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When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.Read More »
A young man decides one night to leave the woman he loves. He tells him by phone. All night, he calls her. They talk about this dead love. The young man is a painter. He meets a runaway teenager who prostitutes himself to eat. Strong bonds are created between the painter and the teenager.
“Au cours de son errance nocturne à Paris, Jean se souvient de sa passion pour Stella à laquelle il vient d’annoncer la fin de leur liaison. Il rencontre Jeannot, un jeune prostitué, devant la gare de Lyon : les deux hommes se racontent leurs tourments, poursuivant ensemble leur déambulation à travers la capitale…”Read More »
Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her.Read More »
This is a retelling of Tristan and Isolde, set in 1940s France. The script was written by Jean Cocteau.Read More »
On the last day of summer in a small seaside resort town, an older woman named Louise realizes that the last train has departed without her. She finds herself alone in the town, abandoned by everyone. As the weather turns for the worse and with no one to keep her company, Louise must rely on her past to help her survive the present.Read More »
Jeff, 17, is secretly in love with Alyosha. They both admire the mysterious Blake, an old friend of the girl’s father, who invites them to spend a few days at his hunting lodge in the heart of Canada’s far north. There, in the wilderness, the two teenagers come face to face with a world of childish adults, ready to burst into flames. After Genèse, Philippe Lesage continues his romantic evocation of teenage torments and emotions by confronting them with the cruel and vain world of adults, played by Arieh Worthalter in a new role worthy of him after his César award for Le Procès Goldman.Read More »
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In this tale, the scenes are simultaneously clear and labyrinthine.
Four people, the old man, the young woman, the soldier and the player walk around an imaginary topography across continents. They escape from their everyday existence. Each one of them starts out, alone, only to meet up and form a group, which is to move along like an expedition. Suddenly they come across a clearing, a city, a desert, an ocean. They all follow the ardent desire that drove them to leave.
Through their conversations, their discussions, rejoinders, monologues and dreams, they tell the story.
One day, the old man disappears, he who had guided the group. What remains is the search and the dream of finding hem again.Read More »
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Autobiography series.
“I think about Fragments de l’ange and the sequence with Françoise and Ermina in the countryside, I ask myself how to “justify” it in the whole film and I say to myself that the text could say: “The angel leads me to… “that is, the angel is all words, it is synonymous with language. The angel is the word in the unconscious state or rather it is the voice of the conscience, voice that determines our conduct, our demand in life. The angel is the shadow, the negative of the image, the other self of the image, the deep voice of the flesh; it is a thousand arrows embedded in the frame of reality. Arrow: seam, collure”.
(Notebook 10 page 43, translated by Xochitl Camblor-Macherel)
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Lily Strasberg, a boulevard actress who triumphed in The Easter Egg as Josephine, ends the season with her 457th performance. She decides to go down to the South of France to rest and comfort Charles, her ex-brother-in-law, director of a small company that performs outdated operettas that no longer attract many people.Read More »