The movie was born from a bizarre analogy which compares social movements to clouds. Clouds appear to be all the same, but only from a distance; they change all the time, and even when they cause damage they are crucial to life on earth. In the same way, social movements put energy back into circulation; they are a response to bottled-up energies in the society at large. Gu...
Hélène, a young widow, and Jean have pledged their love to each other, but are not engaged to marry. Their love affair allows dalliances with others, but they have promised to put each other first above all others. Hélène has been warned by a friend that Jean's love for her has cooled and fears this is correct. She tricks him into confessing, by pretending her own feelings f...
Allie lives in New York and shares an apartment with a girl. At nights, he wanders adrift around deserted streets. The surrounding buildings are covered with vegetation and at distance you can hear the shower of bombs of a non specified war. After having stolen and sold again a car for 800 dollars, Allie comes back home, packs his stuff and leaves a message for his friend. ...
In the 23rd century, Commander John Adams and his crew are sent on expedition to a distant planet to investigate on the silence of the scientists living there. On arrival, they finds out that an unknown "planetary force" killed nearly everyone except doctor Morbius and his daughter, Altaira. Later on, doctor Adams finds out something he doesn't want to share with anybody e...
Antonia always want to please the other. She accepts the cumbersome presence of her mother, who, despite her age, has found a younger boyfriend. She stands her former husband, who is constantly pouring on her all his problems. She is persecuted by Caterina, who attends one of her courses for depressed housewives. The only moments when she feels at her easy are at the psychia...
After the umpteenth fight with his employer, Esse decides to move to Marseille. He talks about it to his girlfriend, steals her money and leaves. Once in Marseille, he joins a gang who robes luxurious villas and starts training in a gym. When Sylvain asks him to be Toni's brother's whore's guardian, he thinks to be at the beginning of his carrier in the organized crime.
Michel, an intellectual bourgeois, starts pickpocketing as a provocation against humanity and to feel above the law and the moral code. Stealing gives him almost an erotic pleasure and all his attempts to stop are useless. Only the love for girl will help him. The movie is full of references to Crime and Punishment and it is Bresson's fifth successful feature film.
1961. The Himori gang is in troubles since the authorities decide to close the brothel they had opened near an American naval base. To make ends meet, they start to steal, rob and intimidate. The situation gets even worse when the cashier of the gang steals all the money that was destined to the purchase of some pigs and Tetsuji, the boss, is hospitalized. The gang tears its...
A night in the life of Isaac, a jewish Russian man who survived the nazi holocaust, and Sophie, a catholic Polish woman. They are both refugees. Since thirty years they live in a garret in London, where Isaac has created a sort of maze of doors on which he has engraved and painted the symbols of their past. In this space, trapped in the history and yet in a time-free dimens...
Xiaodou, a shy young man, starts working as a postman after a colleague gets fired and arrested because he was keeping some of the mails. Pushed by the will of straighten out the society's faults, he himself will also end up doing the same and will start maneuvering the events of some people's lives, whose private affairs are now known to him.
