Henri Bloom
Un director de cine ve cómo su vida sufre un vuelco cuando su examante regresa cuando está a punto de iniciar el rodaje de su próxima película.
Balthazar Rutuola
Georges Nail vive en un barrio nuevo. Está casado, ama a su esposa, hijo y perro. Paul Hammer es guapo, rico e inteligente. Pero él está destrozado por su severo juicio del mundo y el deseo de ser parte de él. Un día, sus caminos se encuentran. Nail ve este encuentro como una oportunidad para crear una nueva amistad. Por su parte, Hammer lo ve como una nueva razón para vivir: para crucificar la imagen perfecta del hombre feliz occidental y su encarnación en la persona de Georges Nail. Un clavo es la víctima perfecta para un martillo.
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known and a host of sometimes eccentric, often remarkable everyday people, Vincent really begins to start living again.
Poussin
Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her bedroom. Without being able to reconstruct the course of the last few hours, but convinced that she was not completely to blame, she decides to flee. Wherever she is, all bridges are cut, a certain Louis-Philippe, however, curiously always knows how to find her and keeps her informed of the outcome of the "affair". But Louis-Philippe does not tell everything. What is he hiding? Who is who? Who is lying, fabricating, denying, who is the other's denier? And what really happened?
Claude Doniol
Power and corruption—and the men who rule with them—are ruthlessly scrutinized in this multilayered French work set in a shadow realm of arms dealers and blood ties. Part Shakespearean family tragedy, part political noir, it recalls such American paranoid thrillers of the 1970s as All the President’s Men and Marathon Man, revealing protagonists who work in the shadows, the unseen kings of the contemporary jungle.
Screenplay
Detective Sebők is shot at by a fleeing criminal and then pushed off the road. Sebők breaks his leg. Left by his wife, pensioned by his boss on the basis of false reports, he has a clash with banker Gömöri at the colonel’s party.
Director
Detective Sebők is shot at by a fleeing criminal and then pushed off the road. Sebők breaks his leg. Left by his wife, pensioned by his boss on the basis of false reports, he has a clash with banker Gömöri at the colonel’s party.
Making of Jean Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)
Le gardien
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.
Jean
Fanfan leaves his friend Charles and thinks he can be accommodated by his friend, Joss. However, at the same time, Joss abandons the marital home. Fanfan and Joss have only to knock on the door of Manu, Fanfan's sister, who gathers them until Mytch, Manu's companion, throws everyone out. The three young women find themselves in the street and continue their run, while their lovers gang up to track them down. The mini-war of the sexes will flare up.
Ytzhok Kahn
La historia sobre la ascensión de una chica judía de clase baja que vivía en un guetto londinense para etnias desfavorecidas hasta llegar a los escenarios de la capital convirtiéndose en actriz de éxito. Esther siente que lleva tiempo al márgen del resto de personas, pero sobre todo de su pobre familia, cuyos miembros trabajan todos en el negocio de la lavandería. Su vida pega un giro de 180 grados cuando realiza una "performance" en un teatro yiddish, y queda marcada para siempre por este hecho, sabiendo desde el justo momento que su propósito en la vida es convertirse en actriz.
Alex gets a well-paid job from his friend Zsolt: he must smuggle drugs from Germany. Alex wants to run away with the money to France, but suffering a car crash he loses his eyesight. One night, calling from a phone box in the street, he makes the acquaintance of a Hungarian woman living in a seaside town in Germany,
This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.
Charlie Rosen
El fallecimiento de su marido, propietario de una prestigiosa joyería, deja en la bancarrota a una mujer burguesa adicta al alcohol. Cuando descubre un cofre secreto que pertenecía a su esposo, con siete valiosos diamantes, su vida dará un giro de 180 grados, pero una amenaza acechará su recién adquirida felicidad...
Charlie Rosen
A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him.
Poetic movie about 3 generations of women.
Le père de Louise (voice)
La historia sigue la pista a tres mujeres jóvenes en París. Una desea conocer a su verdadera madre, desde que ha averiguado que fue dada en adopción; otra ha salido de un coma de cinco años, y trata de recuperar el tiempo perdido y encontrar el amor; la tercera vive una vida marginal en los bajos fondos, y trata de redimirse a través del amor. (FILMAFFINITY)
Self
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
Le père de Gilles
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.
Jack Valenti: The producer
A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," offering up a series of typically Godardian musings on art, politics, the nature of images and the future of cinema.
Pastelero
Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they end up finding Alberto who lives with Júlia on a hill somewhere in the Alentejo. Without informing that Maria is their daughter, they try little by little to know why she abandoned her. When they know the reasons, they both plan revenge ... and execute it.
David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that bound him to the Countess Clara Orsini had ended with a flight to the other side of the world. The woman he finds on the day of the appointment is not the one he loved, but another, his double, his own daughter who bears the same name of Clara. Intimate ties are formed between them as they wander through Rome.
Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and want Horváth to be much more active politically, but he is more concerned about his affair with his best friend's daughter.
Kovacs
A tribute to Orson Welles. When Kovacs meets Agi, he does not know what awaits him: cinema, alcohol and love do not mix well when you are a Hungarian director parachuted into Hollywood...
Bernheim
In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for their gardens. These were actual people who were willing to live in squalid conditions and serve as something like museum exhibits for the amusement of the wealthy. This movie takes that notion and transfers it to 18th century France. In the story, an English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.
After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who happens to be the man who directed his mother's last film.
Marais
Un joven psiquiatra trata de ayudar a una joven en un asilo que ha sido acusada de haber matado a una adolescente. Pero cuando ella se escapa y el va tras ella, se ve envuelto en un misterio mucho mayor que el de una mujer con problemas psiquiátricos.
Paul Hamburger
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
Russian Interrogator
Tomás es médico y un mujeriego empedernido en la Checoslovaquia de los 60, un hombre apolítico que es herido de amor por Teresa, una chica de pueblo. Sabina, su amante más sofisticada, acaba por aceptar la relación de Tomás con Teresa, y entre las dos mujeres nace una buena amistad. Los tres se ven envueltos en la Primavera de Praga (1968), y cuando los tanques soviéticos aplastan a los rebeldes no-violentos, sus ilusiones se hacen añicos y sus vidas cambian para siempre.
Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this event in solitude. Unfortunately for him, his young girlfriend, an unperceptive sprite, is too much in love with him to let him out of her sight. He is on his way to a resort in the south of France, and despite his persistent, obvious and repeated attempts to get her to leave him alone, she sticks to him like glue.
Writer
During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to know the lives of the drunkard teacher, his husband-cheating wife, the lonely music teacher hiding behind her paper flowers, the wise count deprived of all his properties, the jovial parish priest and especially the buffalo owner of tragic fate who lost his four daughters, alongside with the young protagonist.
Director
During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to know the lives of the drunkard teacher, his husband-cheating wife, the lonely music teacher hiding behind her paper flowers, the wise count deprived of all his properties, the jovial parish priest and especially the buffalo owner of tragic fate who lost his four daughters, alongside with the young protagonist.
Terrorist
The story revolves around two objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century aristocratic portrait. As these items are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to another, a giddy round dance of excess begins to take shape, one which suggests that if history doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose other co-writing credits include Repulsion and Tess, Otar Iosseliani uses a feather-light touch to expose the futility of class and social order, making a bagatelle of the concerns of rich and poor alike.
Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)
Tras la representación en formato teatro de apartamento de una de sus obras, el autor teatral Clément Roquemaure (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) propone a los actores, Charlotte (Géraldine Chaplin), Emily (Jane Birkin) y Silvano (Facundo Bo), participar en la representación de su siguiente obra. Para ello deberán trasladarse a la casa de Roquemaure, en las afueras y ensayar durante una semana la obra, de la que sólo conocerán el final en el momento de su representación. En la misma casa viven Paul (André Dussollier), mago de profesión, que mantiene con Roquemaure una relación entre la amistad y la rivalidad, y Virgil (Laszlo Szabo), el mayordomo. En el curso de la semana se suceden los ensayos, al tiempo que las actrices van descubriendo los secretos de una casa en la que se oyen extraños sonidos y en la que existe una habitación prohibida. El espectro de una mujer desaparecida, Béatrice (Isabelle Linnartz), flota tanto sobre la obra como en las relaciones de los personajes...
Le marionnettiste
A man caught in the midst of the events of Algeria is experiencing a new but fleeting happiness with a young Algerian.
Painter at Cafe
Louise, una mujer joven e inquieta, siente la necesidad de tener un espacio propio al margen de su posesivo novio. Para ello, alquila un pequeño apartamento en París. Convencida de que todavía no está preparada para la vida de pareja, Louise se embarca en una serie de relaciones superficiales, sólo para descubrir que uno no sabe lo que tiene hasta que lo ha perdido. Cuarta entrega de la serie "Comedias y proverbios".
Writer
A man is shot down in a provincial airport. Despite his wounds he manages to drag himself to his plane bound for Italy, unaware that the killers are already waiting for him at his destination. During the flight he reminisces about the events that led him there. His name is Matou and he was a Formula 1 champion before being banned from racing circuits for causing a fatal accident. Matou ran away in the company of Lena, his employer's girlfriend. But while they were in the open country they got shot at by mysterious pursuers, which was the beginning of a wild manhunt.
Le directeur
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.
N°282
Reel 29 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.
Kovács százados
Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself.
Laszlo
Jerzy, un director polaco, está rodando un filme sobre pinturas famosas. Isabelle, una muchacha tartamuda de clase obrera, pierde su trabajo. Ambos se conocen, se convierten en amantes y se van a vivir a Polonia.
László / Gérard
1943. French POWs escape through Hungary towards the Balkan. Jacques and Gérard are caught and taken to an internment camp at Lake Balaton. Jacques meets Klári here, who was abandoned by her military officer husband for her Jewish origin. Both want to have a short affair, but love unfolds between them.
Lieutnant Bergen
Durante la ocupación de París por las tropas alemanas, un grupo de actores trata de sacar adelante una obra de teatro. Nadie sospecha que, en el sótano del edificio, se oculta el director del grupo, un hombre de origen judío que desde su escondrijo dirige la obra a través de las indicaciones que da a su mujer, que es la protagonista.
Inspecteur Paluche
Írnok
The second in command of a group of highwaymen, the only ones left of Hungary's freedom fighters in the late 17th century, has a wife who really, really wants him to come home and stop gallivanting around the countryside. The only way he can figure to do this is to inform on the group to the authorities in as harmless a manner as possible. Unfortunately, these betrayals cause the group to lose many men, and the traitor grows fearful of the authorities. He gives officials every scrap of information he has in return for a full pardon, and he returns home. His wife, when she hears of these events, is infuriated. Such betrayal is far in excess of anything she can condone, and she kills him. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
A másik nyomozó
The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.
N°282
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Léo Frankel
Duc Naimes / Chevalier hongrois
Francia, Edad Media. Los comediantes que se dirigen en peregrinación hacia Santiago de Compostela recitan La Chanson de Roland a los aldeanos que se van encontrando en las diversas etapas del camino.
Le contact de Sarah Robski
Dominique Auphal, un brillante diplomático francés es trasladado a Luxemburgo, donde para los Servicios Secretos, que lo tienen bajo vigilancia, pasa a ser un dossier más: el dossier 51. En adelante, su vida privada será minuciosamente observada y cada uno de sus gestos, analizado y comentado. Una historia de espionaje con pequeñas dosis de humor sarcástico.
Joseph Boczov
A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.
Jóska
Kata es una joven viuda que trabaja en una fábrica. Resignada a su gris existencia, con una vida de duro trabajo y viviendo en la soledad, la única cosa que dará un toque de color a su vida es su relación con un trabajador de la fábrica, casado, que ha decidido no dejar a su familia, posición que Kata acepta y respeta. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
Director
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd a huge herd of cattle through the country torn to three parts, to the Dalmatian coast, where he can get weapons in exchange, for fighting the Austrians.
Jo
In this French crime caper film, a young misfit (Jacques Higelin) who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld characters ask him to share the layout of the bank so that they can more effectively rob it, he does. He also joins in the robbery. But when members of the gang start shooting at one another, it becomes clear that he is definitely in over his head.
Writer
Crime thriller.
Director
Crime thriller.
Lazlo
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
Secret police man
El guión de Jorge Semprún se basa en el libro homónimo de Artur London que narra en primera persona las purgas estalinistas de las que fueron víctimas los disidentes del Partido Comunista checoslovaco, entre ellos el propio London. Estas purgas tuvieron lugar en el famoso Proceso de Praga de 1952.
Assistant Director
The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.
Szabó mérnök
Juli is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is befriended by Piri, a girl with an unsavory reputation who has worked there before. The two friends are ogled by male workers who have overactive libidos and imaginations. Juli spurns the advances of a deluded Romeo while Piri continues to work and endure open hostility from the older female workers while her slothful parents sink deeper into alcoholism.
Szõlõsgazda
Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her husband. She lives a wealthy and lonely life amidst false friends, facing one of the last alternatives of her life, i.e. having to face her past in the hope of an independent new beginning.
At a reception, the guests amuse themselves with cruel games.
Bandi
Laci and the divorced Klári decide to commit suicide, since neither's parents give them shelter, they have no place to sleep, no decent job and no future. Béla, who lives on stealing cars, joins them. He has a gun. Based on a true story.
Detective
Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women. Due to the generosity of these women and a former childhood pal...
Francia autós (uncredited)
A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle exploitation inherent in the apparently freer existence of young girls in the contemporary city.
"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher, the work has been praised despite, and sometimes for, its lack of message.
Paul Widmark
Paula Nelson deberá investigar en Atlantic City (Francia) la muerte de su amante, investigación que se presentará peligrosa debido a la atención que ésta consigue despertar entre los mafiosos de la ciudad. Inspirada en el cine negro americano, Godard realiza un ejercicio de intriga de deliberada incoherencia narrativa.
L'Exilé Politique (uncredited)
Ferdinand Griffon, alias 'Pierrot', huye de París con Marianne, la niñera que ha contratado su esposa. La pareja se dirige al sur de Francia, pero el viaje se torna muy peligroso cuando una banda de gángsters con los que Marianne está implicada, les va pisando los talones.
Chief Engineer (uncredited)
A Alphaville, una ciudad futurista situada en otro planeta, llega el periodista Ivan Johnson, siguiendo la pista del profesor Von Braun. Los otros agentes que le han precedido, Dick Tracy y Flash Gordon, han muerto. Von Braun, apodado Nosferatu, es el creador de Alpha 60, la máquina que comanda la vida mental de los habitantes de la ciudad.
A la muerte de su padre, Yvan ve cómo su madre se casa con el hermano de su difunto esposo, y empieza a sospechar.
Laszlo
Año 1958, durante la guerra de Francia Argelia. Bruno Forestier, un desertor del ejército francés refugiado en Ginebra, acuerda trabajar para una organización antiterrorista en contra del país africano.
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
Injured Man (uncredited)
Nana (Anna Karina) es una joven veinteañera de provincias que abandona a su marido y a su hijo para intentar iniciar una carrera como actriz en París. Sin dinero, para financiar su nueva vida comienza a trabajar en una tienda de discos en la que no gana mucho dinero. Al no poder pagar el alquiler, su casera la echa de casa, motivo por el que Nana decide ejercer la prostitución.
An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.
(uncredited)
El Zar Alejandro II (1855-1881) toma como amante a la bella estudiante Katia, lo que supone un fulgurante ascenso social para la joven, que llega incluso a recibir el título de princesa. En la corte del zar, donde las intrigas se suceden sin tregua y Katia se convertirá en el epicentro de una de ellas cuyo objetivo es el asesinato del zar de todas las Rusias.
Vlado
Retrato de la alta sociedad francesa. Leda, el ligue del señor Marcoux, es asesinada. Su familia prefiere dejar que la policía inculpe a un inocente, que no pertenece al círculo familiar, pero el prometido de la hija de Marcoux no está de acuerdo.
