Simon Beaufils

Фильмы

Astrakan
Director of Photography
The gorgeous astrakhan fur, that looks so soft, shiny and warm, actually comes from fetal or newborn or even unborn karakul lambs. While the white lamb is the Christian symbol of purity and innocence, the astrakhan evokes the early sacrifice by society of the black lamb, equally innocent, slaughtered before or right after birth.
Боулинг Сатурн
Director of Photography
В центре событий остросюжетного драматического триллера под названием «Боулинг Сатурн» находится молодой представитель сильного пола по имени Гийом, жизнь которого протекает в тихом и ничем не примечательном духе. Но в некий момент он решает внести в свой привычный жизненный расклад существенные изменения. Все начинается с того, что у него возникает идея инвестировать серию убийств, совершенных полицией. И эта мысль возникает у главного героя после того, как его брат и сестра начинают управлять отцовским бизнесом весьма неординарным образом…
Atomic Summer
Director of Photography
Victor, in his early 20s, works at the town hall and lives with his girlfriend Charlotte, who is expecting their first child. When an incident happens at the nearby nuclear power plant, he and his high school friends are forced to confine themselves inside a farmhouse, whereas they should have evacuated the area. As the rain is threatening, they are keeping an eye out for the radioactive cloud. The next 24 hours will be crucial.
Robust
Director of Photography
When his right-hand man and only mate has to go away for a few weeks, Georges - an ageing film star - is given a substitute, Aïssa. The disillusioned actor and the young female security guard forge a special relationship.
Ослик, любовник и я
Director of Photography
Антуанетта, учительница начальных классов, с нетерпением ждала выходных, чтобы провести их со своим любовником, отцом одного из учеников. Но вот незадача. У любовника оказалась жена, которая решила отправиться в путешествие по югу Франции как раз в эти дни. Отвергнутая девушка не сдается и следует за ними. Компанию ей составил ослик Патрик, который оказался мудрее и благородней некоторых мужчин.
Соблазн
Director of Photography
Сибил — опытная и успешная женщина-психотерапевт, желающая отказаться от практики, чтобы воплотить давнее желание написать книгу. В тот момент, когда ей будет так нужно вдохновение, рядом окажется юная актриса Марго, ищущая помощи и поддержки. Сибил, очарованная новой пациенткой, будет всё глубже погружаться в чужую историю, не замечая, как её собственная жизнь перевернётся с ног на голову.
Still River
Director of Photography
A Greek couple, Anna (Katia Goulioni) and Petros (Andreas Konstantinou), have recently moved to a small industrial town in Siberia. It’s a long process to adapt, especially for Anna, since Petros is quite occupied with his job. That will cause a conflict between them and inevitably the couple is distanced. Everything is escalated as for the past period there is no sexual intercourse between them. This slow-paced decay is intensified when an unexpected event occurs, changing everything between them. Balancing between trust and disbelief the haunting suspense evolves.
Blonde Animals
Director of Photography
Fabien, former star of a television show, always seems disoriented when he wakes up. He feels abandoned since the disappearance of Corinne, his co-star, whom he loved so much. Nothing surprises him already, not even his encounter with Yoni, a sad young man, who carries in a bag a beautiful and disturbing token of his own loss.
Нож в сердце
Director of Photography
Знаменитая продюсер гей-порно Анна оказывается лицом к лицу со своей темной стороной, когда от нее уходит ее любимый человек — Лоис. Анна решает вернуть Лоис съемками самого амбициозного фильма в своей карьере, однако женщина лишь оказывается в ловушке в то время, как серийный убийца загадочным образом начинает устранять всех ее актеров.
On the Sly
Director of Photography
Franck, a former young hopeful at the Nantes soccer club, has stayed on to help the team for ten years after an injury,but becomes especially frustrated when he meets a seductive young woman.
Islands
Director of Photography
A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.
My Journey Through French Cinema
Director of Photography
Famous French director Tavernier tells us about his fantastic voyage through the cinema of his country.
В постели с Викторией
Director of Photography
Виктория пытается начать новую жизнь — взять себя в руки, разобраться с любовниками, больше спать и лучше питаться. Только вот бывший, обратившийся к ней за помощью, не помогает навести порядок. А другой возлюбленный, возомнивший себя популярным писателем, посвящает всю сеть в подробности ее интимной жизни.
The Young One
Director of Photography
Zico has a thirst for elsewhere. He embarks on a cargo shop in Le Havre. Soon, tensions with the rest of the crew and repeated damages undermine his dreams of adventures.
Raging Rose
Director of Photography
Jozef travels from Poland to France to work and to find his son Roman, who he abandoned 15 years earlier. Jozef works for a Polish immigrant family that has successfully settled in France. Rose, the family’s teenaged daughter, volunteers to help him find his son. Roman happens to go to the same school as Rose, and she finds him attractive. After an unexpectedly wonderful experience with Roman, she falls desperately in love with him.
Three Sisters
Director of Photography
For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most expansively melancholy plays.
Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey
Director of Photography
Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction - In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love.
The Bridges of Sarajevo
Director of Photography
Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins offer exceptional singular styles and visions.
You and the Night
Director of Photography
Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.
La dernière plaine
Director of Photography
Every night, in the heart of the forest, Abel and Nadja challenge the curfew and make love. One night, they discover a place which seems protected from the abstract war which surrounds them. A camp where, among others, Leila, Ivan and Samuel welcome them. Then life is going to waste away very hardly and quickly.
Les Ambassadeurs
Director of Photography
Two men spend a day of vacation by a lake. They accompany their peregrination with formulae and commercial promises taken from a marabout's pamphlet, bathe, navigate, banter, dredge, steal a little money, buy souvenirs, challenge gravity and, by force of circumstance, find themselves in the skin of The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein Young person.
1+1
Additional Camera
Пострадав в результате несчастного случая, богатый аристократ Филипп нанимает в помощники человека, который менее всего подходит для этой работы, — молодого жителя предместья Дрисса, только что освободившегося из тюрьмы. Несмотря на то, что Филипп прикован к инвалидному креслу, Дриссу удается привнести в размеренную жизнь аристократа дух приключений.
Three Celestial Bodies
Director of Photography
Macha, Nathan and Walter are awaited by a young man outside the high-school. He's here to lead them. Away from the city. To the sea. Into a night they might never return from.
Я так давно тебя люблю
Camera Operator
Джульетт выпускают из тюрьмы после 15 лет заключения. За все это время она ни разу не виделась со своими родственниками — те не хотели иметь с ней никаких дел. Ее младшая сестра Леа приглашает Джульетт пожить к себе. Она живет в Нанси с мужем Люком и двумя приемными дочерьми. Долгое заключение Джульетт и большая разница в возрасте сестер делает их практически чуждыми друг другу женщинами. Но, тем не менее, когда социальный работник связался с Леа по поводу Джульетт, та, ни секунды не раздумывая, согласилась предоставить сестре жилье.
Girls of Fire
A suburb housing. Two girls on the phone are looking for each other but never succeed to meet. One of them vanishes.
Twist
Director of Photography
Four men dance in the set of a beach bar off season. This film puts in parallel an episode of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars and a choreographed digest of the history of the Twist.
Plutôt d'accord
Director of Photography
Jérémie has a job recruiting subjects for testing. He'd rather recruit Rodrigue for something else entirely.
Shame
Director of Photography
Belgrade, 1996. During the student demonstrations against the Milosevic regime, 15-year-old Stefan leads his own revolution in the heat of events: accepting the unacceptable, seeing his mother as an accomplice in the crime and finding, despite the love he he feels for her, the strength to confront her.
Anatomy of a Fall
Director of Photography
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.