Jean-Pierre Laforce

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.

The moment a teenage girl begins to “spread her wings” coincides with a global health crisis. Locked indoors, she experiences life in a state of limbo. In between reveries and video chats with her friends, she follows an influencer named Patricia Coma. A device she buys from her, called a “revelator”, leads her to question how much free will she actually has.

Who is this Karim D. ? The new young writer whom the media can't get enough of? Or his alias, Arthur Rambo, the author of old hate-fuellled messages which are dredged up, one day, from social media websites?

Rome, 1968: at the pinnacle of his artistic career, Pino Pascali died in an accident. 50 years later the Pascali Museum in Apulia—where Pino was born—buys and exhibits one of his works. This is the story of a work of art returning to its origins told through Pino Musi and Pino Pascali’s photographs.

Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.

Gabrielle is a "statue" for tourists, much to the chagrin of her teenage son. Elsa is in angry at the world and desperate to become pregnant. Mao is a chronically depressed video game designer who drowns his melancholy in alcohol and psychoanalysis. They are brother and sisters but do not hang out. Ever. Their parents Pierre and Claudine, separated for a long time, have really done nothing to strengthen the bonds of the family - yet, at their grandfather's funeral, they are going to have to meet, and together answer the question: "What to do with grandma?"

Thybald asks Émile, a peculiar detective, to find Claire, his missing girlfriend, allegedly kidnapped. In the course of his investigation, Émile finds something more.

Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.

1983年夏、北イタリアの避暑地で家族と過ごす17歳のエリオは、大学教授の父が招待した年上の大学院生オリヴァーと出会う。一緒に自転車で散策したり泳いだり、読書したり音楽を聴いたりするうちに、エリオはオリヴァーに恋心を抱く。やがてその思いは通じるが、夏の終わりが近づくにつれてオリヴァーが避暑地を去る日が近くなる。

An impressive visual and sonorous experience through the meanders of the Danube, from its delta in the Black Sea to Serbia, in search of the gypsy people (or the Roma) and their music and culture.

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.

Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.

A film in three parts: An aquarium, a man sitting at a table reading various text passages, and a sequence from Jean Renoir’s film LA MARSEILLAISE. This is all from a film by Jean-Marie Straub – about fate, the soul and the cosmos, about the evident nature in which man lives, just like in the aquarium surrounding him. And finally, there’s the nation as a symbol for the community of free people. A Straub film represents a gift that isn’t based on exchange, but rather the opposite of communication. And what could be more beautiful and liberating in life?

In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.

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.

Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.

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……。

Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love.

Marizette, Christiane, Pierre, Léon, and José… are some of the people, funny and moving, united together in a merciless struggle to save their land. A determined and joyful fight, but one that is also very trying and dangerous.

A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its inhabitants, as they are exposed in their silent but eloquent home movies.

ある日、カナダで暮らす双子の姉弟ジャンヌ（メリッサ・デゾルモー＝プーラン）とシモン（マキシム・ゴーデット）の母親ナワル（ルブナ・アザバル）が永眠する。後日、長年彼女を秘書として雇っていた公証人（レミー・ジラール）により、母の遺言が読み上げられる。その内容は、所在がわからない自分たちの父と兄に手紙を渡してほしいというもので……。 『渦』のドゥニ・ヴィルヌーヴが監督と脚本を務め、レバノン出身の劇作家ワジ・ムアワッドの原作を映画化した珠玉の人間ドラマ。中東からカナダに移り住んだある女性の壮絶な人生を、過去と現代を行きつ戻りつしながら映し出す。『パラダイス・ナウ』のルブナ・アザバルが陰のある母親を演じ、その娘を、カナダのテレビで活躍するメリッサ・デゾルモー＝プーランが演じている。過酷な生涯を生きた女性の胸に秘められた思いに涙する。

第一次世界大戦前夜のドイツ北部。プロテスタントの教えを信じる村人たちに、不可解な事故が次々と襲い掛かる。小さな村は不穏な空気に包まれ、村人は疑心暗鬼に陥り、子どもたちは苦悩を感じ始めていた。

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Jean-Marie Straub's first film after the death of Danièlle Huillet is a love poem to her. Le Genou d'Artémide is based on Cesare Pavese's "Dialogues of Leuco", which had already been adapted by Straub et Huillet as Ces Rencontres Avec Eux (2006).

とあるクリスマス。ヴュイヤール家では、母ジュノン（カトリーヌ・ドヌーヴ）の病気をきっかけに、長女エリザベート（アンヌ・コンシニ）、三男イヴァン（メルヴィル・プポー）ら、子どもたちが集まっていた。しかし、絶縁されていた次男アンリ（マチュー・アマルリック）の登場で、穏やかなクリスマスに波風が立ち始める。 フランス映画界を代表する面々が出演し、2008年のセザール賞で9部門にノミネートされたヒューマン・ドラマ。クリスマスに集ったある家族の物語がドラマチックにつづられていく。監督は『キングス＆クイーン』のアルノー・デプレシャン。大女優カトリーヌ・ドヌーヴをはじめ、『潜水服は蝶の夢を見る』のマチュー・アマルリック、『ブロークン』のメルヴィル・プポーらが集っている。豪華キャストによる極上のアンサンブルが魅力だ。

ある演奏会の会場で、かつての友人の妻で、今は未亡人となったセヴリーヌの姿を見かけたアンリ。後を追いかけるアンリだったが、セヴリーヌは彼を避けるようにタクシーに乗り込んでしまう。その後、アンリーはセヴリーヌがピラミッド広場の高級ホテルに宿泊していることを突き止めるが……。＜ルイス・ブニュエル監督、カトリーヌ・ドヌーヴ主演による1960年代の傑作『昼顔』の登場人物たちの38年後を描いた話題作。巨匠マノエル・デ・オリヴェイエラが、昼間は娼婦となった裕福な家庭の貞淑な妻セヴリーヌと、彼女の秘密を知るアンリの偶然の再会を描く。ドヌーヴに代わりセヴリーヌを演じるのはビュル・オジエ。＞

A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.

Cindy, the doll is mine is a short film by French director Bertrand Bonello. It stars Italian actress Asia Argento in the double role of photographer Cindy Sherman, a brunette, and her model, a blonde who strangely resemble one another. The film was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismael, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismael, however, has his own problems to sort out.

Thandeka, a young Black journalist, lives in fear of Johannesburg's past. She's so troubled that she can't work, and her relationship with her 13-year-old deaf daughter Mangi goes from bad to worse. One day Me'Tau, an elderly woman, arrives at the newspaper's office. Ten years earlier, Thandeka witnessed the murder of the woman's daughter Dinéo by the secret police. Me'Tau wants Thandeka to find the murderers and Dinéo's body so that the girl can be buried in accordance with tradition. What Me'Tau couldn't know is that Thandeka has already paid for her knowledge, for having dared stand up to the apartheid system run by the whites. Meanwhile, Mangi secretly prepares a Zulu love letter: four embroidered images representing solitude, loss, hope, and love, as a final gesture towards her mother so that she won't give up the fight.

In a Parisian porn theater, a cashier, a 50-year-old man and a young projectionist are drawn into a complex love affair.

フランスを代表する新旧８人の大女優たちが歌って踊る、絢爛豪華にしてとびきり楽しいミュージカル仕立てのミステリー。監督は早くも風格さえ感じさせ始めたフランスでもっとも期待を集める若手監督、「焼け石に水」「まぼろし」の鬼才フランソワ・オゾン。主が殺され、互いに疑心暗鬼になる８人の女性たちの姿をユーモアと毒気をちりばめた才気溢れる演出で描く。2002年ベルリン国際映画祭では、本作で夢のような競演を果たした女優陣全員に銀熊賞（最優秀芸術貢献賞）が授与され話題を振りまいた。 　1950年代のフランス。クリスマスを祝うため、雪に閉ざされた大邸宅に家族が集うこととなった。その日の朝、メイドのルイーズが、一家の主マルセルの部屋へ遅い朝食を持っていくと、彼はナイフで背中を刺され死んでいた。外から何者かが侵入した形跡はない。電話線は切られ、雪で外部との連絡を完全に絶たれた８人の女たち。祝祭気分は一転、彼女たちは疑心暗鬼を募らせていく。やがて、互いの詮索が始まる。そして、次々と彼女たち一人ひとりの思惑や秘密が暴露されていく…。

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

In 1970s Germany, Leopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year old Franz, who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold turns cranky and argumentative. When Franz's buxom blond girlfriend surfaces, and then Leopold's elegant and enigmatic ex, things get funnier, steamier and a lot more complicated.

『ポンヌフの恋人』の鬼才レオス・カラックスが、発表当時“狂気の書”と評されたハーマン・メルヴィルの『ピエール』を映画化。森に囲まれたノルマンディの城館で母と暮らす、仮面小説家のピエール。婚約者リュシーとの結婚も間近に控えたある日、彼は自分の姉だと名乗る黒髪の女と出会う……。

Twenty-year-old Martin seems to be living the dream. After moving from the French countryside to Paris, he quickly found professional success as a fashion model and romantic fulfillment in dating his half-brother's fiery roommate, Alice. Deep down, however, he is avoiding inner turmoil that stems from his tumultuous upbringing. But when Alice becomes unexpectedly pregnant, the full force of his repression is let loose, wreaking havoc on his life.

A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.

Martin Scorsese behind a flatbed commenting on excerpts from his film Taxi Driver.

Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...

The film tells the tale of Iala, whose authority over his two sons, Raul and Bedan, is shaken. Raul has left to study in a seminary in the big city, where unknown to anyone, he has joined the liberation movement. Meanwhile, younger son, Bedan is rebelling against every possible tradition, even eyeing his father's young bride-to-be.

Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.

The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her off with her father, despite the latter's already having a lover of his own.

This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du cinéma”, then of “Liberation”. In the course of their conversations, the two speakers discuss Rivette’s career, his relationships with the other film makers of the new wave, his use of “mise en scene” and his working with actors.

In a small French village, Communist activist and poet Ovida Delect undergoes her social gender transition with the unbridled support of her wife Huguette. Meanwhile, the couple's teenage son harbors some serious reservations about Ovida's transition.

A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child.

一九五〇年代末のアルジェリア戦争を背景に、極右組織に追われる活動家の愛と死が特異な緊張と省略の中に描かれる。

A tv movie by Marie-Claude Treilhou.