French

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Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love.Read More »

A haunting, minimalist short that mostly consists of a monologue to camera by the young Rosalie, on trial for the murder of her new-born infant.Read More »

Summary:
Three sisters visiting their uncle in his island home, find themselves alone with the late uncle’s manservant. Their relations reveal a dark side in all of them, and gender, racial, and class tensions that lead to situations of humiliation, domination and sex, and death.Read More »

Synopsis:
A traveller arrives at a sprawling abandoned mansion and begins to feel an uncanny presence.Read More »

“Since a long time I have been linked to the painter Georges de La Tour. His paintings helped me in making my films. Even more, in a precise way they crossed my personal life. The film I shot about La Tour is about that : an intimate emotion followed by the love for the works of La Tour. […] Georges de La Tour’s paintings (it remains 30) are fixed images gifted of a rare radiation and density in the history of human labour. It happens that me, a film-maker, with my movement of twenty four images per second, I am a little jealous of this completion.” (Alain Cavalier) Read More »

The fifty years old Jean-Claude has a boring life, working in a notary office of his own and as court official evicting tenants or seizing properties, or spending the Sundays afternoons in the retirement home with his sour, rude and bitter father. When he has a minor heart problem, his doctor advises him to exercise, and Jean-Claude begins to have tango lessons in a studio in front of his office…Read More »

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In 1986, the Cinémathèque française celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Throughout the year, filmmakers and personalities from the world of cinema (from Bette Davis to Wim Wenders, from Elia Kazan to Nagisa Ōshima, from Claude Chabrol to Werner Schroeter…) took turns in the legendary hall of the Palais de Chaillot to show and talk about their films.
In 2023, twelve of these filmed interviews were rediscovered in the form of rushes on Betacam cassettes. Historic and never-before-seen, they will be presented on HENRI over the course of the 2023-2024 season.Read More »

Constructed like an animated painting in a single fixed shot where light, voice, music and movements interfere.Read More »

Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).

A Reading of Absis’ Text by Marguerite DurasRead More »