Emmanuel Machuel

L'essence des formes (The Essence of Forms), a documentary from 2010 in which collaborators and admirers of Bresson’s, including actor François Leterrier and director Bruno Dumont, share their thoughts about the director and his work.

Four women, all journalists for the French daily "Libération", decide to have, over the course of a week-end, an experience with a male prostitute.

Друзья отбывают из Лиссабона на круизном корабле, направляющемся к Индийскому океану. Во время однодневных остановок в Марселе, Помпеях, Афинах, Стамбуле и Каире они наблюдают, как профессор рассказывает своей юной дочери о мифах, истории, религии и войнах. Мужчины пытаются флиртовать с ней, но она холодна, поскольку едет в Бомбей к своему мужу.

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened when she starts doing her daily walks by the village and the beach: she saves a stranger from death in the sea, meets young Alexandre and Emilia, and her friend Vera turns up in her house. And then, everything changes…

In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having just made up with Claire, he decides to take her along. She's an ideal travel companion and it seems their relationship has not yet exhausted its potential. But moving from Lisbon to Oporto, their fantasy of a second honeymoon clashes with the reality of a world on the verge of a nightmare.

После того, как склонная к суициду девочка-подросток рожает, она ошибочно доверяет безопасность своего ребенка проблемному бездельнику отцу, чьи насильственные действия отправляют зрителя в путешествие по зловещим, разрушающимся трущобам, в которых они живут.

Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.

Леао, рабочий-гастарбайтер на лиссабонской стройке, падает в обморок, а обморок оборачивается двухмесячной комой. Мариана, молодая медсестра, ухаживает за пациентом и отправляется сопровождать его в возвращении на родину, на Кабо Верде, где нет нужных медикаментов, но наверняка есть родственники Леао. Мариана пытается раскрыть прошлое неподвижного пациента, оно становится ясным, то вновь запутывается, и заставляет ее каждый день смотреть на жизнь под новым углом. Пробуждение главного героя открывает новый виток спирали.

Восьмилетнему Пьеру очень хорошо и уютно в кругу его большой семьи. Мальчику кажется, что так было и будет всегда. Но, к сожалению, время неумолимо, и с его ходом взрослеют не только дети, но и стареют родители. Этот закон жизни маленькому Пьеру пытается объяснить мудрая бабушка. Ведь когда-нибудь придет день, когда некому будет сказать и услышать в ответ: «До завтра». И все же, пока мы помним, наши любимые и родные живы...

Сюжет фильма повествует о последних днях жизни выдающегося художника Винсента Ван Гога.

In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In 1962, exiled on Hatray cruises and feeling the coming death, Alex decides to compose for his love a testament: the photographic report of his agony.

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.

Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre's father is an Algerian war veteran who tolerates living with the immigrants at the low-income housing project as long as the two factions are separated. Djemila's older brother carries bitter hatred for the French over their invasion of Algeria. Both young lovers fall victim to the intolerance of their families when their relatives discover that the two are engaged in a passionate love affair.

Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks after an avalanche apparently buries them alive, Antoine returns home. Certain that his uncle has also survived, he resolves to go back up and look for him—leaving his now-pregnant wife behind once more.

Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.

After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.

An aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger woman. When he learns that his mistress also has another younger lover, he gets jealous, but tries not to make an issue of it. In the end, he dumps her and returns to his wife, who is not about to stand for his middle-aged immaturity. She leaves him.

Фильм рассказывает о неприятии подростка обществом в дни немецкой оккупации.

In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. There, he seeks his former love, Maria... but the lady's pride is hurt and she refuses to see him. Vincent then falls for a younger woman, Annie.

Вивьен - жена французского консула, в поисках перьев экзотической птицы присоединяется к группе путешественников из Европы, которые пытаются найти таинственную долину в горах Новой Гвинеи. Их длительное пребывание в племени Мапуга становится развязкой на пути к долине.

Продолжение во многом автобиографичной истории подростка Антуана Дуанеля. Он тяготится своим положением в школе и в семье, стремится вырваться из тусклой и унылой повседневной жизни. Повзрослев, Дуанель влюбляется и женится на Кристин, становится отцом ребенка, затем экспериментирует с адюльтером, заведя мало интересную любовную интрижку с Киоко.

34-летний безымянный холостяк чтит заветы католицизма, зачитывается Паскалем, каждый день ездит работать в офис на предприятие Michelin, а каждый вечер мечтает о знакомстве и браке с девушкой, которая приглянулась ему в толпе церковных прихожан. Но не тут-то было! Неожиданная встреча с бывшим однокурсником после совместного посещения концерта Леонида Когана приводит его провести вечер у его разведённой подруги Мод...

Действие фильма происходит в небольшом приморском французском городке Рошфор в течение нескольких дней, когда туда приезжает ярмарка. События разворачиваются на площади, в музыкальном магазине и кафе, которым владеет мадам Ивонн Гарнье. Ее дочери Дельфин и Соланж Гарнье зарабатывают на жизнь уроками музыки и танцев. Они ищут свою любовь и мечтают уехать из провинции в столицу.