Roquemaure (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) propone a los actores, Charlotte (Géraldine Chaplin), Emily (Jane Birkin) y Silvano (Facundo Bo), participar en la representación de su siguiente obra. Para ello deberán trasladarse a la casa de Roquemaure, en las afueras y ensayar durante una semana la obra, de la que sólo conocerán el final en el momento de su representación. En la misma casa viven Paul (André Dussollier), mago de profesión, que mantiene con Roquemaure una relación entre la amistad y la rivalidad, y Virgil (Laszlo Szabo), el mayordomo. En el curso de la semana se suceden los ensayos, al tiempo que las actrices van descubriendo los secretos de una casa en la que se oyen extraños sonidos y en la que existe una habitación prohibida. El espectro de una mujer desaparecida, Béatrice (Isabelle Linnartz), flota tanto sobre la obra como en las relaciones de los personajes...
Alma
Alma es una mujer insegura; no se quiere mucho a sí misma y siente que sólo existe a través de la mirada de los otros. Sufre una necesidad imperiosa de que las otras personas la deseen. Necesita desesperadamente ser amada y le da igual que ese amor provenga de un hombre o de una mujer. De esta manera se convierte en víctima consciente de un triángulo amoroso formado por ella, su marido Andrew y Carol, una mujer de la que se enamora locamente.
Barbara Penning
Barbara (Jane Birkin) marries Julien (Sami Frey) a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul (Gérard Jugnot) is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.
Marie-Pierre
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.
Hélène Duvernet
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love...
Hélène Chatelain
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.
Christine Redfern
La investigación sobre un diamante falso lleva al detective Hércules Poirot a alojarse en un hotel donde coincide con Arlena, una actriz con un pasado tumultuoso a la que los demás huéspedes parecen odiar.
Self / Christine Redfern
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.
Anne
Anne está atravesando una grave depresión. Su marido, Jean-Marie, intenta conocer cuáles son las causas, sin embargo ella le rechaza para continuar ensimismada en el apartamento que ella alquiló para poder estar sola. Viéndose desesperado, el marido comenta el problema con los padres. Estos, que viven en Deauville, aceptan acoger a Anne. En un principio, la relación entre padre e hija es tan cercana como siempre ha sido, sin embargo, viejas rencillas saldrán a flote y enrarecerá la relación entre ambos, llevándola a extremos hasta entonces desconocidos.
Self (archive footage)
Vanessa del Rio hosts this men's video magazine which features profiles on British photographer Suze Randall and transsexual adult film star Sulka, centerfold models Felicity (Michelle Bauer) and Terri (Barbara Peckinpaugh), celebrity nude Hazel O'Connor (complete with her music video for “Hanging Around”), clips from the adult Alice in Wonderland with Kristine DeBell and more.
Wally Neuziel
El film describe la atormentada vida del pintor austríaco Egon Schiele -uno de los fundadores del expresionismo-, su adicción al sexo y al alcohol y la sucesión de tragedias sentimentales y humillaciones públicas cuando es acusado y detenido por pornografía. Después de la Primera Guerra Mundial, sus pinturas serán testimonio de su furia, pero la vida le tiene reservadas aún más desventuras... Los últimos años de la corta vida de Egon Schiele, el pintor expresionista austríaco, están descritos en el contexto de los últimos años del gobierno de los Habsburgo. La historia comienza en torno a 1912 cuando Schiele (Mathieu Carriere) y su amante y musa artística Wally (Jane Birkin) se hicieron amigos de una adolescente obsesionada (Nina Fallenstein) que se ha escapado de su hogar para encontrarse con Schiele. Posteriormente Schiele es encarcelado por considerarse que se había comportado de una manera sexual inapropiada con mujeres menores.
Olga
Olga is married to Laurent, who is devoted to his career and often leaves Olga at home alone when he travels away for work. Whilst she is rich and wants for nothing, she is terribly bored with life. When Laurent is working away she meets up with his colleague Pierre and through him meets Claude, who is unemployed and fed up of his situation. Can Olga and Claude help each other to get their lives back on track?
Inés
Don Agustín, un profesor de escuela, visita la familia de su antiguo alumno Paco. La madre de Paco pide a Don Agustín que ejerza influencia sobre su hijo para hacer de él carrera. El viejo profesor acepta el reto presionado por su hermana, deseosa de gastarse todo su dinero jugando al bingo. Pero Agustín pronto empieza a sospechar que la madre de Paco ejerce el oficio más antiguo del mundo.
Peggy
Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.
Louise Bourget
A bordo de un lujoso barco fluvial, el Karnak, se dan cita diez personas que se ven implicadas en el misterioso asesinato de una rica heredera norteamericana. Mientras remontan las tranquilas aguas del Nilo, Hercules Poirot se hace cargo de la investigación y poco a poco va desentrañando el enigmático crimen.
Louise Bourget (archive footage)
Featurette documenting the making of the film "Death On The Nile".
La vedette féminine
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) es un especialista que trabaja con su novia Jane (Raquel Welch). El día de su boda, los productores obligan a Mike y Jane a hacer una escena peligrosa para una película en la que están trabajando. Mike, molesto, no mira la carretera y tiene un accidente, lo que hace que terminen en un hospital. Cuando les dan el alta, Jane no quiere hablar con Mike, por lo que él decide conseguirle un trabajo en una película en la que él también trabaja.
Virginia Vismara
Virginia y Casimiro, casados y con hijos, se conocen y enamoran, pero sufren por el daño que harán a sus respectivos cónyuges, sin saber que ellos también mantienen una apasionada relación...
Linda
It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student is far from the post May 68 clichés and the movie walks a fine line off the beaten path. Philippe Lemaire and Emmanuelle Riva are ideally cast as the bourgeois parents who urge their offspring to attend the grandma's Christmas meal.
Johnny
La joven camarera Johnny trabaja y vive en una área de servicio para camioneros, donde se siente sola y espera que, algún día, le llegue el amor. Johnny se fija en Krassky, un conductor del camión de la basura, a pesar de que Boris, su jefe, le alerta que en realidad es homosexual. Quizá sea por su aspecto de chicazo, pero también Krassky se siente atraído por Johnny. Ninguno de los dos repara en que Padovan, el novio de Krassky, cada vez se muestra más y más celoso...
Mme Jane Berg
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.
Catherine
Catherine, una joven prostituta que vive en París, decide hacer una empresa de sí misma después de aprender los conceptos básicos de las grandes empresas con sus clientes. Encontrará interés y reveses en su búsqueda de inversores.
Janet
Jeanette (Jane Birkin), una peluquera inglesa en París, está cansada y aburrida de su relación con Pierre Vidal (Pierre Richard), un banquero que trabaja frente a la peluquería donde ella trabaja, y está dispuesta a dejarle ya mismo. El director del banco se va a tomar una semana libre y Vidal le sustituirá al frente de la sucursal. Desde que asume la dirección temporal una serie de desgracias e infortunios le colocan en el punto de mira del Comisario de la zona, que sospecha que Vidal pueda estar relacionado con el misterioso robo de las cofres privados del banco hace un año. Precisamente Vidal es testigo del robo de uno de los cofres, como el banco no puede permitirse otro robo porque si no tendría que cerrar, Vidal, teniendo pruebas de donde puede estar la ladrona, va en su busca para recuperar lo robado en lugar de avisar a la policía. Lo que no sabe es que Jeanette y el Comisario también irán.
Ariane Berg
"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group..."
Jackie Logan
Pierre Durois, profesor de matemáticas en una escuela secundaria para niñas, se ve obligado a apresurar sus lecciones para cumplir con otros compromisos. Solicitado por su padre, famoso cirujano y alcalde de la ciudad, obligado por un director austero e implorado por un amigo periodista, Pierre, en su clase, debe redactar los discursos electorales para la futura campaña, corregir las copias de un colega enfermo y, finalmente, escribir un artículo sensacional basado en tópicos escandalosos, sobre la presencia en la ciudad de la estrella Jackie Logan. De manera maliciosa, los estudiantes mezclan los archivos. El alcalde se lleva el artículo y el periodista se lleva las copias. Al darse cuenta de la sustitución, Pierre comienza una carrera frenética para restaurar a cada uno lo que le corresponde.
Jane
Un vendedor de botellas de vermut tiene un éxito arrollador, sobre todo con las damas, gracias a su técnica de lamentarse de todo y, sobre todo, de compadecerse de sí mismo.
Marie-Paule
Nicolas Mallet, empleado de banca, tiene un carácter tan introvertido que apenas se relaciona socialmente. Pero un día, inexplicablemente, se siente capaz de abordar a una atractiva mujer a la que conoce en plena calle. Tras conocer lo ocurrido su amigo Claude le propone un curioso plan que consiste en buscar a millonarias para seducirlas.
Kate / Hélène
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the complications is his growing regard for the woman who plays his cinematic wife. She may wind up replacing his actual wife in real life. One of the highlights of this film is the insight it gives into the actual mechanics of filmmaking.
Alta
La muerte acecha a los visitantes de una mansión llena de secretos. La muerte del dueño obliga a un cancerbero a cuidar de un tesoro ambicionado por Ian Mandeville (Christopher Lee) y Sarah (Joan Collins). Sustos y más sustos: a oscuras, en las escaleras tenebrosas, bajo un techo inquietante...
Corringa
Un monstruo ataca una villa escocesa, dejando una estela de cuerpos horriblemente mutilados como evidencia. Las sospechas recaen sobre los habitantes de un castillo cercano, que están envueltos con una maldición que envuelve a un gato asesino.
Clara
Jeanne, una joven parisina, cree que es la reencarnación de Don Juan. Visita a un sacerdote y le confiesa que ha matado a un hombre; le habla, además, de sus aventuras y de sus dotes para la seducción. (FILMAFFINITY)
Christine
Un oficial de la marina mercante le regala a su novia, una joven modelo, un telescopio. Ésta, junto con sus compañeras de piso, descubre con su nuevo juguete que los vecinos del edificio de enfrente son unos atracadores. Al principio no les hace mucha gracia la situación, pero finalmente deciden robar a los ladrones. (FILMAFFINITY)
Melody Nelson
Melody Nelson
Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in Pierre Grimblat’s Slogan, Melody was a bit of diversion from their collaborations since it’s a series of interwoven videos inspired by the Gainsbourgalbum. For '71 it’s a novel concept to bring visual life to an LP, but even more surprising are the short film’s amazing visuals that director Averty crafted using a wealth of video filters, overlays, camera movements and chroma key effects. Averty applies these in tandem with the increasing tone of Gainsbourg’s songs, which more or less chronicle an older man's affair with a young girl. Each song is comprised of steady, sometimes brooding poetic delivery, with refrains timed to the phrase repeats of each song, while Alan Parker’s buzzing guitar accompanies and wiggles around Gainsbourg’s resonant voice. The bass is fat and groovy, the drums easy but steady, and the periodic use of strings or rich vibrato makes this short a sultry little gem.
Naomi
Desde tiempos inmemoriales, Malava, un pueblo polaco cerca de la frontera rusa, ha vivido del robo y del contrabando de caballos. De repente, llega al pueblo una guarnición rusa que requisa, en nombre del Zar, todos los caballos para la Guerra Ruso-Japonesa. El temor de los jóvenes a ser alistados en el ejército ruso, los lleva a organizar un movimiento de resistencia.
Christine Mars / Christine Devone
Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.
Milja
A group of 19 young women, led by a partizan man, are the only people available to escort a number of partisan wounded in the struggle for freedom, in the mountain ranges invaded by the Nazi army. The crossing of difficult tracks, and a few encounters with enemy patrols provide danger, and death for some heroines. Two girls are in love with the column's commander, but love for the motherland and freedom will prove stronger.
Jane Swenson
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of French drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane's. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse...
Flora Finlake
In a changing world a young Italian enrols at Oxford and finds i is him they are out to change.
Jane
Sex-Power is a sweet bit of candy-colored psychedelic fluff with an astringent dose of agitprop militancy in its chewy center. While most of the film is in English there is occasional French dialog without the benefit of English subtitles, but you hardly need to know French to get the gist of what is happening. This is the tale of a young Frenchman who arrives in Northern California looking to forget a lost love (Jane Birkin) and ends up encountering various forms of feminine power as embodied by Bernadette Lafonte as Salome and Catherine Marshall as “la fille moderne.” The film moves through space and time in an impressionistic, lysergic dreaminess.
Jane
A rebellious socially-conscious man travels to Nepal to find his dead-beat dad. There, he meets Jane, a beautiful hippie girl hooked on drugs. He's forced to steal artefacts for his father's slimy employer to earn money to help Jane.
Evelyne
Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh. His own pregnant wife Francoise usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.
Penelope
Jean-Paul y Marianne disfrutan de unas tranquilas vacaciones en una villa cercana a St-Tropez. Todo marcha a la perfección hasta que Marianne invita a su ex amante Harry y a su hija Penélope, a pasar unos días en la casa. Pronto la tensión empezará a crecer entre los cuatro y, bajo una aparente cordialidad, se creará un clima de celos y sospechas.
Penny Lane
Un excentrico profesor tiene como vecina a una bella y moderna modelo (Penny Lane). El profesor la espia a través de un agujero en la pared. Poco a poco, va perdiendo la cabeza y confundiendo la ficción con la realidad y todo su mundo cambia radicalmente.
Judy
A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.
The Blonde
Adaptación de un cuento de Julio Cortázar que narra la historia de un fotógrafo que, tras realizar unas tomas en un parque londinense, descubre al revelarlas una forma irreconocible que resulta ser un cadáver. Premiada en el Festival de Cannes con la Palma de Oro.
Exquisite Thing
Barney Lincoln es un intrépido jugador que obtiene sensacionales victorias en póquer y "chemin de fer" porque ha conseguido marcar las planchas de la fábrica de Ginebra donde se imprimen las cartas de todas las salas de juego de Europa. Cuando Barney se sienta a la mesa principal del casino, aparece Angela, a quien conoció en Londres, y resulta ser la hija de un inspector de Scotland Yard, 'Manny' McGinnis, que busca un hombre para un trabajo delicado: el inspector solicita la ayuda de Barney para jugar al póquer con un turbio personaje londinense, a quien Scotland Yard quiere llevar a la ruina financiera.
Art Student
A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.
Girl on Motorbike (uncredited)
Londres, años 60. Colin (Michael Crawford) se ha perdido toda la revolución sexual, pero tiene a su amigo Tolen (Ray Brooks), a quien envidia, para que le enseñe todos los secretos que debe conocer para conquistar a las mujeres y poder recuperar el tiempo perdido. Nancy Jones (Rita Tushingham) es una joven despistada y provinciana que llega a Londres... Anárquico clásico de la cultura mod con una música genuina del swinging London. Palma de Oro en Cannes. (FILMAFFINITY
