Eric Ruf

Second half of a two-film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' novel.

daptación de la novela de Alejandro Dumas en dos partes. Ambas serán rodadas a la vez en un rodaje conjunto de 7 meses empezando en el verano de 2021.

Margaret, 35, tiene un historial violento que ya le ha costado una relación sentimental. Se ha mudado con su madre Christina, una mujer frágil e inmadura de 55 años que culpa a Margaret de arruinar sus sueños de tener una carrera como pianista. Durante una discusión, Margaret golpea a Christina y entra la ley. Mientras espera el juicio, a Margaret se le prohíbe entrar en contacto con su madre y tiene que mantener una distancia de 100 metros respecto a su casa. Esto intensifica sus deseos de acercarse a su familia. Cada día, Margaret aparece a 100 metros para ver a su hermana de 12 años y darle clases de música.

Accompanied by a child, the mathematician Galileo observes the firmament with a telescope. Ten years ago, the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned in Rome for having supported the idea of an infinite and centerless universe, based on the work of Copernicus. By dint of observations and calculations, Galileo seeks proofs for his hypothesis of a cosmic system where the Earth is "an ordinary celestial body, one among thousands". From Padua to Venice, the mathematician shakes certainties by confronting the power of a Church which wishes to maintain its absolute power in the "crystal spheres" where Ptolemy has hitherto locked up the world.

Henri es un escritor de mediana edad en crisis. ¿Y quienes son las personas responsables de sus fracasos, su abstinencia sexual y su dolor de espalda? Su esposa y sus cuatro hijos. Justo en el momento crítico en el que está haciendo un balance de su vida, de todas las mujeres que nunca volverá a tener, y de todos los coches que nunca conducirá... un perro de metro y medio, maleducado y demasiado entusiasta, decide instalarse en su casa. A pesar de los intentos de toda su familia por echarlo, y que el amor incondicional de su mujer comience a flaquear, este perro al que deciden llamar “Estúpido” se convierte en el nuevo mejor amigo de Henri y le ayudará a entender que en la adaptación al cambio está su verdadera felicidad.

En 1894, el capitán francés Alfred Dreyfus, un joven oficial judío, es acusado de traición por espiar para Alemania y condenado a cadena perpetua en la Isla del Diablo, en la Guayana Francesa. Entre los testigos que hicieron posible esta humillación se encuentra el coronel Georges Picquart, encargado de liderar la unidad de contrainteligencia que descubrió al espía. Pero cuando Picquart se entera de que se siguen pasando secretos militares a los alemanes, se adentrará en un peligroso laberinto de mentiras y corrupción, poniendo en peligro su honor y su vida.

A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris.

For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most expansively melancholy plays.

Baptiste es un profesor solitario que da clases en el sur de Francia. Durante Pentecostés, Baptiste se ve obligado a lidiar con un alumno olvidado por un padre negligente que se equivocó de fin de semana. Sandra, una hermosa mujer curtida en el ámbito del romance, trabaja en una playa cerca de Montpellier. En su deseo por redimir su intermitencia como madre, Sandra acoge al niño y a Baptiste en un bungaló cerca de la playa.

With the ghost of Delphine, a sociétaire who committed suicide several months earlier, still hanging over the place, an unexplained series of backstage murders occurs at the Comédie-Française. Domont and his associate Strozzi investigate at this famous institution, where power plays and rivalries are the norm.

Marie Madeleine Dreux, Marquise of Brinvilliers, was executed in 1676 for poisoning. Manipulated by her lover and having kept the aftereffects of her childhood, she does not hesitate to poison her father and two brothers to recover their inheritance.

The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the tangled web of murder and small town politics in this off-beat mystery.

Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.

Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears on a bicycle ride. Left alone in a big house, Emma becomes afraid and returns to Paris to continue her life as a real estate agent. Soon after, François' brother Michel contacts her and together they try to solve the mystery of François' disappearance. But when he encounters Emma, Michel begins to transform into a ghost. Emma slowly begins to realize she possesses a frightening power that she was not aware of.

Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.

Like every weekend, nineteen-year-old student Rachel is babysitter to the two-year-old baby Hugo. When Hugo's single father has gone out for the night, Christine takes advantage of it to invite her good friend Christine.

Colette, lovely and vulnerable prostitute, accepts to take care of her unknown colleague's boy. She, herself, needs a child to make her loved ex return to her. So she's having two problems to solve at one time - to find a suitable "father" of her kid and to get off hand of Billy. Meanwhile, the relationship between Colette and Billy is developing, you just don't know in which way. Then, when she cannot get rid of Billy and realizes her ex has another women, the things between "Billy et Colette" are now quite transparent.

Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.

On the island of Porquerolles, Alice spies on Bernard, a man who has returned to France after living in Brazil for some years. The two had once been lovers, and Alice's obsession with Bernard -- which apparently didn't wane during their time apart -- sets in motion a string of events culminating with the aforementioned car crash. Dysfunction abounds.

Theater play "L'école des femmes" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999.

El fallecimiento de su marido, propietario de una prestigiosa joyería, deja en la bancarrota a una mujer burguesa adicta al alcohol. Cuando descubre un cofre secreto que pertenecía a su esposo, con siete valiosos diamantes, su vida dará un giro de 180 grados, pero una amenaza acechará su recién adquirida felicidad...

Tres hermanas viven aisladas en una vieja casa al borde de un acantilado: Alda colecciona aventuras amorosas, Olga, la mayor, es un alma perdida en la más absoluta soledad, y Sigga, la más joven, es una cándida adolescente. La vida de las tres transcurre en un delicado equilibrio entre sus deseos y la memoria del pasado. Finalmente, la fiesta de Nochevieja les proporciona la ocasión de satisfacer sus anhelos más profundos y egoístas.

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

Star crossed lovers are the focus of this French romantic comedy. Marie-Louise, an American, has come to Paris to meet her new lover, Jean-Paul who has a weekend pass from his military service post. Unfortunately they misunderstood each other's instructions and are each at different train stations. They begin desperate searches throughout the night to find each other. The are hindered by Jean-Paul's ex-lover Marie, whom he rejected. Marie will do anything to get rid of Marie-Louise and win Jean-Paul back. Marie-Louise has her own problems when Jean falls for her. Jean accidently gets her involved with the police after he is arrested on the suspicion of pickpocketing. Despite their travails, the couple still tries to find each other. In the end, they are assisted by a magical nun who finally reunites them.