Jean-Paul Muel

Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.

Little Rafik learns about Santa Claus in School, when he arrives just before Christmas with his Tunisian family to settle down in France in the 1960's.

Two couples, Pierre and Aimée, Éric and Pénélope, all share four years of friendship without cloud. Only concern, Penelope and Pierre have become lovers ... The situation becoming untenable, they decide to break. But after a final night of passionate love, fate plays a trick on them: Peter and Penelope each wake up in the body of the other! To protect their secrecy, they each find themselves having to live the life of the other. This is the beginning of the complications ...

우울증으로 정신과를 찾은 ‘클로에’는 의사 ‘폴’과 사랑에 빠져 그와 함께 동거를 시작한다. 우연히 폴의 쌍둥이 형제 ‘루이’의 존재를 알게 된 클로에는 젠틀한 매력의 폴과 달리 섹시하고 야성적인 루이와도 사랑을 나눈다. 위험한 관계를 유지하던 클로에는 그들의 숨겨진 비밀에 대해 알게 되는데…

밤의 세계를 무대로 경찰을 둘러싼 전대미문 최악의 부당거래. 조직들이 운영하는 불법 유흥업소를 단속하지만 때로 정보를 위해 불법 행태를 눈감아줬던 바이스 경감은 이로 인해 경찰 내부 조사를 받게 된다. 경찰서 내에서 코너에 몰리게 된 바이스 경감은 지역 최고의 조직 보스에게 위험한 거래를 제안 받고, 돌이킬 수 없는 선택을 하게 된다.

Léos Carax’s 42 second short piece for the collective film OneDreamRush, a tale of voyeurism about man and his neighbor: a sensual and mysterious blind woman.

1925년 프랑스, 10살 어린 소녀의 노래 소리가 사람들을 사로잡는다. 노래의 주인공은 바로 훗날 전세계를 사로잡은 20세기 최고의 가수 에디트 삐아프. 거리의 가수였던 어머니에게 버림받고 서커스 단원 아버지를 따라 방랑생활을 하다 거리에서 노래를 부르며 하루하루를 연명하던 20살 그녀 앞에 행운이 찾아온다. 에디트의 목소리에 반한 루이스 레플리의 클럽에서 ‘작은 참새’라는 뜻의 ‘삐아프’라는 이름과 함께 성공적인 데뷔 무대를 갖게 된 것. 열정적인 그녀의 노래에 반한 사람들이 에디트에 열광하기 시작할 무렵, 그녀를 발굴한 루이스 레플리가 살해되면서 뜻밖의 시련을 겪게 된다.

Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.

머나먼 시간 여행을 마치고 돌아온 몽미라의 백작 고드프(Comte Godefroy De Montmirail, Dit Godefroy Le Hardi: 쟝 르노 분)와는 나쁜 마녀의 마법을 피해 꿈에도 그리던 뿌이유 공작의 딸인 프레네공드(Beatrice/Frenegonde: 뮤리엘 로빈 분)와의 결혼식을 하루 앞두고 두근대는 가슴을 참지 못한다. 그러나, 갑작스레 나타난 신부의 아버지가 누군가 공작의 보석들을 훔쳐 갔다며 결혼 취소를 소리친다. 도둑맞은 보석 중에는 뿌이유 가문의 여자들에게 다산(多産)의 능력을 주는 롤랑드 성자의 성스러운 목걸이도 있었다. 목걸이가 없다면 고드프와의 후손들은 존재할 수 없다. 그걸 갖고 있는 사람은 바로 현대에 남겨진 쟈쿠이(Jacquouille/Jacquart: 크리스티안 클라비어 분)와 거지 여인 지네뜨(Ginette: 마리-앤 자펠 분)였다. 뒤바뀐 조상 쟈쿠이와 후손 쟈쿠아로 인하여 시간의 통로가 닫히지 않은 것이었다. 벌어진 시공(時空)의 틈새는 고대 이집트의 7가지 재앙과 같은 끔찍한 환난을 예고하는 것이다. 쟈쿠이의 후손이 호텔 사장 쟈쿠아 또한 중세의 한복판에 홀로 버려졌다. 모든 것이 엉켜 버리고, 현대에 남겨진 말썽꾸러기 시종 쟈쿠이와 성스러운 목걸이를 중세로 복귀시키는 일이 해결책이다.

영국과의 전쟁에서 프랑스 왕 루이 6세의 생명을 구하는 지대한 공을 세운 기사 고드프루아는 작위를 수여받고 포상으로 풀베르 드푸이 백작의 딸인 프레네공드 드푸이와 결혼을 약속받는다. 그러나 마녀의 계략으로 환각을 유발하는 약을 먹은 그는 예비 장인인 백작을 죽이고 만다. 고드프루아는 마법사에게 부탁하여 불상사가 일어나기 전의 시점으로 되돌아가게 해주는 묘약을 처방받는다. 그러나 마법사의 실수로 중요한 재료 하나가 빠진 약을 먹게 된 그는 시종인 자쿠이와 함께 과거가 아닌 1992년으로 가게 된다. 800여년 뒤의 문화에 적응하지 못해 좌충우돌하는 이들은 출발 시점으로 귀환하기 위해 갖은 애를 쓰는 와중에 미래의 후손들을 만나게 되고 그 중 한 명이 고드프루아를 수년 전 잃어버린 자신의 사촌으로 착각하는 해프닝도 벌어진다. 고드프루아는 자신에게 묘약을 지어준 마법사의 후손을 천신만고 끝에 만나 과거로 돌아가게 해주는 약을 건네받는다. 그러는 동안 어느 노숙자 여인을 만나 사랑에 빠진 자쿠이는 주인을 따라가기를 거부하고 대신 자기 후손을 돌려 보내면서 또 다른 소동을 예고한다.

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

A philosophizing uninvited hitchhiker terrorizes a writer, who's selling dictionaries while he's struggling with writer's block.

Four murders in forty-eight hours happen in Nice. The murderer calls himself "The Exterminator" and the police are unable to catch him. Tom Lepski is an insurance detective and he get involved in the investigation when Liza Mendoza, a famous violinist and a friend, is killed just a few minutes before Tom visit her. After another rich woman killing, Tom finds out that all the victims were members of the exclusive Fifty Club. All of them but Lisa.

A tow truck driver becomes the impresario, then the singer of a new rock band.

The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her compatriots were expelled from, and enlists some unlikely helpers to bring them back into the country and enact their plot. Meanwhile, these "local" blacks are unwittingly accepted by the other landowners as more cheap labor.

The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.

Héléna Werner leads a reclusive and deserted life. Alone, as if withdrawn from the world in her apartment of refined luxury. She places an ad for a private secretary, a "handyman" who would take her away from the daily grind. As soon as he starts working, Milo adopts an intriguing behavior. From the start, he takes everything in hand and the doors of the apartment close on them both.

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.

Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage between them unravels, Edouard's daughters experience their own emotional shock waves. Dina, in a relationship with playwright Paul, wants more from her daily life, while Sidone is married to a fellow musician but is terrified of performing in public. Fast-forward seven years: Edouard is gravely ill, and the family shares their issues, hopes and fears.

Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society and lives a wealthy lifestyle surrounded by young women and money. He relies on his trusty accountant, Jérôme Bouvier, to manage his finances. All goes well until the day that Béatrice Flamand, a tax inspector, shows up at his clinic, at which point Lestrade is now in trouble.

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his mother Nicole. Living in an exclusively feminine environment, the boy wishes more than anything else to have a masculine presence around. His dream comes true when he meets Jacques, who's madly in love with Nicole and who is about to completely turn the boy's life upside down.

Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.

La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire disparaître sa progéniture mais c'est sans compter sur la protection de nombreux personnages de la littérature enfantine : les fées, Tarzan, Robin des Bois ou d'autres encore...

Gérald, former champion of motorcycle competitions, after an accident that causes him to lose the use of his right becomes a trainer for young riders. But because he can not make enough money, he takes part in a burglary.

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...

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.

August in Brittany at a seaside hotel. Some guests are new, some come every year and are friends. The men nearing middle age fish and plan infidelities; their wives have surprises of their own in store. Teens fall in and out of love. Kids not yet teens have their own parties and friendships. In 11 months, most but not all will be back.

In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seemed easy and Burma got an appointment with a well-known black trumpet player in the neighborhood who could provide him with information. But the musician does not come and we find him murdered. The investigation becomes more complicated and Nestor must find an alibi so as not to be suspected of the crime.

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.

Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and becomes infatuated which leads to her and him meeting and deciding to go and take a look at Claude personal doll collection at his house. Marie, unaware of Claude's bizarre obsession with dolls, decides to marry him.

Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped and taken to a Parisian whorehouse. However, a disinherited prince, Dudu who tries to rescue her, is himself kidnapped and forced to serve as a male prostitute. The two captives meet there and fall in love. They are taken away by different rich people - he to an Arab "harem," she to a surgeon's home.