Serge Merlin

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").

Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.

Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in which he requested that his other son, Pierre, who hasn't been heard from for two years, spread his ashes in Poland. His father's preference comes as a rude shock for Julien, and it opens a chasm inside him, slowly bringing to light an unspeakable secret.

17세기 유럽의 어딘가, 눈보라를 헤치고 우르수스가 살고 있는 집을 두 고아가 찾아온다. 유랑극단 공연자인 우르수스는 기이하게 찢어진 그윈플렌의 입을 보고 깜짝 놀라지만, 두 아이를 불쌍히 여겨 그윈플렌과 눈이 먼 데아를 자신의 아이들로 받아들인다. 훗날 그윈플렌은 자신의 찢어진 입을 무기로 최고의 광대로 성장하게 된다. 타고난 연기력과 기괴하게 찢어진 입으로 유럽 전역에서 유명해진 그윈플렌의 공연은 대성황을 이루지만 그 소식을 듣고 어린 시절 자신의 입을 찢어놓은 누군가가 공연장을 찾아오기 시작하고 세상은 그윈플렌의 인생을 바꿀 거대한 준비를 시작하는데….

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

오랜만에 느끼는 아빠의 다정한 손길에 두근거리는 심장을 심장병이라고 오해한 아빠 덕분에 학교는 구경도 못해본 아멜리에. 노틀담 성당에서 뛰어내린 관광객에 깔려 엄마가 하늘 나라로 가 버리고, 유일한 친구 금붕어마저 자살을 기도한 뒤 그녀는 정말로 외톨이가 된다. 하지만 어느날 빛 바랜 사진과 플라스틱 군인, 구슬이 가득 담긴 낡은 상자를 우연히 발견하면서, 그녀에게 마법 같은 일들이 시작된다. 주변 사람들에게 행복을 찾아주는 기쁨을 통해 삶의 행복을 발견했다고 굳게 믿던 그 순간 그녀의 심장이 또다시 두근거리기 시작하는데...

파리에서 범죄가 일어나고 경찰은 단서도 찾지 못한 채 수사의 혼선을 겪고 있다. 이때 초능력을 가진 동아시아 출신의 시몬이 수사에 투입되고 그의 도움으로 범인이 검거된다. 그의 초능력이 인정받게 되자 과거 라이벌이었던 다른 마법사가 도전장을 보내는데, 그것은 바로 3년간 땅 속에 묻혀있는 것. 하지만 시몬이 땅에 묻힌 후 곧 죽었다는 소식이 전해진다. 시몬을 사랑하는 제인은 그를 찾아 나서고 마법사 시몬은 죽었다. 과연 제인은 그를 다시 만날 수 있을까?

A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls in love with him. But there is also Gregoire's circle, his disturbing neighbour, his maybe crazy grandmother Diane, his former teacher Hugo. And this is mixed up with Sebastien's attempts to seduce Claire then her mother Anne. And also Claire's psychiatrist.

한 과학자에 의해 만들어진 인간인 크랭크는 완벽한 인간이 아닌 조로증 환자이다. 크랭크는 꿈을 꾸기 위해서 아이들을 유괴해서 그들을 꿈을 훔치고 있다. 남자는 차력 등의 재주를 보여주는 힘이 장사인 광대로 크랭크에게 잡혀간 동생을 찾기 위해 어린 도둑 일당인 미에트와 함께 크랭크의 본거지인 '잃어버린 아이들의 도시'에 도착한다. 거기에는 난장이 비스마스 부인과 실패한 복제인간들이 크랭크의 지배하에 아이들을 납치해와 그들의 꿈을 훔치고 있다. 그러나 아이들은 크랭크를 무서워해서 언제나 악몽만을 꾸게 된다. '잃어버린 아이들의 도시'에 도착한 남자는 그와 함께온 몇명의 아이들과 함께 탈출을 시도한다

Victim of a train accident, a man regains consciousness in the house of the woman who shared his compartment.

Toussaint and Madeleine have loved each other from the cradle. They are now sixty. They have reached retirement age and have decided to return to Corsica. Toussaint has spent thirty years underground in the maintenance workshops of the Paris metro system. he is happy, but Madeleine misses Paris with its excitement and, above all, their son, who is a doctor in one of the French capital's major hospitals. Madeleine has such love for her son that Toussaint teases her by saying she should ask the Pope for dispensation in order to marry him. Toussaint and Madeleine return to Balba at the beginning of the winter when the days are short, the village bar is closed and the men too scarce for even a game of cards. The silence is occasionally broken by the village idiot, Napolean, as he ambles about shouting the coming death of Corsica while on patrol of the locked-up houses he's been set to guard...

This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.

프랑스 혁명이 민중혁명의 국면에 접어들고 과거 혁명세력이 주도권을 잡은 이후, 로베스 삐에르의 공포정치가 혁명을 압도하는상황을 배경으로 하고 있다. 이때 벌어지는 당통과 로베스 삐에르의 대립은 정치적, 이념적 갈등, 그리고 혁명의 자기파괴적 달레마와 모순의 문제를 내포한 것이다. 당통은 로베스 삐에르가 혁명의 이름으로 혁명을 파괴하고, 또한 독재를 경계한다고 하면서도 실제로 독재로 가고 있다고 공격한다. 따라서 국민의 적은바로 혁명정부이며, 이 정부를 이끄는 공공안전위원회의 테러리즘과 전체주의가 혁명을 배반하는 것이라 비난한다. 반면 로베스 삐에르는 중산 계급을 중심으로 시민의 우상이 되고 있는 당통을 처형한 후에 남는 것은 오로지 공포정치 밖에 없음을 알면서도, 당통에 대한 재판에 질 경우 혁명은 끝이 난다는 위기감 때문에 당통은 반혁명자로 처형할 것을 결심하기에 이른다. 당통은 관용과 평화와 정의를 주장하는 자신의 희생이 마침내 민중의눈을 뜨게할 것이라 스스로 믿고 처형 후에 자신의 잘려진 머리를 민중드르에게 보여줄 것을 당부하였지만 민중은 그의 뜻에 따르지 않았다. 로베스 삐에르는 그의 처형 순간 혁명이 잘못돼가고 있음을 자인하지만....

Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny...

The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.

Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.

Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.

French TV adaptation of the Golem myth

Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Uprising. It was originally titled Samson, but re-spelled as Sampson upon its American release to avoid confusion with a sword-and-sandal epic of the same name.