Jean-Charles Fitoussi

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday. Directed by Jean-Charles Fitoussi.

Fitoussi’s back with yet another delicious philosophical treat. How about spending a summer afternoon in a garden of an old house bathed in southern light, listening to Clément Rosset and Spinoza converse about the mysterious pleasure that music gives to our body and mind?

Théophile spends his holidays in Italy, in the Marche hills, and enjoys the freedom he finds at his grandfather’s. The latter, who lives a reclusive life, becomes seriously ill and the child calls for a doctor, William Stein, who had saved the old man’s life seven years ago. Stein sends his best nurse along… who is absolutely free to do as she pleases.

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

“당신은 이런 이를 본 적이 있나요? 하나의 존재 안에 수많은 것들을 품고 있는 그런 여인을. 그리하여 그녀의 모든 몸짓과 그녀를 향한 모든 생각이, 당신의 대지와 하늘, 말과 기억들, 당신도 모르게 스쳐 지나가는 나날들, 미래들, 확실한 것들, 그리고 결코 당신의 것이 될 수 없을 대지와 하늘에 이르기까지 모든 것들을 무한히 품고 있는 것처럼 여겨지는 그런 이를 본 적이 있나요?”() 잠에서 깨어, 꿈결에 본 여신 아르테미스를 애타게 찾아 헤매던 목동 엔디미온은 한 낯선 이에게 이렇게 말한다. 숨막히게 아름다운 파베세의 문장은2008년 칸영화제 감독주간에서 발표된 장-마리 스트라우브의 단편에서 한 노배우의 입을 통해 읊조려진다. 은 스트라우브 평생의 반려이자 영화적 동지였던 다니엘 위예가 세상을 떠난 후, 스트라우브가 단독으로 연출한 첫 번째 작품이다.

A “minute-film” directed as little scenes in Japan, according to Fitoussi’s own words that is never shown in the same editing, hence, if you see the film several times, you litteraly won’t see the film, there is as many versions as there are projections.

An elderly German composer is invited to Roma by the King to compose eight Notturni. But the memories of tragic events he experienced in the very place to which he is returning, leave him unable to compose.

The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980.

Laurent comes to visit his father not far from Bethune. But his father, who lives a hermit's life deep in the woods, has only one thing on his mind : to do away with his six children in order to relieve them of the miseries of life. Welcomed at the Caboche farm where his brother Frederic works (Frederic advises him not to try to see their father), Laurent is delighted to see hardy 81 year old Alfred again. The gods are not far off, and, despite all, the pleasures of existence too.

Laurent comes to visit his father not far from Bethune. But his father, who lives a hermit's life deep in the woods, has only one thing on his mind : to do away with his six children in order to relieve them of the miseries of life. Welcomed at the Caboche farm where his brother Frederic works (Frederic advises him not to try to see their father), Laurent is delighted to see hardy 81 year old Alfred again. The gods are not far off, and, despite all, the pleasures of existence too.

A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is from this circumstance so personal that he meets Clémentine, a girl who lives full time. All this will only deepen his anguish.

A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is from this circumstance so personal that he meets Clémentine, a girl who lives full time. All this will only deepen his anguish.

A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is from this circumstance so personal that he meets Clémentine, a girl who lives full time. All this will only deepen his anguish.

Former Straub/Huillet assistant Jean-Charles Fitoussi films them at work during the shooting of 1999's Sicilia!.

엘리오 비토리니의 반 파시스트 소설 `시칠리아에서의 대화`를 각색한 작품. 실베스트로는 어머니를 만나기 위해 고향 시칠리아를 방문한다. 집으로 향하던 길목에서 그는 각양각색의 사람들을 만나고, 그들과 일상적인 대화를 나눈다. 어딘가 부자연스럽지만 위트 있는 대화의 연속이 마치 한 편의 연극 혹은 초기 유성영화를 연상케 한다. 모든 것이 절제된 미니멀한 형식 속에서 간결한 이미지만을 전달하며 관객에게 순수한 ‘영화보기’의 체험을 제공하는, 불가사의한 힘의 영화.

A child is confronted with the (ever young) old age of the world, its hazards, its cinema and music, shot in seven days in Rome, Fiumicino, Ciampino and Cineccità. What will happen on July 12, 1995, in Rome ? What will become of July 12, 1995, in Rome ?

A child is confronted with the (ever young) old age of the world, its hazards, its cinema and music, shot in seven days in Rome, Fiumicino, Ciampino and Cineccità. What will happen on July 12, 1995, in Rome ? What will become of July 12, 1995, in Rome ?

A child is confronted with the (ever young) old age of the world, its hazards, its cinema and music, shot in seven days in Rome, Fiumicino, Ciampino and Cineccità. What will happen on July 12, 1995, in Rome ? What will become of July 12, 1995, in Rome ?

A child is confronted with the (ever young) old age of the world, its hazards, its cinema and music, shot in seven days in Rome, Fiumicino, Ciampino and Cineccità. What will happen on July 12, 1995, in Rome ? What will become of July 12, 1995, in Rome ?

A child is confronted with the (ever young) old age of the world, its hazards, its cinema and music, shot in seven days in Rome, Fiumicino, Ciampino and Cineccità. What will happen on July 12, 1995, in Rome ? What will become of July 12, 1995, in Rome ?