Yann Collette
Nacimiento : 1956-04-14, Cannes, France
Historia
Après un passage à la Rue Blanche, Yann Collette crée en 1978 avec le metteur en scène Pierre Pradinas le théâtre du Chapeau Rouge en Avignon. Un an plus tard, il fait ses débuts au cinéma dans Le Gagnant.
Son physique décalé, son oeil de verre et crâne chauve servent à merveille l'univers d'Enki Bilal avec lequel il collabore en 1989 avec Bunker Palace Hotel puis en 1996 dans Tykho Moon. Cette "gueule" du cinéma français excelle dans les seconds rôles sombres, de personnages retors et violents (La Maison assassinée et Le Bossu), ou en marge de la société chez Vincent Ravalec (Cantique de la racaille, La Merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot toboggan). Ce qui ne l'empêche pas de s'adonner volontiers à la comédie, et compose pour Bernie Bonvoisin un savoureux personnage de flic dans Les Demons de Jesus.
En 1995, il tourne dans Marie-Louise ou la permission, une comédie légère avec Kate Beckinsale où il interprète trois rôles (dont celui d'une nonne). Mais celui qui a débuté au théâtre tourne avec des réalisateurs qui le rapprochent de son travail sur les planches : préparation longue, répétitions... C'est le cas avec Philippe Garrel (J'entends plus la guitare) ou encore Jacques Rivette (Jeanne la Pucelle, les prisons).
Detective Morcini
Paris, verano de 1979. Anne, una productora de películas porno gay baratas, es una mujer violenta, víctima del alcohol y de sus propios demonios. Cuando Loïs, su editora y pareja, la abandona tras años de relación, Anne queda destrozada. Desesperada y decidida a reconquistarla, hace una película mucho más ambiciosa. Pero un asesino misterioso enmascarado merodea en su entorno y esto alterará su vida.
Tom
France in the early 60s. Simon, a wrestler, wears a white mask. In the ring, he is known as "The Specter". He suggests to his friend Victor who has just returned from combat to be his adversary in the ring and wear a black mask, and be known as "The Slaughterer of Belleville". But for Victor, still shaken from his experience in combat, this is too much; for once in his life he would like to be the good guy, the one people cheer on. Simon then suggests they switch masks. But it proves less easy to fool the rest of the wrestling crowd...
Bechet
Sonia Bergerac, una profesora de un instituto conflicitivo, donde la mayoría de los estudiantes son inmigrantes árabes y negros, está desquiciada de tanto lidiar con sus irrespetuosos y agresivos alumnos. Un día, durante una clase, descubre una pistola en la mochila de un chico, la coge y, dominada por la confusión y los nervios, la usa para retener a los chicos como rehenes.
Attila
El film narra la historia de una prisión espacial de alta seguridad(llamada “Dante 01“) que orbita un planeta llamado Dante, y adonde sólo envían a los psicópatas más peligrosos, pero no para encerrarles de por vida entre rejas, sino para utilizarles como cobayas humanas en extraños y terribles experimentos. Hasta que un día, César (Dominique Pinon), uno de los reclusos allí, decide liderar una rebelión que acabe con todo lo llevado a cabo en ese lugar, hasta que llega Saint Georges (Lambert Wilson), un misterioso prisionero poseído por una fuerza secreta que, cuando aprenda a controlar, empleará para acabar con la hostilidad de sus compañeros presos y liberarlos de la maligna atracción de Dante.
le capitaine Orlac
A psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran to the edge of insanity.
Colonel de Marcieu
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
Froebe
Nueva York 2095. En una extraña pirámide que flota en el cielo, los antiguos dioses egipcios están juzgando al dios Horus. En la ciudad, una joven llorosa de cabello azul es arrestada, aunque posee un gran poder, un poder oculto del que ni siquiera ella es consciente.
Le consul
Shimkent hôtel tells the story of a young man who's experienced the failure of a business venture in the Afghan mountains, and who suffers from shock in Kazakhstan.
Sandra
In a nightmarish future, the wealthy elite maintain The Circle, a stratum of society that can use technology for regeneration, although it's unclear if a person is regenerated into reality or if this New Life is a cyber world. Thomas Steiner is regenerated, thanks to his mother, and it seems her goal is for him to lose his homosexuality. He awakens from his regeneration with memories of Kazo, a man he loved. He goes in search of him. But, was Kazo ever real? And what will mother make of this son who leaves the safety of The Circle in search of something else?
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.
Col. Pernod
In the eleventh film in the series, in December 1916, Indy, still stationed in Africa, is promoted to Captain and then ordered to cross the jungle with Remy and Captain Boucher to pick up a shipment of weaponry. Along the way, Ubangan Sergeant Barthélèmy picks up the sole surviving child from a disease-ravaged village despite Boucher's orders against it. On the way back, Indy and company succumb to disease themselves, and are picked up by Albert Schweitzer and the orderlies from his jungle hospital. At first resistant to being treated by a German, Indy soon begins to realize that Schweitzer is not interested in war, only attempting to cure people against all odds.
Gilles
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.
Peyrolles
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
Morizot
Set in the late 1960s, a family of Gypsies live in a dilapidated pavilion in the western suburbs of Paris.
Alvin / Edward
Todos los hombres de la familia McBee sufren una misteriosa enfermedad y necesitan un trasplante de órganos. El donante perfecto es Tykho Moon, que probablemente ha sido asesinado, aunque según ciertos rumores sigue vivo.
Les Collette
Star crossed lovers are the focus of this French romantic comedy. Marie-Louise, an American, has come to Paris to meet her new lover, Jean-Paul who has a weekend pass from his military service post. Unfortunately they misunderstood each other's instructions and are each at different train stations. They begin desperate searches throughout the night to find each other. The are hindered by Jean-Paul's ex-lover Marie, whom he rejected. Marie will do anything to get rid of Marie-Louise and win Jean-Paul back. Marie-Louise has her own problems when Jean falls for her. Jean accidently gets her involved with the police after he is arrested on the suspicion of pickpocketing. Despite their travails, the couple still tries to find each other. In the end, they are assisted by a magical nun who finally reunites them.
“Traveling is not just going places, but meeting people, remarks a character in Michèle Rosier's refreshing human comedy. 18 people board a tour bus to Mont-Saint-Michel, eager and jittery — cameras aimed, desires out of focus. The motley crew includes a maturing maid mad to marry, a discreet Irishman, a pompous bourgeois, and a mysterious lady in Renaissance attire who looks as though she's lost her castle.No matches made in heaven here; in fact, the characters seem bent on driving each other crazy before the tour's end.When the bus is attacked by highway thieves, and its occupants divested of jewels and money, the misadventure makes them accomplice ... a kind of spell is cast on these mere mortals, shaken from their moorings, who quit their banality and take off from the big bus into another space, outward bound.” — Joan Dupont
Coroner
En el mundo de la moda, el acontecimiento del año es la presentación en París de las colecciones de prêt-à-porter. Allí acuden diseñadores, modelos, fotógrafos, periodistas y famosos, aunque los auténticos protagonistas son las envidias y las rivalidades personales. Este año, el asesinato del jefe de la Chambre Sindical de la moda los ha convertido a todos en sospechosos.
Jean-Yves
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.
Jean de Luxembourg
Continuación de "Juana de Arco I - Las batallas". Después de la derrota francesa en la batalla de Orleáns, Juana de Arco (1412-1431) es arrestada y enviada a prisión. En dos procesos separados, es acusada de herejía y condenada a morir en la hoguera.
Jean de Luxembourg
Jeanne the Maid leaves her childhood home in Domremy after hearing what she is sure was the voice of God. She believes that she can help lead France to victory on the battlefield, and she persuades Charles, dauphin of France to allow her to guide his troops.
Stéphane Marie
A young girl sees the theater in which her parents play burn down, and they disappear in the fire. Twenty years later, the orphan girl, who has become an actress, is summoned by a director who wants to remount the play and offers her the role of her mother on condition that she finds the text. Immediately, and as if by magic, the father, like the ghost of the opera, reappears and dictates his conditions for access.
Jean
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.
Gaspard
Tired of Parisian life, Louis de Nueil settles in a provincial village to rest from his hectic life. But he quickly gets bored. He then meets Fanny de Lussange, as beautiful as she is mysterious. The young man decides to court Fanny.
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.
Santoni
Arnaud Gensac, unlucky inspector, loses his police card, which falls into the hands of a graphic designer who witnesses the murder of a kingpin. And serious trouble begins for Arnaud.
Martin
For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.
Orsini
La historia trata de la caída de una dictadura imaginaria. Las clases dirigentes derrocadas se refugian en el Bunker Palace Hotel, construido para esta clase de contingencias; entre ellos se infiltra un espía rebelde.
Le voyageur
Una hija de doce años, Louise sueña con imitar a su madre venerada, Nora. De repente, se enfrenta a una situación ambigua: cómo seguir amándola a pesar de Helmut, su adolescente amante, cuya presencia se le impone. Pero también por qué no tratar de seducirlo. Los sentimientos de la niña se confunden, recurrirá a un intento de suicidio para hacerse notar, para demostrar que existe, para tener éxito y moverse.
Patrice Dupin
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared. Whilst Sébastien is being seduced by Charmaine, Dupin is killed by someone else. Sébastien’s next victim, the miller Didon Pujol, is also murdered before he has a chance to take his revenge. Sébastien realises that someone is watching his every move and is going to extraordinary lengths to protect him. But who, and why..?
Andrzej Zulawski
Después de un exitoso robo a un banco, Micky espera recuperar a su novia Mary, que le ha sido arrebatada. En el camino a París se encuentra con Leon, un soñador neurótico a quien considera un idiota. Leon apenas puede entender lo que Micky está haciendo, pero lo sigue a todas partes y pronto se enamora de Mary.
Artois
Julien, an honest policeman, is asked to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He soon meets the charming Brigitte. But soon, manipulated by his superior, Julien finds himself involved in a dangerous affair: a gigantic campaign of intoxication.
