Josée Deshaies

Filmes

The Beast
Director of Photography
Num futuro próximo dominado por inteligências artificias, as emoções humanas tornaram-se uma ameaça. Para se livrar deles, Gabrielle deve purificar seu DNA voltando às suas vidas passadas. Lá, ela reencontra Louis, seu grande amor, junto de um grande pressentimento que uma grande catástrofe está a caminho.
Passages
Director of Photography
In contemporary Paris, German filmmaker Tomas embraces his sexuality through a torrid love affair with a young woman named Agathe, an impulse that blurs the lines which define his relationship with his husband, Martin. When Martin begins an extramarital affair of his own, he successfully gains back his husband’s attention while simultaneously unearthing Tomas’ jealousy. Grappling with contradicting emotions, Tomas must either embrace the confines of his marriage or come to terms with the relationship having run its course.
Salamandra
Director of Photography
Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live in the present.
Continental Drift (South)
Director of Photography
Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie's son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning. He, moreover, no longer believes in his mother.
Babysitter
Director of Photography
Cédric é suspenso do trabalho depois de viralizar por beijar bêbado uma repórter. Preso em casa com sua esposa exausta e seu bebê, Cédric embarca em uma viagem terapêutica para se libertar da misoginia. É quando Amy entra em cena: uma babá misteriosa que virará suas vidas de cabeça para baixo.
Caixa de Memórias
Cinematography
Berlinale 2021. A vida de Alex, filha e neta de emigrantes do Líbano, sofre uma reviravolta quando uma caixa de memórias misteriosas chega à porta de sua casa no Canadá, abrindo a porta para uma época desconhecida do passado de sua mãe.
Les fils
Director of Photography
Big Giant Wave
Director of Photography
Big Giant Wave is an ode to music, the invisible abstract and fleeting sequence of sounds that creates in the brain the same reaction as chocolate, sex, or drugs.
A Brother’s Love
Cinematography
Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s life significantly alters their dynamic.
Predestinados
Cinematography
Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Director of Photography
Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who explores the slippery nature of time and consciousness with a sublimely idiosyncratic, often surreal approach to film form.
Lira's Forest
Director of Photography
As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.
Nelly
Director of Photography
A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan’s colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly’s alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked the literary world with her elegant writing and the lurid details of sex work in her autobiographical first novel, Whore, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller. Despite unprecedented success, Nelly’s remarkable life ended in tragedy.
Cordeiro
Director of Photography
Quando Ephraim, um menino etíope, vai morar com parentes distantes em outra cidade, leva consigo seu inseparável cordeiro. Um dia, no entanto, seu tio anuncia que vai sacrificar o animal para uma festa religiosa que acontecerá em breve. Mas Ephraim fará de tudo para salvar seu único amigo e voltar para casa.
Endorphine
Director of Photography
As histórias de três personagem sem conexão entre si à primeira vista: Simone, de 13 anos, precisa aprender a lidar com seus sentimentos após sofrer um choque traumático. Simone, de 25 anos, vive solitária e tenta controlar seus ataques de pânico. Simone, de 60 anos, é uma física experimentada que dá uma palestra sobre a natureza do tempo.
Saint Laurent
Director of Photography
Entre os anos 1967 e 1976, o estilista Yves Saint-Laurent (Gaspard Ulliel) reinou sozinho no mundo da alta costura francesa. Esta biografia mostra o seu processo criativo, as fotografias e entrevistas polêmicas, a relação com o marido e empresário Pierre Berger (Jérémie Renier), os casos amorosos extra-conjugais e a relação com o álcool e as drogas, que quase destruíram o império da marca YSL.
I, Kamikaze
Director of Photography
Hayashi Fujio, a 90-year-old veteran, narrates his memories from World War II, when he volunteered for the very first kamikaze operation planned by the Japanese Imperial Army.
Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
Cinematography
Na República Popular Democrática do Bubunne, as mulheres governam o país enquanto os homens usam véus e ficam em casa fazendo as tarefas domésticas. O jovem Jacky se prepara para o Grande Baile, onde a filha do General escolherá um marido. Ele espera ser o sortudo.
An Extraordinary Person
Director of Photography
A 30 year-old scholar, intelligent and beautiful yet socially crippled, is forced to attend a bachelorette party where her quest for authenticity leads to an unavoidable confrontation with old acquaintances.
Headwinds
Director of Photography
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
L'Apollonide: Os Amores da Casa de Tolerância
Director of Photography
No início do século XX, num bordel parisiense, uma prostituta com o rosto marcado por uma cicatriz ostenta um sorriso trágico. Em torno da mulher que ri, a vida das outras que trabalham no bordel, as suas rivalidades, as suas angústias, as suas dores do mundo exterior, não se sabe nada porque a casa está fechada, mas dentro das suas paredes tudo é possível.
The Edge
Director of Photography
Curling
Director of Photography
Set in a rural Québec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father, works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in fear that contact with the outside world will scar her the way it has him.
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
Director of Photography
Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Slick biopic.
Yuki & Nina
Director of Photography
When Yuki finds out that her parents are separating and she is moving to Japan with her mother, she and her best friend Nina devise ways to reunite the feuding adults.
Where the Boys Are
Cinematography
A few girls in an apartment. Across the street men are building a mosque.
On War
Director of Photography
Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric), a film director, is conducting research for his latest film, and asks a funeral director if he can stay back at his funeral parlour after the close of business. Bertrand cannot resist getting into a coffin, and accidentally knocks the lid down, locking himself in the coffin.
24 Bars
Director of Photography
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the coast. There they encounter Chris. All three will end the night together. It’s their last move in joy and perdition.
My New Picture
Director of Photography
A woman wearing a pair of headphones listens to music. Using their eyes and ears, the audience shares this sensory experience through the mental pictures generated by the music.
Jeunesse d'Hamlet
Director of Photography
Enquanto motins estouram em conjuntos habitacionais e o exército tenta restaurar a paz nas ruas, quatro jovens são interrogados pela polícia por suspeita de terrorismo. Produção de curta-metragem realizada para o projeto Talents Cannes.
Cindy, the Doll Is Mine
Director of Photography
Cindy, the doll is mine is a short film by French director Bertrand Bonello. It stars Italian actress Asia Argento in the double role of photographer Cindy Sherman, a brunette, and her model, a blonde who strangely resemble one another. The film was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Invisible
Director of Photography
A budding electronica artist gives up his shot at stardom to pursue a woman from a telephone dating network.
Baby Jesus
Director of Photography
This is the story of a miracle that never happened... This is the story of a family... This is the story of my disabled brother... In fact, I think it's the story of a storm... I was 11 when my brother was born. It was August 30, 1977. It was the first time I saw my father cry. It was necessary to pray and above all, to be very wise. That's when my dad stopped talking and my mom stopped laughing.
Tiresia
Cinematography
Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and receives the gift of telling the future.
O Pornógrafo
Director of Photography
Jacques Laurent é um diretor de filmes pornográficos dos anos 70, que retorna à antiga atividade por questões financeiras. De volta aos sets de filmagens, Laurent não consegue mais encarar a vulgaridade dos filmes cuja única ambição é a simples exposição de órgãos sexuais. Enquanto Laurent procura uma maneira de redirecionar sua vida, seu filho Joseph, estudante universitário e ativista político, busca encontrar um sentido para a sua. Separados anos antes, quando o jovem se revoltou contra a imoralidade do verdadeiro trabalho do pai, eles se reencontram, agora, mais maduros para tentar resolver suas diferenças anteriores.
The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge
Cinematography
Christophe agrees to be filmed by his roommate Stéphane, while he is searching for a meaningful engineering job. Since he voluntarily resigned his job when he was to be moved to quality control, he does not get unemployment benefits, and goes to classes on how to contest the decision.
Something Organic
Cinematography
Marguerite has been married to Paul for five years; miraculously the molecules in their pairing are still at work. Except for one thing: they live in Montreal, and molecules do not like the cold.
The Adventures of James and David
Cinematography
James visits his young brother David who has just opened a hairdressing salon. the two brothers do not agree on how to become a successful hairdesser.