Production Design
In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863, the painting caused a scandal: the prostitute awaits her client, her expression proud, her demeanour assured. Is this Violetta? Like Olympia, Verdi’s most celebrated heroine surrenders to the spectator just as she surrenders to love, going so far as to die on stage, a woman’s ultimate sacrifice for her lover. Or might it be the spectator who strips her bare and intrudes upon her privacy, in the image of this milieu of social voyeurism? Whatever the case, these two women regard us with defiance and subjugate those who cannot help but look at them.
Set Decoration
리옹에서 단 하룻밤 동안 마크에게 강렬한 끌림을 느낀 실비. 이름도 연락처도 서로 주고 받지 않고 금요일 오후 6시, 파리 튈르리 공원에서 재회를 약속한다. 하지만 운명의 장난으로 그들은 엇갈리고 몇 년 후 실비는 동생 소피의 결혼식에서 그를 마주하게 되는데…
Production Design
A wanderer named Timothee arrives in a French village in 1865 pretending to be deaf and mute. He uses tricks to hypnotize a beautiful young woman named Josephine and takes advantage of her until he is arrested and tried for his crimes.
Set Decoration
A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.
Production Design
Friends of a recently painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The dozen travelers include art historian François and his lover Louis, who develops an interest in Bruno, whom he meets on a train. Traveling parallel with the train is a station wagon with Jean-Baptiste's body, and this vehicle is driven by Thierry, husband of Catherine, who's on the train with their daughter. François plays a taped interview with Jean-Baptiste, revealing his sexual appeal to both men and women. Lucie is convinced that she was his main love. Also on board is his nephew, Jean-Marie and Jean-Marie's estranged wife Claire. After the funeral in "Europe's largest cemetery," the story continues in the mansion of Jean-Baptiste's brother Lucien.
Set Decoration
엘리안느 드브리(Eliane Devries: 까뜨린느 드뇌브 분)는 인도차이나에서 태어난 프랑스인으로 농장에서 라텍스 나무를 키우며 소일하는데, 그곳에는 안남의 황녀였으나 사고로 부모를 잃은 까미유(Camille: 린 당 팜 분)가 양녀로 있었다. 엘리안느는 그녀에게 프랑스 상류 사회식 교육을 시키고 남다른 애정을 베푼다. 그후 프랑스의 해군장교 장 밥띠스뜨(Jean-Baptiste Le Guen: 뱅상 페레 분)는 야망을 갖고 사이공에 오는데 우연히 엘리안느와 만나 뜨거운 관계로 발전한다. 그러나 운명의 장난인지 까미유도 장을 연모하게 된다. 이 사실을 알게 된 엘리안느는 까미유를 서둘러 친족과 결혼시키려고 하나 까미유는 이를 뿌리치고 장을 찾아간다. 그러나 우연한 사건에 말려들어 까미유는 프랑스 장교를 살해하게 되고 유랑 극단에 합류해 피신 생활을 한다. 세상은 혁명의 열기로 달아오르고 이 두 사람은 프랑스군의 추적을 당하게 된다. 혼돈의 역사 속에서 까미유는 장의 아들을 낳게 되고, 장과 엘리안느는 사랑하기 때문에 모든 것을 용서할 수 있다는 마음 가짐으로 다시 한번 운명적인 만남을 갖게 된다.
Production Design
This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story) about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert. Wallowing in maudlin sentimentality, this feature fails to live up to the promise of its probable inspiration, Fame (1980), and was not well-received at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. However, as a medium for instructing director Francis Girod's actual students at the Paris Conservatory about the art and perils of filmmaking, it was undoubtedly a good deal more successful.
Production Design
A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
