Docteur Carole Marbas
When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears… Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.
Élodie Piat
When Lili, 26 years old, poor, single mother of three, is wrongly accused of abuse and the social services take away her children, she collapses. But this is without counting on the luminous meeting of other women. With them, Lili fights to rebuild her family.
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
Louise
Após uma experiência de quase morte, o principal chef da França se lança em uma busca pelo sabor que confundiu sua vida desde que foi derrotado por uma tigela de macarrão de um chef japonês quando jovem.
Self
Sandrine Massaro
Upon their release from prison twenty years earlier, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked themselves if honesty was not the best racket of them all. Today, they are inseparable and scrupulously above board. But Gérard learns he is terminally ill. Their friend’s days being numbered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love story… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is better than life.
Gabrielle Duchesne
França, 1963. Anne é uma aluna jovem e brilhante com um futuro promissor pela frente. Mas quando engravida, vê desaparecer a oportunidade de terminar os estudos e escapar aos constrangimentos das suas origens sociais. Perante a aproximação dos últimos exames e a barriga crescendo, Anne resolve tomar medidas, ainda que tenha de enfrentar a vergonha, o sofrimento e se arrisque a ir para a prisão. Uma adaptação do romance homônimo de Annie Ernaux, que aborda a sua experiência com o aborto quando este ainda era ilegal na França nos anos 60. Leão de Ouro, de Melhor Filme, no Festival de Veneza 2021. Venceu o Cesar 2022 (o Oscar francês) de Atriz Mais Promissora (para Anamaria Vartolomei) e foi indicado a Melhor Filme, Direção e Roteiro Adaptado.
Self
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury to achieve it. With "L'Enfance nue", his first feature film at the age of 43, the filmmaker immediately made his mark, this "art of making things authentic", according to Chabrol. But throughout an unclassifiable filmography in the form of an autobiography, from a break-up to his fatherhood in wonder, through the agony of his mother, the filmmaker does not get rid of the feeling of being misunderstood, despite international recognition.
Louise Michel (voice)
Jeanne
Jeanne works as an auxiliary in a maternity in Marseilles. Day and night, Jeanne and her colleagues fight to help mothers and their babies against the lack of staff and constant management pressure. Jeanne lives with her 18 year-old daughter, Zoé. When a tragedy occurs at the maternity and Zoé leaves to study in Paris, Jeanne’s secret past suddenly resurfaces and forces her to assert her life choices.
Blanche Courtin
Natal de 1999, em uma pequena e pacífica vila nas Ardenas. A vida de um garoto chamado Antoine logo será devastada por três eventos trágicos: a morte de um cachorro, o desaparecimento de uma criança e uma grande tempestade devastadora.
Irène
Self
De mãe da Nouvelle Vague a ícone feminista, a diretora francesa Agnès Varda expõe seus processos de criação e revela sua experiência com o fazer cinematográfico. A cineasta dá um enfoque especial no método de storytelling que ela denomina de "cine-writing", uma espécie de fórmula utilisada por ela na grande maioria de seus documentários e ficções.
Director
Marianne Faithfull has seen it all. Success and celebrity at 17. Life with Mick Jagger through the turbulent late sixties. Scandal, drugs, addiction and hitting rock bottom before rebirth, awards and artistic recognition.
Marion Veyron
Gabrielle
Recém saida da cadeia, a Ulysse tem apenas uma idéia em mente: ganhar dinheiro. Confrontado por sua mãe deprimida, Gabrielle, as contas que nunca param de se acumular e seu desejo de viver sua vida ao máximo, ele faz um plano. Com seu melhor amigo, David, ele viajará de rave a rave, vendendo uma mistura de água e ketamina de seu caminhão de comida. Juntos, eles pegam a estrada ...
Carole Blaszak
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
Edith
Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company’s downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco.
Director
Actor and director Sandrine Bonnaire paints an intimate and tender portrait of cultural icon Marianne Faithfull’s burning creativity and incredible life story.
Catherine Bouzaria
Sonia e Melanie, duas adolescentes francesas, junto a suas respectivas famílias têm suas vidas arruinadas à medida que são tomados como alvo e sofrem lavagem cerebral de terroristas jihadistas, que atuam como recrutadores nas redes sociais.
Inès Barras
Na Espanha, até 1987, recém-nascidos eram roubados da mãe para serem vendidos a outras famílias. Naquela época, Inès, 16 anos, dá à luz um bebê natimorto no convento de Santa Carmela. Trinte anos depois, ela descobre que seu bebê, vivo, teve o mesmo destino...
la directrice
In the 1970s, the house of Plessis welcomes young pregnant minors. Even though these unborn children are the fruit of love or rape, in this institution, a single slogan: put these girls in the right way. But the day when the revolt rumbles, the mechanism fails... A story deliberately based on real events.
Diane
Durante sua festa de aniversário de 92 anos, Madeleine (Marthe Villalonga) choca seus filhos e netos ao anunciar que definiu o dia exato em que irá morrer. A sua intenção era de prepará-los lentamente para a sua partida, mas o efeito é contrário, gerando uma série de conflitos. Apenas sua filha Diane (Sandrine Bonnaire) respeita a sua escolha e aceita a proposta da despedida parcelada.
Self
A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.
Director
Self
Alma
Nathalie Béranger
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him with his family by telling them a big lie.
Françoise Dupret
Bank manager Frank and writer Patrizia meet by coincidence again and again at the airport. They commute between Dusseldorf and Paris, but behind their travels are two fateful stories. Frank wants to complete the business of his life, Patrizia visits her lover, who is in a coma since a car accident. For both life comes out of joint and they each suffer heavy losses. What connects them is the search for hold, a listener, the need to be needed and the hope that there is a beginning in each end.
Lucie
When her husband is arrested, all Lucie's bearings seem to crumble. To rebuild her life and give it new meaning, she entrusts her kids to her mother and isolates herself on the coast near Bordeaux. But the kids decide to go look for her.
Writer
Após dez anos de ausência, Jacques ressurge na vida de Mado, hoje casada e mãe de Paul, 7 anos. O casal enfrentara, no passado, a perda de um filho. Assim, quando Jacques, que continua só, conhece Paul, é um choque.
Director
Após dez anos de ausência, Jacques ressurge na vida de Mado, hoje casada e mãe de Paul, 7 anos. O casal enfrentara, no passado, a perda de um filho. Assim, quando Jacques, que continua só, conhece Paul, é um choque.
Em 2007, o romano Claudiu Crulic morreu aos 33 anos em uma prisão da Polônia durante uma greve de fome. Este documentário narra os terríveis acontecimentos de sua prisão e uma verdade que poucos querem conhecer.
Hélène
Hélène é uma empregada de Hotel que vive feliz numa pequena aldeia da Córsega com o marido Ange e a sua filha de 15 anos, Lisa. Uma mulher modesta e discreta, Hélène vive uma vida previsível e tranquila. Um dia, numa limpeza rotineira a um quarto, Hélène repara em duas pessoas a jogar xadrez e apaixona-se pelo jogo real. A sua curiosidade para com o xadrez rapidamente se torna numa obsessão em dominar as regras do jogo e em se tornar especialista. Para isso, ela utiliza a ajuda do Dr. Kröger, um dos habitantes mais misteriosos da aldeia. Mas essa metamorfose para uma nova vida também vai mudar o seu relacionamento com a sua família, amigos e toda a aldeia.
Claire Vigneaux
Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression in the midst of a divorce from her husband of 12 years develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out more about the girl, Elsa uses Thomas as a way into the girl's family by aiding to develop a friendship between Thomas and the girl's brother Jeremy so that in turn Elsa can then befriend the girl's mother Claire. She uses Thomas more and more in her pursuit of this obsession telling her employer and fellow employees that Thomas is seriously ill so that she can run off watch the girl (Lola) wherever she goes. Elsa even tells her parents lies that she is going out with a friend so they will baby-sit so Elsa can even go as far as hiding in the bushes outside of Lola's house and watching her at night.
Félicité
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's children, her nephew Victor. But fate seems to always deny her from any love in return. Still she tries to find someone who'll accept her unconditional love.
Writer
A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, the autistic sister of the french actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Cinematography
A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, the autistic sister of the french actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Herself
A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, the autistic sister of the french actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Director
A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, the autistic sister of the french actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Marie
Elsa
Lucas, a wealthy, 43 year-old divorced businessman, is irresistibly attracted to Elsa, a 38 year old renowned sculptor from whom he has commissioned a piece to decorate the reception at his office.
Self
After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.
Martine Lang
In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine abortion. Under a 1920 law, the five women were arrested and charged. Supported by a procession of well-known French (eg Simone de Beauvoir), the five were released and the law was adapted.
Self
A thoroughly researched documentary on Chabrol, exploring the creative process and the great artistic process of the master of cinema.
Mabé
Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse operator. He only stayed two months, but his presence proved to be a disturbing catalyst.
Hélène
Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.
Anna
Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) acredita que seu casamento está em crise e decide consultar um psicanalista. Por distração ela entra na sala errada e acaba confessando seus problemas matrimoniais ao consultor de finanças William Faber (Fabrice Luchini). Fascinado pela mulher e seus segredos, Faber persiste na farsa, muitas vezes sem ter certeza se Anna está sendo de fato enganada. Ao longo das supostas consultas, a dupla desenvolve um estranho pacto de dependência, passando a questionar suas vidas e suas relações amorosas.
Lucette Oomlop
Até mesmo quando o mundo está se despedaçando, o poder do coração humano é capaz de unir os pedaços novamente. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, depois que o avião de Ted, um piloto americano em uma crucial missão aliada, cai na Bélgica, que fora ocupada pela Alemanha, ele é encontrado pelo filho de um colaborador nazista, e escondido pela Maquis, a Resistência Francesa. Porém, à medida que se recupera, Ted vai se apaixonando por Claire, a esposa do único homem que poderá levá-lo de volta. Logo, a lealdade será colocada à prova, quando uma traição arriscará não só suas vidas, como também o desfecho da guerra.
Interviewee
18 years after the making of the film "Vagabond", director Agnès Varda created this documentary which includes interviews with the cast.
Special Guest Cannes Film Festival
Uma mulher muda de identidade depois de ter participado de um inusitado roubo de joias. Porém, ela é flagrada por um paparazzi que a colocará em risco novamente.
Suzanne
Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything anymore. There he meets Suzanne, a volunteer who is dedicated to supporting people at the end of their lives.
Claire Canselier
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
Marie
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
Vivianne Sterne
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
Herself
A 55-minute film by director Xavier Giannoli that analyses 'À nos amours'. The film features former Cahiers du cinéma editorial director Jean-Michel Frodon, actors Jacques Fieschi and Sandrine Bonnaire, and other members of the cast
Olga
Three women live together in an old rectory on the seashore. Alda lends her body to a string of carnal relationships but never commits her feelings. Olga, the elder sister, has opted for a reclusive life as the soul of the household. Her daughter, Sigga, is a young adolescent. The house harbors a finely balanced marriage between desire and memory—until Olga’s destiny tips the scales.
Sylvie
After scientist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father whom he suspects died at the hands of his business partner.
Monica Besse
Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and settle his estate. She wishes to get back to Luxembourg and to her normal life as quickly as possible.
However, she quickly realizes that in fact, she hardly knew her father, and tries to trace the various stages and encounters that made up his life.
Much later, she realizes that the search for the identity of her father has actually become a search of her own identity – though still she believes she can get closer to her father after his death.
Katherine Beaufort
Thomas Murray and Amanda have just moved to Paris. He works for a bank owned by Amanda's father Arthur Trevane. Amanda decides that she does not like Paris, so she goes back to London. But trouble begins on a drive through the countryside, where he meets a free spirit whose charms pressure his long-distance marriage.
Natalia
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.
Sophie Bonhomme
Sophie trabalha como empregada doméstica para a Mme. Leliévre em Saint-Malo, onde faz amizade com Joanne, uma funcionária sincera dos correios. Porém, quando Jeanne a incentiva a se rebelar contra seus patrões, Sophie é demitida. Unidas por seus segredos ocultos, as duas decidem se vingar.
La vagabonde métamorphosable
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.
Jeanne d'Arc
Joan has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
Jeanne d'Arc
Jeanne the Maid leaves her childhood home in Domremy after hearing what she is sure was the voice of God. She believes that she can help lead France to victory on the battlefield, and she persuades Charles, dauphin of France to allow her to guide his troops.
Martine Rambert
Uma peste desconhecida explode numa cidade sul-americana, onde um médico e uma repórter têm de enfrentar simultaneamente a doença e o governo. Baseado na obra de Albert Camus.
Elena
This ambitious overview of the history of Prague provides a wealth of information about the city, both visual and verbal, but suffers from a one-note presentation. One note dominates the narration, that of continuity between past and present, and also the camerawork -- contrived to be as artful and art filled as the narration. Modern and ancient architecture and other cultural attributes of Prague, including scenes from the stage play Amadeus serve as a backdrop to the lecture on the nature of Prague history -- a non-stop "continuity of consciousness."
Suzanne
Suzanne has had an affair which so traumatized her that she is out of the running, romantically. Perhaps that is why she is roommates with her gay best friend, Marc. However, just because one isn't going out on dates doesn't mean never seeing or being seen by anyone, and, one day while swimming in a public pool, Suzanne is caught by surprise by a lovely young man. Her new acquaintance, Lucien, begins to spend time with her and Marc. Romance blooms among the threesome: Marc falls in love with Lucien, but he is unlucky in that: Lucien and Suzanne have become lovers.
Stella
Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.
An European researcher is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. Their reasons are unclear...
Annie
Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident and spends ten years in prison.
Alice
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.
Francine
Martial is discharged from a mental insitution where he spent a few years due to a serious nervous breakdown. Upon his return he finds his mother, a busy business woman who owns a supermarket chain, convinced that her son will be able to find himself again if tasked with some responsibilities. Soon enough, he's sent to Limoges on a business trip to check on one of their stores in the hope to reinvigorate the failing business. Once he arrives, Martial is faced with responsibilities he had never imagined, including dealing with the store's personnel.
Jeanne
Situado em Toulon, no litoral mediterrânico, o filme tece uma complexa teia de relações entre as personagens: uma jovem vinda do norte de França, o seu irmão surdo-mudo, um maestro de meia-idade e duas figuras opostas, ligadas ao maestro: o seu jovem amante árabe e o filho, ligado a grupos de extrema-direita.
Mouchette
O padre rural Donissan está trabalhando na paróquia de um pequeno vilarejo. A jovem Mouchette, de 16 anos, mata o seu amado, fazendo todo mundo acreditar que ele se suicidou. Ela confidencia o crime para o padre e eles estabelecem uma estranha relação. Tentado por satã, ele é obrigado a colocar em teste a sua fé, provando que é verdadeiramente um sacerdote.
Manon
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunately, this is not adequate preparation, for when Manon does show up, nothing goes quite as he imagined...
Mona Bergeron, a vagabond
Uma jovem andarilha morre congelada no frio do inverno francês. Sua história e principalmente seus últimos dias são contados através das pessoas que cruzaram o seu caminho.
Lydie
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
Véronique
Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their different backgrounds, the two fall in love, marry, and eventually have a baby girl. At just about that time, Veronique decides to go back to school, and Adrien becomes both mother and father to their baby. Unable to cope with Veronique's new-found intellectual friends and different lifestyle, Adrien clashes with her, and their arguments lead to a separation for awhile. The two then get back together again, but not for long. It is on a return trip from visiting his mother in Brittany that Adrien's life undergoes a dramatic change, and his story takes an equally unexpected turn.
Marie
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.
Marilyn
Inept policemen try to stop an amoral young duo on a spree of robbery and murder in France.
Suzanne
Suzanne, de 15 anos, procura escapar do caos de sua família com aventuras impulsivas e promíscuas. Sua sexualidade desenfreada só alimenta as paixões reprimidas de seu irmão narcisista, sua mãe insegura e seu pai autoritário e ameaçador.
N°238
Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
N°238 / N°1742
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.
The outrageous story of Eduard Limonov, the radical Soviet poet who became a bum in New York, a sensation in France, and a political antihero in Russia.
