Séverin Frankiel

Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer?

A prisoner escapes and kidnaps a woman with her he falls in love. He's involved in a bad business where politicians and underworld are leading the dance. He'll die like the albatross in Baudelaire's poem.

A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.

The weekend of August 15th gives the opportunity to Michel Fauvet, a recently divorced father, to spend two full days with Bruno, his thirteen-year-old son, that he can normally see only one Sunday a month. Feeling guilty, he tries to compensate for the trauma inflicted to Bruno by giving him presents. This time around, Michel has decided to treat him to a nice trip to Bruges and the Belgian Coast. Which will not prevent Bruno from asking his father disturbing questions.

A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.

많은 사람들이 이 작품을 로베르 브레송의 대표작이자 걸작 중 하나로 꼽는다. 그만큼 이 영화는 브레송이 일생 동안 만든 '시네마토그라피'(단순히 '시네마'가 아니라)의 대표적인 특징들을 고스란히 담고 있다. 병든 엄마와 아직 갓난아이인 동생을 돌봐야 하고, 의붓아버지에게 학대받으면서 학교에서도 철저하게 소외되는 한 소녀가 있다. 이 소녀에게 찾아오는 평범하지 않은 갑작스러운 사랑과 연이은 엄마의 죽음. 그리고 결국 종국에 맞닥뜨리게 되는 소녀의 자살. 단순한 스토리라인은 배경음악이나 연기, 카메라워크에 의한 어떠한 감정적인 조장도 없이 단선적이고 건조하게 진행된다. 거기에다 부엌에서 그릇이나 식기를 다루는 소녀의 손과 같은 무의미한 듯하지만 범상치 않은 신체 일부의 클로즈업이 곳곳에 배치되어 있다. 브레송은 눈물샘을 자극하는 감각적인 영화가 아니라, 마치 손으로 만지는 것 같은 촉각적인 영화를 만들어내었다. 지금까지 대면해온 영화들 속에 어떤 식으로도 포섭되지 않는 이 영화를 보면서 그 익숙하지 않음이 오히려 소름끼치고, 눈물을 보일 수 없도록 만들지만 미어지게 가슴이 아픈, 흔치 않은 감동을 경험하게 될 것이다.

Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing passersby, throwing wild parties and following all the latest trends. When sexy Elke gives him the eye, he leaves the actress in the lurch and joins the gang for a decadent party aboard a yacht. However, Elke's wanton ways and Olivier's inexperience do not mesh, and in a snit, he accidentally sets the yacht afire. The gang wreaks its vengeance by luring him into a dangerous contest of bravura on a construction site.

Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.

At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...

The Marquise de Saint-Ange wants to marry her niece Nicole, but the young girl, put off by the chosen suitor, flees with her friend Jacques.

Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a young woman. Alas, the lady forsakes him and the poor man tries to overcome his grief by writing "Gloomy Sunday", a song so desperate that it can drive its listeners to suicide. Max, a music publisher, likes the song and decides to launch it by all means, foul or fair. Bob, his accomplice, manages to talk his mistress Michèle into committing a fake suicide. She obeys him and the scheme is a success as a result. On this occasion, Jan gets to know Michèle and the two young people fall in love. Happiness seems to be in store for Jan again but this is without counting with Bob. Jealous of Jan, the naughty fellow indeed tells him that Michèle's attempted suicide was nothing but an advertising pretense.

Following a premonition, a young woman tries to persuade her fiancé not to go out to sea in his fishing boat, but the boy ignores her and sets out. Soon, a storm occurs, and the girl frantically tries to find out his fate. Eventually, at the advice of her grandmother, she goes to the "Tempestaire", who has the power to speak to the wind and subdue it.