Production Design
In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863, the painting caused a scandal: the prostitute awaits her client, her expression proud, her demeanour assured. Is this Violetta? Like Olympia, Verdi’s most celebrated heroine surrenders to the spectator just as she surrenders to love, going so far as to die on stage, a woman’s ultimate sacrifice for her lover. Or might it be the spectator who strips her bare and intrudes upon her privacy, in the image of this milieu of social voyeurism? Whatever the case, these two women regard us with defiance and subjugate those who cannot help but look at them.
Set Decoration
A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
Production Design
A wanderer named Timothee arrives in a French village in 1865 pretending to be deaf and mute. He uses tricks to hypnotize a beautiful young woman named Josephine and takes advantage of her until he is arrested and tried for his crimes.
Set Decoration
フランス革命最中、50歳のマルキ・ド・サドは牢獄に閉じ込められていた。その人生の大半を牢獄の中で暮らしてきたサドは、獄中生活をそれなりにエンジョイする術を身につけていた。ある日、彼はサン・ラザールの刑務所から元修道院で貴族のための刑務所ピクピュスに移送される。そこで彼は16歳の純真無垢な伯爵令嬢エミリーと出会う。貴族の娘である彼女は革命の魔の手が自分にも迫っていると感じ、未だ経験のない彼女の性に対する好奇心は日に日に強まっていた。そんなある日、彼女はサドによって書かれた禁断の発禁本を手にするのだった…。
Production Design
Friends of a recently painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The dozen travelers include art historian François and his lover Louis, who develops an interest in Bruno, whom he meets on a train. Traveling parallel with the train is a station wagon with Jean-Baptiste's body, and this vehicle is driven by Thierry, husband of Catherine, who's on the train with their daughter. François plays a taped interview with Jean-Baptiste, revealing his sexual appeal to both men and women. Lucie is convinced that she was his main love. Also on board is his nephew, Jean-Marie and Jean-Marie's estranged wife Claire. After the funeral in "Europe's largest cemetery," the story continues in the mansion of Jean-Baptiste's brother Lucien.
Set Decoration
フランス領インドシナで広大なゴム園を経営する美貌の仏女性エリアーヌ。養女カミーユが、そうとは知らずにエリアーヌの元恋人である将校と恋に落ちて……。皮肉な三角関係を綴ったカトリーヌ・ドヌーヴ主演作。
Production Design
This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story) about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert. Wallowing in maudlin sentimentality, this feature fails to live up to the promise of its probable inspiration, Fame (1980), and was not well-received at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. However, as a medium for instructing director Francis Girod's actual students at the Paris Conservatory about the art and perils of filmmaking, it was undoubtedly a good deal more successful.
Production Design
A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
