Bernard Zitzermann

A film-crew in the early twentieth century, the cabaret known as ‘Le Fol Espoir’ has been transformed into an amateur soundstage. The motion picture tells the story of a ship and its passengers – from the famous opera singer down to the petty criminal. The film is an optimistic political fable intended to educate the masses. There’s comedy aplenty – slapstick punches, custard pies and gags reminiscent of Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle; there’s adventure, high drama moments of great bravura , and passionate love stories. The filming begins on June 28th 1914, the day of the Archiduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in Sarajevo, the gunpowder that sets Europe alight. It ends with news of another assassination – that of Jean Jaures on July 31st followed by the general conscription of August 1st, heralded by church bells across France. The allegory of the shipwreck is filmed at breakneck pace during the last five weeks before war breaks out.

Cyril and Fiona, a free-wheeling married couple, travel to a tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. Cyril is a manipulator. There, they meet another couple, Catherine and Hugh, and their three children. Hugh is a one-armed photographer who specializes in nude photographs of peasant women. Soon, they decide to live together and an erotic atmosphere develops between them.

In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugenia begin a torrid romance, but as the couple become closer, the young scientist begins to realize that dark, disturbing things are happening behind the closed doors of the Alabaster manor.

조용하고 내성적인 성격의 소피는 상류층인 릴리브르씨 가족을 위해 일하는 가정부다. 이 집의 무능력한 부부와 버릇없는 두 아이를 위해 매일 ‘의식’과 같이 식사를 준비하고 청소를 하며 집안을 돌본다. 그런데 그녀는 자신이 글을 읽지 못한다는 사실을 숨기고 있다. 소피는 정열적이며 세상 물정에 밝은 우체국 직원 잔느와 친구가 되는데, 그녀를 위해 쇼핑 리스트를 읽어주기도 하고 릴리브르 가족에 대한 온갖 이야기들을 들려주기도 한다. 잔느가 자신의 우편물을 훔쳐본다고 의심해 오던 릴리브르씨는, 소피에게 잔느가 4살짜리 소녀에 대한 살인혐의를 받은 적 있으며 나중에 방면되었다는 사실을 얘기해준다. 그렇게 서로의 불신이 쌓여갈 무렵 소피가 글을 읽지 못한다는 사실이 발각되고 항상 부르주아 가족으로부터 무시당한다고 생각했던 소피와 잔느의 분노가 폭발하게 된다.

폴과 넬리 부부는 경치 좋은 시골에서 호텔을 운영한다. 하지만 폴은 호텔을 살 때 진 빚 때문에 걱정이 크고, 스트레스는 날로 쌓여만 간다. 술과 수면제를 밥 먹듯 하던 폴은 급기야 아내 넬리에게 다른 남자가 있다는 편집증적 망상과 질투에 사로잡힌다. 그리고 폴과 넬리의 관계는 파국으로 치닫는다. 1964년 앙리 조르주 클루조가 시작했지만 완성하지는 못했던 프로젝트를 샤브롤이 가져와 완성시켰다. 폴의 망상과 현실이 끝없이 교차하여 불안과 공포는 증폭된다. 넬리 역의 엠마누엘 베아르가 가진 성녀와 창녀의 얼굴은 위험하리만치 매혹적이다. (2017 영화의 전당 - 클로드 샤브롤 회고전)

Based on Lord Byron's poem "Mazeppa" from 1819 and revolving around the painter Théodore Géticault, famous horse trainer and spectacle Bartabas takes art to another level.

Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.

This series, assembled in a film, presents the singular view of contemporary artists on major works of art history. The words of these free spirits make each work see each work as a dynamic form, in the process of becoming, crossed by multiple energies. The artists' voice-over narration frees the creative possibilities of the image - sound and image playing with each other, animated by the same spring: what is seeing?

수의사인 아버지와 약간의 정신 질환을 앓고 있는 어머니, 그리고 선머슴 같은 누나(Nadine petite: Faye Gatteau 분)와 겁많은 올리비에(Olivier petit: Emmanuel Morozof 분)는 그런대로 행복하게 살아가고 있다. 그러던 어느 날 할머니댁에 심부름을 갔던 올리비에가 실종이 되면서 집안은 온통 뒤죽박죽된다. 올리비에를 유난히 이뻐하던 엄마는 정신질환이 더 심해지고, 이에 싫증을 느낀 아빤 아프리카로 떠난다. 어린 나딘은 곁에서 엄마를 도우며 지켜준다. 올리비에를 찾지 못한채 6년이란 세월이 흐른다. 당시 올리비에 실종 사건을 맡았던 형사 드루는 파리로 발령을 받아 그곳에 가있다. 그곳에서 경찰에 잡혀와있는 동성연애자겸 방랑자인 한 소년(Olivier: Gregoire Colin 분)을 만난다. 어린 올리비에의 얼굴과 비슷한 소년을 올리비에로 단정하는데...

Drunk, Betty is feeling worse and worse, the previous evening is slowly coming back to her: her husband and her husband's family had criticized her harshly, had sent her away. But Betty hadn't wanted to get married in the first place. She knows that she always ruined everything, that she drinks to much, that she has had several affairs. Laure, who is taking care of her, suggests that Betty stay with her in the hotel where she lives, as long as Betty would like. Laure, too, finds solace and companionship in alcohol.

Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.

A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.

Marc, a young snake expert, works at a museum in Geneva. He loves snakes, to the point that he owns many and even takes a bath with his huge pet python. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Malenka, who is the assistant--and mistress--of an older herpetologist professor. Marc discovers that not only is the "professor" a fraud but also a dangerous psychotic who had at one time seduced Marc's mother, and Marc believes that the longer Malenka stays with him, the greater danger she's in.

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.

The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother Cyprien (Robin Renucci), who is an early pioneer in medical anatomy (he dissected corpses and made drawings of what he found in them), have fallen in love with the same woman, Marianne (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), a laundress. This attraction has not escaped the notice of Salmon d'Anglas (Sami Frey), a conniving nobleman, who has his heart set on getting revenge on Jean-Honore (Joachim de Almeida) for refusing his patronage and becoming the darling of the French court.

프랑스의 브레따뉴 지방 사비니엥 백작의 성에서는 아들 오렐과 대녀인 셀린느와 사제의 사생아인 타르깽이 서로 형제같이 어린 시절을 보낸다. 성년이 된 이들은 1789년, 프랑스 혁명을 맞이하는데 셀린느만이 성에 남고 오렐은 미국으로 타르깽은 파리로 떠난다. 사비니엥 백작은 날으는 방법(글라이더)에 몰두하는데 셀린느는 둘을 기다리며 백작의 작업을 도와준다. 4년후, 공화주의자로 변모한 타르깽이 파리에서 돌아와 공화정의 군대를 징집하고 셀린느로 하여금 주민들을 교육시킨다. 한편 미국에서 돌아온 오렐은 참혹해진 프랑스를 보고 실망한다. 셀린느가 타르깽을 사랑하는 걸로 오해한 오렐은 질투심에 불타고 무단 정치에 공포를 느껴 대항아는 왕당파에 가담하지만 전쟁의 무의함을 느껴 셀린느에게 편지를 보낸다. 그리 셀린느도 그의 사랑이 진실임을 깨닫는다. 무수한 인명을 죽이면서까지 연적인 오렐을 끝까지 제거하려는 타르깽에게 셀린느는 총을 쏘고 성에 갇혀 감옥을 알려준다. 셀린느를 구한 오렐은 공화정 군대의 총격을 받으면서 아버지 사비니엥이 발명한 기계를 타고 하늘로 향해 오른다.

The residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama taken from the novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. With news of the Spanish Civil War on the radio, the people begin to believe the sun will not return and the world will be forever darkened.

Dr. Paul Calmet is dead. His son Jean again feels the familiar feeling of anguish caused by his father; victim of this torture, he is carrying the virus of misfortune.

The dream, which filled half of her life, was no longer enough for Maryvonne. She leaves her husband, child, lover and leaves for Paimpol. And there, it's a breath of fresh air in the form of real life, reality finally joins the dream.

In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop's physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina's sole purpose and hope.

Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Algerian woman who lives in France and works in Switzerland, would like to be anywhere except where she is. Louis, born on a Swiss farm and trained as a clockmaker, would give anything to leave his mistress, Lucie, and move in with Mali.

A beautiful DJ starts a romantic relationship with an older antiquarian. The only problem: she's pregnant and already hitched.

Detective Frank Zodiac is a cop traumatized by the death of his wife in a car accident that also left his daughter in a coma. This tragedy prevented him from being present to apprehend the dangerous gangster Gus Sabor, who was then able to escape from law enforcement. Three years later, Frank and Gus' paths cross again. Frank then sets out to pursue the criminal through Paris.

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.

The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...

Julien, fifteen-year-old, meets Nathalie, a girl his age whom he falls in love. Soon she is expecting a child. Their parents take the news with reservations. The baby will come and with it, the difficult learning of life.

Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was raped, and hasn't looked back since. Now the police are on her trail, and she avails herself of the services of a couple who make a profession of hiding wanted criminals. At the hideout, she meets Simon, a second-generation mobster. As the police close in, Françoise and Simon go on the run together, pulling off occasional heists for operating money. Before long, they have also fallen in love.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.

2차 세계대전으로 양친을 잃고 고모 집에서 자랐던 11살 페렉의 자전적 이야기를 30년 후 회상한다. 페렉이 참여한 영화 중 유일하게 페렉이 단독 연출한 작품으로 1965년에 쓰고, 사후에 출판된 동명의 텍스트를 기초로 하고 있다.

"In this heady, phantasmagoric fairy tale, a young girl comes face to face with a friendly dragon and a magnanimous witch. Upon the witch granting the girl’s wish to become a young woman, this surrealist chronicle follows the precocious Camélia on a series of quests in pursuit of love. Niki de Saint Phalle’s sophomore film revels in the sexual decadence that defined the 1970s zeitgeist, showcasing scenes of debauched harems and totemic worship of phallic sculptures. An astounding piece of directorial bravery, UN RÊVE PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT confirms Saint Phalle’s wicked yet earnest pleasure in excavating the underlying perversions at play within the romantic quiet of fairy tales." - Anthology Film Archives

It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student is far from the post May 68 clichés and the movie walks a fine line off the beaten path. Philippe Lemaire and Emmanuelle Riva are ideally cast as the bourgeois parents who urge their offspring to attend the grandma's Christmas meal.

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.