Pierre Léon

Alain lives locked up in a large house with his husband, Raphael. They were about to renovate the place and turn it into a bed and breakfast. A new virus, still unknown, poisoning the air, stops them in their dream. Alain is now obsessed with the idea of protecting Raphael, whose health is fragile. But the latter is suffocating, for him it is the house that is unhealthy, as if haunted.

In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.

In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.

호르헤는 에리크 로메르가 쓴 유일한 희곡인 "내림 마장조 삼중주"(1987)를 영화로 제작하고 있다. 아델리아와 폴은 이혼한 지 오래다. 어느 날, 아델리아가 폴을 찾아온다. 이들은 1년 동안 일곱 번 만난다. (제23회 전주국제영화제)

Paris, at the beginning of the 21st century. Edouard is a painter, Charles is a poet. The two artists are friends, but their adverse circumstances begin to weigh on them. Gulcan, a foreigner, suddenly appears. He has an idea.

‘죽음의 무도’가 민간 신앙에 그치는 것이 아니라 중세를 지나 15세기 유럽 근세의 시작을 알리는 것이라면? 이는 프랑스의 대표적인 영화와 이미지 이론가이자 철학자, 예술평론가, 작가이기도 한 장 루이 쉐퍼의 가설이다. 히타 아제베두 고메스와 피에르 레옹 감독은 쉐퍼와 함께 프랑스와 포르투갈 곳곳을 누비며 그의 생각을 대화의 형태로 담아냈다. 또한 그의 생각을 뒷받침하는 그림과 벽화에 대한 해설은 물론, 장 르누아르와 루이스 브누엘 등의 영화 자료와 쿠르트 바일, 모차르트의 음악을 통해 관객에게 깊이 있는 인문학 강의를 듣는 것과 같은 느낌을 전해 준다.

‘죽음의 무도’가 민간 신앙에 그치는 것이 아니라 중세를 지나 15세기 유럽 근세의 시작을 알리는 것이라면? 이는 프랑스의 대표적인 영화와 이미지 이론가이자 철학자, 예술평론가, 작가이기도 한 장 루이 쉐퍼의 가설이다. 히타 아제베두 고메스와 피에르 레옹 감독은 쉐퍼와 함께 프랑스와 포르투갈 곳곳을 누비며 그의 생각을 대화의 형태로 담아냈다. 또한 그의 생각을 뒷받침하는 그림과 벽화에 대한 해설은 물론, 장 르누아르와 루이스 브누엘 등의 영화 자료와 쿠르트 바일, 모차르트의 음악을 통해 관객에게 깊이 있는 인문학 강의를 듣는 것과 같은 느낌을 전해 준다.

‘죽음의 무도’가 민간 신앙에 그치는 것이 아니라 중세를 지나 15세기 유럽 근세의 시작을 알리는 것이라면? 이는 프랑스의 대표적인 영화와 이미지 이론가이자 철학자, 예술평론가, 작가이기도 한 장 루이 쉐퍼의 가설이다. 히타 아제베두 고메스와 피에르 레옹 감독은 쉐퍼와 함께 프랑스와 포르투갈 곳곳을 누비며 그의 생각을 대화의 형태로 담아냈다. 또한 그의 생각을 뒷받침하는 그림과 벽화에 대한 해설은 물론, 장 르누아르와 루이스 브누엘 등의 영화 자료와 쿠르트 바일, 모차르트의 음악을 통해 관객에게 깊이 있는 인문학 강의를 듣는 것과 같은 느낌을 전해 준다.

It could have been a normal day for Virgile, but that's not the way it turned out. After being the victim of a strange attack, the young man is then forced to share a dressing room with Robert Lesmur, the main actor of the play in which he plays an extra. A disturbing character, Robert stimulates feelings in Virgile that will quickly overwhelm him.

이탈리아 북부, 폰 케텐은 먼 나라 포르투갈에서 신붓감을 찾아 나선다. 신혼여행을 마치고 고향으로 돌아온 그는 주교를 물리칠 기회가 왔다는 소식을 듣곤 집을 떠나 전장으로 발길을 옮긴다. 그와 혼인한 포르투갈 여성은 고국으로 돌아가라는 남편의 뜻을 거절하고 10년 넘게 성에 머문다.

어느 날, 내가 변하기 시작했다. 내 특기? 학생들에게 투명인간 취급받기. 동료에겐 무시당하기. 하지만 벼락이 친 그날 밤 이후, 내 속에 잠자던 무언가가 꿈틀대기 시작했어. 내 이름은 미세스 지킬 그리고 미세스 하이드이기도 하지.

정치적 이유로 망명을 떠나야 했던 포르투갈의 시인 호르헤는 소피아와 약 20년간 편지를 주고 받으며 우정을 나눈다. 시인 소피아 안드레센과 호르헤 데 세나가 주고 받은 실제 편지들을 바탕으로 만들어진 독특한 형식의 영화. 여러 출연자들이 각자의 공간에서 편지를 낭독하는 가운데 과거 포르투갈의 기록 영상, 뉴스 클립 등이 섞여든다. (2017 포르투갈 영화제_포르투갈의 여성 감독들)

Nora is a bright young professional whose new job at a financial firm turns out to be a trial by fire when she learns that her bosses share a tumultuous history with her prickly mathematician father. Meanwhile, an interoffice romance with a competitive colleague leads to even more complications, leaving Nora to navigate a minefield of delicate relationships as she climbs the corporate ladder.

Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?

Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?

Created at irregular intervals, Pierre Léon’s small oeuvre oscillates between experimental home movie and theatrical mise-en-scène, found footage and documentary assemblages. PHANTOM POWER is a kind of sum of these rich and lavish efforts, a poetic series of cinematic fragments, an inventory of his cinematic output. What unfolds between russian folk songs and Ingrid Caven’s singing, between micro-dramas and found footage, is the poetic world of this wayward and still unknown artist, whose discovery and recognition is long overdue. - Viennale

Something takes us underground, where gods and monsters are active, amid the ruins of a world they move around with their innumerable hands. Inspired by Fritz Lang and Richard Wagner, Remains is a daydream.

Something takes us underground, where gods and monsters are active, amid the ruins of a world they move around with their innumerable hands. Inspired by Fritz Lang and Richard Wagner, Remains is a daydream.

Something takes us underground, where gods and monsters are active, amid the ruins of a world they move around with their innumerable hands. Inspired by Fritz Lang and Richard Wagner, Remains is a daydream.

Something takes us underground, where gods and monsters are active, amid the ruins of a world they move around with their innumerable hands. Inspired by Fritz Lang and Richard Wagner, Remains is a daydream.

Nouk and Samuel love each other, but they are young and possessive and awkward. One day, Nouk abruptly loses Samuel, who finds himself in limbo.

Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.

Balibar, well-known as an actress and singer, left none of her talents unused in her directing debut. In this eclectic homage to Greek tragedy, Balibar and Léon are free of any convention. With a cameo by Barbet Schroeder.

Balibar, well-known as an actress and singer, left none of her talents unused in her directing debut. In this eclectic homage to Greek tragedy, Balibar and Léon are free of any convention. With a cameo by Barbet Schroeder.

Balibar, well-known as an actress and singer, left none of her talents unused in her directing debut. In this eclectic homage to Greek tragedy, Balibar and Léon are free of any convention. With a cameo by Barbet Schroeder.

A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.

19세기 말 프랑스의 화려한 매춘굴 에 모인 창녀들은 외부와 격리된 삶 속에서 탈출과 구원에 대한 희망으로 하루하루를 살아가고 있는 반면 그들을 원하며 모여드는 남성들은 현실로부터의 도피와 그로 인한 또 다른 자유를 얻기 위해 이곳을 찾는다. 각자의 해방을 꿈꾸며 같은 장소에서 만나지만 철저히 외로울 수 밖에 없는 이들. 시대가 주는 변화와 산업화라는 시대의 몰락, 그리고 현실을 잊기 위한 섹스, 그러나 그들 앞에 놓인 세계는 또 다른 욕망으로 풀어내고픈 현실 속 판타지에 불과한데...

Léon uses images from Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible to reflect upon the 2010 beating of young cineaste Joachim Gatti by police and the economically vulnerable members of French society. - Film Society of Lincoln Center

Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.

Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.

Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.

Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.

Contemporary Paris, mid-July. Guillaume arrives in the capital to caretake a large apartment until the end of the summer. Lucie, the apartment’s owner, and a friend of his mother’s, welcomes him… then suddenly disappears.

Contemporary Paris, mid-July. Guillaume arrives in the capital to caretake a large apartment until the end of the summer. Lucie, the apartment’s owner, and a friend of his mother’s, welcomes him… then suddenly disappears.

During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment.

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment.

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment.

Alexandre, a thirty-year old tailor, has decided to improve his cultural level. That is the reason why he has decided to attend an evening school. The lessons are given in the classroom of an elementary class by a teacher named Etienne. The subject of the course is : "The solitude of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Will Alexandre become another man after grappling with with Rousseau, Diderot and ... Etienne? - Guy Bellinger

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.

Two sons, Pierre and Vladimir, question their father, Max Léon, about his biography in a domestic environment. What could be a simple family chat expands to the complex dimensions of history, since his life is that of a certain destiny, first involved in the resistance, then as a major activist in the Communist Party. The two archivists widen the circle to listen to the testimonies of their mother, Svettlana, their sister, Michèle, and other witnesses, comrades in utopia: Jacques Rossi, a former Komintern agent deported to the Gulag, and Marina Vlady, who lived in the USSR in the 1930s and was the wife of the protest singer Vladimir Vyssotsky. History is filtered through conversations that do not exclude silence or questioning. – FIDMarseille

Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress who is still alive. Her journey to find this mysterious woman takes her to places and people from her childhood that she thought she'd left behind forever.

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.

Elegantly and carefully, Léon trains his sights both on Chekhov’s famous play written in 1896 and on its earlier, lesser known version entitled "The Wood Demon" (1889), combining the two.

Five extraterrestrials like no other are enjoying their last moments on planet Earth. Only one will stay to keep the secrets.

More young cinephiles in part two of Skorecki's three part film.

Esther and André are a part of a group of young people. They go to the cinema and speak about it often. They love each other from time to time; the group eventually comes undone. Jean is in fact the only true cinema enthusiast. Coming back from the cinema, he watches TV and thinks that, certainly, the cinema is buried well and truly.

Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield suddenly decide to abandon their suffocating universe. They embark on a trip around the world in search of an impossible sanctity.