The history of art seen through the fig leaf and its avatars: from Antiquity to the present day, an inventory of Puritanism applied to the fine arts and the ruses to circumvent it.
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Every summer, 10-year-old Dune goes with her parents to the south-west coast of France, where she meets her best friend Mathilde. Together, they explore pine forests, contemplate the shape of clouds, follow teenagers and crash their parties, and secretly watch horror films. But this one summer is special for Dune – last year, the family skipped their usual holiday without her knowing why. She feels that something has changed. As childhood becomes a little more distant, she begins to see adults and teenagers differently and understand their secrets.
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Eve, 35 years old, has just lost her grandmother. She had promised to accompany her to the island of Lanzarote to celebrate the Burial of the Sardine, a pagan rite that celebrates chaos. Eve lands alone on the volcanic island. As soon as she arrives, her retreat is disrupted by her two best friends, Bonnie and Rita, who have come to surprise her.
The father of seventeen-year-old Elias suddenly dies. At school as well as at home, his friends and relatives await his reaction, which doesn't occur. Elias continues his life as if nothing had happened.
Catherine
Французский шеф-повар Стефан знакомится в сети с Су, художницей из Кореи. Бурная переписка вдохновляет, и он решает поехать в Сеул, но возлюбленная не встречает его в аэропорту. Стефан ждет ее в терминале. Он очаровывает всех и становится интернет-сенсацией, знаменитым «французским любовником». Но что ждет его за дверями аэропорта?
Suzanne
Marie, 22, works in her parent’s hotel-restaurant, a place of hard-work where three generations mix but barely speak to each other. Suzanne, 42, shows up for the night. She ends up staying two nights, then three and finally settles for a moment. To Marie, she’s a simple customer. Yet Suzanne did not choose this hotel by accident.
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The Aviron Bayonnais is a rugby team having a streak of bad luck. Even though they fight relentlessly, they keep losing. One day, though, things change. Everything seems to be possible again. But will the team be able to keep up the momentum? Delphine Gleize films this sports odyssey with humour and passion. She is the only woman in the locker room and the men talk to her as if she were one of them. Through her camera, getting close while keeping an observational distance, the filmmaker manages to capture elements that define and clarify male bonds and relationships.
Director
The Aviron Bayonnais is a rugby team having a streak of bad luck. Even though they fight relentlessly, they keep losing. One day, though, things change. Everything seems to be possible again. But will the team be able to keep up the momentum? Delphine Gleize films this sports odyssey with humour and passion. She is the only woman in the locker room and the men talk to her as if she were one of them. Through her camera, getting close while keeping an observational distance, the filmmaker manages to capture elements that define and clarify male bonds and relationships.
La mère de Vincent
Vincent, still of tender age, has already tattooed most of his body and hoarsened his voice with his post-hardcore band – his way of venting his frustrations and desires. Ever since his mother died, he shares his time between Porte de Clignancourt and Bastille, between a piercer job he is unhappy with and his fishmonger father, Hervé, who is trying to start a new life with a younger woman named Julia. Vincent is initially appalled by the woman, with whom his father has ‘betrayed’ his mother, but the more they get to know each other, the more he becomes intrigued by the beautiful and empathetic woman. Unlike his father, she shows interest in him, even attending one of his gigs. What starts out as a potential way of reconciling with his father soon implodes.
Writer
13-летний Ромен болен редкой генетической болезнью, из-за которой он не может появляться на солнечном свете. 50-летний Давид профессор дерматологии, который присматривал и ухаживал за ним с двухлетнего возраста. За эти годы они сильно привязались друг к другу, и между ними возникла необычная дружба, но теперь Давида ожидает перевод в другое заведение и неизбежное расставание со своим пациентом и близким другом, к которому тот совершенно не готов.
Director
13-летний Ромен болен редкой генетической болезнью, из-за которой он не может появляться на солнечном свете. 50-летний Давид профессор дерматологии, который присматривал и ухаживал за ним с двухлетнего возраста. За эти годы они сильно привязались друг к другу, и между ними возникла необычная дружба, но теперь Давида ожидает перевод в другое заведение и неизбежное расставание со своим пациентом и близким другом, к которому тот совершенно не готов.
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Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But more than anything, Alfred wants a child. As natural fatherhood is out of the question he takes the next best option, and makes an application to adopt. With a very un-French lack of bureaucracy Alfred's adoptive son arrives, but turns out not to be the bouncing baby he was hoping for. [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
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Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But more than anything, Alfred wants a child. As natural fatherhood is out of the question he takes the next best option, and makes an application to adopt. With a very un-French lack of bureaucracy Alfred's adoptive son arrives, but turns out not to be the bouncing baby he was hoping for. [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
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На бушующей арене испанской корриды блистательный тореадор наносит коронный удар своей гигантской жертве, но призовому быку Ромеро удается в предсмертном рывке поднять своего убийцу на рога. На следующий день это трагическое событие свяжет совершенно разных людей по всей Европе, когда они соприкоснутся с частями туши Ромеро. Словно обладая некоей сверхъестественной силой, глаза, рога и кости величественного животного будут вершить их судьбы, и даже если всё, что случится с этими эксцентричными незнакомцами, будет лишь невероятным и пугающим стечением обстоятельств, их истории поразят самого упрямого скептика.
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На бушующей арене испанской корриды блистательный тореадор наносит коронный удар своей гигантской жертве, но призовому быку Ромеро удается в предсмертном рывке поднять своего убийцу на рога. На следующий день это трагическое событие свяжет совершенно разных людей по всей Европе, когда они соприкоснутся с частями туши Ромеро. Словно обладая некоей сверхъестественной силой, глаза, рога и кости величественного животного будут вершить их судьбы, и даже если всё, что случится с этими эксцентричными незнакомцами, будет лишь невероятным и пугающим стечением обстоятельств, их истории поразят самого упрямого скептика.
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Like every year, Inès takes the train to Mont-de-Marsan to spend a week's holiday with her grandmother. But this time around, things do not happen as usual. First, Granny is late to the appointment outside the station. And when she finally arrives, she looks strange, seems to have difficulty in finding her way back home and mostly seems to be hiding something for her granddaughter...
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