Benoît Régent

This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris became an alcoholic. The two are thrown back together when each begin receiving strange messages that imply their daughter has returned from the dead for vengeance. They contact a police detective (the lover of Caroline's best friend) who finds the case intriguing and decides to reopen it. Unfortunately, as soon as he begins questioning the old suspects, people begin to die.

In this French drama, an urban professional gives up his fast-track life in favor of the quiet of country life. Benoit now lives as a toymaker who sells games at his chic Paris art gallery. The film opens with young Lila as she is being released from prison. Immediately, she sets out to see her sister in Brionne, a tiny Normandy town. As soon as he sees her, the rather quiet Benoit falls in love. Eventually, the emotionally scarred young woman falls in love with him too. Soon they move in together, and Lila gets to meet his ne'er-do-well friends. The couple are very happy for a while, but when Benoit's gallery goes belly-up, he begins acting strangely, leaving Lila feeling very unsure. Eventually she leaves him. Benoit then struggles to cope with his depression; after many drunken nights, a lost dog helps him find the peace he has been searching for.

This a beautiful May evening. The sun has just set behind the hill. Tonight the inhabitants of the Le Corbusier housing unit are going to experience a slight change of program. They are all sitting in front of their TV sets and in twelve minutes the face of the new President of the Republic will appear on the screens..

1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young writer, weighed down by the hardships of life. Germaine, daughter of a wellknown figure, is one of the most brilliant woman of the century. Early on, Germaine lutes against Benjamin's love and only admits ot admiring his spirit. But, little by little, a violent and indispensable passion bonds them together. The two lovers continue to love one another and to struggle against this love for a period of twenty years. Season after season they meet and bask in each other's company. These intimate moments are at times ambivalent, but never lack in obstinance and passion.

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...

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...

The journey on the edge of an ocean of a poet, two terrorists, a film-maker, a reporter and two lovers, in search of a ship leaving for Nowhere. A ship like hope for all those who wait: the misguided, the misaligned, the displaced, the exiles that we are at certain times, that we are one day or another, a little earlier, a little later.

For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.

Evocation of the life of the journalist Jean Galmot, adventurer, who established himself as a gold digger in Guyana in 1906. Madly in love with this country, he will die for having wanted to give dignity and freedom to the Guyanese people.

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.

In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the raving of the decadent power class, who keeps wondering what happened to their leader, who has failed to show up.

여성들하고만 일하는 유명한 연기 지도 선생 콩스탕스에게서 연기를 배우는 한 연기자반을 맴돈다.

Colin and Mailland are small-time crooks on the run who are surprised to find the seven-year-old runaway Savannah is along for the ride. The police and her parents fear she has been kidnapped, and a massive manhunt is launched with orders to shoot to kill the alleged perpetrators. The lovable little girl soon melts the hearts of the crooks, as the trio enjoy an unlikely but sentimental friendship.

In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love blooms between Saul and Belle, but the grim realities of war catch up with them when a French Resistance trio claims that Belle is a Nazi collaborator. Judge Reinhold appears briefly as the token Yank.

Jeanne runs a busy inn with her husband Georges, her two children and two sisters. There is perfect harmony and the constant sound of laughter coming from the kitchen and office. One day, Pierre, the landlord, takes up a room without a word of explanation. Jeanne gradually begins to feel a strong attraction toward the new guest.

On a stormy night, off the coast of the Arcachon basin, a small sailboat named "Julie" disappears with a young girl of the same name on board. What really happened? The mystery is all the thicker because a month later, her husband met the same sad end. A year later, on the anniversary of Julie's disappearance, a commemorative meal is organized by the young woman's main relations. Many things from the past will then resurface.

The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an “established” journalist. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman who can understand love only in terms of life and death, an attitude that generally makes love appear dramatic, but at least burning and flickering, like the flame that glows in her heart.

1959년, 재즈의 인기가 시들해져가던 시기, 누구도 듣길 원하지 않는 실험적인 음악을 연주하는 색스폰 연주자 데일 터너(덱스터 고든 분)는 알콜과 마약중독에 찌든 삶을 바꿔보기 위해 미국을 떠나 파리로 향한다. 매일 밤 담배연기 자욱한 재즈 클럽 ‘블루 노트’에서 몽크와 버드의 새 음악과 조지 거쉰과 포터의 스탠다드 곡들을 연주하는 데일은 제대로 된 연주를 위해 그가 술을 마시는 것을 감시하는 성깔있는 여주인과 클럽주인의 감시에도 불구하고 여전히 알코올 중독자로 병원에 들락거리는 신세로 살아간다. 한편, 터너를 세계 최고의 색스폰 연주자라고 생각하는 프란시스(프랑수아 클루제 분)는 클럽에 들어갈 돈이 없어 ‘블루 노트’ 밖에서 장대비가 내리는 것도 아랑곳하지 않고, 터너의 연주을 듣다가 연주를 끝내고 밖으로 나온 터너에게 접근해 맥주를 한 잔 사주게 되고, 두 사람은 그들의 인생을 바꿀 우정을 싹 틔우게 된다. 터너는 항상 술에 절어있었고, 스스로를 통제하지 못했고, 프란시스는 터너의 외로운 삶에 공감하며, 자신이 경배해 마지않는 음악가의 삶을 위해 프란시스는 그의 보호자를 자처하고, 건강을 보살피기 시작하는데.

20년전 스크립터였던 앤은 지금은 영화 프로듀서, 쟝은 현재도 카레이서에 미련을 버리지 않고 있다. 어느날 앤은 장의 소식을 듣게 되고 20년 전의 사랑의 추억이 뇌리를 스친다.

Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a month to straighten out their books. The owner, M. Roland, encourages Antoine to use the facilities, including the massages, so Antoine goes to Dominique, a muscular African. In these sessions, Antoine discovers that the pain is comforting, and Dominique finds the accountant ideal for his own sadism. When Dominique breaks Antoine's arm and then goes to the hospital to take Antoine away, Antoine confesses his fascination with and fear of death. With Dominique's help, the accountant breaks all earthly ties to confront his fear.

Paris Flic and computer-crack David Ackermann is a teacher at the academy advising the rookies in computer-crime. By coincidence Informations about personalities from the high-politics and police-authorities that are involved in organized crime fall into his hands. From than on he's been chased merciless, even having his ex-wife kidnapped to blackmail him. With the help from his new girlfriend he lashes back.

엘레나는 부자 남편을 만나 화려하지만 권태롭게 살아가고 있는 젊은 부인이다. 어느 날, 그녀는 자신의 짐을 들어준 계기로 이방인 같은 남자 프레드를 알게 된다. 사회의 모든 속박과 가식을 거부하는 자유로운 영혼 프레드는 엘레나의 생일 파티에 초대된다. 하지만 프레드는 마치 자신의 자유로움을 증명이라도 하듯 엘레나의 집에 있던 금고를 폭파시켜 버린다. 설상가상으로 그런 그의 모습에 반해버린 헬레나! 이제 파리의 미로 같은 지하철에서 경찰과 프레드, 그리고 엘레나와 그녀의 남편이 추격전을 벌인다. 과연 비상을 꿈꾸던 프레드의 탈출 시도는 성공하게 될까?...

After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in history and has a good friend, Frédéric, a medical student who wouldn't mind being more than just that. Around her, strange fellows attract her attention. Who is Philippe, allegedly Louis's stockbroker? And what about Marguerite who presents herself as her father's former secretary? Even more puzzling is the video cassette she finds in her father's place, showing young motorbikers distributing bundles of banknotes. Some time later, Charles, one of the bikers appearing on the video, rings the doorbell: he is wounded.

Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage between them unravels, Edouard's daughters experience their own emotional shock waves. Dina, in a relationship with playwright Paul, wants more from her daily life, while Sidone is married to a fellow musician but is terrified of performing in public. Fast-forward seven years: Edouard is gravely ill, and the family shares their issues, hopes and fears.

World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.

Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.

Cannes Film Festival 1979