Frédéric Hamelin

Simon Chambers is shooting a film in India when his uncle David calls him with a message of doom: “I think I may be dying.” What the viewer doesn’t yet know is that David is a total drama queen, a former actor and teacher, and a Shakespeare-lover who has grown old on a diet of attention and applause. Chambers returns to London to look after his uncle and capture his final stages of life on camera.

País Vasco francés, año 1609. Los hombres de un pequeño pueblo de pescadores se han hecho a la mar. El juez Rostegui, encargado por el rey de librar al país de las asechanzas del diablo, detiene a Ana y a sus amigas y las acusa de brujería.

A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial legacy of a post-postcolonial present.

“Four unaligned rows, 37 faces turned towards the camera lens. Autumn 1958, a family of Breton peasants in their Sunday best, gathered around the eldest. Smartly dressed for the photo. A modest living honestly earned by laborious work”. This is what the narrator proclaims at the beginning of the film, leading us to see things through his eyes. The photo, taken on the occasion of the golden wedding anniversary of the director’s grandparents, is the catalyst of Ordinary Landscape and the symbol of a way of life that is now gone.

A young terrorist is trapped by Gavras, a hunter of the Special Intervention Unit who is tracking him. Then starts a long walk through the forest, each one trying to dominate the other.

The countess and her son, irresponsible but sweet viscount Louis, own the castle Montverdier, which is falling apart. Fernand Castanier is the baker in the neighboring town Mussy-sur-Ploute.

El capitán Bergmann, un oficial del ejército norteamericano de origen judio viaja a París en busca de Krugmon, un antiguo nazi que mató a gran parte de su familia. Cuando consigue encontrarle, Krugmon es asesinado.