France

In this show designed and choreographed by Bartabas and Ko Murobushi, the two artists share the stage with four horses and with the imaginary bestiary of French poet Comte de Lautréamont.Read More »

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A primitive and epic film, “The Wild Frontier” tells how this new-born city in full growth, where nearly seventy-eight hundred people lived, was demolished by 50% in February 2016. How four thousand migrants expelled from the South zone tried to rise from the ashes in the North zone, until the government decided to wreck the entire zone in October 2016 and to scatter these eleven thousand residents to the four corners of France.Read More »

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Lovely granny in Paris, potted string bean plant with a tender devotion akin to love and plants it in a row of blossoming white shrubs in the Tuileries Garden in Paris.Read More »

It’s early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband’s death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a neighbour that she has always desired yet never vanquished will give Agathe the strength to get her life back on track…Read More »

A short film set in the mountainous province of Svaneti, documents the performance of polyphonic men’s funerary laments common to the region.Read More »

The plot revolves around a brother and sister, who are staying with their aunt and uncle. There world is forever changed when a Cambodian boy comes to stay with them until he is able to be placed with a family permanently. The trio quickly become friends and daily they venture off into the woods near their home. One day they meet a crippled man who used to be a railroad engineer. They get this man to help them restore and teach them how to drive an abandon train they discover in the woods. The trio plan to take the train to Cambodia, so Hoang their Cambodian friend can reunite with his mother.Read More »

In the streets of Paris, men and women walk, meet, discuss, avoid each other in the midst of eager traffic.
A film composed with the rushes of Joli Mai unused today destroyed.Read More »

Voice Over :
Féodor Atkine

Slide show on Raphael’s drawings, produced for the Grand Palais.

A film that begins with: “The Madonnas of the Comberian period still have a very Peruginesque layout” can only belong on this blog, and so much the worse if it is an improbable film without credits and practically without trace. An order that didn’t come through? Notes for a future film? A personal exercise? We don’t really know. In any case, here is our Rohmer in ecstasy in front of Raphael’s sketches, filming them head-on in an attempt to bring out their construction, evolution and beauty. A Jesus on his stomach, then standing up, and our guy is as excited as a flea, which translates into a sepulchral tone of voice (ah this Limousin accent!) and an array of learned words and old-fashioned expressions.Read More »

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‘Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario’s lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves…’
– Guy BellingerRead More »