Jacques Spiesser

En la obra del cineasta vanguardista Pere Portabella, lo cotidiano poco tiene que ver con lo costumbrista, sino que se acerca a una concepción estética y política del cine vinculada al vaciamiento del relato clásico, los silencios y los tiempos muertos. Resiguiendo el texto de 'Un homme qui dort' de Georges Perec, este vídeo ensayo transita por el singular universo cotidiano de Portabella y lo hace dialogar con imágenes del propio Perec, Luis Buñuel, Chantal Akerman o Jim Jarmusch.

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.

Alice se entera de la muerte accidental de su madre mientras viaja por Canadá. El cuerpo ha sido repatriado a Francia a petición de su marido, el padre de Alice.

A commissioner and a former examining magistrate are asked to find a woman, whom they both loved, just disappeared.

En Bretaña, un notable recibe dos disparos en la cabeza. Su esposa Josephine es sospechosa. Su esposo acababa de vender parte de su propiedad a dos promotores.

Simon acaba de salir de la cárcel y quiere dar el golpe de su vida: robar el “Florentin”, un mítico diamante que será subastado. Pero para conseguirlo deberá acercarse a Julia, la experta en diamantes, para quien la subasta será, sobre todo, un asunto personal.

Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.

Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, and parrying opposition attacks-not to mention dealing with the tense relationship he has with his daughter.

The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab. One night looking at the Bay of Algiers, Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear. The first events of the War of Independence have begun. The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside: swimming, dancing, flirting. But, little by little, the war becomes part of their daily life.

Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are released. Political scandal in France: there is suspicion that the government had intervened in the case and to have exchanged the liberation of the hostages with that of Gordj. Discredited, the judge commits suicide. Mitterand and Chirac keep lobbing the responsibility of the case to each other.

Francia, finales de 1943. La hermana Luce trabaja como enfermera en un hospital del interior del país. Es una persona muy honrada, un verdadero ejemplo de fé para el resto de monjas. Cuando la religiosa conoce al sacerdote Martial , el contacto y los sentimientos que se crean en su interior, le hacen replantearse su vocación con la Iglesia. Dividida entre el amor de un hombre o el de Cristo, Luce sufrirá las consecuencias de su pasión y el destino le deparará una terrible realidad.

A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.

After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.

A gruesome discovery is made outside a London cemetery one night. Meanwhile in Paris, Police Captain Adamsberg discovers a body chopped into pieces. Could there be a link?

Julian, 25, and Louis, 12, are two brothers who work and live on a barge in the centre of Paris. They transport gravel and resort to petty crime to make ends meet. They have grown up alone and now they are inseparable, wedded to a life on the river. A receiver of stolen goods offers them the opportunity of a lifetime, to steal a painting by Manet from the Musée d'Orsay. Louis takes charge of the theft and, against the odds, he succeeds in removing it from the gallery and taking it aboard his barge. Rosalie, a museum guard, follows Louis to his home and confronts him. After a fight, the two brothers secure Rosalie in the hold of their boat and make a quick getaway. Later, Rosalie emerges from her hidey hole and makes the brothers an unexpected offer...

A wave of carnage is sweeping through Southern France, with locals blaming the return of wolves. However some begin talking of a werewolf, and Police Captain Adamsberg must investigate.

For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved when a dead woman is found in one of the circles.

Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah.

En los Alpes austriacos han encontrado el cuerpo de un joven que murió en un accidente de esquí ocho años antes. El doctor Marc Pelletier decide volver al lugar de los hechos, pues se trata del hermano de su ex novia. Cuando llega a la estación de esquí, una espantosa avalancha sepulta todo el pueblo.

After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...

Eva (Marthe Keller), es una profesora de literatura judía en una escuela de secundaria de Burdeos, Francia. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, toda su familia fue enviada a campos de concentración alemanes por ser colaboradores franceses; Eva fue la única superviviente. Un día, una nueva alumna entra en su clase, una chica que se parece mucho a su hija muerta. Eva se llena de esperanza al pensar que tal vez algún miembro de su familia pudo haber sobrevivido.

Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.

Jean es un tímido camarero de un gran hotel que se hace pasar por multimillonario ante Irène, una bella cazafortunas. Ella le rechaza en cuanto descubre quién es en realidad, pero Jean, enamorado de ella, se lanza en su búsqueda hasta encontrarla en la Costa Azul.

Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.

Un marchante de arte (Daniel Auteuil) hace una apuesta: si en el plazo de diez días no encuentra al amigo perfecto, tendrá que entregar un valioso jarrón de su propiedad. Se pone manos a la obra rápidamente y acaba eligiendo a un taxista (Dany Boon), una persona entrañable pero algo débil. Con tal de ganar la apuesta, se esfuerza por seducirlo. Pero con la amistad no se juega impunemente.

In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police stations. Soon the beautiful friendship between the two policemen will shatter with all the suffering and disappointment that implies.

It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and a tattoo. But above all a guilt forever anchored. It is now up to him to rebuild his life.

Alice has lost her father and one leg in a car accident. She lives with her mother (Jeanne) and grandfather in a farm. Summer holidays start and she can't go to the sea with other children of the village. Then she meets Vincent, a younger boy who stayed in the village as well, and Alain, the mayor's son who's back in town to train his athleticism female club. Alice would like to run with her prosthesis but Jeanne doesn't want her to run nor to approach Alain.

El exilio y posiblemente la muerte están en las cartas de la Reina de Francia en esta aventura vanguardista de capa y espada basada en la incomparable historia de Alexandre Dumas de LOS TRES MOSQUETEROS y su imprudente amigo romántico D'Artagnan. Los poderes sobrenaturales y las fuerzas místicas oscuras le dan un giro emocionante a este cuento clásico.

A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.

Sébastien Chantoux, a psychoanalyst, decides to move to the Creuse. Adapting little by little to the local customs, he joined "Troc'en Creuse", an association that promotes exchange between individuals. He proposes, within this framework, psychoanalysis sessions.

During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of his sons, the patriarch Gaston Dominici was judged and condemned without any real evidence.

Cristina sabe ir de compras, llevar la casa, trabajar de secretaria en una empresa, ir a comer a a casa de sus padres, apuntarse en una auto-escuela… Lo de todo el mundo. Lo que ocurre es que quizás lo hace todo con excesivo ahínco… demasiado a fondo. Se toma todo demasiado a pecho, como se suele decir. No consigue hacer las cosas de manera relajada como los demás. Los demás se adaptan al mundo y ella no. Ni siquiera se atreve a decir a sus padres que vive sola y se inventa una historia con el chico que le enseña a conducir. Por eso, cuando Patricia, la encargada de la agencia de colocació,n le habla con amabilidad, interesándose por su caso, parece como si recobrara confianza en la vida…

Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation.

Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything anymore. There he meets Suzanne, a volunteer who is dedicated to supporting people at the end of their lives.

An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.

A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz

This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.

We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.

Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the public assistance, a notary comes to announce that his father died and left him an extraordinary inheritance: a castle, a title of duke and a royal filiation. But problems arise, the deceased duke has left heavy debts and suitors to the title.

Pascal lives on the land in Provence that his father left him. He is supported by the Alibert family, his tenant farmers, to counter the maneuvers of his cousin Clodius who wants to compromise the irrigation of the vines or contaminate the beehives. It is in this atmosphere of suspicion that Geneviève returns to the country, charged with a mysterious past.

Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with the former about 30 kilometers from Paris. The body will never be found. Seznec quickly became the main suspect and was sent to prison for life, even though nothing clearly indicated that he was the culprit.

La vida, el amor y la casualidad reúnen a tres hombres, Vincent, Henri y Jacques. Los tres acaban en el banquillo de los acusados y son defendidos y juzgados por dos magistrados: Francis y Fabrice, que a su vez están enfrentados a idénticos problemas. (FILMAFFINITY)

The itinerary full of pitfalls, funny and serious encounters of a young dreamer who lives with an obsession.

Joseph is a sailor who returns to his aunt's home after 14 years at sea, there he will be involved in the process of African colonialism signing a contract to travel to Congo captaining a ship called Florida that is shipwrecked as soon as it reaches Congo forcing them to walk the Congolese forest in the heart of darkness

Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident and spends ten years in prison.

Baxter es un bull-terrier muy especial. Tiene sus propias ideas sobre la relación con los humanos. Cuando no se siente feliz con su vida hace todo lo que está en sus manos para cambiarla...

Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of being a real he-man. Given his diffident, shy nature, it comes as a bit of a surprise that not only does he actually have a girlfriend, but he has managed to get her pregnant. However, she doesn't fit his image of himself, and he can't bring himself to marry her. When the bank he works in is robbed by a daring group which includes a magnetically attractive woman, the clerk throws his lot in with them and becomes an outlaw.

Frederique (Huppert) abandona el pueblo, donde su familia tiene una granja de truchas, para emprender un viaje al Japón y a los brazos de un hombre.

The imaginary adventures of musician Sans-Saëns.

Jean-Marie Fayard es un juez que tiene un expediente que implica a un rico industrial en una serie de muertes inexplicables. Un juez joven, apodado "el sheriff" por su integridad y sus métodos poco ortodoxos en el mundo de la investigación judicial a Saint-Etienne en un negocio difícil: un caso de robo gasolinera con asalto, lo que implicaría indirectamente de los de arriba. Fayard está convencido que un antiguo comisario está protegiendo a los principales sospechosos. Cuando se dispone más pruebas con las que acorralar a este antiguo comisario, éste es hallado muerto.

It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student is far from the post May 68 clichés and the movie walks a fine line off the beaten path. Philippe Lemaire and Emmanuelle Riva are ideally cast as the bourgeois parents who urge their offspring to attend the grandma's Christmas meal.

A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms.

Sarah, una actriz cercana a los 40, invita a su lugar de vacaciones en la Provence (Francia) a la que ha sido su mejor amiga durante los últimos 16 años. Mientras toman el sol en sus hamacas, disfrutan de la conversación y recuerdos de años atras.

A wealthy French promoter based in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but trapped in her strict education.

Después de estar varios meses a la espera de noticias, las tropas francesas de las colonias africanas se verán obligados a batallar con sus vecinos alemanes. Con tal de aumentar el número de tropas, los franceses comienzan a reclutar soldados entre los nativos, proveyéndoles de rifles, botas y uniformes necesarios para que puedan combatir.

"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group..."

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.

A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

Francia, 1933. Serge Stavisky es un hombre encantador, seductor, jugador de cartas y traficante internacional. Conocido como El Bello Sacha ha construido un imperio a base de mentiras, empresas ficticias, fraudes, cambios de identidad y poder de convicción, implicando en sus estafas a altas personalidades políticas y financieras del país. Y ahora está a punto de provocar la quiebra del Estado por haber falsificado bonos del Crédito Municipal de Bayona.

Un hombre que duerme narra la peripecia de un estudiante que decide no levantarse de la cama el día de sus exámenes de Sociología, abandonar sus estudios, romper toda relación con amigos y parientes, y recluirse en sí mismo. Más tarde se dedicará a deambular incansable por París, a ir al cine, a leer los titulares de los periódicos, pero como lo haría un sonámbulo. Para el estudiante todo forma parte de una vaga estrategia encaminada a alejarse de los deseos materiales, de la ambición y de su dependencia de los objetos, los ambientes, los sonidos y aromas de París, la ciudad que lo ha acogido y que lo acabará fagocitando.

In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, torture, executions... there is no end to the atrocities in which they become unwilling participants. No wonder the French military are so willing to proclaim that there is nothing to report...

De vacaciones en el verano que cumple dieciséis años, en la casa de campo de su abuelo, Faustine, además de pasear y soñar, espía a sus vecinos, dos hermanos, Jean y Julien, sus hijos respectivos y la joven esposa de Julien. Observándolos, se familiariza con la vida y los ritos del amor. Soñando con Joachim, el hijo de Julien, comienza el despertar de su sensualidad. Antes de finalizar sus vacaciones, Faustine entra en la vida adulta, confrontando sus sueños y la realidad.