Denis Lavant

Denis Lavant

Nacimiento : 1961-06-17, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Historia

Denis Lavant (born 17 June 1961) is a French film actor known for his distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles he plays, which often involve slapstick, acrobatics or dance, as well as for his long-standing association with director Leos Carax. Lavant has played the lead role in all but one of Carax's films. Lavant is also known for his starring roles in Claire Denis' Beau Travail and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, which features Carax in a supporting role.

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Denis Lavant
Denis Lavant

Películas

The Boy Who Owns the World
Kasimir
Basilio lives in an abandoned villa in Sicily with his mysterious elderly mentor Casimir who is to help him find true poetry. In this villa, he tries to translate the symbols of his inner world into music. One day, Basilio meets equally strange Karla whose life already seems mysteriously intertwined with his. The symbolism of the world around them leads to an unexpected discovery.
Poisson rouge
Affected by a neurodegenerative disease, Guillaume will finish losing his memory in a specialized center. In the hope of leaving him a happy memory, his childhood friends organize a last weekend of festivities, under the sign of good wine. But if Guillaume can place the same order at the bar three times, some wounds from his past are still open. Accompanied by his friends, he decides to embark on a road trip that will perhaps allow him to solve his problems before he forgets them...
Miserable Miracle
Narrator
An animated adaptation from Misérable Miracle by Henri Michaux (1956), on his experiences with mescaline.
Human Flowers of Flesh
Galoup
Ida vive en un barco con su tripulación de cinco hombres. En Marsella, su atención se ve atrapada por el secreto mundo masculino de la Legión Extranjera Francesa y decide seguir sus huellas a través del Mediterráneo. Mientras Ida y su tripulación navegan a través de Córcega hacia el cuartel general histórico de la Legión en Argelia, los límites se desdibujan.
South Sentinel
Commandant de Royer
The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up in trafficking opium with Mounir, his brother-in-arms who was wounded in the ambush, Lafayette, a foster child, and tormented war hero, chooses a new family and life – a criminal’s life. To escape this vicious circle of violence, Christian has to learn how to love.
Tralala
Climby
Tralala, un cantante cuarentón que vagabundea por París, conoce una tarde a una joven que le envía un único mensaje antes de desaparecer: "No seas tú mismo". ¿Acaso lo ha soñado? Rápidamente abandona la capital y parte hacia Lourdes en busca de la misteriosa mujer, que solo puede ser la respuesta contemporánea a las apariciones milagrosas de la Virgen María. Allí, el músico se encuentra con una colorida colección de personajes que le ayudan a despojarse de su antigua identidad.
The Nipple Whisperer
Maurice Sanders
Maurice Sanders has a gift. He's a nipple whisperer. Once he was known as "Magic Sandy". But that was years ago, before Doris, a famous model and Sander's muse, fell ill. Now, after more than a decade, Doris wants to meet Maurice again.
La noche de los reyes
Silence
Un hombre es enviado a "La Maca", una prisión costamarfileña en medio del bosque, que tiene la particularidad de estar gobernada por sus propios presos. Siguiendo la tradición, con la primera luna roja es designado por el jefe como el nuevo "romano", lo que implica que ha de contar una historia para el resto de prisioneros. Tras descubrir lo que el destino le aguarda, empieza a narrar la vida del legendario rebelde "Zama King", sin otra opción que la de alargar su relato hasta el amanecer.
Le discours
Le politicien
Patines de Plata
Fourier
1899, la época navideña de San Petersburgo. Los ríos y canales de la capital cubiertos de hielo hierven con actividades festivas. En vísperas del nuevo siglo, aquellos que no deberían estar destinados a encontrarse, se unen. Son personas de diferentes mundos: Matvey, hijo de un farolero, cuyo único tesoro son sus patines plateados; Alice es la hija de un funcionario de alto rango que sueña con la ciencia. Cada uno de ellos tiene su propia y difícil historia de vida, pero al conocerse accidentalmente, se apresuran juntos en busca de sus sueños.
Gagarine
Gérard
Yuri, de 16 años, ha pasado toda su vida en las Torres Gagarin, un proyecto de viviendas situado en las afueras de París y sueña con ser astronauta. Cuando se plantea la demolición de las Torres, Yuri se une a la resistencia. Con sus amigos Diana y Houssam, se embarca en la misión por salvar su hogar.
The Blue Star
Le Narrateur
It all happened on a dark night. The Man was tired of being a stranger, tired of being insulted by others simply because he speaks Arabic to a wife who speaks French with their beloved mixed race son. He looked at the sky and shouted. But that night, far in the cosmos, a voice answered.
The Escapade
Jacques
The story revolves around the characters of Tess and Anatole. Barely of age, but not exactly adults, they still know nothing of love. Anatole sleeps wherever he is able while waiting for a stable job to come along, whereas Tess is about to start preparatory classes in Paris. They first meet in the surroundings of a port in decline, like a symbol of a country that is suffocating but which still has something to say. He has a tent, she has a car: together they will criss-cross the country’s roads and draw out the summer, to ensure they never forget.
Figurant
A man follows a group of workers coming for daywork in an industrial area. Soon, he’s stripped from his clothes and identity, dressed in a military uniform and armed. His determination not to fall behind the others is then tested by a series of unsettling events.
Who the Fuck Are You
Psychiatrist
Psychedelic punk drama about one city, one man and his madness.
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Monsieur Loyal
The Bra
Kamal
Un solitario conductor de tren encuentra un sujetador en su tren y recorre toda la vía buscando a su propietaria para devolvérselo.
Chicas Con Pelotas
Barman
Perdidas en medio del bosque y acechadas por unos retorcidos cazadores, las chicas de un equipo de voleibol se la juegan en el partido más peligroso de sus vidas.
The Mountain
Jack
En América, 1950, un joven introvertido, tras perder a su madre, decide trabajar con un doctor especializado en terapias y lobotomías. Mientras avanza por el asilo, el joven empieza a sentirse identificado con los pacientes.
Silent Streams
Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From this sudden intimacy, the murmurs of their little inner voice let us hear the anxieties of love.
El emperador de París
Maillard
París, Francia, a principios del siglo XIX. El legendario convicto François Vidocq vive disfrazado tratando de escapar de un pasado trágico que lo atormenta. Cuando, después de un hecho desafortunado, su camino se cruza con el del jefe de policía, Vidocq toma una audaz decisión que pondrá en su contra a la despiadada mente maestra que dirige los bajos fondos parisinos.
Scaramouche Scaramouche
Scaramouche
Ophélie, a very imaginative girl, lives with her father in a mobile home. One day, she is haunted by a terrifying imaginary friend, Scaramouche.
Un pueblo y su rey
Marat
París, 1789. La Bastilla ha sido tomada y un soplo de libertad invade las calles de París. Françoise (Adèle Haenel), una joven lavandera, y Basile (Gaspard Ulliel), sin familia ni apellido, descubren la euforia del amor y la revolución. Con sus amigos y la gente humilde de París, perseguirán sus sueños de emancipación en la recién formada Asamblea, que será el germen de un nuevo sistema político.
Fan Club
Damien
Cornélius, le meunier hurlant
Doctor de Chomo
An isolated village welcomes a new miller with open arms. Problem is, the man howls at the moon every night. His integration is starting well… French comedy at its best.
3 días en Quiberón
Fisherman Poet
Mayo de 1982. En una clínica de rehabilitación, Romy Schneider da su última entrevista a dos periodistas de la conocida revista alemana Stern. Tres días de deseo romántico, ambición profesional y urgencia de vivir.
La noche devora el mundo
Alfred
Tras despertarse y encontrarse completamente solo en un apartamento donde la noche anterior se celebraba una fiesta multitudinaria, Sam se ve obligado inmediatamente a enfrentarse a una realidad aterradora: los muertos vivientes han invadido las calles de París.
My Intelligent Comedy
Himself
Damien Nadeau-Daneau, a young filmaker, is unable to finish a movie he started with french actor Denis Lavant. Indebted, he’s working at a post-production company, far from his artistic ideals. On the eve of his 33rd birthday, he is self-centered, unsatisfied, and lost in his own life. With no drama of his own, he is confronted with that of others who he meets over the course of his life. He will discover that reality is way more interesting than fiction.
Gray House
A silent fisherman in Texas, a blazing oil field in North Dakota, a mysterious community in Virginia, a women’s prison in Oregon, and a modernist home in California are the ostensible subjects of Austin Lynch and Matthew Booth’s new feature, GRAY HOUSE. But as meditations upon nature, isolation, decadence, and destitution, they are flawless conduits for seamless blends of documentary and narrative form, and stunning explorations of sound, image, and cinematic time. Mysterious and elusive, yet possessing an aesthetic and sensory unity (appearances by Denis Lavant, Aurore Clément, and Dianna Molzan mix with direct addresses from real-life laborers and inmates), GRAY HOUSE quietly recalibrates one’s sense of the world and our place within it.
Kazarken: As We Dig
Chiron, le centaure
A woman of Turkish ascent, following ancient Anatolian healing rites, dreams her way through fragments of memory, both personal and collective. Guided by a mythological character, Kheiron the Centaur, she travels freely between the ruins of an ancient Roman hospital and the streets of a mountain village, high above the river Euphrates. Time and space become dislocated, opening up passages between worlds. An inner experience translated into a film poem, KAZARKEN explores memory as a place of struggle against oblivion and the violence of hidden history.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is accompanied by Lucette, his wife and his cat Bebert.
Boris sin Béatrice
L'Inconnu
Boris Malinowski es un hombre que ha logrado todos sus objetivos en la vida. Mientras que su esposa, Beatrice, Ministra del Gobierno de Canadá, se encuentra en la cama por una enfermedad desconocida, Boris trata de evadirse y hacer frente a sus necesidades emocionales con su compañera de trabajo Helga y su empleada doméstica, Klara.
History's Future
Lottery Ticket Seller
Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country, portrayed via an associative image montage and through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West - into what commentators have called an age of 'rolling catastrophe'.
21 Nights with Pattie
André
During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organize the funeral of her mother, a flighty lawyer, whom she barely used to see. Caroline is welcomed by Pattie, who likes to talk about her love affairs with the local men to anyone who'll listen. Then, while the whole valley gets ready for the traditional mid-summer dance, Caroline's mother's corpse mysteriously disappears...
Eva no duerme
Koenig
Relata la odisea del cadáver embalsamado de la política argentina Eva Perón por toda Europa en los años cincuenta desde su fallecimiento hasta su entierro en Argentina 25 años después. Año 1952, Eva Perón, la mujer más amada y odiada de la Argentina, muere a los 33 años de edad. Un anatomista experto la embalsama sin quitarle la más mínima partícula de piel, como si apenas durmiera. Pero las Fuerzas Armadas toman el poder, y se proponen borrar completamente a Evita de la memoria popular. Su cuerpo desaparece durante 25 años. Durante ese cuarto de siglo, Evita, aun muerta y desaparecida, es la figura política más poderosa del país.
Ich und Kaminski
Karl-Ludwig
Un crítico sin éxito, pero lleno de vanidad, se propone escribir una biografía sobre un anciano pintor ciego que, tras causar furor en el mundo artístico, ha quedado relegado al olvido. El crítico consigue alterar la rutinaria vida del anciano proponiéndole un viaje por Europa para encontrar a su primer amor. Lo que no sabe es que el viejo, en realidad, lo está usando para poder librarse de la férrea custodia de su sobreprotectora hija.
Graziella
Antoine
A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act.
Austerlitz
Jacques Austerlitz
“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are, facing your own innermost secrets.” So begins Stan Neumann’s cinematic adaptation of W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel, Austerlitz. The vaulted and majestic space of the railway station in Antwerp is where our journey really starts with actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) addressing the camera directly, and musing on the curious nature of railway stations. This bravura opening is startling, charming, and like the unnamed narrator of the book, you surrender to the proceedings and perambulate alongside Lavant, as he journeys through the great buildings of Europe, faded and shuttered hotels and grand colonnades with broken windows.
Dark Forests
Voice
At the end of the road lies a track, the very last, a track swamped with the mud of a Siberian autumn, and at the end of this track lies a vast, dark forest which secretes those who have made this their final refuge, in hamlets that fray a little more with every passing day, sapped by misery and alcohol. We have to travel as far as we can, and be prepared to fall into the ditch, to see what makes us human.
Pitchipoï
Pierre Schulmann
Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in which he requested that his other son, Pierre, who hasn't been heard from for two years, spread his ashes in Poland. His father's preference comes as a rude shock for Julien, and it opens a chasm inside him, slowly bringing to light an unspeakable secret.
Le mystère des jonquilles
Sam
The director of a department store is murdered. He is discovered in a park, a bunch of daffodils on his chest.
Iván de Hierro
He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overcame young athletes, and questions of honor and justice did not know compromises. And only love could put Russian Heroes on both blades
Journey to the West
Dragon
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with Marseille, he decided to make a film as tourist, capturing the beautiful Mediterranean sunshine in the late summer of that year. He also invited famous French actor, Denis Lavant, to appear alongside Lee Kang-Sheng playing Xuanzang. "Journey to the West" was invited to be the opening short film at the Berlin International Film Festival the same year.
Mr. X
Himself
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".
Le voyage en Occident
Dragon
Jiminy
Otto Hoffmann
In the near future, most people get a "cricket" implanted in their brains : an electronic chip which allows them to switch to an "automatic mode" whenever they wish to.
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
The Theologist
En el siglo XVI, en algún lugar en las Cevenas, en Francia, Michael Kohlhaas (Mads Mikkelsen), un próspero mercader de caballos, tiene una vida feliz y acomodada junto a su familia. Víctima de una injusticia, este hombre bondadoso e íntegro recluta a un ejército y saquea las ciudades para restablecer su derecho.
Biette
Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.
Les Grandes Marées
Marc
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Self
Tomando como referencia el libro de memorias de Luis Buñuel “Mon dernier soupir“, y en palabras de su realizadora: "Con buñueliano enganche, emprendí una investigación metafísica y sentimental, con itinerario por cinco ciudades -Calanda, Zaragoza, Madrid, Toledo y Granada- y en México, en el estado de Michoacán".
Marussia
Clochard
In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and her little daughter Marussia are two such people. They have been thrown out by the Russian acquaintances they were staying with and must tramp the streets with their trolley suitcases searching for somewhere else to live. A Russian Orthodox priest offers them their first night's shelter. They spend the second night in a homeless hostel and party through the third with a chance acquaintance. On the fourth night they sleep clandestinely in a cinema and on the fifth with a Russian artist in a hotel … Lucia is good-looking, dresses elegantly and is certainly not shy of men. This serves the mother and her daughter well. In spite of all the uncertainties in their lives, the two frequently share tender moments.
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Marcel Dassault
Late 1950s, the CIA Office in New York after viewing the footage shot by their agent, investigators are puzzled how Marcel Dassault, the French engineer, he managed to build better than their planes? Order of the White House, four officers flew to Paris. Their mission: to solve the mystery Dassault. This man has a unique course because besides being a genius of aviation, it is also patron of the press, arms dealer, MP ...
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Self
A making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches exacting and inspiring moments of the production and adds interviews with its main participants (the actors Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, and Kylie Minogue, and the cinematographer, Caroline Champetier).
Morning Star
Elliot
A small circus arrives in a coastal area of the North Sea: the place looks rather eerie and the audience is quite scarce. But despite all of this, the life of the performers is animated by feelings born under the circus tent, and which are often lived out in the secret of their trailers. The ballerina Angèle has an affair with Elliot, the company's clown who is tormented by his conscience; but she is also courted by Heroy, the circus director; he is a cruel and potentially dangerous man who is willing to win her over by resorting to the powers of the magician Zephyr.
Holy Motors
Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
"Holy Motors" narra 24 horas en la vida de un ser con múltiples caras: asesino, mendigo, ejecutivo, monstruo, padre de familia... El protagonista tiene una identidad completamente distinta en cada una de estas vidas. Encarna personajes como si se tratase de una película dentro de una película. ¿Pero dónde están las cámaras, el equipo de cine, el escenógrafo? ¿Y dónde está su casa, su refugio?
Eye of the Astronomer
Jean Kepler
During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands of Jean Kepler in Prague who at the time was the astronomer of Emperor Rudolp II. Kepler observes the night-sky as nobody has seen it before him. His observation platform becomes the meeting place of Prague's imperial court. In this entourage Kepler separates science from superstition, freedom from intolerance.
Tired of Being Handsome
Two cowboys look for a bullet in the desert.
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
The ogre
Children encounter a kid-eating ogre.
My Little Princess
Ernst
Violetta es una niña de 10 años que vive con su abuela en un pequeño apartamento. Hannah, su madre, es una fotógrafa impredecible que vive con Ernst, mecenas y renombrado pintor. Un día, Hannah fuerza a Violetta a posar como modelo. La fama de esas fotos crece rápidamente en la comunidad artística parisina de los 70 y Violetta entra en el juego. Entre su ascenso como estrella provocativa y su aburrida existencia como niña precoz, su cuento de hadas se convertirá finalmente en un infierno.
Atlantika
On April 15, 1912, Jack L., radio operator on a military vessel, reported an SOS signal from the Titanic. He was ordered by command control not to reveal this information. Later in classified military archives Jack L. found information that radio messages from the Titanic appeared on the airwaves every 6 years in 1918, 1924, 1930, 1942... 1996, and 2002. Ever since Jack L. went on air for radio contact with the Titanic every 6 years. Saving the Titanic became the purpose and the goal of his life.
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Bezon
Separated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family, Guillaume de Villon, when he should have been killed, François will as well go to the ill-known taverns of the Latin Quarter that the Court of the Duke of Orleans, passing by the benches of the university. This marvelous poet at the same time as a scoundrel of morality will have a life where fights, robberies, imprisonments and final banishment will be linked. Leaving Paris, Villon will disappear.
The Temptation of St. Tony
Count Dionysos Korzybski
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control of his life.
Hymn to Merde
Merde
A clip by Leos Carax, inspired by his film "Merde" (part of the feature film "Tokyo!'), with Denis Lavant singing in Merdogon.
The Lonely
A documentary portrait of the filmmaker Harmony Korine during the production of his third feature film, Mister Lonely (2007). Shot on location in Scotland, Paris, and Panama, each chapter presents the production process and the causal, day-to-day absurdities of the actor/impersonators featured in Mister Lonely. Throughout the process, as Harmony reveals his thoughts on the film he also reveals a part of himself.
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
(voice)
Todo un homenaje a las películas de Sergio Leone, John Ford, y sobretodo, a Liberty Valance. Los cowboys no temen a la muerte. Su espectacular final es la apoteosis de su trágico destino. Aun así, cuando un cowboy pierde la salida y duda estúpidamente entre la vida y la muerte, un western se convierte en algo ridículo e incluso un poco metafísico.
Mister Lonely
Charlie Chaplin
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
Tokyo
Merde' (segment "Merde")
Tokio es una antología de tres cortometrajes de los directores Michel Gondry (Francia), Leos Carax (Francia) y Joon-ho Bong (Corea), cada uno de los cuales ofrece una visión imaginativa y transnacional / sobrenatural de la Megapolis de Tokio.
Captain Ahab
Capitaine Achab
When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt. It is Rose who sparks the imagination of the young boy by teaching him to read the Bible, though when Ahab is reclaimed by his father a decade later the growing boy strives to become a hunter like his old man. Later, after Ahab warms to his father's lover Louise, the old man dies and the boy is sent back to his God-fearing aunt. Rejecting Rose and her abusive husband Henry's unforginv brand of discipline and infuriated that his aunt confiscated the locket given to him by Louise, young Ahab boldly stages his own kidnapping as an ingenious escape plan.
Happy New Year London
What if the unexpected becomes your faith? Would you lay claim to it and stay or would you run away? International Performer Yasar Nur has arrived in London the night before her concert and a few days away from the New Year. A formidable destination for Yasar, and one that will resurface a history best left forgotten, on a night that can change it all. Pain, responsibility, decision and courage get Yasar through the night in her hotel room where communication becomes hope for everyone involved. What will happen when an old friend is forced to give Yasar a great responsibility she may be unable to handle, or when a disturbed and powerful fan decides to change his life by meeting his obsession face to face, or when a disheartened husband makes a drastic decision to end his pain and set his wife free? The actions of one young man will bring these characters together and force them to communicate firstly with themselves, and then with each other, and only some will survive
Wild Camp
Blaise
A tranquil campground in rural France is the backdrop for this erotic sizzler between beautiful teenager Camille and down on his luck ex con, Blaise. Fresh out of prison, Blaise accepts a job as sailing instructor at the camp. Haunted by violent nightmares and reminded daily of his estranged wife and children, Blaise tries mightily to resist Camille’s charms. But the girl’s spontaneity and nubile sexuality awaken Blaise’s own repressed capacity for life.
Language Does Not Lie
Narrator (voice)
Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when Hitler came to power to the war's end, he kept a journal paying attention to the Nazis' use of words. This film takes the end of 1945 as its vantage point, with a narrator looking back as if Klemperer reads from his journal. He examines the use of simple words like "folk," "eternal," and "to live." Interspersed are personal photographs, newsreel footage of Reich leaders and of life in Germany then, and a few other narrative devices. Although he's dispassionate, Klemperer's fear and dread resonate
Largo domingo de noviazgo
Six-Soux
Cuando la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) se acerca a su fin, para una joven francesa está a punto de comenzar la más cruel de las batallas. Mathilde ha recibido la noticia de que su prometido Manech es uno de los cinco soldados heridos que, tras haber sido sometidos a un consejo de guerra, han sido enviados a la tierra de nadie que hay entre el ejército francés y el alemán, lo cual supone una muerte casi segura. Mathilde, que se niega a aceptar esa situación, emprende un extraordinario viaje para conocer el destino de su prometido. Las noticias que va recibiendo sobre Manech son desalentadoras. Aún así, animada por una fe y una esperanza inquebrantables y también por un gran optimismo, sigue su investigación hasta el final. A medida que se acerca a la verdad sobre los desafortunados soldados y su brutal castigo, se ve más envuelta en los horrores de la guerra y en las marcas indelebles que deja en quienes la han vivido.
Luminal
Ryu
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.
Married/Unmarried
Love
Obsession and doubt control four friends' relationship.
Şoför
La squale
Le joker
Désirée, a black girl, is nicknamed "The Shark" by her friends. This nickname comes from her strong rebellion and her ability to win in the suburban city, dominated by the power of boys.
En lo profundo del bosque
Stephane
Cinco jóvenes actores son invitados a representar una obra de teatro para un misterioso barón. Al principio todo va bien, pero poco a poco se van dando cuenta de que el encargo no es más que una trampa sangrienta.
Tuvalu
Anton
Anton, un joven aprendiz de monitor de natación, mantiene la ilusión de su padre ciego de que la piscina siga intacta y muy concurrida. Anton es un excéntrico solitario que sueña con navegar por los anchos mares rumbo a Tuvalu, sueño que comparte con Eva, joven de 18 años a quien le agrada mucho el carácter especial de Anton. El fallecimiento de su padre en la piscina al caerle un trozo de techo les impide salir al mar con el remolcador de Eva. El culpable de lo sucedido no es otro que Gregor, el hermano de Anton, cuyo objetivo es destruir la piscina, y de paso toda la ciudad, para reemplazarla por una nueva ciudad futurista. Anton tiene difícil la labor de salvar la piscina y mantenerla abierta, pero todo resultaría soportable si al menos se ganara el corazón de Eva.
Buen trabajo
Galoup
Un sargento de la Legión Extranjera en Djibouti, África, siente atracción, luego celos y, finalmente, odio por uno de sus soldados más sobresalientes. El enfrentamiento entre los dos hombres se convierte en la única guerra concreta para ellos, sumergidos en el tedio del entrenamiento y los rituales cotidianos de los militares en tiempos de paz. Libre adaptación de la novela "Billy Budd", de Herman Melville.
Melody for a Hustler
L'auto-stoppeur
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
Le monde à l'envers
Yann Kerebel
Rolando Colla made his directorial debut with this Swiss-French-Italian period drama about a Breton woman who disguises herself as a man to join a ship's crew during the 18th century. Rebellious 24-year-old Anne Bruneau is abandoned at the altar by her fiancé Yann. Unaware that Yann was drunk and fell down a well, Anne reacts to his absence by cutting her hair, dressing like a man, and signing on with a ship captained by a dwarf. When Yann learns what happened, he begins running south to Marseilles to rejoin her. Aboard the ship, Anne's disguise is discovered by the captain and the ship's doctor. With an Arab, she jumps ship, hiding with hookers in Marseilles while still maintaining her disguise.
Don Juan
Pierrot
Europa, principios del siglo XVII. Tras abandonar a su prometida doña Elvira, Don Juan huye de la ciudad ante las amenazas de muerte de los dos hermanos de su novia. Durante el viaje por mar, Don Juan y su criado Snagarelle, son víctimas de un naufragio.
Animales Salvajes
Emil
Un surcoreano llamado Chung-hae viaja a París con la intención de estudiar arte, pero la realidad se impone al deseo y el joven acaba dedicándose a realizar pequeñas estafas para sobrevivir. Conoce a Hong-sang, un ciudadano norcoreano que pretende escapar del ejército norcoreano alistándose en la Legion extranjera. Entre los dos nace una amistad sembrada de desencuentros y momentos trágicos...
Visiblement je vous aime
Denis
A misanthropic Parisian street punk learns some difficult lessons after being captured for assaulting and robbing a man in this interesting French drama. This has not been the first time young Denis Lavant has been in trouble, and this time the judge sentences him to the Coral, an experimental open community founded in 1975 by Claude Sigala, in the wilderness of the Camargue. There he encounters a group of inmates just as neurotic and messed up as he is.
The Chess Game
Max
In 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talent. Years later, he's a success, but game of life and love has higher stakes than chess.
De force avec d'autres
Denis
Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back to life, "by force with others"
Los amantes del Pont-Neuf
Alex
Alrededor del Pont Neuf, pese a su nombre, el puente más antiguo de París, se formula una fascinante historia de amor entre dos vagabundos. Él es Alex, un frustrado artista de circo por su adición al alcohol, ella Michele, una pintora que va perdiendo el sentido de la realidad tras una relación emocional rota y una enfermedad degenerativa que la va dejando ciega, El sentido de la dependencia entre uno y otro se va estrechado hasta el punto de que la relación que les une se toma en un círculo vicioso y agobiante difícil de solucionar, como escenario un París como nunca se había visto antes en el cine.
Mona and I
Pierre
Mona is the girlfriend of Pierre, who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France. Their hero is the singer "Johnny Valentine " who, seeing that Mona is being neglected, decides to make her his own.
Once Around the Park
Berville
Al and Elsa have been a couple for some time, but the chances that their relationship will be long-lived are few. For one thing, Al is appallingly dependent on Elsa for his every emotional need. For another, Elsa is an incredibly elusive person, extremely difficult to pin down about anything - especially whatever is bothering her. How they have managed to survive this long is a cause for wonder. When Al gets an opportunity to be cast in a movie role, complete with no-cost occupancy in the casting agent's ugly but fashionable apartment, he jumps at the chance to provide a little material satisfaction for his beloved Elsa. But what exactly does she want?
Mala sangre
Alex
París, en un futuro cercano. Marc y Hans son dos ladrones que deben dinero a una intransigente mujer americana que les da sólo dos semanas para pagar. Planean robar y vender un nuevo antídoto para curar un virus parecido al del SIDA, que está matando a los que "practican el amor sin amor", pero necesitan un cómplice. Reclutan a Alex, alias "lengua veloz", un chico rebelde que acaba de romper su relación con su novia de 16 años de edad.
Going and Coming Back
Le patient de Simon Lerner
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
Chico conoce chica
Alex
Se llaman Alex (Denis Lavant) y Mireille (Mireille Perrier). Han nacido en 1960 y viven en París, pero aún no se conocen. Famosa ópera prima de Leos Cárax, que, además de mostrar reminiscencias del cine mudo, refleja la influencia de cineastas como Cocteau, Dreyer, Godard o Bresson. La crítica francesa calificó a Leos Cárax como el único cineasta auténtico de los 80.
Viva la vida!
Caviar delivery man
En un principio ni Michel Perrin, un importante industrial, ni Sarah Gaucher, una renombrada actriz, tienen nada en común. Ambos desaparecen en el mismo día y a la misma hora para tres días más tardes reaparecer, como si nada. Lo que parece una extraña coincidencia esconde un fenómeno que viene sucediéndose desde hace un tiempo. (FILMAFFINITY)
El hombre herido
Wanderer
Tras descubrir su condición de homosexual, un joven entabla relación con un manipulador criminal al que conoce en una estación de tren.
Entre nosotras
Un militaire
Narra una rara amistad entre dos mujeres casadas que intentan conseguir el coraje necesario para desafiar las reglas sociales de su tiempo, a fin de escapar de sus desconcertantes vidas...
Les Misérables
Montparnasse
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.
Rokya
Aymeline
Franco
Experience heartbreak, horror and mayhem with Aymeline Valade Once one of the most beloved film stars in the world, Aymeline now avoids the spotlight; recovering from the trauma of an abusive relationship and spending her time locked in a mansion in the hills of the Côte d'Azur with her cat. When her obsessive agent, Franco, abruptly shows up, he warns her of her impending irrelevance-- resulting in heartbreak, horror and mayhem.
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
Narrateur
Que demande le peuple
Hyacinthe
Brûle le sang
Set in that environment that Popkhadze knows like the back of his hand, the action in “Blood Burn” kicks off when a pillar of the local Georgian community is murdered. His son Tristan, who aspires to become an orthodox priest, finds himself alone with his grieving mother. Then Gabriel, his older brother with a troubled past, returns from a long exile to try and make amends by washing away his family’s honor.
The Rhythm of the Night the sequel
himself
Once again. You cannot escape.
The Rhythm of the Night
himself
You cannot escape the rhythm of the night