French

PLOT: In 1905, French seminarian Bruno Reidel is found guilty of murdering a child. At the request of the doctors observing him, he writes his memoirs to explain his action.Read More »

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Last meeting with Jean-Luc Godard. This documentary shows the filmmaker in preparation for “Scénario”, his unfinished testamentary film, before closing with a moving scene: the final appearance of a genius driven to the very end by his love of cinema.Read More »

In 1941, the writers Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet fled the Nazi-occupied zone of France, arriving in Nice. There they met and befriended Henri Matisse. Aragon resolved to write a book about the grat painter, but it wasn’t until 1970, just after Elsa’s death, that he finally completed “Henri Matisse, roman”.Read More »

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The story unfolds in Monaco, which is paradise on earth for a post-reality-TV generation who have grown up fantasising over a privileged lifestyle, with its promises of infinite pleasures. But what hides within these lofty towers, and behind the tinted saloon car windows and villa gates?Read More »

PLOT: Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend’s villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by Picasso), and we are given an extensive tour of the artwork. Cocteau also shows us several dozen paintings as well. Most cover mythological themes, of course. He also proudly shows paintings by Edouard Dermithe and Jean Marais and plays around his own home in Villefranche.Read More »

In 1933, two bold and visionary directors dared to make a film that eclipsed everything that had gone before. When King Kong was released, the Hollywood film was celebrated as an artistic and technical revolution and became the first myth created by the young artform of cinema.Read More »

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A young boy moves with his mother in a new neighborhood: a social housing in the subburbs of Paris (Bagnolet, where Brisseau was once teaching litterature and shot all his first films). He meets a mysterious classmate.Read More »

Second feature film in Jean-Claude Brisseau’s career, shot in Super 8 and starring himself and the actress María Luisa García.Read More »

Les équilibristes, a film by Nico Papatakis with Michel Piccoli, inspired by Jean Genet, was broadcast in two parts on October 11 and 18, 1991, on La Sept. It was on this occasion that Philippe Grandrieux made this short film for the antenna of La Sept, consisting of an interview with Nico Papatakis and the reading of extracts from Jean Genet’s text, “Le tightrope walker”, read by the actress Ann-Gisel Glass.Read More »