French

After Rémi’s infidelity, Lila has a hard time dealing with their break-up. One day, he announces that he will travel alone to Bolivia to try to understand his mistakes.Read More »

One evening, Ana kidnaps a newborn child in a maternity ward. A few days later, her partner Julien returns from the army to meet the baby he believes is his daughter.Read More »

Sophie excels at academics. She leaves the family farm to attend a scientific prep class, but when faced with new challenges, she discovers that her desire of attending the Polytechnique is a genuine struggle of social ascent.Read More »

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A city with its problems. A gang of abandoned children provide for themselves and pose as heroes. The police are on their backs day and night. They are enterprising, energetic, and full of fresh vitality. Despite the fact they are rejected by their parents and ignored by the world, they form among themselves a powerful example of solidarity. Ablakon is something of a different order. He is an adult delinquent and a swindler. Posing as a businessman, he has deceived a countless number of people. When he and his accomplice return to the village, his extravagant behaviour is mistaken for a sign of success. Following his example many young people leave for the city. But they will soon understand their mistake…Read More »

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It’s damned hot. Streets are oddly empty. Palms are suffering and shot guns crying. Joshua wants to die but doesn’t want to leave his brother Mael alone. Meanwhile he meets with a gang: the Icebergs.Read More »

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While some other mid-20th-century directors were pursuing the chimera of “total cinema,” Jean Cocteau was chasing down the dream of a “total art.” But if “total cinema” meant capturing on screen the actual world as it really was, Cocteau’s “total art” meant giving form, instead, to the otherwise impalpable worlds of desire and dream. Both quests were fundamentally unrealistic, but Cocteau embraced this truth in ways both joyously inventive and technically rigorous.Read More »

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An old man tells his grandson who has come to visit him for the holidays some local folk tales, from quite old ones to recent ones, dealing more or less with possession, ingenuity and insanity. One may think of Boccace.Read More »

Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.Read More »

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Jean Cocteau died on October 11, 1963, the same exact day that his longtime friend, the French chanteuse Edith Piaf, succumbed to liver cancer not all that far away. Some have even speculated that the news of Piaf’s death was what spurred the heart attack that claimed Cocteau, a beautiful, if melancholic coincidence, if we are to put our full faith into what’s ostensibly rumor, seeing as the famed poet, theater director, and filmmaker often remarked that he was more scared of the deaths of his loved ones than he was of his own inevitable demise.Read More »