"I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you", said Paul Cézanne. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze considered Cézanne Straub's teacher. Fifteen years after the extraordinary Cézanneìs death, the painter is the main subject of the movie in which he lives again through the words of the young poet Joachim Gasquet during a visit at Louvre. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniè...
Cherbourg, 1957. Geneviève Emery, whose mother sells umbrellas at her at a tiny boutique, loves Guy Foucher, a young mechanic who lives with his sickly aunt. When Guy leaves to become a soldier in the Algerian war, Geneviève finds out to be pregnant and decides to marry the wealthy Roland Cassard. Demy tells about an impossible love story which takes place in a port city ...
Joan of Arc's trial for heresy. Joan is interrogated by the French Clerical Court. Her judges try to make her say something that will discredit her claim, but she remains steadfast. When she is threatened with burning at the stake, she finally breaks and allows a priest to guide her hand in signing a confession, but after realizing that she has been unfaithful to God, she de...
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...
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.
Going back to the beaches that have left a mark in her life, Agnès Varda invents, with Les plages d'Agnès a sort of "self-documentary collage". Combining parts of her movies, images and reportage, she tells us, with a sincere and playful approach, about the beginnings of her career, first as a photographer for the theatre and then as a movie direc...
Chronicles of the transformations of a piece of Marseille during the urban renovation plan that took place between 2007 and 2009. Some people moved away, some other arrived, some decided to stay or to resist, some decided to demolish, some other to build, some decided to keep living as nothing had happened. The director follows the changes, sometimes unexpected, to be able ...
In a suspended, dreamlike space, symbolic elements and characters made out of baling wire and colored with tempera run after each other, frame after frame. A firstborn and his newborn brother in the eternal fight for survival which usually begins when the newborn arrives and everything changes.
François porta la fidanzata Catherine e un gruppo di amici sull’isola Les Sanguinaires, per passare il capodanno del 2000 lontano dal caos dei festeggiamenti. Ma l’isolamento dal mondo fa degenerare i rapporti all’interno del gruppo e la confusione per la fine del millennio sembrerà poco a confronto con la violenza dell'isola.
Bernard and Mathilde are good neighbors, but he avoids meeting her. Seven years before, they were lovers and now they are both married. Passion will rekindle again and the tragedy is behind the corner. A movie about unforgotten loves and bourgeois treasons, with an extraordinary Fanny Ardant.
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. was realized during the shootings of the monumental documentary Shoah. In Shoah nobody of the main Jewish characters had given testimony for Sobibor, one of only two successful uprisings at a Nazi extermination camp during the Second World War, a revolt that Lanzman defines " Jewish people's recover of their strength and violence". The rec...
On the day of his marriage, Julie's husband gets killed for fun by a group of friends. After an attempt of killing herself, Julie decides to take revenge, killing all the five men. Julie reminds of Tarantino's bride of Kill Bill. For both of them, revenge is a dish best served cold.
n Macao, Mr. Clay, a wealthy old merchant, with the idea of showing that money is more powerful than any other phantasy, wants to make a legendary tale come true. The story tells about a rich old man who offers a sailor some money to impregnate his wife. "I don't like pretense… - Clay says - I like facts. If this tale has never happened, I will make it true". Orson Welles' f...
The clerk Joseph K. wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system, but since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to e...
Djamel, a twenty years old French young man of arab heritage, gets fired form his job and moves to Grenoble where he finds a job as a courier. He makes new friends and seduces the secretary of the company where he works. He tries to settle down and starts following and spying the owner of the courier company because he is sure to be his son.
The film, a montage comprising images of Cézanne's paintings, pictures of him at work and a conversation between the painter and a young admirer named Joachim Gasquet, offers a suggesting view on Cézanne's painting. It also includes film scenes from both Jean Renoir's "Madame Bovary" and the Straubs' "The Death of Empedocles".
Diary of Solange, director. Chronicle of her sentimental life, of her life with her husband, with whom she lives and makes love occasionally, of her relationship with Jim, a bisexual man, who is at times adventurous mate and at other times distant critic. A story of love experiences, two or three per night, hoping to happen to find the perfect lover.
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress, Lena, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal with Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido...
Two fortyish men who haven't seen each other for two decades bump into each other one grey afternoon in the Place de la Bastille. Joseph has been just fired from the typography where he worked, while Alexandre, who dreamt to become a writer, ended up writing investigative reports as a pen pusher. On top of that, libido is decreasing, and they share the impression that nobody...
