Christian Patey

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.

「抵抗（レジスタンス）　死刑囚の手記より」「少女ムシェット」などの名作を残したフランスの名匠ロベール・ブレッソン監督が、ロシアの文豪トルストイの原作をもとに、偶然手にしてしまったニセ札を知らずに使ってしまったことから、一家惨殺事件を引き起こし転落していく人生を歩む青年イボンの姿を描いた。