Gilles Quéant

Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short introduction. This is followed by a number of interviews, in which the makers unashamedly appear themselves. They include an interview with a lonely shepherd and one with three unmarried brothers who try to run the parental farm for better or worse. Notwithstanding the fact that this mode of interviewing has now become classical, les inconnus de la terre works rather refreshingly. The film is more than just an enumeration of problems. In an honest way it shows the ties of those involved to the land and to nature, in addition to being a plea for the modernization of French agriculture.

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

누벨바그 시대의 주요 감독들이 파리의 여섯 구역을 무대로 만든 옴니버스 영화. 장 두셰는 카페 플로르를 무대로 젊은이들의 얘기를 다루고, 장 루슈의 ‘북역’은 롱 테이크의 실험적 사용으로 주목받았으며, 장 다니엘 폴레는 집창촌으로 소문난 생 드니 가의 싸구려 호텔에서 일어나는 일을 그린다. 보행자들이 걷기 불편한 에투알 광장에서 장 마르크가 겪는 불행을 보여주는 에릭 로메르와 몽파르나스와 르발루아에 사는 두 남자 사이에서 고민하는 한 여인의 이야기를 그린 고다르, 부모의 다툼을 더 이상 참을 수 없어 하는 16구의 고등학생을 주인공으로 삼은 클로드 샤브롤의 작품도 볼 만 하다.

In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second thoughts after meeting an intriguing stranger.

One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brault, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.

레코드 샵의 점원으로 일하는 나나는 영화를 사랑하고 배우를 동경하는 파리지이다. 그녀는 생계를 걱정해야 하는 힘든 삶 속에서도 언젠가는 세상을 놀라게 할 스타가 되겠다는 꿈을 가지고 있다. 그러나 그녀에 삶은 가혹하기만 하다. 자신의 꿈을 이해하지 못하는 남편, 돈을 빌려가고 소식이 없는 동료, 영화업자들에게 소개해주겠다며 나나를 이용하려는 에이전시 직원. 결국 나나는 삶의 고단함 속에 자신의 꿈을 포기한다. 비정한 도시에서 살아남기 위해 안간힘을 쓰던 나나는 우연히 남편에게 버림받고 '거리의 여자'가 된 옛 친구 이베뜨를 통해 포주 라울을 소개받는데...

바로크풍의 거대한 성을 배경으로 남녀가 서로 다른 과거의 기억을 떠올린다. 남자는 여자에게 둘이 예전에 서로 사랑했고, 그녀가 정한 약속을 지키기 위해 자신이 왔으며, 이제 그녀를 데려가겠다고 말한다. 여자는 남자의 주장을 부인한다. 누보로망 작가인 알랭 로브그리예의 시나리오를 바탕으로 알랭 레네 감독은 현실과 환상, 현재와 과거를 더이상 구별할 수 없는 시간의 미궁으로 우리를 안내한다.

In a small fishermen's village in the Azores, an enormous whale is being jointed, carved and stocked. Once this task is over, the whalers ready themselves for another hunt, a fascinating but trying and dangerous experience...

"Poisoner" - After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, as the tutor of his goddaughter. It does not take long before Montenoy falls for her but a little longer before the young woman, reluctant at first, understands Etienne loves her truly and then requites his love. Etienne lives so happily with her that he decides to make her his heir. Shortly after, he is murdered by poison...

크리스 마르케는 어린 시절 책에서만 보았던 꿈의 도시 베이징에 대한 이야기를 시작한다. 크리스 마르케의 눈과 마음을 통해 베이징을 여행하게 된다.

Representing the French authority in Morocco, Captain Ardant is the target of the bloodthirsty rebel leader Malek. In order to appropriate himself in arms, he does not hesitate to take the captain's collaborator hostage and to do despicable blackmail.

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.

A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)

Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him.

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.

A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.

One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...

자존심 강한 여인 엘렌느는 연인인 장이 자신을 멀리하자 복수를 위해, 카바레에서 춤을 추며 매춘을 하던 젊고 아름다운 아녜스를 소개해준다. 사랑에 빠진 장과 아녜스가 달콤한 행복에 젖어있을 때 엘렌느는 장을 찾아가 아녜스의 과거를 폭로한다.

A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.

Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III.

Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...