Dominique Pinon

Dominique Pinon

Nascimento : 1955-03-04, Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France

História

After studying at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, Dominique Pinon moved to Paris where he enrolled at the Cours Simon acting school. His introducing appearance in cinema took place in 1981 in the movie Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Pinon is considered to be a theatre actor in first place, with constant on-stage acting since 1985. Until today, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli, Valère Novarina and numerous others. His career in cinema, counting more than 80 movies to-date, shows a strong collaboration with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amongst these 8 movies dating from between 1990 and 2013, it is most notably his appearances in Delicatessen (1991), Alien Resurrection (1997) and Amélie (2001) which made him become known to the broader public outside of France. Pinon also had numerous appearences on French TV, both in movies as well as in series. His most recent international appearance on TV is that of the character Master Raymond in the second season of the award-winning TV series Outlander. He received the Molière theatre award for Best Actor in 2004 and was awarded the title of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.

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Dominique Pinon
Dominique Pinon
Dominique Pinon

Filmes

Apaches: Gang of Paris
Gueule de bois
1900. From Montmartre to Belleville, Paris is in the hands of ultra-violent gangs that reign terror on the capital: the Apaches. Ready to do anything to avenge the death of her brother, a young woman joins a gang. But the closer she gets to the man she wants to eliminate, the more fascinated she becomes by him.
La véritable histoire d'Amélie Poulain
Self (Archival Footage)
The true story of Amélie
A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
An actress, Céline, is hired by the famous director Milan Zodowski to star in a mysterious film shooting in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. She arrives there to discover that the crew consists only of a sound engineer and a unit manager and that Milan stubbornly refuses to leave the cabin where he has locked himself in. Céline realizes that the shoot won’t be happening. She then chooses to face her destiny. This plunge into reality forces her to open up to herself and to others…
Bigbug
Igor
Em 2045, a IA cuida de quase tudo, até na casa da nostálgica Alice. Então quando os robôs se rebelam, os androides dela trancam as portas para protegê-la.
Emma Bovary
Homais
1857. A courtroom. The prosecutor and defense counsel prepare to face off. Between them: Gustave Flaubert, the man on trial. Madame Bovary is charged with obscenity and offending public morals. As the two sides lay out their cases, the novel springs to life. Emma's story unfolds before our eyes. The trial is a reality check for us, rekindling the debate over the status of women at the time. What will the verdict be for Flaubert? What will the verdict be for women - for all the other Emmas?
Pierre & Jeanne
Family Roland lives in Etretat. Jeanne, the youngest, inherits Mr Marechal's fortune, a friend of the parents. Pierre the elder brother, bogged down in questions, questions the sacredness of the family. Is this money hiding a heavy secret?
Inimiga Perfeita
Jean Rosen
Ao perder seu vôo no aeroporto de Paris, um arquiteto de sucesso é abordado por uma garota chamada Texel, uma jovem estranha que o força a ouvir suas histórias, que aos poucos se tornam cada vez mais ameaçadoras e possivelmente reais.
Dernière Station
Le pompiste
Jo
L'Inspecteur Ducros
Dark Stories to Survive the Night
Jean Luc
What if Demons, the Living Dead, Evil Dolls, Djinn and other Extra-terrestrial creatures came to haunt our apartments, houses, cafes, museums and other places of daily life? What would we do? How would we react? DARK STORIES tells five tales of gripping terror in a fantastic anthology where horror, suspense and humour intertwine with stark reality to make us shiver with fear! Join us for a Ghoul’s Feast, the Last Judgment before the impending Apocalypse, a surprise package from the deliveryman, a forensic scientist confronted by his zombie victim and the worst Moroccan monster nightmare.
Abra Suas Asas
Pichon
Um cientista visionário e seu filho obcecado por vídeo games embarcam em uma aventura pelos ares para salvar aves em perigo de extinção.
Todo Mundo Ama Minha Mãe
French Restaurant Manager
Uma dupla de mãe e filho são inadvertidamente despachados em um contêiner de Londres para o Marrocos com nada além de seus pijamas. A aventura os leva pela Espanha e França em uma jornada para voltar para casa e reconstruir seu relacionamento rochoso.
Anna
Monk Dominic
French monk Dominic is sent to Kyiv, pretending to be a photographer for a French fashion magazine. He has to make a photo inside Ukraine's oldest Cathedral. Dominic is accompanied by mysterious assistant, who in reality is the member of the French secret order, sent to Kyiv after news that one ancient artifact may be in danger...
Cyrano, Mon Amour
Lucien
Na Paris do final do século XIX, Edmond Rostand, um jovem autor fracassado de peças em verso, encontra inspiração e coragem ao escrever uma comédia destinada a se tornar lendária.
Caminhos Magnétykos
Raymond Vachs
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
Um filme poético em celebração de Alberto Pimenta, autor de uma vasta obra poética e performática, insubmissa e desafiante. O ponto de partida do longa são os arquivos, filmados por Edgar Pêra entre 1994 e 2018, de performances, conversas e leituras de Pimenta, fruto de uma amizade e cumplicidade mantidas ao longo dos últimos 24 anos.
Caninos Brancos
Beauty Smith (voice)
Movido pela curiosidade, um leal cão-lobo embarca em uma grande aventura na companhia de três donos muito diferentes.
Baseado em Fatos Reais
Raymond
Durante o lançamento de seu mais novo livro, a autora Delphine (Emmanuelle Seigner) conhece Elle (Eva Green), uma de suas fãs, que lhe pede para autografar seu exemplar. Elle também é escritora, trabalhando como ghost writer em biografias de celebridades. Aos poucos as duas se aproximam, com Elle se tornando cada vez mais presente na vida da autora. Por mais que às vezes se sinta incomodada com a onipresença da nova amiga, Delphine permite a aproximação devido à sua fragilidade emocional, o que logo se revela um erro.
Two Snails Set Off
(voice)
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").
Sélection Officielle
Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion Island, where his debut film has been selected. Unfortunately, the day before they're due to leave, Ulysses learns that his film has been removed from the program. Afraid of disappointing Clotilde, he hides the truth and flies with her to Réunion, determined to do everything in his power to get his film back in the official selection and, at the same time, win the favors of the young woman, who dreams of becoming an actress. But Ulysses must cope with internal rivalries and struggles behind the scenes if he wants love and cinema to triumph.
Vive la crise !
Noël
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.
Somewhere Beautiful
Magazine Editor
Two emotionally charged love triangles collide as Elena accompanies her photographer husband on a work trip, falling for the sublime beauty of Patagonia and the man who guides them through it. Meanwhile, Albert, a director returning home to Los Angeles, adjusts to being a single father in the wake of his failing marriage.
La DorMeuse Duval
Basile Matrin
In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named Basile Matrin leads a dreary life with his wife, Rose. The young Maryse Duval, who had just come back from Paris, has abandoned her dreams of becoming an actress. She will unwittingly turn their life upside down. Basile's great friend and neighbour, who is a reporter for a local newspaper called " Le Quotidien de la Meuse", witnesses the comical drama that is unfolding on the street outside his house, and will unwillingly be drawn into this "Dramedy".
As Incríveis Histórias de Max e Léon
Michel
Max (David Marsais) e Léon (Grégoire Ludig), os dois preguiçosos e festeiros, são melhores amigos desde a infância. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, eles lutam como soldados, mas a verdadeira aventura é o que eles fazem para tentar fugir da batalha.
A Love You
Serge
Depois uma noite inesquecível com uma linda mulher, Manu acorda sozinho e com um endereço em seu braço. Convencido de que ela é o amor da sua vida, ele e seu incrédulo amigo Fred se jogam na estrada.
The Price of Desire
Fernand Leger
Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a leading light in the modern design movement. This graceful portrayal of her later life and work in France focuses on the triangle of tension between Gray (Orla Brady), her lover Badovici (Francesco Scianna) and Le Corbusier (Vincent Perez). Alanis Morrissette also features as chanteuse Marisa Damia, Gray’s other lover, with Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen, Amélie) as artist Fernand Léger.
Soulless 2
Bernard
Max Andreev thought the best place to start a new life would be at the other end of the world. What he didn't know, is that you can't outrun your past.
Minha Querida Dama
Monsieur Lefebvre
Um americano herda um apartamento em Paris que vem com um residente inesperado. O solitário Mathias Gold herda dos pais milionários uma grande casa em Paris. Quando ele viaja à capital francesa para tomar posse do imóvel, descobre que o local é habitado por Mathilde, uma senhora de 90 anos de idade, sem pretensões de se mudar. Apesar do estranhamento inicial, os dois tornam-se amigos, e aos poucos Mathias começa a se apaixonar por Chloé, filha de Mathilde.
Uma Viagem Extraordinária
Two Clouds
Aos doze anos de idade, T.S. Spivet é um garoto superdotado, apaixonado por cartografia. Quando ele ganha um prêmio científico prestigioso, o garoto decide abandonar sua família em Montana para atravessar sozinho aos Estados Unidos, até chegar a Washington. O único problema é que o júri não sabe que o vencedor ainda é uma criança.
Les profs
L'inspecteur d'académie
Com apenas 12% de aprovações no vestibular, a escola secundária Jules Ferry está ameaçada de fechamento. O diretor resolve tentar um último recurso contratando uma equipe de professores de métodos pouco ortodoxos. Os pais ficam furiosos. Já os alunos se deixam conquistar rapidamente!
La guerre du Royal Palace
Colonel Otto Strudel
Between September 1940 and August 1944, luxury hotels are requisitioned by the Germans as staff headquarters, giving the hotels' employees a ringside seat of the enemy's secrets and activities. Such is the case with Royal Palace, run by Maxime and Solange Verdier, in which the Abwerth, the German counter-intelligence service, establishes its HQ.
The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
L'inspecteur Lamentin
Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy.
Fim de Semana à Beira-Mar
Homme caravane
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.
Madame Sans Gêne
Fouché
Crédit pour tous
Gobert
While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize resistance and develop an original and popular loan system which will soon arouse the interest of the French government.
Specky Four-Eyes
Narrator
A young boy is made to wear corrective glasses but refuses so that his imagination of the world around him can roam.
Esses Amores
Maurice Lemoine
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.
La loi de Murphy
Rudy
After four years in jail, Elias is doing his rehabilitation in an hospital as stretcher bearer. In five hours, his parole will be completed. He will make a fresh start and forget about his past. But that would be forgetting about Murphy's law and its string of problems.
MicMacs - Um Plano Complicado
Fracasse
O filme centra-se em Bazil (Danny Boon), que vê a sua vida virar do avesso ao ser atingido por um tiro na cabeça. Quando sai do hospital, sem dinheiro e sem casa, acaba por ser acolhido por um excêntrico bando de ex-condenados, que preparam uma vingança contra os fabricantes de armas.
Humans
Gildas
A team of several researchers travel to the Swiss Alps to investigate a scientific discovery on human evolution. The trip, however, turns into a deadly fight for survival when the team crash into a gully and find themselves falling prey to someone...or something.
Musée haut, musée bas
Simon
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
The Clown
Everybody's afraid of zombies... But try to imagine your self waking up from the dead... How would you feel?
Fin de partie
Hamm
Enigmas de um Crime
Frank
Uma série de assassinatos assombram Oxford ultimamente e a esperança dos moradores da região estão com dois homens: Arthur Seldom (John Hurt), um prestigiado professor de lógica, e Martin (Elijah Wood), um jovem estudante que acabara de chegar à universidade na expectativa de estudar com o professor. Ao que tudo indica, os crimes estão ligados por códigos, estranhos símbolos e números matemáticos. Professor e estudante juntam suas habilidades para desvendar o mistério e montar esse difícil quebra-cabeças. Na medida que Martin chega perto da verdade, aumenta a sensação de insegurança e incompreensão com o mundo ao seu redor.
Dante 01: Prisão Espacial
César
Na extremidade de uma galáxia, encontra-se Dante 01, a prisão espacial que reúne os piores criminosos da humanidade. Num dos últimos transportes chega um novo prisioneiro, que sobreviveu a um encontro com seres extraterrestres, e uma médica para realizar experiências pouco éticas com os presos. Com o tempo, este novo detento começa a revelar estranhos poderes que vão mergulhar a estação no caos e na rebelião, onde cada um dos habitantes será confrontado com os seus limites e os seus maiores medos.
Moon in a Bottle
Pascal Rossignol
Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who doesn't want to fall in love; she gets to know Pascal, the owner of the bar and a cabaret artist who is nervously waiting for the arrival of his old friends and lovers Irene and Kurt. Or she leaves with Don José another regular who is tormented by a letter he doesn't dare to open. They all want to change their lives. The moment has come to be brave and try to do the impossible. Can they put the moon in a bottle..?
Midsummer Madness
Toni
St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. According to a legend, on this night lovers and those who wish to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern".
Crimes de Autor
Pierre Laclos / Louis
Judith Ralitzer (Fanny Ardant) é uma prestigiada escritora francesa; Pierre Laclos (Dominique Pinon) é um homem que, em viagem por uma estrada francesa, conhece a manicure histérica Huguette (Audrey Dana). Aos poucos, o filme revela suas relações e suas verdadeiras faces numa trama repleta de mistério e farsas.
When Evil Calls
Detective Ringwald
When Evil Calls centers around the mysterious appearance of a text message that grants the students of Wilburn High School their wildest desires.
Dikkenek
Stef
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may need some help in finding the woman of his dreams, and embracing loyalty rather than logic he turns to Jean-Claude for advice.
Your Name is Justine
Oncle Goran
While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.
L'Hiver sous la table
Dragomir
Ze Film
Le SDF
A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets confused with a real movie maker and takes the equipment he needs to shoot his movie.
Eterno Amor
Sylvain
Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) e Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) cresceram juntos e descobriram o amor. A 1ª Guerra Mundial os separa. Ao fim da guerra Mathilde faz uma incansável busca para encontrar Manech.
Darkhunters
Charlie Jackson
Walking the Earth as an undead spirit has Charlie Jackson in a quandary. Unable to interact with his family, Charlie feels he's been forsaken by God. Now, his ultimate goal is to get to heaven as soon as possible - but that's easier said than done. The battle between good and evil for Charlie's soul has begun, and salvation might only come via Carol Miller, a darkhunter who brings lost souls back to death.
Ne quittez pas!
Le clochard
Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.
Hellbreeder
Detective Weiss
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger who Alice suspects of being the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of horrific child murders. Now a weary detective must uncover the truth behind the killings before another child is killed; and Alice must face the unbelievable truth behind the death of her son before insanity, grief and guilt break her mind
Le bon, la brute et les zombies
Petit cowboy
Hordes of zombies invade a western town.
A Ponte de San Luis Rey
His Excellency's Fop
Em 20 de julho de 1714, no Peru, a corda de sustentação de uma ponte se parte, causando a morte de 5 pessoas na queda. O frei Juniper (Gabriel Byrne) escreve um livro sobre o caso, narrando a vida de cada uma das pessoas que morreram de forma a provar que Deus as uniu por uma razão, e não por acaso. O livro gera polêmica, fazendo com que o frei seja acusado pela Igreja Católica de cometer heresia.
At Home with the Rozes
le lieutenant
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary...
Mortadelo E Salaminho - Agentes Quase Secretos
Fredy Mazas
O Professor Bactério (Janfri Topera) criou sua principal invenção, o DDT (Desmoralizador de Tropas), que pode também ser uma perigosa arma se cair em mãos erradas. É justamente o que acontece, quando a invenção é roubada por Nadiusko (Janusz Ziemniak), a mando do ditador da Tirania. Para recuperar o artefato é enviado Fredy Mazas (Dominique Pinon), o detetive mais qualificado da atualidade, que viaja disfarçado. Quando a agência secreta TIA recebe a notícia de que Mazas morreu, em seu lugar são enviados os atrapalhados agentes Mortadelo (Benito Pocino) e Salaminho (Pepe Viyuela), que com a ajuda de Ofelia (Berta Ojea) precisarão recuperar a invenção.
Códigos Mortais
Henri Lafont
Para prender a ativista Maria Von Gall, que com muita coragem se esforça para ajudar judeus a escaparem das garras do Nazismo na França, a SS seqüestra seu filho Thomas, um brilhante garoto de 11 anos de idade, mestre em xadrez. Depois de ver a mãe ser assassinada pelos alemães, o menino é resgatado pelo pai americano, que ele nunca havia conhecido, e ambos fogem para a Espanha. Mas Maria havia contado a Thomas um precioso segredo, que agora pode mais do que nunca colar a vida de pai e filho em risco.
Dead or Alive
The Butcher
Crime short starring Dominique Pinon and Bernard Montiel.
Beautiful Memories
Robert
Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Philippe, a man who is still traumatized after a car accident in which his wife and child were both killed. In spite of their personal tragedies, Claire and Philippe fall in love. When Philippe recovers, Claire moves into his home. Then Claire's condition takes a turn for the worse.
Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver!
P'tit gars
O Fabuloso Destino de Amélie Poulain
Joseph
Após deixar a vida de subúrbio que levava com a família, a inocente Amélie muda-se para o bairro parisiense de Montmartre, onde começa a trabalhar como garçonete. Certo dia encontra uma caixa escondida no banheiro de sua casa e, pensando que pertencesse ao antigo morador, decide procurá-lo ­e é assim que encontra Dominique. Ao ver que ele chora de alegria ao reaver o seu objeto, a moça fica impressionada e adquire uma nova visão do mundo. Então, a partir de pequenos gestos, ela passa a ajudar as pessoas que a rodeiam, vendo nisto um novo sentido para sua existência. Contudo, ainda sente falta de um grande amor.
Sabotage!!
Armani
June, 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte, surrounded by enemies, is about to play his definitive part in history. He has spent his whole life creating a mystique, becoming synonymous with determination, strength and mystery. But, that whole super-leader trip is smothering him and he just can't stand it anymore. Meanwhile, one of his aides, le maréchal Hugo Armani, has only one dream: to emulate the man who is his idol, his emperor. Armani picks the battle of Waterloo as the moment for his borderline psychotic attack - the first case of Napoleonic delirium in modern psychiatry. Due to the shortage of maréchals at the moment, Napoleon's got no choice: he has to leave Armani in command. Unbalanced Armani, so unexpectedly promoted, now leads the troops of France.
Highway Melody
A man discovers he's no longer as close to his ear as he once was in this absurdist comedy. Jeff is minding his own business when a phonograph record tossed from a passing car accidentally cuts off his ear. The ear falls into traffic, gets stuck on the windshield of another vehicle, and begins a long, strange journey, passing from car to car and hand to hand across the country. Jeff, however, can still hear whatever his separated ear is picking up, and is trying to follow the sounds in hopes of catching up with his former body part. However, a doctor warns him he only has a few hours to find his ear, otherwise reattachment will be impossible; in the meantime, Jeff's former girlfriend wastes several of his precious minutes with a discussion about the notion of giving their relationship another try.
Der Pilot
Pilot
A short science fiction comedy directed by Oliver Seiter.
Like a Fish Out of Water
Melvin
A seductive femme fatale (Monica Bellucci) and two con men -- one cool as ice, and one who just likes to "ice" his victims -- enlist a mild-mannered, unsuspecting man in their mission to steal a rare and valuable fish. They plan to sell it back to its grieving owner at an enormous profit (talk about "sleeping with the fishes!"). Tcheky Karyo, Michel Muller and Dominique Pinon co-star.
Quasimodo d'el Paris
Trouillefou
The location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the town’s mysterious evangelist, Frollo. In exchange, they adopt a Cuban girl, Esméralda, from a lower social class. Ten years later, El Paris is menaced by a serial killer, and Quasimodo is the prime suspect.
Alien: O Regresso
Dom Vriess
Duzentos anos após a sua última aventura, Ripley é clonada por cientistas militares, que extraem uma rainha extraterrestre do seu peito e exploram o facto de que tanto Ripley como o extraterrestre serem híbridos genéticos. Entretanto, Ripley junta-se a um grupo de contrabandistas, incluindo uma avançada androide, para combater os extraterrestres agressivos numa nave laboratório que segue na direção da Terra....
Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen
After a 10-year absence, 27-year-old Amelie returns home to suburban Paris and the decaying motorcycle-dealership/junkyard where she was raised. Her hope is that time has healed the open wound of hostility between herself and her alcoholic older brother Adrien. Amelie dusts off an ancient motorcycle, revs it up, and practices riding inside the immense sphere of metal latticework constructed by her late father. The local popularity of this stunt suggests a broader appeal plus profits, so soon the act goes on the road, where emotions spin out of control.
A Saturday on Earth
Le brigadier Morel
A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...
La Gotera
'Pastel de Fer'
A man is in his flat and he has a leak on his ceiling, suddenly the ceiling caves in and a dead man falls through unsure of what to do he tries to take the man out of his flat but at that moment the ceiling really starts to leak, but its not water coming through...
Ladrão de Sonhos
The Diver / The Clones
Este conto de fadas acompanha um menino andando pelas ruas de uma nublada cidade portuária povoada por estranhas criaturas aterrorizadas por Krank, um cientista louco que sequestra crianças órfãs para roubar seus sonhos, na tentativa de abrandar o processo de envelhecimento.
KO Kid
An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixture of animation and live action, a little surreal, making it an experimental film.
La cavale des fous
Angel
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
Je m'appelle Victor
Bernard
No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.
Août
Eugène Blouzette
The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.
Les arcandiers
Bruno
In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses of the word. He and his buddies Bruno and Hercule think they have the solution to their pocketbook woes. The body of St. Bernadette has been miraculously preserved from decay and is a central object of pilgrimage in the shrine where it is kept. Why not steal that and hold it for ransom? The criminal gang is well able to pull this coup off and are soon in possession of one perfectly preserved corpse and a very fancy coffin. It's too bad for them that the church seems to have a limitless supply of these and doesn't want the one they stole back. Bemused, the lads set the coffin adrift on the river, only to be followed by it as they drive back upriver. In the course of carrying out their criminal designs, these lovable lugs encounter a variety of eccentric characters.
Delicatessen
Louison
Num mundo pós-apocalíptico em que a comida é a principal moeda de troca, Louison (Dominique Pinon), um ex-palhaço, arranja um emprego no prédio que abriga o açougue Delicatessen. Instalado na pensão do andar superior, o novo funcionário acaba se envolvendo com a violoncelista Julie (Marie-Laure Dougnac), filha do sanguinário açougueiro Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus). Perseguido, o rapaz precisa escapar do pai ciumento e dos demais moradores do prédio, que têm planos macabros para sua carne.
25 décembre 58, 10h36
Dominique
Cesar 1992 of the best short movie
1871
Napoléon III
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
A Revolução Francesa
Drouet
A história da Revolução Francesa desde a decisão do rei de convocar o Estados-Gerais em 1789, a fim de lidar com o problema da dívida da França. A primeira parte do filme conta a história de 1789 até 10 de agosto de 1792 (quando o rei Luís XVI perdeu toda a sua autoridade e foi preso). A segunda parte leva a história até o fim do terror em 1794, incluindo as mortes por guilhotina de Luís XVI, Maria Antonieta, Danton e Desmoulins.
Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
Man
Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Woitech
Andreas Kartak, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to. Kartak is determined to pay back his debt but circumstances, and his alcoholism, forever intervene.
The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Albert
A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.
Busca Frenética
Wino
Richard Walker é um médico que vai com Sondra, sua mulher, a Paris para uma conferência. Porém, logo no primeiro dia de viagem ela é seqüestrada. Querendo entender a razão do acontecido, ele acaba indo parar no submundo parisiense em uma procura desesperada, sem pistas e sem ninguém para auxiliá-lo. Até que surge a linda Michelle, que resolve lhe ajudá-lo para tentar encontrar Sondra até que ambos se vêem envoltos em uma trama internacional.
Le Reve Du Phenix
"...The budget was 500,000 francs, financed by the Ministry of Culture, the OCTET agency in Populus [...] On this occasion, we created a production company whose name was inspired by the comic book of Jean-Claude Forest, Mystérieuse Matin Midi et Soir." - Minh
Devil's Paradise
Gato
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.
Sauve-toi, Lola
Jean-Pierre
Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as it has always done in life with strength, determination, and above all with humor. In his fight, it is supported by Ferdinand, his fiery lover and naive who is a journalist. In the hospital, treated by Prof. Tobman, deeply human doctor, she met a group of women, all living with the same bad but each following a different social environment. This group will become his new "family".
Cent francs l'amour
Tom
Jeremy, a young art photographer, needs money to finance an exhibition of his work. He turns to Maurice, a lonely bachelor who will do almost anything to buy Jérémy’s company. When his relationship with his girlfriend starts to fall apart, the young photographer visits a peepshow and is at once struck by the beauty of one of the performers, Otie. He uses the money Maurice gave him to pay for further visits to the sex shop...
Betty Blue
Surfer
Zorg é um faz-tudo que cuida de vários bangalôs de praia na França. Ele vive uma vida tranquila, trabalhando seriamente e escrevendo no seu tempo livre. Um dia, Betty aparece em sua vida, uma jovem tão linda quanto selvagem e imprevisível. Inesperadamente, o jeito irreverente de Betty começa a fugir do controle. Zorg percebe que a mulher que ama está lentamente ficando louca. Quando o relacionamento dos dois se torna um caos, será que o amor pode prevalecer?
Zina
Pierre
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria and Zina commits suicide.
La Baston
Marcel Noblet
After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of expensive medical help, René can't refuse the offer to crack a safe in a villa. What René and his pals don't know is that they serve as a decoy for criminals who have much bigger plans. Can he escape from the police?
Going and Coming Back
Un villageois
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
Dream One
Monkey
Based on Winsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as Dream One.
Mint Tea
Roger
A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several months, he is hard put to hide his circumstances -- and the fact that he has resorted to small-time criminal activity to support himself. His mother disembarks in her traditional attire, a warm-hearted woman who does not have a clue as to how this foreign society functions but also has absolutely no inhibitions about finding out, if the need arises. As the story progresses, the mother catches on to her son's circumstances though the two are still not able to confront the deception and right it. Even with a low budget, this first-time feature-length story by Bahloul Bahloul combines satire, comedy, and pathos to bring home a relationship between mother and son that transcends life's many obstacles.
Ghost Dance
Salesman/Guide
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back.' He also says that 'memory is the past that has never had the form of the present.'
A Lua na Sarjeta
Frank
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
Car Cemetery
Ybar
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
If I Were 1000 Years Old
A long time ago, On a french island, a bunch of villagers saved a girl from being sacrifice by the local lord. To this day the place is cursed and each years, mysterious knights comes out of the fog, while a woman disappear.
Tir groupé
Daniel Verlot
O Retorno de Martin Guerre
Antoine
Aldeia de Artigat, sul da França, verão de 1542, durante o reinado de François I. Martin Guerre e Bertrande de Rols se casam. Alguns anos mais tarde, acusado de ter cometido um roubo, Martin desaparece repentinamente. Quando, quase uma década depois, um homem chega a Artigat afirmando ser Martin, a família Guerre o reconhece como tal; mas logo começam a surgir dúvidas sobre sua verdadeira identidade.
Noisy Neighbours
Musician
A grotesque, frenetic and musical short film from Jérome Lefdup, Dominik Barbier, and Larry Flash.
Diva: Paixão Perigosa
Le curé
O diretor Jean-Jacques Beineix lançou o movimento Cinéma du Look com este thriller, cult, elegante sobre um jovem carteiro (Frédéric Andréi) que percebe uma dupla de contrabandistas taiwaneses atrás dele para recuperar uma gravação ilegal captada por Frederic, de um cantor de ópera que vive recluso.
La Découverte
The young painter
Gilles et Louise
Hamlet Revenant
A modern-day version of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', which explores a young man's psyche as he contemplates avenging his father's death.