Gérard de Battista

Documentary on director Jean-Denis Bonan

30-year-old Djemila, a single jurist, at last has her own apartment... a few steps away from her parents' place. A French woman of North African extraction, she does everything she can to hide her origins. Emma, her nutty and broke neighbor, struggles to raise her two children alone. Although these two women have nothing in common, a deep friendship forms between them because of their mutual love of music.

Adaptación de la novela homónima de François Mauriac (publicada en 1927). Se centra en Thérèse, una joven mujer libre de principios del siglo XX. Casada por obligación con Bernard Desqueyroux, insensible a los placeres de la carne, insatisfecha en el plano intelectual y, en general, aburrida de esperar, Thérèse, en un arrebato absurdo y desesperado, intenta envenenar a su esposo. Una vez desenmascarada, Thérèse cae en desgracia al haber deshonrado a su familia y a su marido. Ahora, además, tendrá que enfrentarse a la justicia.

A French video artist traverses Canada on a train that takes her from the east to the west through the snow. This journey leads her to encounter the last girlfriend of her ex-husband, an internationally respected showman who is now dead. Each of the two women will try to understand how the "man of their life" loved and lived with the other. See how they dance.

A documentary drama retelling the shift of Mitterand's policy. In May 1981, F.Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic, after more than twenty years in the opposition. He wants to change the life; he believes in the supremacy of politics over economics. He wants it to be fast and executes his programme to realise the socialist transformation. Two years later, Pierre Mauroy and Jacques Delors introduce an unprecedented austerity plan and open the parenthesis of austerity... that would never be closed.

Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see her family for years, Judith, in spite of her fears and secrets, allows herself to be influenced by her children's wishes and accepts an invitation to their cousin's wedding. They set off to spend a summer in the old country, discovering their roots and their past. But Judith's return revives old hatreds between rival clans. The spiral of violence is inexorably set in motion, blood will tell...

En la Francia de la posguerra, "Un secret" narra el descubrimiento de un oscuro secreto de una familia judía francesa. Una historia vista a través de los ojos de un fantasioso hijo único llamado François, que no sólo se inventa un hermano mayor, sino también el pasado de sus padres. El día que cumple quince años se le desvela una verdad conmovedora..

Judith Ralitzer, mujer fatal y escritora de éxito busca los personajes para su próximo best-seller. Un asesino en serie se escapa del psiquiátrico. A Huguette, una ingenua peluquera parisina, la abandona su novio en una estación de servicio. Algunos encuentros son más decisivos que otros...

A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.

This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.

Cuando su marido se queda sin trabajo, Chantal acude a un vidente poco recomendable en busca de ayuda.

Two middle-aged friends meet a beautiful woman whom they set out to seduce. She invites them but only has eyes for one man: François Mitterrand.

Vénus es un salón de belleza de barrio en el que, además de los tratamientos estéticos, se dan consejos, se escuchan los problemas graves o leves de las clientas. Se venden cremas, elixires, relajación, sol de mentira... Nadine es la dueña y tiene tres tres esteticistas: Samantha, Marie y Angèle. Angèle hace tiempo que trabaja allí. Se ha amoldado perfectamente a aquel universo rosa, atenta y tranquila, desconectada del tiempo y del ruido.

Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see each other and communicate... But definitely not for the best!

The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa in Japan during World War 2. She searches the Internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses. The extraordinary circumstances of the Battle of Okinawa lead Laura to reflect deeply on her own life and humanity in general, particularly the influence of history and memories.

Loli es una infeliz mujer casada con Laurent, un hombre machista y del que sospecha que tiene aventuras extramatrimoniales. Sin embargo, su vida está a punto de cambiar cuando conoce a otra mujer, Marijo, camionera de profesión, a la que casualmente conoce cuando su camión sufre una avería justo enfrente de su casa. Loli nunca había sospechado que pudiera ser lesbiana, pero se sentirá atraída por Marijo. César al mejor guión del año y récord de recaudación en Francia en 1995.

Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…

Victorine (Grinberg) vive en los suburbios de Marsella y lleva una vida rutinaria y sombría. Sueña con vivir y amar, con que su madre deje de hacer tonterías, con que su padre alcohólico (Marcello Mastroianni) deje de beber. Paul (Oliver Martinez), su primer amor, muere asesinado. Cuando encuentra a Maurice, enseguida tiene dos hijos. Y la vida continúa igual para Victorine.

Three young female prisoners become friends while stranded in a provincial train station.

Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits

En 1954, durante un invierno especialmente frio y duro, mientras unos se ven obligados a dormir en la calle, otros encuentran asilo en la casa del Abad Pierre, un antiguo diputado que perteneció a la Resistencia y que ahora consagra su vida a cuidar de los más desfavorecidos. Presenta en el Senado un proyecto de "Casas de emergencia" como refugio para albergar durante el invierno a las personas sin hogar. La muerte de un bebé por congelación lo lleva a lanzar un estremecedor mensaje desde la radio, que es publicado en las páginas de "Le Figaro", lo que servirá para reforzar su propuesta.

Baudin (Michel Serrault) and Tayar (Wadeck Stanczak) become trapped in a movie theater while trying to fend off a gang of marauding juvenile thugs. The two agree to settle their personal differences in their fight over a pretty female in order to halt the violent siege.

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.

Víctor, obrero, y Germinal, peluquero, son miembros activos de la Resistencia y no quieren que sus familias se enteren. Sin embargo, un día Blanche, la esposa de Víctor, y Marie, la hija de Germinal, los descubren. Marie, refugiada en la casa de su abuelo y simpatizante de Pétain, se convierte en contacto, mientras que Blanche abre su casa a los hombres de la Resistencia. Ella descubre entonces que su madre Louise, es igualmente un agente activo...

Francia se para. Todo el mundo deja de trabajar y cada uno reflexiona. Se trata de construir una nueva sociedad basada en otros valores y estructurada de un modo diferente. Pero, ¿es posible?

Married with two kids, beautiful Claire has everything to be happy. But her husband, a businesman, is often absent. When her kids go on a ski holiday Claire finds herself alone. Distraught, she goes out one evening with her friend Gisèle and meets a fashion designer, named Michel. Spark fly and Claire winds up getting seduced by him. Fallen in the trap of adultery: will the young woman be able to accept all her lover's fantasies?

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?

Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. “Settling in the Spanish capital to make a documentary, Hanoun sketches out for us the different steps involved in making a film. The author turns his hesitations, his doubts and difficult working conditions into the constituents of his work”. (Raphaël Bassan)

A couple is lost in a town where everyone speaks some strange language, and they can't find their way out.