Pascal Chauvin

It’s summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet’s Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist painting of today’s France.

Eloïse is sitting alone on a bench in Paris. She can't remember who she is, where she comes from or how did she get here. So, she begins a funny investigation on her life. This amnesia might help her finding love and reinventing her life.

Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a tragedy of which he is the only survivor, embarks on the search for the mysterious and cruel Võ Bình Yên, one of the leaders of the insurrection.

The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers. She will quickly have to adapt to and assimilate the rules that apply within the institution. But Laure is a determined woman, and she has a thirst for knowledge – still. A thirst to learn to get to know and be comfortable with herself, and to find her place.

A kindhearted seventeen-year-old in the American Southwest turns to prostitution to fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco.

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles in a region with many lakes and rivers, which is isolated enough to allow him to live a peaceful life. Then, one day, during an aquatic escapade, he encounters Lucie.

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.

パリ在住の80代の夫婦、ジョルジュとアンヌ。共に音楽教師で、娘はミュージシャンとして活躍と、充実した日々を送っていた。ある日、教え子が開くコンサートに出向いた2人だが、そこでアンヌが病で倒れてしまう。病院に緊急搬送され、かろうじて死だけは免れたものの、半身まひという重い後遺症が残ってしまう。家に帰りたいというアンヌの強い願いから、自宅で彼女の介護を始めるジョルジュ。しかし、少しずつアンヌの症状は悪化していき、ついに死を選びたいと考えるようになり……。

サイレントからトーキーへと移り変わるころのハリウッドを舞台に、スター俳優の葛藤と愛を美しいモノクロ映像でつづるサイレント映画。アカデミー作品賞、監督賞、主演男優賞など5部門を受賞。 1927年のハリウッドで、サイレント映画のスターとして君臨していたジョージ・ヴァレンティン（ジャン・デュジャルダン）は、新作の舞台あいさつで新人女優ペピー（ベレニス・ベジョ）と出会う。その後オーディションを経て、ジョージの何げないアドバイスをきっかけにヒロインを務めるほどになったペピーは、トーキー映画のスターへと駆け上がる。一方ジョージは、かたくなにサイレントにこだわっていたが、自身の監督・主演作がヒットせず……。

1992年、南米コロンビア。麻薬組織のマフィアたちに目の前で両親を惨殺された9歳の少女カトレヤは、その場を逃れてシカゴでギャングとして生きるエミリオ（クリフ・カーティス）に身を寄せる。彼のもとで殺しのスキルを習得していったカトレヤ（ゾーイ・サルダナ）は、美しいプロの殺し屋として成長する。その技術を駆使して両親を殺した者たちに復讐（ふくしゅう）を果たそうと、彼らの所在を探りながら、殺しを重ねていくカトレヤ。だが、FBIやCIAをはじめとする捜査機関が、そんな彼女をマークし、行方を追い始める。

It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing. Her father's friend, Felipe, would love to marry her, and he invites her to an aviation show. She accepts his invitation only because she knows Jacques is a pilot and will be there. Soon, she'll carry his child, and he'll be gone, and the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy...

Mehdi is an algérien writer that fundamentalist violence has transformed into a potential target. How to live with fear when everything is fear. But also life. Facing Mehdi is Ania, an algerian-born Frenchwoman, the woman next door. She often appears at her window on the court. A disturbing vis-à-vis. Ania will unceasingly try to convert this man to the culture of life, to burning passion. By bringing him tea regularly, risking to often find the door closed...

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

互いに大事な人を殺し、運命的に出会ったふたりの女の子。意気投合し、あてのない逃避行の旅に出る。現金や銃を強奪し、男を誘惑してセックスしては殺していく“無敵のガールズ”ナディーヌとマニュの行き着く先は…。

Although deeply in love with her boyfriend — and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him — a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, including a developing one with the headmaster.

While France is on strike, Jean, a Parisian bookseller, opens his shop. A former trade unionist, he has in fact decided not to take part in the movement. However, a phone call from his friend René awakens his enthusiasm.

A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants of Sepuvedra, a free-trade port. The government and the army are convinced that they have been kidnapped by aliens and Professor Larsen, an eminent astrophysicist and UFO expert, is assigned to lead an urgent investigative mission into the deserted town.

After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back. Confused by the religious explanations provided by adults, and challenged by the cruel taunts of a few children at school, little Ponette must make her way through her emotional turmoil.

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.

In 1980s Paris, a series of murders captures public attention. Meanwhile, the gorgeous Daiga moves from Lithuania to Paris, immigrant musician Théo struggles to raise his young son, and Théo's brother, a gay transvestite named Camille, sings and dances in a cabaret for a living. All three grapple with isolation and the problems of modern living, but one of them could be so desperately alienated that they have a hand in the serial murders.

16世紀フランス、摂政のカトリーヌは対立するカトリックとプロテスタントを和解させるため、娘マルゴを政略結婚させる。文豪デュマ原作の小説をパトリス・シェローが監督した歴史大作。

恋に落ちた男女の嵐のような情愛の日々と、愛の激しさゆえの狂気と悲劇的末路を描く。ジャン＝ユーグ・アングラードとベアトリス・ダルの強烈な演技も見もののカルト映画。