Denise de Casabianca

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) está en su lecho de muerte. Ver fotografías trae recuerdos de su infancia, su juventud, sus amantes y la forma en que la Gran Guerra puso fin a un estrato social. Sus recuerdos no están en un orden particular, se mueven hacia adelante y hacia atrás en el tiempo. Marcel en varias edades interactúa con Odette, con la bella Gilberte y su marido condenado, con el barón de Charlus que busca el placer, con la amante de Marcel Albertine y con otros; presentes también en la memoria están la querida madre y abuela de Marcel. Parece como si vivir es recordar y capturar recuerdos es crear una obra de gran arte. Los recuerdos son paralelos al volumen final de la novela de Proust.

The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?

Camille Prader, back from a physicians' meeting, is waiting for his suitcase on the Airport conveyor belt. Clémentine, his girlfriend of the day, has come to fetch him. With a radiant smile, she tells Fabrice that she left everything to live with him. When Camille picks a case he realizes ha has taken the wrong one. The label shows it belongs to a musician called Juliette Graveur. Hegrasps the occasion to run away from Clémentine by claiming Juliette is his mistress....

This second feature in Nacer Khemir's Desert Trilogy is a visually ravishing folktale reminiscent of "The Thousand and One Nights." The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Coming across a fragment of manuscript, Hassan goes in search of the missing pieces, believing that once he finds them, he will learn the secrets of love. With the help of Zin, a lovers’ go-between, he meets the beautiful Aziz, Princess of Samarkand. After encountering wars, a battle between false prophets and an ancient curse, he learns that an entire lifetime would not suffice for him to learn the many dimensions of love.

Toussaint and Madeleine have loved each other from the cradle. They are now sixty. They have reached retirement age and have decided to return to Corsica. Toussaint has spent thirty years underground in the maintenance workshops of the Paris metro system. he is happy, but Madeleine misses Paris with its excitement and, above all, their son, who is a doctor in one of the French capital's major hospitals. Madeleine has such love for her son that Toussaint teases her by saying she should ask the Pope for dispensation in order to marry him. Toussaint and Madeleine return to Balba at the beginning of the winter when the days are short, the village bar is closed and the men too scarce for even a game of cards. The silence is occasionally broken by the village idiot, Napolean, as he ambles about shouting the coming death of Corsica while on patrol of the locked-up houses he's been set to guard...

August 1917. Two pilots whose aircraft was shot down by the Germans hide in a castle. They meet Justin, the employee, who has just killed his master.

The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother Cyprien (Robin Renucci), who is an early pioneer in medical anatomy (he dissected corpses and made drawings of what he found in them), have fallen in love with the same woman, Marianne (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), a laundress. This attraction has not escaped the notice of Salmon d'Anglas (Sami Frey), a conniving nobleman, who has his heart set on getting revenge on Jean-Honore (Joachim de Almeida) for refusing his patronage and becoming the darling of the French court.

When Éric and Marie go to meet their parents at the harbor for the holidays, the latter are victims of an overnight hit-and-run. Marie hides the truth from Éric, investigates the accident alone, and soon finds the presumed culprit.

Henry Chinaski es un escritor alcohólico y genial que se pasa la vida en los bares. Su preferido es el "Golden Horn", frecuentado por un variopinto grupo de vagabundos, prostitutas y otros desechos de la sociedad. Henry se lleva muy bien con Jim, el barman de día, pero discute frecuentemente con Eddie, el barman de noche, un hombre iracundo y fanfarrón. Sus peleas son objeto de apuestas por parte de los clientes. Cuando Henry gana, gasta su dinero recorriendo los demás bares del barrio. Así es cómo conoce a Wanda, una mujer todavía bella y tan alcohólica como él

In a somewhat deflated story of robbery and deception set against the rooftops and byways of Paris, a group of enterprising petty thieves take advantage of the dog days of August to burglarize vacated apartments. At this time of year, all Parisiens are on vacation elsewhere, and the city is invaded by tourists on vacation from their own cities. In this mass rearrangement of the European population, the thieves get away with their looting until they run into an architect who catches them in the act. But his morals are nothing to brag about, as he gets more involved in what they are doing and wants some of their take. He is also smitten with one of the down-and-out women the thieves have been supporting (Dominque Laffin). As in so many French dramas, these conflicting relationships are doomed to be resolved only by tragedy.

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.

Tras descubrir su condición de homosexual, un joven entabla relación con un manipulador criminal al que conoce en una estación de tren.

Aldea de Artigat, sur de Francia, verano de 1542, durante el reinado de Francisco I. Martin Guerre y Bertrande de Rols contraen matrimonio. Pocos años más tarde, acusado de haber cometido un robo, Martin desaparece repentinamente. Cuando, casi una década después, un hombre llega a Artigat diciendo ser Martin, la familia Guerre le reconoce como tal; pero pronto empiezan a surgir dudas sobre su verdadera identidad.

A 1978 French documentary film directed by Albert Lamorisse about the landscape of Iran. Lamorisse was killed in a helicopter crash while filming the documentary, during a helicopter-tour of Iran. His widow completed the film, based on his production notes, and released the film eight years later in 1978.

Documental acerca del experimento que llevó a cabo la estudiante de psicología Penny Patterson con Koko, un gorila hembra del Zoo de San Francisco con el que, después de varios años de trabajo, consiguió comunicarse a través de la lengua de signos.

Pauline tiene todo dispuesto para poner fin a su vida, incluso ha encargado su ataúd. Antes del fatal desenlace decide darse un último gran banquete. De regreso su casa conocerá a Peppo, un inmigrante italiano.

Olivier, un ladrón novato, entra a robar en un piso de París creyendo que está vacío. Sin embargo, es sorprendido por la propietaria, Ariane, que resulta ser una prostituta especializada en sadomasoquismo, una auténtica dominatrix. Inmediatamente surge una atracción entre ambos y comienzan una relación marcada por los celos de Olivier, que pretende que Ariane cambie de vida.

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

Documentary on various aspects of Kuwaiti life, the contrasts between a backward society that lives in the desert and a very modern society that lives in the city.

Alexandre es un joven burgués cínico y egoísta que vive en París. Se encuentra en un fase nihilista de su existencia: no estudia, no trabaja y apenas se interesa por los libros o por la música. Lo único que le interesa son las mujeres y, además, vive a su costa. Poco a poco va formando con Marie y Veronique, a pesar de la inicial resistencia de ambas, un atípico 'menage à trois', que, para él, es absolutamente satisfactorio porque representa un equilibrio entre lo sexual, lo maternal y lo material. Al mismo tiempo, es capaz de mantenerse al margen de los sentimientos de frustración o malestar que su conducta pueda provocar en sus amantes.

Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...

La aburguesada vida de Viviane, esposa del cónsul de Francia en Melbourne, se abre a nuevos horizontes cuando conoce en la Nueva Guinea Australiana a Olivier, miembro de un grupo de excursionistas que va en busca de 'El valle', un lugar idílico que no se encuentra en los mapas. Viviane se une a la expedición en un viaje liberador que la llevará a practicar el amor libre y a consumir sustancias alucinógenas.

Short film about the Mapuga tribe’s feast of pigs with sweet potatoes.

Short film on the ceremony of ‘Sing Sing’ practised by Papua New Guinea’s tribes.

Short film that examines the different types of ceremonial make-up worn by the Mapuga tribe.

Stefan es un estudiante alemán que llega en auto-stop a París, donde conoce a Estelle, una chica norteamericana de la que acaba enamorándose. Un buen día, Estelle deja París y Stefan la sigue hasta la isla de Ibiza, donde descubre que está relacionada con un individuo que parece dirigir su vida. Ambos se verán pronto inmersos en el mundo de la droga. (FILMAFFINITY)

20 years later, the recreation of the trial of a simple man that confesses himself as a war criminal, Carl Emmanuel Jung.

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the camera.

Insane asylum inmates escape their confinement and hole up in a deserted Belgian farmhouse, where they cook large quantities of eggs and condemn one of their own in an impromptu court. Accompanied by a frenetic original soundtrack by the great Ornette Coleman and starring The Living Theater.

En el siglo XVIII Suzanne Simonin -Anna Karina- es obligada por su familia a entrar en el convento de Longchamp, donde la superiora De Moni -Micheline Presle- la convence para que tome los hábitos, pero a la muerte de ésta debe soportar la férrea disciplina de la Madre Sainte-Christine -Francine Bergé- y su afirmación de que está endemoniada.

A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην καρδιά) is a 1966 Franco-Greek film directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet. Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.

After twenty-seven long months spent in Algeria, Frédéric Simon, a young photographer is determined to forget this time of trouble. Now that the Army has finally discharged him he wants to live the good life. And at first, things go according to his wishes: not only does he marry Sylvie but they are invited by a wealthy man to Monte Carlo, where they spend a dream honeymoon. But back in Paris, hard times await them. Not finding work easily along with having to live in a cramped apartment make Frédéric bitter and unpleasant. When Sylvie becomes pregnant, he slams the door and finds consolation in the arms of Christine, an ex girlfriend, which he soon regrets. At last, the situation improves. Frédéric finds work and starts making money as a fashion photographer. But the good life cannot go on: one morning a policeman knocks at the young couple's door: the country wants Frédéric back in the Army.

A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.

Un espía del bando confederado de la Guerra de Secesión americana vive sus últimos momentos antes de ser conducido ante la horca.

Una estudiante de literatura acude a una fiesta. Allí conoce a un americano y a un director de teatro. Tras la fiesta, su vida ya no será la misma. Notable drama que supuso el debut en la dirección de Jacques Rivette, crítico de cine de la revista "Cahiers du Cinéma".

Robert La Rocca y a su amigo Xavier, están condenados en prisión por estar implicados en el asesinato de una banda rival. Cuando salen de la cárcel se muestran dispuestos a cambiar de vida, pero el pasado acabará marcando su destino.

Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his lover she thinks she will find fulfillment only to realize that she is just another plaything in a man’s hands.

An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover.

An American sculptor, passioned by literature, comes to Paris to perfect his art, but ends up with barely no money, and to survive has to sell The New York Herald Tribune, at night, to his compatriots. A look at the bohemian Parisian life of the fifties.

En Le coup du berger (Jaque al pastor) se lleva al límite la semejanza entre una partida (de tablero) y otra (de la vida). Claire (Virginie Vitry), vive una vida matrimonial con Jean (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) que la hace tener un amante, Claude (Jean-Claude Brialy). Parece ser que llevan ya un tiempo jugando de esa manera hasta que Claude hace un regalo a Claire que ella no puede llevar a casa porque su marido se daría cuenta o sospecharía de lo que está sucediendo con su matrimonio; así que los amantes buscan y encuentran la “estrategia perfecta” para poder engañar al marido sin que se dé cuenta.

Después de cumplir cinco años de condena, Tony Le Stephanois sale de prisión con la intención de cambiar de vida, pero se encuentra con que su antigua amante está con un conocido gángster. Así las cosas, y careciendo de recursos económicos, no le queda más remedio que volver a su vida pasada y reunirse con sus viejos compinches. Durante semanas prepara minuciosamente con ellos un golpe perfecto: el atraco a una inaccesible joyería de París.