Yann Collette
Nascimento : 1956-04-14, Cannes, France
História
Après un passage à la Rue Blanche, Yann Collette crée en 1978 avec le metteur en scène Pierre Pradinas le théâtre du Chapeau Rouge en Avignon. Un an plus tard, il fait ses débuts au cinéma dans Le Gagnant.
Son physique décalé, son oeil de verre et crâne chauve servent à merveille l'univers d'Enki Bilal avec lequel il collabore en 1989 avec Bunker Palace Hotel puis en 1996 dans Tykho Moon. Cette "gueule" du cinéma français excelle dans les seconds rôles sombres, de personnages retors et violents (La Maison assassinée et Le Bossu), ou en marge de la société chez Vincent Ravalec (Cantique de la racaille, La Merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot toboggan). Ce qui ne l'empêche pas de s'adonner volontiers à la comédie, et compose pour Bernie Bonvoisin un savoureux personnage de flic dans Les Demons de Jesus.
En 1995, il tourne dans Marie-Louise ou la permission, une comédie légère avec Kate Beckinsale où il interprète trois rôles (dont celui d'une nonne). Mais celui qui a débuté au théâtre tourne avec des réalisateurs qui le rapprochent de son travail sur les planches : préparation longue, répétitions... C'est le cas avec Philippe Garrel (J'entends plus la guitare) ou encore Jacques Rivette (Jeanne la Pucelle, les prisons).
Detective Morcini
Paris, verão de 1979. Anne é produtora de pornografia gay barata. Quando Lois, sua editora e companheira, a deixa, ela tenta recuperá-la, fazendo um filme mais ambicioso com o extravagante Archibald.
Tom
France in the early 60s. Simon, a wrestler, wears a white mask. In the ring, he is known as "The Specter". He suggests to his friend Victor who has just returned from combat to be his adversary in the ring and wear a black mask, and be known as "The Slaughterer of Belleville". But for Victor, still shaken from his experience in combat, this is too much; for once in his life he would like to be the good guy, the one people cheer on. Simon then suggests they switch masks. But it proves less easy to fool the rest of the wrestling crowd...
Bechet
A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama.
Attila
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.
le capitaine Orlac
A psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran to the edge of insanity.
Colonel de Marcieu
A diretora de um orfanato trabalha duro para proteger seus filhos durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial. Entretanto, o caos se instaura em sua vida quando um grupo de crianças judias, deportadas da alemanha, chega ao orfanato. com isso, ela precisa trabalhar além de todos os seus limites para estabelecer novamente a paz e a tranquilidade no local. Como consequência, todos descobrirão a importância da diversidade cultural, o valor da fé e a coragem para encarar a vida novamente depois de uma catástrofe.
Froebe
Estamos em New York no ano de 2095. Há uma estranha pirâmide voadora pairando sobre a cidade, onde os deuses condenaram Hórus por traição e lhe concederam sete dias de liberdade antes de lhe retirarem a sua imortalidade.Jill, uma mulher de cabelo e lágrimas azuis procura compreender a sua própria origem, mas não é a única interessada na sua fisionomia única e nos poderes que possui mas desconhece. A prisão geoestacionária sofre um curto-circuito e Nikopol, inimigo da multinacional Eugenics, é libertado. As vidas destas três personagens vão cruzar-se e afectar as de outras tantas.
Le consul
Shimkent hôtel tells the story of a young man who's experienced the failure of a business venture in the Afghan mountains, and who suffers from shock in Kazakhstan.
Sandra
In a nightmarish future, the wealthy elite maintain The Circle, a stratum of society that can use technology for regeneration, although it's unclear if a person is regenerated into reality or if this New Life is a cyber world. Thomas Steiner is regenerated, thanks to his mother, and it seems her goal is for him to lose his homosexuality. He awakens from his regeneration with memories of Kazo, a man he loved. He goes in search of him. But, was Kazo ever real? And what will mother make of this son who leaves the safety of The Circle in search of something else?
This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.
Col. Pernod
In the eleventh film in the series, in December 1916, Indy, still stationed in Africa, is promoted to Captain and then ordered to cross the jungle with Remy and Captain Boucher to pick up a shipment of weaponry. Along the way, Ubangan Sergeant Barthélèmy picks up the sole surviving child from a disease-ravaged village despite Boucher's orders against it. On the way back, Indy and company succumb to disease themselves, and are picked up by Albert Schweitzer and the orderlies from his jungle hospital. At first resistant to being treated by a German, Indy soon begins to realize that Schweitzer is not interested in war, only attempting to cure people against all odds.
Gilles
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
Peyrolles
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
Morizot
Set in the late 1960s, a family of Gypsies live in a dilapidated pavilion in the western suburbs of Paris.
Alvin / Edward
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho. Trying to escape the dragnet, Alex, a sculptor, meets Lena, a killer posing as a whore.
Les Collette
Star crossed lovers are the focus of this French romantic comedy. Marie-Louise, an American, has come to Paris to meet her new lover, Jean-Paul who has a weekend pass from his military service post. Unfortunately they misunderstood each other's instructions and are each at different train stations. They begin desperate searches throughout the night to find each other. The are hindered by Jean-Paul's ex-lover Marie, whom he rejected. Marie will do anything to get rid of Marie-Louise and win Jean-Paul back. Marie-Louise has her own problems when Jean falls for her. Jean accidently gets her involved with the police after he is arrested on the suspicion of pickpocketing. Despite their travails, the couple still tries to find each other. In the end, they are assisted by a magical nun who finally reunites them.
“Traveling is not just going places, but meeting people, remarks a character in Michèle Rosier's refreshing human comedy. 18 people board a tour bus to Mont-Saint-Michel, eager and jittery — cameras aimed, desires out of focus. The motley crew includes a maturing maid mad to marry, a discreet Irishman, a pompous bourgeois, and a mysterious lady in Renaissance attire who looks as though she's lost her castle.No matches made in heaven here; in fact, the characters seem bent on driving each other crazy before the tour's end.When the bus is attacked by highway thieves, and its occupants divested of jewels and money, the misadventure makes them accomplice ... a kind of spell is cast on these mere mortals, shaken from their moorings, who quit their banality and take off from the big bus into another space, outward bound.” — Joan Dupont
Coroner
No mais importante desfile de moda do mundo, ocorre um assassinato. Agora todo mundo é suspeito, inclusive dois hóspedes que acabam compartilhando muito mais do que um quarto de hotel. Uma comédia que satiriza o mundo da moda.
Jean-Yves
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.
Jean de Luxembourg
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.
Jean de Luxembourg
Jeanne the Maid leaves her childhood home in Domremy after hearing what she is sure was the voice of God. She believes that she can help lead France to victory on the battlefield, and she persuades Charles, dauphin of France to allow her to guide his troops.
Stéphane Marie
A young girl sees the theater in which her parents play burn down, and they disappear in the fire. Twenty years later, the orphan girl, who has become an actress, is summoned by a director who wants to remount the play and offers her the role of her mother on condition that she finds the text. Immediately, and as if by magic, the father, like the ghost of the opera, reappears and dictates his conditions for access.
Jean
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.
Gaspard
Tired of Parisian life, Louis de Nueil settles in a provincial village to rest from his hectic life. But he quickly gets bored. He then meets Fanny de Lussange, as beautiful as she is mysterious. The young man decides to court Fanny.
David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that bound him to the Countess Clara Orsini had ended with a flight to the other side of the world. The woman he finds on the day of the appointment is not the one he loved, but another, his double, his own daughter who bears the same name of Clara. Intimate ties are formed between them as they wander through Rome.
Santoni
Arnaud Gensac, unlucky inspector, loses his police card, which falls into the hands of a graphic designer who witnesses the murder of a kingpin. And serious trouble begins for Arnaud.
Martin
For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.
Orsini
Em uma ditadura imaginária de um mundo futurista, a rebelião eclodiu. Os homens no poder correm para o Bunker Palace Hotel, um bunker construído há muito tempo para esse tipo de contingência. Mas um espião rebelde se infiltra e, embora sua natureza seja rapidamente suspeita, ela é deixada a observar o delírio da decadente classe de poder, que fica imaginando o que aconteceu ao líder, que não apareceu.
Le voyageur
The life of a twelve-year-old living with her mother is disrupted by the arrival of a very young man at home. While her feelings become confused and the dramas burst, the girl will try to find in his entourage someone able to listen and understand it, before the worst happens.
Patrice Dupin
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared. Whilst Sébastien is being seduced by Charmaine, Dupin is killed by someone else. Sébastien’s next victim, the miller Didon Pujol, is also murdered before he has a chance to take his revenge. Sébastien realises that someone is watching his every move and is going to extraordinary lengths to protect him. But who, and why..?
Andrzej Zulawski
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
Artois
Julien, an honest policeman, is asked to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He soon meets the charming Brigitte. But soon, manipulated by his superior, Julien finds himself involved in a dangerous affair: a gigantic campaign of intoxication.
