Gérard de Battista

Documentary on director Jean-Denis Bonan

30-year-old Djemila, a single jurist, at last has her own apartment... a few steps away from her parents' place. A French woman of North African extraction, she does everything she can to hide her origins. Emma, her nutty and broke neighbor, struggles to raise her two children alone. Although these two women have nothing in common, a deep friendship forms between them because of their mutual love of music.

1928년 프랑스 랑드 지방, 부유한 정치가의 딸인 테레즈는 드넓은 소나무 숲을 소유한 마을의 지주 베르나르와 정략 결혼을 한다. 총명하고 예민한 감수성을 지닌 그녀는 결혼을 하면 모든 것이 안정되고 평온해지리라 기대한다. 그러나, 고지식하고 가부장적인 남편과 속물적인 시부모에게 순종하며 살아가는 무미건조한 일상은 하루하루 그녀의 영혼을 질식해온다. 어느 날, 그녀의 가장 친한 친구이자 시누이인 안느가 자유로운 영혼을 지닌 청년, 장 아제베도와 사랑에 빠지고, 테레즈 또한 장에게 매혹되고 만다. 장과의 짧지만 강렬한 만남 이후, 새로운 삶에 대한 욕망이 불타오르는 것을 느끼던 테레즈는 남편 베르나르가 의사 처방으로 매일 마시는 약에 치명적인 독인 비소 성분이 미량 함유되었음을 알게 된다. 그리고 그녀가 원하기만 하면 그 함량을 몰래 늘릴 수도 있다는 것을 깨닫게 되는데...

A French video artist traverses Canada on a train that takes her from the east to the west through the snow. This journey leads her to encounter the last girlfriend of her ex-husband, an internationally respected showman who is now dead. Each of the two women will try to understand how the "man of their life" loved and lived with the other. See how they dance.

A documentary drama retelling the shift of Mitterand's policy. In May 1981, F.Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic, after more than twenty years in the opposition. He wants to change the life; he believes in the supremacy of politics over economics. He wants it to be fast and executes his programme to realise the socialist transformation. Two years later, Pierre Mauroy and Jacques Delors introduce an unprecedented austerity plan and open the parenthesis of austerity... that would never be closed.

Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see her family for years, Judith, in spite of her fears and secrets, allows herself to be influenced by her children's wishes and accepts an invitation to their cousin's wedding. They set off to spend a summer in the old country, discovering their roots and their past. But Judith's return revives old hatreds between rival clans. The spiral of violence is inexorably set in motion, blood will tell...

In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.

The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?

A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.

This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.

Chantel is happy: her son's away at school playing soccer, she and her husband get along, her neighbor Agnès is her best friend, and her job at a government office is easy. When her husband is laid off and she wonders for how long, her office pal Jackie recommends Alban, a psychic (and compulsive gambler), who promptly tells Chantel of a curse on her that will take three sessions (and 10,000 FF) to dispel. Through happenstance, she meets Alban's half-brother; thinking she is following the psychic predictions, she tries to start an affair with him. She also undergoes Alban's exorcism, and soon, terrible things indeed start to happen. Is there any way out of her misery?

Two middle-aged friends meet a beautiful woman whom they set out to seduce. She invites them but only has eyes for one man: François Mitterrand.

Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, discovers love in the hands of a sixty year-old former pilot, who risks everything...

Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see each other and communicate... But definitely not for the best!

사랑하는 이가 떠나고 그가 남긴 컴퓨터와 대화하는 여인. 사랑이 죽음과 교신할 때 컴퓨터도 신비한 매체가 된다. 컴퓨터 프로그래머 로라는 2차 대전 중 일어났던 오키나와 전투를 소재로 한 컴퓨터 게임을 개발 중이다. 자료를 조사하고, 관계자와 목격자들을 인터뷰하면서 그녀는 전쟁 중의 특별한 상황을 자신의 삶에 대입하게 된다. 사적 기억과 공적 역사의 상관관계, 그리고 이것이 인간 삶에 미치는 영향을 다각도에서 탐구한 작품. 컴퓨터 이미지, 지적인 대사, 필름 풋티지, 다큐와 모놀로그로 구성된 형식 등 난해하지만 실험적인 미장센은 세상에 대한 감독의 시선만큼이나 독창적이다.

부동산 중개업을 하는 로랭(알랑 샤바)과 결혼한 롤리(빅토리아 아브릴)는 그럭저럭 만족해 하며 살고 있다. 물론, 남편 로랭이 끊임없이 바람을 피우고 그녀를 속여왔다는 걸 안다면 행복 끝, 비참해질 것은 당연지사! 한편 로랭은 자신의 외도를 숨기고 아내가 모르게만 한다면 평화스런 결혼생활을 유지할 수 있으리라고 장담하고, 수많은 유부녀를 만나면서도 정작 자신의 아내만은 그런 외도를 꿈도 못 꾸는 스타일이라고 자신하며 지낸다. 그러던 어느날, 롤리의 집 앞에 트럭 한 대가 멈추고 마리조(조지안 발라스코)가 전화 한 통을 부탁하며 집 안으로 들어온다. 그때 마침 하수구가 막혀 쩔쩔매고 있던 롤리의 일을 마리조가 도와주게 되고, 둘은 놀랍도록 금새 친해지는데 롤리는 이 건장한 레즈비언에게 강력하게 매료당해 버린다. 마침내 롤리는 마리조와 동침하게 되고 그녀를 자신의 집에 머물게 한다. 이로 인해 정신을 못 차리고 당혹스러워 하던 로랭은 우연하게 자신의 외도를 들키게 되는데...

Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…

A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home in their maze of slum apartment blocks. Aggressive, sexually threatening boys of all ages are everywhere, and while the teacher eventually relents to a gang of adolescent rapists, Victorine gives herself to a rowdy gang of older layabouts, eventually winning the heart of burglar Paul.

Three young female prisoners become friends while stranded in a provincial train station.

Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits

Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people were poor and homeless, sleeping under bridges, etc. The winter of 1953-54 proved particularly difficult for these people, as it was one of the coldest on record. Father Pierre (Lambert Wilson), a parish priest, on seeing the suffering of these people (and their frequent death from the cold), was moved to write the French government seeking help for them. When his letter, which was published in the newspapers, succeeded in rousing overwhelming popular support for helping the homeless, he was able to form a charitable group (still active today) titled "Les Chiffoniers d'Emmaus," or "The Ragpickers of Emmaus" to channel help to them. This biographical film tells the true story of Abbe Pierre's successful efforts in those years.

Baudin (Michel Serrault) and Tayar (Wadeck Stanczak) become trapped in a movie theater while trying to fend off a gang of marauding juvenile thugs. The two agree to settle their personal differences in their fight over a pretty female in order to halt the violent siege.

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women.

옆 통로에서 시작한다. 창문 앞에 서면 벽 밖에 보이지 않고 줄을 서도 임금을 받지 못한다. 이 영화는 또한 이름과 나이가 적힌 신분 증명서를 교환하면서 시작한다. 총파업은 이렇게 해제되고 모든 것이 작동을 멈췄다. 자동차는 물론 노동자들까지도. 마침내 거리에서도 사람들이 수군댄다. 뭐라 부를 말도 없고 할 말을 찾을 길도 없다. 새로운 사상은 그렇게 다가오고 있었다.

Married with two kids, beautiful Claire has everything to be happy. But her husband, a businesman, is often absent. When her kids go on a ski holiday Claire finds herself alone. Distraught, she goes out one evening with her friend Gisèle and meets a fashion designer, named Michel. Spark fly and Claire winds up getting seduced by him. Fallen in the trap of adultery: will the young woman be able to accept all her lover's fantasies?

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?

Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. “Settling in the Spanish capital to make a documentary, Hanoun sketches out for us the different steps involved in making a film. The author turns his hesitations, his doubts and difficult working conditions into the constituents of his work”. (Raphaël Bassan)

A couple is lost in a town where everyone speaks some strange language, and they can't find their way out.