Christophe Montenez

Earning a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award in 1993, subsequently adapted for television and opera, "Angels in America" stages American society of the Reagan years, mixing intimate stories and political events, realism and the fantastical while following the dark narrative thread of the AIDS epidemic. This was the disease that, in 1986, ended the life of Roy Cohn, an unscrupulous lawyer who was a disciple of McCarthy, a homophobe, racist, “bully, coward and victim” as described on the Washington Memorial Quilt. Kushner makes him one of the twenty-three characters – played by eight actors – of his Gay Fantasia on National Themes divided into two parts: "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika". The setting is New York between 1985 and 1990. The Republicans are in power, the Chernobyl catastrophe is imminent, the collapse of the Berlin Wall is about to overturn cold war politics and HIV, still synonymous with certain death, is reduced to the definition of homosexual cancer.

Anaïs tiene treinta años, pero no tiene mucho dinero. Tiene un novio al que cree que ya no ama. Anaïs conoce a Daniel, quien inmediatamente se enamora de ella. Pero Daniel vive con Émilie... que también se interesa por Anaïs.

París. 1885. Eugénie, una mujer joven y apasionada descubre que tiene el poder especial de oír a los muertos. Cuando su familia descubre su secreto, la llevan al hospital Pitié Salpétrière, una clínica neurológica ubicada en París dirigida por el famoso profesor y pionero de la neurología Dr. Charcot, en la que se internan mujeres diagnosticadas de histeria, "locura", egomanía, epilepsia y otros tipos de enfermedades mentales. Su destino se entrelaza con el de Geneviève, una enfermera del hospital a quién la vida se le está pasando de largo. Su encuentro cambiará el futuro de ambas mientras se preparan para el "Bal des folles" que organiza anualmente el doctor Charcot en el hospital... Adaptación de la novela 'El baile de las locas' de Victoria Mas.

Lisa y Simon son inseparables desde que se conocieron siendo adolescentes. Pero todo cambia a causa de las actividades criminales de Simon, que le obligan a huir sin Lisa al ver su vida amenazada. Ella espera recibir noticias suyas en vano durante algún tiempo. Tres años más tarde, sus caminos vuelven a cruzarse en una isla del océano índico, pero sus circunstancias han cambiado.

Adrien tiene 35 años, es neurótico e hipocondríaco y está estancado en una crisis de madurez. Durante una cena con su extensa familia, su novia no contesta sus mensajes y su estúpido cuñado le pide que se encargue de hacer el discurso de su boca. ¿Qué podría ir peor?

My mother googles the film hero of her youth: Helmut Berger. She is shocked: only an addicted shadow of the former icon seems to be left. She decides to halt the obvious catastrophic decline of the once “most handsome man in the world”. As a consequence, this one-time god of the screen is suddenly sitting on my mother’s sofa in Nordsehl in Lower Saxony. And he stays put - for several months. While he trustingly rolls out his whole life before us, the dividing lines between film team, world star and family intermingle. This is a film about ageing, rising and falling - and about the fact that it is sometimes possible to regain an element of dignity in life.

Written in 1760, Carlo Goldoni’s comedy has never been performed at the Comédie-Française, perhaps overshadowed by the famousHoliday Trilogy. A satire of the Venetian merchant class, embodied by narrow-minded, complaining and intolerant men whose mistrust of the fairer sex borders on the absurd, The Boors perfectly illustrates Goldoni’s theatre, a “theatre of life with a real content, characters observed in reality, and a natural expression.” Thus, a theatre in which the man Voltaire described as “nature’s son and painter” scrutinises his contemporaries, their relationships and their social behaviour. His work served to entertain while providing posterity with an acute testimony of the morals of his time. Indeed, Jean-Louis Benoit warns against reducing the author to a simple “photographer of reality”.

Le Petit-Maître corrigé is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. It was first performed on November 6, 1734, by the Comédie-Française in Paris. In this production Clément Hervieu-Léger makes the eighteenth century resonate with our era, all the more so given that the language is “simpler than in other Marivaux plays, while still as refined, precise and full of humour”. The story is that of a young Parisian whose parents have found a good match for him, a count’s daughter. But when he goes to visit her in her country home, the handsome boy – whose Parisian manners are far removed from the rules of decorum that reign in the provinces – cannot open his heart to his lovely intended. Stung, the latter decides to punish his arrogance while a former lover arrives to prevent the marriage. Between the alliance of master and manservant, and the complicity of mistress and maid, a romantic intrigue ensues full of light-hearted conspiracies and feverish emotions.

Francia, 1809. El capitán Neuville es un gran seductor. Acaba de pedir la mano de la joven Pauline bajo la desconfiada mirada de la hermana mayor de ésta, Elisabeth. Sin embargo, Neuville es llamado a filas y Pauline deja de recibir noticias suyas. La joven se marchita con cada día que pasa y Elisabeth decide tomar la pluma y empezar una correspondencia con Pauline haciéndose pasar por Neuville, al que convierte en sus relatos en un verdadero héroe de guerra. El capitán acabará reapareciendo, muy a pesar de la joven.

Two soldiers, Daniel and Jerome, flee a war we don’t see and we know nothing about. Jerome is badly injured, he will die, he says it, he knows it, he is afraid. Then Jerome confesses to Daniel his last will: he does not want to die a virgin, he wants to die loved…