French

Synopsis
When Yuki finds out that her parents are separating and she is moving to Japan with her mother, she and her best friend Nina devise ways to reunite the feuding adults.Read More »

Making his return to the Locarno Film Festival following the 2014 Special Mention he received in the Filmmakers of the Present section for A Young Poet [+], Damien Manivel is treating the festival to a fourth film, Isadora’s Children [+], a demanding and highly personal work which he was clearly born to direct.Read More »

The peregrinations of a group of boys and girls from Paris. Two girls swap the capital for the countryside near Montpellier. One of the girls hesitates between dream world and reality.La croisée des chemins marks the start of a significant oeuvre and is a film in which reality and dream are mixed. Jean-Claude Brisseau shot this film on Super8 in 1975. Screened in Studio 43 in Paris, the film was noticed and admired by Eric Rohmer, who attached the name of his production company Les Films du Losange to several films by Brisseau: Un jeu brutal, De bruit et de fureur en Noce blanche.Read More »

A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother.Read More »

A high-class working woman can finally relax and meet all the lovers she desires throughout the weekend. She spends all her free time into lovemaking but unbeknownst to her, a man is lurking wherever she goes and recording everything she does.Read More »

An ex-racing driver (Reginald Kernan) lives in the country with his aging wife (Simone Signoret). They spend their days quarrelling and baiting each other, and making up uneasily before starting again. The new village school teacher (Alexandra Stewart) enters the scene, threatening to upset the love-hate balance of the couple.Read More »

Jean Rouch’s Nigerien collaborators travel to France to perform a reverse ethnography of late-1960’s Parisian life.Read More »

The path to radicalism of a young man from France to Syria, and back to France, where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh, is rendered purely through a series of landscape shots filmed at the locations traversed by the subject.Read More »

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The year is 2016 and fashion and standards of beauty have changed dramatically. A new rage has swept through the ranks of the young: radical facelifts. George, a young graduate who has recently had a facelift, takes advantage of his summer holidays to join up with the most respected bigshots of the area, 15 rich bullies with extreme facelifts who pass their time watching virtual sports and using superfluous technologies. After a failed attempt to give himself a facelift with a stapler, Blaise is rejected by George, his one-time childhood friend. Desparate, Blaise kidnaps a young girl so that the ransom money will buy him a proper facelift just like everyone else’s.Read More »