Hélène Louvart

Recém-saído da prisão e ainda à procura da sua falecida amada Beniamina, o arqueólogo inglês Arthur reencontra o seu grupo de cúmplices tombaroli - um coletivo de ladrões de túmulos itinerantes que sobrevivem ao saquear túmulos etruscos e ao cercar os tesouros antigos que desenterram. Mas Artur não está interessado nos artefactos; procura uma porta lendária para o submundo e para Beniamina.

Marcelo, 50 years old, has dedicated his life to teaching philosophy at the Public University and suddenly his mentor and boss, Professor Caselli, dies. Disoriented in this new landscape, Marcelo assumes that he will inherit the position left vacant by his mentor. What he doesn't expect is that Rafael Sujarchuk, a charismatic and pedantic philosopher trained in the best European universities, also covets the position. Between his multiple jobs as a philosophy professor in the local slums, at the university and privately with an 80-year-old millionaire, he must also prepare to run for office against this strong opponent who seems to have everyone on his side. Marcelo's clumsy efforts don't seem to be enough to get the job, but is that really what he wants?

In blood-soaked Tudor England, Catherine Parr attempts to navigate English politics when she becomes King Henry VIII’s sixth wife.

After a painful journey through Europe, Alex, the Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, the Nigerian, fights for the survival and durability of his people in the Niger Delta and is ready to die to defend his ideas. These two young people who are sacrificed and smashed together will, against all odds, meet and their destinies will merge to continue across borders, bodies, life and death...

Lucile Chaufour’s Love & Crashes takes us for an unforgettable ride in partnership. With a mixture of fictional and documentary techniques, the film immerses us in the universe of sidecar racing, paying attention to the peculiarities of a vehicle driven by a magical alliance between pilot and passenger (or as it is known in sidecar jargon, 'monkey'). Aided by a dreamy musical score and Hélène Louvart’s deft cinematography, Love & Crashes explores technique and sensuality, control and spontaneity, the physical and the mental, speed and care.

Even as bombs fall on Damascus, Mutaz refuses to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. His wife, Hala, and daughter, Zeina, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.

In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.

Julia, a 22-year-old mother of two, falls in love with Óscar, a troubled boy with whom she embarks on a love affair. The more time they spend together, the more Julia asks herself if Óscar is the person she really needs by her side, prompting her to set out on a personal journey to find happiness for herself and for her family.

Uma história sobre inocência, ganância e fantasia que gira em torno de um bolo natalino, ambientada em um internato católico para garotas durante a guerra. O termo "pupila" vem do latim pupilla, que significa "garota pequena". Baseado em uma carta enviada por Elsa Morante, uma das maiores escritoras italianas do século XX, para seu amigo, Goffredo Fofi, no Natal de 1971.

A relação entre a adolescente Julija e Ante, seu opressivo pai, se tensiona ao limite quando um velho amigo da família chega em sua casa insular na Croácia. Enquanto Ante tenta fechar um negócio que vai mudar suas vidas, Julija, incomodada com a vida pacata e isolada que levam, busca mudanças através do visitante que traz consigo um gosto de liberação em um fim de semana cheio de desejo e violência.

Clermont-Ferrand, central France. Médéric meets and falls in love with middle-aged sex worker Isadora, who is married. When the city center is the scene of a terrorist attack, Selim, a young, homeless guy, provokes a wave of paranoia by taking refuge in Médéric's building. Sympathizing with Selim, crazy about Isadora, Mederic's life suddenly turns into a mess.

As férias na praia começam a dar errado quando a obsessão por uma jovem mãe a força a confrontar segredos do passado. Com atuação de Olivia Colman.

Na década de 1950, a jovem Alice troca as montanhas suíças pelas praias ensolaradas e vibrantes de Beirute. Ela se apaixona loucamente por Joseph, um astrofísico excêntrico que sonha em enviar os primeiros libaneses para o espaço.

Uma adolescente de um pequeno condado rural da Pensilvânia descobre estar grávida e procura assistência médica em Nova York, com a ajuda da prima.

Em uma São Paulo de 1899, onze anos após a abolição da escravidão, fantasmas ainda caminham entre os vivos. As mulheres da família Soares, antigas proprietárias de terra, não abrem mão do que resta de seus privilégios. Já Iná Nascimento, mulher que viveu por muito tempo a escravidão, batalha para reunir seus familiares em um mundo ainda muito hostil. Cada uma dessas mulheres tentam construir um futuro próprio à sua maneira.

Shola "Rocks" é uma adolescente com grandes sonhos para o futuro. Ela tem adoráveis amigos e um atrevido irmão mais novo, Emmanuel. O mundo de Rocks vira de cabeça para baixo quando ela chega da escola e descobre que sua mãe foi embora, deixando um pouco de dinheiro e um bilhete. Sendo a única pessoa que restou para cuidar de seu irmão, Rocks deixa a casa que vivia e passa a se esconder das autoridades em East London.

Shola "Rocks" é uma adolescente com grandes sonhos para o futuro. Ela tem adoráveis amigos e um atrevido irmão mais novo, Emmanuel. O mundo de Rocks vira de cabeça para baixo quando ela chega da escola e descobre que sua mãe foi embora, deixando um pouco de dinheiro e um bilhete. Sendo a única pessoa que restou para cuidar de seu irmão, Rocks deixa a casa que vivia e passa a se esconder das autoridades em East London.

Antigas cartas de sua irmã Guida, há muito desaparecida, surpreendem Eurídice, uma senhora de 80 anos. No Rio de Janeiro dos anos 1950, Guida e Eurídice são cruelmente separadas, impedidas de viverem os sonhos que alimentaram juntas ainda adolescentes.

Gabriel, um repórter de guerra francês, é libertado depois de passar quatro meses em cativeiro na Síria. Algumas semanas depois, ele decide ir para a Índia para tentar se reaproximar da mãe. Quando se muda para a sua casa de infância em Goa, ele conhece uma jovem indiana chamada Maya.

Petra, uma jovem artista, nunca conheceu o pai. Quando a mãe morre, ela lança-se numa busca que a conduzirá a Jaume, um artista plástico famoso, poderoso e implacável. Este aceita acolher Petra numa residência artística no seu atelier, algures nos arredores de Girona. No seu caminho para descobrir a verdade, Petra encontra também Lucas, filho de Jaume, e Marisa, esposa de Jaume e mãe de Lucas. Na expectativa de obter respostas, a jovem aproxima-se desta família onde predominam segredos de família e violência. Encontrará Petra aquilo que foi procurar?

Marcela’s world becomes strange and unfamiliar after her sister Rina dies. She feels lost in her own house, and her relationship with her husband and children seems to suffer. But when Nacho, a young friend of her daughter’s, unexpectedly drops by, she starts to talk and walk with him. Gradually Marcela begins to have conversations with relatives from another dimension.

Neste leitura livre da história bíblica, Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) é um garoto pobre e pouco inteligente, mas extremamente bondoso. Ele é explorado pelos familiares, fazendo trabalhos forçados diariamente, além de colaborar com a marquesa, proprietária das terras onde vivem. No entanto, após uma tragédia, Lazzaro retorna à vida no século XXI. Ele não compreende mais a lógica deste mundo, mas pretende reencontrar a sua família e viver como antigamente.

Um adolescente sem rumo nos arredores do Brooklyn luta para escapar de sua vida sombria em casa e navegar por questões de auto-identidade, enquanto equilibra seu tempo entre seus amigos delinquentes, uma nova namorada em potencial e homens mais velhos que ele encontra on-line.

Dark Night enigmatically unfolds over the course of a lazy summer day, as it traces the events leading up to a mass shooting in a suburban multiplex. Abandoning the narrative confines of the true crime genre, the story is told through fragmented moments from the lives of several characters, whose fates are tragically intertwined. As the sky grows darker, the placid surface of daily life becomes disturbed by a lurking and inevitable horror.

Depois de dez anos no exterior, Catherine volta para Luxemburgo para se reconciliar com a filha Alba, a quem tinha deixado aos cuidados de sua mãe, Elisabeth. Alba é fria e distante com essa estranha que aparece do nada em sua vida, assim como Elisabeth, que deseja continuar com a menina.

Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.

In the middle of her wedding reception, the doubtful bride Unn Tove finds a new born baby girl abandoned in the hotel restroom. She turns her over to Child Services. 16 years later, a young and energetic girl shows up at her door step. It’s Rosemari, the baby from the wedding. Together they start investigating the cicumstances leading to Rosemari’s’s birth. They unravel a story about a young couple’s unrestrained love, an exentric ex-boxer with a taste for erotics, and a mother covering up her life’s biggest secret. “Framing Mom” is a touching and funny story about how sex, lies and biology created a beautiful flower, Rosemari.

Cora is a 19-year-old woman who has recently returned home for a gap year.  Her father is the mayor of Bucco, a town whose livelihood depends on the tourism of Christians who believe in the apparitions of the Virgin Mary.  While busy organizing the celebration of the Virgin of Bucco, an annual event that attracts numerous pilgrims, Cora notices a mysterious man whose presence will slowly rupture the tranquility of the town and her nascent adulthood.

A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La traviata in 2016. In four minutes and with just a few delicate shots, she creates a moment of true cinema, one imbued with her distinct and elegant filmmaking voice.

The new film from Lebanese director Danielle Arbid follows a young Arab immigrant in Paris, whose encounters with three men reveal different facets of her new country, and of herself.

Expulsa de casa após ter engravidado misteriosamente, uma curandeira decidida a limpar o nome cruza-se com uma mulher que anseia pelo mesmo milagre.

Arianna is nineteen, but she's still waiting to get her first period. As the summer begins, her parents decide to renew their acquaintance with their country house on Lake Bolsena, where Arianna lived until she was three, and has never been back. As the family settle in for the summer, long-repressed memories start to re-emerge, and Arianna decides to stay on after her parents return to the city.

The ninth short film of the Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales series reflects Alice Rohrwacher’s attention to the surreal world of ordinariness and exceptions.

In a lonely spot near the sea, a boy flies a kite made by his father. It's windy and the kite has become entangled in the vegetation. The boy needs an adult to help him keep it flying. Together, lost in the middle of nature, they will launch into the narration of a tale with myriad episodes.

Os momentos da vida de um grupo de jovens skatistas em Paris. Suas vidas consistem inteiramente em andar de skate, usar drogas e ter relações sexuais com estranhos, às vezes por dinheiro.

Estranhos em seu próprio local de nascimento, Dany, um garoto de 16 anos que chupa pirulitos e seu irmão Odysseus, de 18 anos, atravessam o país inteiro (junto com o coelho de estimação Dido) em busca de seu pai grego, que eles só conhecem como "The Nameless", após a morte de sua mãe albanesa. Eles esperam obter passaportes e cidadania gregos, mas na jornada encontram racismo e preconceito.

1967 O mundo está vivo com a mudança: cheia de energia novo despertar, novos estilos, música e um senso contagiante de esperança. Na Jordânia, um tipo diferente de mudança está em andamento como dezenas de milhares de refugiados derramar através da fronteira da Palestina. Depois de ter sido separado de seu pai no caos da guerra, Tarek, 11, e sua mãe Ghaydaa, estão entre esta última onda de refugiados. Colocado em campos de refugiados "temporários" composta de barracas e casas pré-fabricadas até que eles seriam capazes de voltar, eles esperam, como a geração antes deles, que chegou em 1948.

Gelsomina vive com os pais e as três irmãs em uma região da Itália onde produzem mel. Afastadas do mundo pelo pai e tendo uma próxima relação com a natureza, vivem os problemas e os sonhos quando um jogo televisivo invade a região.

The horrors of war cast young fisherman Adisu adrift in vast Ethiopia. Forty years later, he is a taxi driver in a Northern European city, dreaming every night of his lost love. Surprising debut is dreamlike yet authentic, with no hint of false sentimentality.

Monique, happy and about sixty, is at the head of a small meeting agency, specializing in the third age. Her friend Madeleine is a regular and does not hesitate to make her organize meetings with the gents that she finds to her taste, more out of curiosity than of desire to find the soul-mate. While, the meetings follow each other and are all different. Love does not, necessarily, knock where we expect it too !

While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio hang out. One evening one of them leads the others to an unoccupied luxury villa. They spend the night there. Before they leave, they steal some objects of no value and two prize rifles. When the house owner arrives from Paris, she complains about the theft to a small local boss she knows…

In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, "A Thousand Suns" investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents "Touki Bouki." What has happened since? Magaye Niang, the hero of the movie, has never left Dakar. And today, the old cowboy wonders where Anta is, the love of his youth. Stories about family, exile and cinema meet between the sphere of intimacy and that of myth.

Tangier. Dounia decides to sell on the black market the antiques uncovered on the building site she manages. She hopes to raise enough money to be able to leave Morocco with her son, who she hardly ever sees since her divorce. The death of a worker disrupts her plan...

Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the night, they leave the city for the forest. In the silence of the moonlight nature, the desire between the two friends becomes increasingly vibrant. A new day is born from their friendship.

Carmen conhece Hussain, um jovem poeta afegão. Eles se apaixonam e se tornam inseparáveis. Pouco depois, ele descobre que seu pedido de asilo foi recusado, obrigando o casal a se esconder. No entanto, Hussain começa a se sentir sufocado e precisa sair de casa.

A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.

Two teenagers meet one Saturday evening to hang out together. While they cross Paris, meetings and disappointments are linked and push them to ask themselves about the feelings they have.

Mademoiselle Julie is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve on the estate of a Count. The young woman of the title is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean (Nicolas Bouchaud), who is particularly well-traveled, well-mannered and well-read. The action takes place in the kitchen of Mademoiselle Julie's father's manor, where Jean's fiancée, a servant named Christine (Bénédicte Cerutti), cooks and sometimes sleeps while Jean and Miss Julie talk. On this night the relationship between Miss Julie and Jean escalates rapidly to feelings of love and is subsequently consummated. Over the course of the play Miss Julie and Jean battle until Jean convinces her that the only way to escape her predicament is to commit suicide.

After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she encounters there do not nearly satisfy her interest in faith. Struggling to find her place, Marta pushes the boundaries of the class, the priest, and the church.

Desde o início da dança moderna em 1970, poucos coreógrafos tiveram tanta influência no meio como Pina Bausch. O documentário aborda a vida e a carreira da artista e mostra incríveis atuações de sua companhia.

A German flight attendant's life spirals downward after she leaves her husband, quits her job, and joins a radical group of animal rights activists.

In addition to an incipient fondness for greyhound racing, the young Arnau has two inseparable companions: a songbird and a fox. Both accompany him in his journey to adolescence, a difficult transition due to some hard circumstances: the mother of the boy is locked in prison, and he is forced to live with his uncles.

Ao regressar às praias que marcaram a sua vida, Agnès Varda inventa uma forma de auto-documentário. Agnès coloca-se em cena entre os excertos dos seus filmes, imagens e reportagens. Faz-nos partilhar com humor e emoção o seu percurso, os primeiros passos como fotógrafa de teatro, cineasta nos anos cinquenta, a vida com Jacques Demy, a sua militância feminista, as viagens a Cuba, à China e aos EUA, o percurso de produtora independente, a sua vida em família e o amor das praias.

Writer-director Pablo Agüero's feature debut follows Inti (Joaquin Aguila), a 6-year-old boy caught up in the madness of post-"Dirty War" Argentina. Upon her release from prison, Inti's mother, Alba (Dolores Fonzi), a former dissident, whisks him away from his grandmother's care. Still unsure of her own direction in life, Alba takes Inti to live in a hippie commune in Patagonia. Velvet Underground founder John Cale co-stars.

A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life...

On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, bitchy Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.

The last minute of a man's life.

The french choreographer Mathilde Monnier and her preparation for her next performance is the main focus of this documentary. The choreography's practices and the bodies, everything is registered in some sort of anthropological way by the filmmaker's camera.

Blandine arrives at the Charles de Gaulle Airport, seeking a reunion with her husband Papi in Paris. Despite articulate claims for asylum, she is held in a cramped cell along with a number of fellow Africans, humiliated, mistreated and told that they can expect immediate deportation. Papi enquires of her whereabouts at Arrivals, and is met with disinterested, misleading responses. When Blandine is hurt in a skirmish on the runway as the authorities try and force her out of the country, circumstances and a sympathetic employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs save her from expulsion. She is finally reunited with Papi in a communal squat, its inhabitants sharing harrowing stories of their time in France. With work, money and food scarce, and her confidence shaken by her less than warm welcome to the country, Blandine cannot find the enthusiasm to leave her damp mattress.

Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him until she finally comes into contact with him. She knows Stéphane is at bay and decides to take advantage of it.

At Christmas time, 19 year old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine his feelings when Louise develop a liaison of her own with his childhood friend Mathieu.

Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.

Pierre (Louis Garrel), um adolescente de 17 anos, tem um amor cego pela mãe, mas ela não está disposta a assumir o que o filho projecta dela. Recusando ser amada por aquilo que não é, ela decide quebrar o mistério e revelar a sua verdadeira natureza – a de uma mulher para quem a imoralidade se tornou um vício. Pierre pede para ser iniciado por ela e deixa-se levar até ao limite em jogos cada vez mais perigosos...

A young woman tries to understand the real circumstances of the death of her mother.

Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with this poor local girl. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempts at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication.

The life in a Catalan (Southern France) village near the border may be quite boring. A young man who is escaping from his homeland is seeking for something and may find it in this weird place. You see the relationship between the people in the village, their dreams, their past and their perspectives in life. The foreigner is hosted there and is messed in the deep whereabouts of these people and tries somehow to fit in.

A woman struggles to acclimate to prison life while her friend organises a labour strike on the outside.

Françoise Barnier, the film's heroine, is a mother. One day, she stole something. She was in dire straits but no more so than usual. She was not in debt. She had always refused the degradation of excessive debt and charities, attempting to live in line with the rules laid down by society and the law. We follow her journey through the judicial institution. Here, two ideas of justice and law collide.

A death in the family brings a man back to his family and his hometown in this drama. After his brother Alex goes missing under hazy circumstances, Pau gets the bad news that Alex has died after a successful suicide attempt. Pau travels to the village in Spain's Pyrenees mountains where he was born to break the sad news to his mother Merce; hoping to spare her feelings at a difficult time, he tells her that Alex was killed in an auto accident. As Merce mourns the death of her son, she and Pau set out to find Alex's friends and acquaintances and tell them of his sad fate. In their travels, they encounter Sara, Alex's girlfriend, who planned to move away to the city with him; Emil, an engineer who will be putting a highway through the town; Marta, Emil's daughter; and Toni, one of Emil's co-workers. Circumstances bring Pau and Marta together again when Emil disappears, and Marta finds herself searching for her father.

Agatha is a beautiful young woman from Romania who had a brief but passionate love affair with a French surgeon when he visited her country as part of a charitable medical team. Agatha has decided to come to France to rekindle their romance, but when she arrives in the city of Roubaix, she discovers he didn't take their relationship nearly as seriously as she did. With nowhere to go, Agatha is befriended by Mehdi, a cab driver who helps her find a place to stay. Mehdi is attracted to Agatha, and she returns his interest, but as it turns out Mehdi is already seeing someone -- Cecile, who is having an affair with Mehdi while involved with his close friend Marc. Hoping to move away from Roubaix with Agatha and start a new life, Mehdi gets a job as a bill collector, while Marc impulsively walks off his job and an angry Cecile gives him his walking papers.

First part of a "trilogy of modern times" (the second one is La Blessure, and third - La question humaine). Paria follows the path of two characters, Momo and Victor. Momo –remarkably played by Gérald Thomassin– lives in the streets, while Victor, on the edge of poverty, loses his apartment when he loses his job. Their destinies will come across during the night of the “millennium” which will be celebrated in a social pick-up bus.

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.

Two women, angry Myope and happy Lunette (both played by Franssou Prenant), bounce ideas off each other in a small apartment, until Lunette fashions a story about Agathe (Cecile Garcia Fogel) and her husband Pierrot (Manuel Cedron), a one-time musician who now teaches gym. While the two love each other, they cannot communicate without quarreling.

Single mother Nadia is surviving on welfare while transport strikes are paralyzing France in December 1995. While watching the news, she recognizes the father of her child among the strikers and decides to go and search for him. But she has nowhere to go. The film, shot almost entirely at night, carries documentary qualities, part of which is due to the appearances of actual railroad workers in several group scenes.

Verão de 1994. Georges Montero, pequeno empresário, chega à França pela primeira vez, para uma operação de catarata. Tarek Timzert é seu cirurgião, e entre eles floresce uma bela amizade.

A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm, an egotistic and authoritarian individual who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children. The farmer handles them as his property, uses them as cheap labour to work in the fields, and denies them the right to leave the farm. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in.

A young aristocrat is seduced by a young man who appeared to her in a dream one spring afternoon. Captive of this impossible love, the young girl is dying of melancholy. But the constancy of her love is stronger than death; she wins the pity of the judge of the underworld, manages to find her lover and come back to life. The opera "The Peony Pavilion" was composed in 1598 by the poet Tang Xianzu (1550-1617), one of the greatest playwrights of the Ming period. Of all the forms of Chinese opera that have followed one another since the 12th century, the kunqu is the one that best preserves the image of a classical art highly appreciated in educated circles for its musical, literary and gestural refinement.

A young aristocrat is seduced by a young man who appeared to her in a dream one spring afternoon. Captive of this impossible love, the young girl is dying of melancholy. But the constancy of her love is stronger than death; she wins the pity of the judge of the underworld, manages to find her lover and come back to life. The opera "The Peony Pavilion" was composed in 1598 by the poet Tang Xianzu (1550-1617), one of the greatest playwrights of the Ming period. Of all the forms of Chinese opera that have followed one another since the 12th century, the kunqu is the one that best preserves the image of a classical art highly appreciated in educated circles for its musical, literary and gestural refinement.