Alix Comte

Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.

Commissioned for the centenary of the famous French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens and shot on the street that bears his name in Paris' 16th arrondissement, Rue Mallet-Stevens depicts a mysterious, nocturnal scene of romance (featuring Akerman and her partner, the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton) unfolding before and inside one of the street's modernist constructions.

The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.

In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the countess singing in a mausoleum while the visual image of the graveyard's many tombstones passes before one's eyes. Back home, the husband -- also a "father-figure" -- is looking over his collection of wooden angels. Some time elapses, and he surreptitiously sees a thief come down through the chimney, steal some things, and then leave. To combat any recurrence, he builds an iron, escape-proof cage around the fireplace, and then goes away on a trip. When he comes back, he finds the thief dead in the cage. Thus far, the camera has only shown the husband in profile or from the back. Then there is another story about a young girl, with a spiteful, nasty mother, who is trying to cope with her own attraction to a man.

Everybody takes advantage of Fernand who has just come out of prison.

Dos narradores, uno al que vemos (el coleccionista) y otro al que no vemos (el documentalista), discuten sobre una serie de pinturas. El tema elegido es la obra de un supuesto artista francés, Tonnerre, quien en el siglo XIX habría retratado las diferentes imágenes de una ceremonia secreta que fue posteriormente interrumpida por las autoridades, propiciando un escándalo. Pero no, quizás lo que hizo el artista fue ocultar en esa representación las pistas de otro escándalo, aun mayor, que involucraba a una conocida familia de la época. De esta manera, el coleccionista recorre la geografía del cuadro, buscando los indicios de la verdad oculta.

Caught between the impetuousness of youth and the responsibilities of adulthood, five angsty teens face an uncertain future.

A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one

A couple in a hotel room in Brussels. A painting by Brueghel. In this painting, a mystery.

Poco después de la caída de Salvador Allende en Chile, un artista que simpatiza con la Junta Militar de Gobierno llega a París para cantar sobre lo que él considera la nueva realidad del país. Un grupo de exiliados chilenos se topa con él y deciden secuestrarlo de una manera bastante peculiar: llevándolo de farra. Pronto, sin embargo, resurgen sus vicios más pesados: la incapacidad de organizarse, el asambleísmo inoperante que los obliga a votar hasta para tomar las más nimias decisiones, las diferencias de clase entre los exiliados burgueses y los exiliados obreros y, en particular, la vacía retórica de un discurso político más preocupado por conseguir aplausos (y fondos de ayuda internacional) que de resolver su situación.

Begins with scenes of nature, in which one hears the sounds of birds and water. The final few minutes of the film focus in on a man laying down in the grass.