Jacques Witta
출생 : 1934-04-22, Paris, France
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Jacques Witta (born 22 April 1934) is a French film editor who began working in motion picture editing in the late 1950s. During his career, he has edited more than 60 feature films and has worked with noted French film directors such as Claude Berri and Jean Becker but is best known for his collaboration with Krzysztof Kieślowski which began with The Double Life of Véronique, and continued on Three Colors: Blue and Three Colors: Red. He was also the editor of Harrison's Flowers, which was released by Universal Pictures in the US theatrically.
Jacques Witta won the César Award for Best Film Editing on two occasions. He won in 1984 for L'Eté meurtrier (One Deadly Summer) and again in 1994 for Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three Colors: Blue).
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After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed. Powerless, he has to support the daily visits of doctors,nurse and hospital staff then his closes including his brother Herve. Visits after visits, funny or touching, Pierre starts to reconsider some people and reexamine his environment. And after all, his stay becomes a second chance ...
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Despite his fame, Taillandier has suddenly stopped painting. Deeply depressed, the sixty-year-old decides to go away. He has no clear goal and explains nothing to his close friends. During his travels, he has a strange encounter with Marylou, a wild teenager who was rejected by her mother. The lost girl and the man at the end of his tether will travel together awhile. Finally living like a father and daughter, at peace.
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An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
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Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada’s cellular telephone. A new world reveals itself before his eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of his friend with whom he goes to live, Carlos discovers a universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery.
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Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
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포르투갈의 식민지였던 모잠비크는 독립 후 긴 내전을 겪었다. 1977년에 시작한 전쟁은 1992년에 이르러서야 끝났고, 많은 사람들이 목숨을 잃었다. 전쟁이 끝나고 2년이 지난 어느 날, 어린 소년 무딩가는 가족을 찾으러 돌아다니다 죽은 사람의 일기를 발견한다. 소년은 일기를 읽기 시작하고 영화는 일기의 주인이 살아온 삶을 보여준다.
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Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid landscape of post-Communist Macedonia.
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A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
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A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café. Meanwhile a Greek trucker who is a frequent café customer is slowly entranced — at first by her sublime cooking ability, and then by her.
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The poet Jean Sénac is also a radio presenter. A Pied-noir, he opted to stay in Algeria after the country achieved independence in 1962. Ten years later he is monitored by the police of the present regime. His poems have a large public following and his radio show is a great success, especially with the young. The poet allies himself with two students, aspiring playwrights Hamid and Belkacem, to fight for the freedom and culture of Algerian youth.
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Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.
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An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.
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Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
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A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.
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1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
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Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
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The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.
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Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost.
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Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
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Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.
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Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
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발렌틴은 스위스의 제네바 대학 학생이며 패션모델로 활동한다. 그녀의 이웃에는 오귀스트라는 법대생이 살고 있는데 두 사람은 빈번하게 지나치면서도 서로의 존재를 인식하지 못한다. 어느날 패션쇼를 마치고 귀가하던 중 발렌틴은 개를 치는 교통사고를 내게 된다. 개의 목에 달린 인식표의 주소지로 찾아가지만 개 주인인 노인은 냉담한 반응을 보인다. 개를 치료하여 다시 찾아갔을때 발렌틴은 노인이 남의 집 전화를 도청하는 기벽이 있다는 걸 알게 되고 혐오감을 느끼게 되는데...
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Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
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정적만이 가득한 시골길, 가족들과 함께 피크닉을 가던 줄리는 예기치 않은 교통 사고로 유명한 작곡가인 남편 파트리스와 다섯 살 난 딸 안나를 잃는다. 한 순간 사랑했던 모든 것을 잃은 줄리는 가족과 함께 했던 공간과 흔적들, 심지어 남편이 쓰다만 곡까지 버리곤 모든 것을 뒤로한 채 떠난다. 타인과의 소통을 거부하고 세상과도 단절해 버린 채 고독한 나날들을 보내던 줄리는 어느 날 우연히, 남편의 동료이자 자신을 줄곧 사랑해 왔던 남자 올리비에가 남편의 유작을 완성시키려 한다는 사실과 남편에게 숨겨 둔 애인이 있었음을 알게 되는데...
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쌍둥이처럼 똑같이 생긴 여자 아이 둘이 같은 날, 같은 시에 태어난다. 폴란드의 베로니카와 프랑스의 베로니크, 둘은 상대방의 감정과 경험을 어렴풋하게나마 공유하며 서로의 존재를 느낀다. 노래에 천부적인 소질이 있는 베로니카는 우연한 기회에 콘서트 독창자로 발탁되지만 공연 도중 갑자기 심장이 멎어 숨을 거둔다. 한편 베로니크는 남자친구와 사랑을 나누던 중 까닭 모를 상실감에 눈물을 흘린다. 아이들에게 음악을 가르치던 그녀는 어느 날 학교를 방문한 마리오네트 인형극을 보던 중 인형사 알렉상드르에게 강렬하게 이끌리는데....
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After years of war, the King returns home and his son the Prince welcomes him, glad to see him safe and sound. The Prince is in love but the King disapproves their relationship.
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Baudin (Michel Serrault) and Tayar (Wadeck Stanczak) become trapped in a movie theater while trying to fend off a gang of marauding juvenile thugs. The two agree to settle their personal differences in their fight over a pretty female in order to halt the violent siege.
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On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people - each for a different reason - are looking for the home of a man called Bob.
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시골 미인대회에서 뽑힌 적이 있는 앨리안느(Eliane: 이사벨 아자니 분)는 마을의 의용 소방대원이며, 자동차 수리공인 홀로리몬도(알랭 수송 분)와 사랑에 빠진다. 앨리안느는 팡퐁(Pin Pon)이란 별명을 가진 홀로리몬도의 계속적인 구애에, 계획적으로 그의 집 곡간에서 하룻밤을 보내고 난 뒤 승리감에 취한 팡퐁의 목을 서서히 조이기 시작한다. 1955년부터 시작된, 일광욕을 하다가 자동 피아노를 가지고 다니던 사나이들에게 당한 윤간의 복수가-현대로 맥이 이어져 진행되기 시작한 것이다. 앨리안느는 오직 복수의 일념 하나로, 몸을 던지어 목적을 향해 간다. 하지만 마지막에 이르렀을 때 범인은 팡퐁의 아버지가 아니라 다른 사람인 것으로 밝혀진다.
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Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.
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Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
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Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez, Jacques and Pierre discuss marriage and being parents. Then, in a wild moment at a nighttime party, Françoise starts playing with Pierre, and one thing leads to another: they become lovers. After a couple of trysts, Pierre wants out, but Françoise declares her love for him and wants to tell her father about it. She does, but leaves out Pierre's name, so Jacques enlists Pierre's help in identifying who seduced his daughter. What will Pierre do?
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The meeting of two women of the same age. One is a taxi driver, a little idealistic and romantic and the other is a wealthy and idle bourgeois.
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Un réalisateur sans beaucoup d'expérience souhaite tourner un film pornographique.
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An enterprising young Paris based British prostitute decides to incorporate as an official escort business after learning about corporate practices and business ins and outs from her clients. Searching for people to invest in her scheme, she encounters both interest and setbacks.
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Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
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The action begins in black and white, like a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an attempt on Hitler. Desperate, Klaus shoots and kills his children and then shoots at his pregnant wife and leaves her badly injured. Finally, attempts suicide, but at the last moment does not have the courage to pull the trigger, and flees on a motorcycle, having an accident ... The action continues in France. Jean-Claude is a handsome young man self-conscious about a malformation in his face. Jean-Claude lives with his parents, Jacques Bergé, an amnesiac man, self-enclosed and obsessed with Egyptian art, and Concepcion, a woman also closed in herself and obsessed with flowers from her garden, and apparently , suffering from paranoia.
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Crime thriller.
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한국전쟁이 시작될 무렵인 1950년을 배경으로, 한 젊은 노동자와 전통음악가의 딸의 사랑 이야기가 개성에서 펼쳐진다. 보나르도 감독과 각본가 아르망 가티가 한국전쟁이 끝난 지 5년 뒤인 1958년 봄, 북한에 초청된 크리스 마커, 클로드 란츠만 등 언론-예술인 대표단에 합류해 만든 영화다.
