Paul Bertault

Balogun's last film shot on 16mm, The Magic of Nigeria is a documentary that explores the culture and traditions of Nigeria as they are expressed in religion, art and everyday life, accompanied by a poetic voiceover.

A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?

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).

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?

O filme consiste em quatro episódios da relação de duas jovens: Reinette, uma camponesa, e Mirabelle, uma parisiense. O primeiro episódio, L'Heure Bleue/The Blue Hour , narra o encontro e o desejo de Reinette de compartilhar a Blue Hour, um momento de silêncio entre os sons naturais da noite e o amanhecer. O segundo episódio, Le Garcon de Cafe/The Waiter , gira em torno de um café e um garçom difícil. No terceiro, Le Mendiant, La Kleptomane, et L'Arnaqueuse/The Beggar, the Kleptomaniac and the Hustler , as meninas discutem suas opiniões divergentes sobre as pessoas à margem da sociedade: mendigos, ladrões e vigaristas. No quarto episódio, La Vente du Tableau/Selling the Painting, Reinette e Mirabelle conseguem vender uma das pinturas de Reinette a um negociante de arte, enquanto Reinette finge ser muda e Mirabelle, agindo como se não conhecesse Reinette, é quem fala.

Paris, 1980. Um grupo de artistas argentinos se refugia no país, como forma de fazer frente aos duros tempos da ditadura militar argentina. Lá eles enfrentam todas as dificuldades típicas que assolam os latino-americanos para se estabelecerem nos chamados países do primeiro mundo. Na solidão do exílio, buscam conexão com sua identidade e cultura através de apresentações de tango e se empenham na montagem do espetáculo Tanguedia (tango + tragédia + comedia): “O Exílio de Gardel”.

On Paul's initiative, Françoise and Paul met after a long separation, on the pretext to search in commun for a lost memory, a song. It soons appears that Paul's objective is to win her back.

Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.

Relying on a bounty of archival footage and interviews with prominent musicians and intimates, Philo Bregstein's film traces the life and career of the conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, one of the foremost musicians of his time.

A César award winning short stop-frame animation with blue men who live in yellow tubes counterbalanced by a ball that swings overhead.

Barbara (Jane Birkin) marries Julien (Sami Frey) a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul (Gérard Jugnot) is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.

Uma visita inusitada a um grande apartamento vazio. Está realmente vazio ou não? Talvez uma família tenha vivido lá ou esteja se mudando para lá… Talvez uma jovem vá fugir de lá… Ou talvez alguns dos antigos moradores idosos nunca tenham saído.

An epidemic of appliance madness unrelated to discount sales strikes an island off the coast of France: the islanders are being murderously attacked by ovens and refrigerators acquired in the same department store. Enter the young Dr. Gabrielle Martin (Anny Duperey), who arrives here to escape her own personal tragedy and instead lands in the middle of the kitchen mania. She tracks down the cause of the rapidly spreading epidemic to another doctor on the island — quite as insane as any of the kitchen appliances (if the comparison could be made) — and finds that the villainous doctor and the appliances have a most unusual link. Graphic scenes of mutilation by an oven, as one example, leave nothing much to the imagination in this film, but the interpretations of actors Anny Duperey and Jean-Claude Brialy as the good and evil doctors are excellent.

In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab sees her house burn and 150 years of family existence go up in smoke. She then takes refuge in questioning: when did this all begin? How did the Beirut people live the siege? Each place will then become a story and each name a memory.

A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.

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.

Um estudo de uma mulher fria e reservada que praticamente foi vendida pelo marido, um operador de edifícios, para se livrar de uma dívida de jogo.

A documentary about the French porn industry, focusing on French porn superstar Claudine Beccarie.

The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain's civil war play out. Villa Romero is home to Vandale (Mariangela Melato) a witch, count Cerralbo (Bento Urago) a powerless land baron, and his four sons. Three of Cerralbo's sons are ruthless sadists who pillage the countryside, but the fourth, Goya (Ron Faber), is an artist challenging authority and the church.

Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville as visualised by Jean-Louis Bertucelli

No planeta Ygam vivem humanóides chamados de Oms, que são escravos (ou animais de estimação) dos Draggs, uma raça de gigantes com mais de dez metros de altura, olhos vermelhos e pele azul. O planeta é um lugar indefinido onde os homens parecem insetos aos olhos dos Draggs.

F for Fake é um documentário ensaístico, um filme sobre a fraude, a mentira, nos seus vários ângulos. Centra-se na vida do famoso falsificador de arte Elmyr de Hory.Welles surge em vários locais, inclusive num restaurante, até numa suposta sala de edição, criando um filme dentro do filme.

François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.

Directed by José Varela

Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.

Two French girls get lost in the woods and accidentally enter the realm of sorceress Morgana Le Fay - who gives them the choice of either staying young forever as her lovers, or rot in a dungeon for eternity.

A 1965 segment from a French television program "Seize millions de jeunes" which takes a look at the mod movement in the United Kingdom, and includes performances by the Who at the Marquee Club in London’s West End, as well as an interview with Pete Townshend.