Sabine Bail

Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly's Rose, c'est Paris is both a photographic monograph and a feature-length film. This extraordinary work of art, in two different but interlocking and complementary formats, defies easy categorization. For in this multi-layered opus of poetic symbolism, photographer Bettina Rheims and writer Serge Bramly evoke the City of Light in a completely novel way: this is a Paris of surrealist visions, confused identities, artistic phantoms, unseen manipulation, obsession, fetish, and seething desire.

Друзья Ким Хуанг и Мишель Будрио — полицейские. Они неразлучны с тех пор, как встретились в сиротском приюте. Скупердяй Хуанг обладает необычайной притягательной силой для некрасивых женщин, а Будрио — наивный святоша, который спит и видит написать сценарий христианского полицейского сериала. Они — не лучшие полицейские ни Франции, ни Парижского округа, ни даже своего комиссариата. Однако именно им предстоит пройти сложнейшее испытание за всю свою карьеру: под командованием главы национальной полиции госпожи Од Леттелье противостоять волне чудовищных террористических актов…

A married man in his fifties who has lost all interest in his wife suddenly meets Juliette, a young woman. She reignites love in his life but triggers violent arguments with his wife. Their indifference soon turns into chaos. (French with English subtitles)

Джонатан, подросток из рабочего пригорода, живет с отцом и тираничной беременной мачехой. Кюре из местной церкви, с которым у Джонатана сложились очень теплые отношения, помогает подростку понять себя и разобраться в своих отношениях с семьей. Узнав, что его планируют отдать в школу-интернат, Джонатан сбегает из дома, украв деньги. Вместе со своим другом Стивом они отправляются в Париж, где можно покутить. В поисках приключений они встречают дилера по кличке «Стрелок», который не только продает им наркотик, но и предлагает секс за деньги со своей подругой… После Стив отправляется домой, а Джонатан, обкуренный и уставший, засыпает прямо там. Проснувшись, Джонатан оказывается связанным Стрелком...

Max wakes up one morning and discovers that his wife Hélène has left him in his sleep, without a word, taking their two children with her. He doesn't understand. The nights drag on, his demons get involved, he chooses to face them and to anchor himself in reality. He probes his feelings, revisits from top to bottom the artifice of his life. Max ends up rediscovering his love for Hélène and decides to win her back. But isn't it already too late?

Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain.

Фильм-сборник из трех разных историй любви, действие которых происходит в трех разных эпохах и в трех разных местах. Общим элементом является тема: любовь причиняет много боли.

The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" award for The Dreamlife of Angels. When Louise has an encounter with homeless Remi (Roschdy Zem), they have a magnetic attraction, but she is already attached to illiterate shoplifter and pickpocket punk Yaya (Gerald Thomassin). Although allied with Yaya in petty crimes, Louise lives with her widowed father (Lou Castel), a devoted writer of fiction. After a Metro bum (Bruce Myers) tells her of his desire to see his young son, she plucks the kid, Gaby (Antoine de Merle), right out of school, making him the newest rookie recruited into their subway gang. Shoplifting in a department store, the young toughs escape the store's security guards by hiding in the ballet rehearsal rooms of the nearby opera. But does Louise really belong with the subway toughs, or is she just pretending? When she's arrested, Louise is forced to reexamine her lifestyle.

Oulage has it all planned: New Year's eve, at the stroke of midnight, he'll finally kiss Brigitte, the girl he's madly in love with. That'll be the moment, because Brigitte is having a costume party. Oulage has it all planned—except for the fact that Brigitte has also invited a gang of truly parasitical friends: an old girl friend who never leaves Brigitte's side, a manic-depressive police officer, a paranoid psychopath, a cannabis-addict suffering withdrawal pains, a stunning Cuban woman on the prowl for immigration papers, and many others who do everything to ruin Oulage's life.

Молодой таксист Даниэль помешан на быстрой езде. Как ураган проносится он по извилистым улицам Марселя на своем мощном ревущем звере «Пежо», пугая пассажиров и прохожих. Неподкупный полицейский Эмильен вынуждает его помочь в поимке банды грабителей, ускользающих от полиции на своих неуловимых «Мерседесах». И до самого конца не ясно, кто же сможет удержаться на крутом вираже…

The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do not have enough cash to go somewhere else. The last shelter for those who hang around at night. These shadows walking silently along the streets, selling their poor body heat for a few crumpled banknotes, swallow and digested by their voracious thirst for a cheap high. Enough to forget for a while the distress of a ruined life and to dream of a more rejoicing elsewhere. Nathalie and her brother Tof struggle against this futureless world. Pierre, a shoe-repairer, troubled by Nathalie's grace will take part for a while to the life of these two children of misery.

В этом фильме сталкиваются поэтическое и политическое, вечное и актуальное. Главная тема — ангажированность искусства, каковы его истоки и каково его действие. Фильм состоит из 4-х эпизодов, показывающих «человека искусства» в острых ситуациях современного мира, раздираемого социальными и политическими катаклизмами.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang learns to paint and takes art classes at the Shanghai Art Institute, until it is closed for painting nudes. Because she cannot bear him a son, Yu-liang leaves Pan to his first wife, and studies art in Paris, where she wins an award for a nude self-portrait. She returns to join Pan in Nanking in the 1930's, and becomes a Professor until it is discovered that she came from a brothel. She returns to Paris to live the rest of her life there, and finally gains a major exhibition of her work.