Colette

The relationship between two newlyweds is undermined by the increasingly cumbersome presence of his cat, which will bring to light jealousies and misunderstandings. Drama about a couple in search of their own identity, inspired by a story by Colette already brought to the screen in 1952 by Roberto Rossellini in an episode of the Seven Deadly Sins.

The incredible life of novelist, screenwriter, actress and nude dancer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), who led her life to the beat, constantly reinventing herself through words, scandals and metamorphoses; a peasant woman who became an icon of the European Belle Époque; an artist who defied religion and social prejudices to live a hedonist existence worthy of her desires; a real woman who turned herself into a fictional character…

A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.

Based on French writer Colette's 1923 novel, Le Blé en herbe focuses on the changing relationship between childhood friends Vinca and Phillipe. Both are on the verge of adulthood and beginning to recognize romantic feelings for one another when Phillipe meets a lascivious, wealthy older woman named Madam Dellaray. He is torn between his innocent but restricting affection for Vinca and satisfaction of his impatient lust for the new and mature world Madam Dellaray offers.

A perfect summer divertissement, the very rare Break of Day is based on the quasi-autobiographical novel by Colette, a serene, sometimes joyous meditation in which the novelist puzzles through the state in which she found herself, an older woman, traduced and misused in love, fearing that she would never be wanted again. Instead of obsessing on loss, she insists, one must accept it; at a certain age one must recognize the limits of human relationships and transfer one's attentions to nature.

어린 지지는 굉장히 말괄량이다. 그녀의 이모 할머니는 그녀를 요조숙녀로 만들려고 노력을 한다. 이 집안에 늘 오가던 친구인 가스통이란 남자는 세계적으로 유명한 부자다. 가스통은 늘 지지와 게임도 하며 가깝게 지낸다. 그러던 중, 가스통은 숙녀로 변한 지지에게 사랑을 느끼게 되고, 보살펴주겠다고 제안한다. 하지만 지지는 자신도 가스통의 다른 여자들처럼 버려질까봐 두려워한다. 그러나 결국, 지지도 가스통을 받아들이고, 방황하던 가스통도 지지에게 청혼을 하게 된다.

During the First World War, the Empyrée Montmartre, a Paris music-hall, is dedicated to patriotic revues whose star is the charming Mitsou. The young artist is not without talent but she is mainly well-connected. She is indeed the cherished mistress of Pierre Duroy-Lelong, a rich industrialist. One night, thanks to Petite-Chose, an ebullient singer-dancer and her co-star, she gets to know a handsome army, Lieutenant Bleu. Mitsou falls madly in love with him and Lieutenant Bleu is physically attracted to her. The trouble is that Bleu comes from a distinguished family and cannot put up with her lack of culture and artistic bad taste...

풍족한 생활의 남부럽지 않은 영국인 부부 캐서린과 알렉스 조이스는 그동안 연락이 없었던 호머 삼촌이 그들에게 유산으로 남겨준 별장을 처분하기 위해 나폴리로 향한다. 결혼해서 살면서 아무 일없이 살았었지만 일상을 벗어나 단둘만이 있게 된 그들은 서로를 전혀 모른다는 사실을 깨닫게 되고 그들은 그렇게 위기를 맞게 된다. 캐서린은 나폴리로, 알렉스는 우연히 만난 줄리의 친구들과 카프리섬으로 각자의 여행길로 떠난다. 이들 둘은 각기 이탈리아 여행 도중 많은 유혹과 고독에 시달리며 방황을 반복하며 다시 집으로 돌아오지만 그들에게 변한것은 아무것도 없었다. 그러던 중 화산 폭발로 멸망한 폼페이 유물 발굴 형장에서 함께 죽음을 맞이한 부부 한쌍의 석고상을 보고 그들은 또 다른 감동을 받게 되는데...

Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into puberty, the two youngsters fall in love.

A French/Italian motion picture drama covering the seven deadly sins in seven separate sections.

In conversation, in her Paris apartment, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, mime, dancer, novelist, wonders whether she should give the green light to a proposed film about the houses in which she lived. “I’m no longer photogenic,” she insists; nearly 80, marriages, affair with a stepson and intermittent lesbianism behind her, refusing now even to mention the arthritis that confines and assaults her, Colette is vivacious. Yannick Bellon’s captivating postmodernist film, as much a study of evanescence as any poem by Dickinson, segues into the film that Colette, a few years before her end, has just said she doesn’t want to do. Giving voice(over) to her own commentary, she goes back, first, to the home in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, where she was born.

Fred Peloux nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother's friends, all high class prostitutes past their best. He has an affair with Léa, a waning beauty, who loves him both as a mistress and a mother. But the age difference takes its toll on their union. To please his mother, Chéri accepts to marry young Edmée without actually caring for her. After a while, the young man tries to return to Léa...

Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.

A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.

어린 지지는 굉장히 말괄량이다. 그녀의 이모 할머니는 그녀를 요조숙녀로 만들려고 노력을 한다. 이 집안에 늘 오가던 친구인 가스통이란 남자는 세계적으로 유명한 부자다. 가스통은 늘 지지와 게임도 하며 가깝게 지낸다. 그러던 중, 가스통은 숙녀로 변한 지지에게 사랑을 느끼게 되고, 보살펴주겠다고 제안한다. 하지만 지지는 자신도 가스통의 다른 여자들처럼 버려질까봐 두려워한다. 그러나 결국, 지지도 가스통을 받아들이고, 방황하던 가스통도 지지에게 청혼을 하게 된다.

Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.

Poorly educated by her father, a wacky researcher, Claudine is a teenager full of life who loves her small village school run by Miss Sergeant. A new teacher, Aimée Lanthenay, arrives at the school. Seemingly awkward, she is actually an arrivist who manages to get the departure of Miss Sergeant.

A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.

A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.

A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers. One of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality. Based on "Gestern und Heute" by German playwright Christa Winsloe.