Bernard Toublanc-Michel

Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".

More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to the end, visiting its Paris locales, placing her aged actors in the same spots, telling stories, and listening to others' reflections on the making of the film. She and they talk about making a film on a low budget, its showing at Cannes, and trying to fix a problem in the last shot. Her assistant directors discuss casting, costumes, sets, and the ways the film changed their approaches to filmmaking.

A postman in a small mountain village finds a woman and her son both dead in the "grotte aux loups" (cave of wolves). He soon begins to realize than it's not natural death, and that someone in the village in behind their murder, while tragic events occur.

When the long awaited departure day arrives, le Petit Bougnat, a child coal merchant eager to go to summer camp, realizes that his mother forgot to register his name with the rest of the group. Desperate to join them, the young coal merchant tries to find a way to integrate himself with the other campers. On the opposite end of the spectrum is Rose (Isabelle Adjani), who refuses to join the kids and goes so far as to run away from the bus. While the coal merchant is busy avoiding authorities who want to remove him from the rest of the group, Rose continues to sulk and search for a way back home. Despite her initial doubtfulness, Rose eventually comes to see the charms of the camp, and walks away from an offer to leave.

Singapore, Singapore

A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.

Doze contos episódicos na vida de uma mulher parisiense e sua lenta descida para a prostituição. Os muitos rostos de uma mulher tentando encontrar-se em um mundo de homens. Este filme explora a descida de uma mulher parisiense na prostituição. O filme é composto por uma série de 12 "tableaux", cenas que são basicamente episódios desconectados, cada um apresentado com uma introdução de um curto texto. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Agnès Varda eloquentemente captura a Paris nos anos sessenta com este retrato em tempo real de uma cantora à deriva pela cidade enquanto aguarda os resultados dos testes de uma biópsia. Uma crônica dos minutos da vida de uma mulher, Cléo das 5 às 7 é uma mistura espirituosa de vérité e melodrama vívidos, apresentando uma partitura de Michel Legrand e cameos (breve participação) de Jean-Luc Godard e Anna Karina.

Em Nantes o jovem Roland reencontra uma amiga de infância, Lola, agora dançarina de cabaret. Ela é mãe solteira e tem esperança de que o pai da criança, que a abandonou durante a gravidez, retorne. Roland se apaixona por Lola e finalmente encontra um sentido para a vida. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Ao filmar as paisagens invernais das planícies e aldeias de Ain, onde vivia o sacerdote santificado Santo Cura de Ars, Jacques Demy tentou compreender o misticismo e os tormentos diários de um lutador pela fé.

Ao filmar as paisagens invernais das planícies e aldeias de Ain, onde vivia o sacerdote santificado Santo Cura de Ars, Jacques Demy tentou compreender o misticismo e os tormentos diários de um lutador pela fé.

Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompagnied by Henri de Lagardère when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardère cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to France where he detects confronts his friend's murderers and puts them to the sword one by one until only their former leader is left. Finally he discovers that Philippe de Gonzague is the man for whom he is looking.

La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results.

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.

Alexandre Dumas's classic tale is one of the most filmed epic adventures...