French

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In 1961, Noël is a French soldier in the Algerian war. His comrades, formerly opposed to the war, now oppress civilians, kill and torture. To stay faithful to his pacifist values, he will do something radical.Read More »

The young actress Galai is hired by his friend and director Hamdias to interpret a film denouncing the torture of suspected terrorists during the war of Algeria. The woman, using audio recordings made during the torture, practices the worst violence on herself to make her own interpretation as realistic as possible, to confuse reality with fiction. Galai, as the character she plays, is a part, along with her lover, a subversive movement. In an attempt to rejoin Hamdias is forced to flee an exhausting marked by humiliation and betrayal that ends in an unpredictable finish.Read More »

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A man leaves his bourgeois comfort and wife for a life of adventure and for a girl involved in smuggling, leaves his name Ferdinand for a nickname, Pierrot, leaves his boredom for crazy love, society Paris for “wild” France… to eventually tune himself up with his visions and ideals.Read More »

A girl asks her father: “Daddy, why don’t you make films for children?” The filmic answer is a playful, free and personal film in the form of a letter, a film interwoven with a thousand stories, knit together with different textures, a book of images allowing a filmmaker to elaborate his view on cinema and to show the images and the stories he wants to share.Read More »

Summary
One rainy night, a stranger arrives in a nondescript seaside town and checks into a cheap hotel. All that is known about him is his name – Pierre – and everyone he meets is suspicious of him. He appears to know the area well; he looks to be in good health. But why is he here? Why is he so sad? The answers emerge when another man appears on the scene, an acquaintance of Pierre who knows the crime that he has committed and who intends to use the information to his own advantage…Read More »

Description: Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who’s blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone’s favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he’s separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul’s friendship and in Vincent’s health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François’s wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who’s like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?

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Carl’s life is reduced to two things: receiving lows and, despite everything, persists in carrying out a “normal” existence.
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A young man goes shopping with his mother after a tumultuous night out. The conversation taking place on route is filled with uncomfortable dialogue between two generations.Read More »

Portrait de l’écrivain Albert CAMUS à travers des témoignages de ses confrères, de ses familiers et de ses compagnons de résistance : Louis Guilloux, Jean Pelegri, Mouloud Mammeri, Edmond Charlot, Jacqueline Bernard, Jules Roy, Jean Daniel, Francis Jeanson, Suzanne Agnelli . La vie de l’auteur est retracée et les principaux thèmes de son oeuvre sont évoqués : la Méditerranée et l’amour de la nature, le divorce entre l’homme et le monde, la révolte contre l’oppression et la revendication de liberté. Lecture de réflexions de Camus sur l’art du comédien par Catherine Sellers, extraits répétition des “Justes” par Ludmilla Mikaël, Yves Fabrice, Niels Arestrup.Read More »