le libraire
L'oncle de Lison
Em meados do século XVIII, as mulheres são fáceis e os homens dedicam-se ao seu esporte predilecto: a guerra. Fanfan (Vincent Perez) é um belo rapaz, ingênuo e sensível, que se engaja no exército de Luís XV.
Adelle (Penélope Cruz), filha de um sargento, prediz que o futuro de Fanfan será glorioso.
Durante as batalhas na Aquitânia, Fanfan salva uma carruagem real do ataque de uma horda: nela estão Madame Pompadour e Henriette, filha do soberano. Tem início o cumprimento da profecia de Adelle...
Mickey
A worker in a bottle factory, Pierre decides to switch from day shift to night shift. In his new team, he runs into Fred, a charismatic and violent guy. Fred says loudly that Pierre is his boyfriend. In fact, he never misses an opportunity to bully or humiliate him. This could only be a bad joke. But the harassment continues in a downward spiral ...
Paris Doctor
Quando o marido desaparece na praia, uma professora começa a se desintegrar mentalmente quando a negação do desaparecimento dele se torna ilusória. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.
Café de la Paix's head waiter
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.
Le médecin morgue
René, o criminoso, é defendido por Solange, a advogada, cujo seu objectivo será demonstrar a complicada teia de relações de um jogo subtil entre a vítima e o sobrinho durante mais de dez anos. Pouco a pouco, vai descobrindo uma teoria controversa que irá ter que provar: o jovem não só terá castigado a tia devido ao interesse doentio que aquela demonstrava por ele, mas também devido à sua clara predisposição para matar. Mas, à medida que a investigação prossegue, algo inesperado acontece e vai mudar o rumo da história: o jovem começa a identificar Solange com a falecida tia, enquanto que a advogada reconhece em René a imagem do seu filho, morte num acidente de viação. O fantasma da tia Jeanne encarna Solange, dando ao jovem criminoso uma nova oportunidade. A defesa de Solange conhece um grande sucesso, pese embora a oposição da ordem dos psiquiatras: René é absolvido. Solange e seu cliente apaixonam-se e vão viver juntos.
Martin Ladvenu
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.
Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".
H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle.
H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...
Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.