French

Seven year-old boy Ernesto intrigues people around him for several reasons. Despite such a young age, he looks like a man on his 40’s and also seems a little more intelligent than any of his peers – and the latter fact is what causes him to quit school, refusing to attend it because he doesn’t want to learn the things he does not know. His family is very supportive of his actions, even though they don’t have any clue of what’s to become of him; at the same time the school headmaster and a journalist are concerned about Ernesto’s real motivations for leaving school.Read More »

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“Separation” is a tale of two… separations. First, that of Pierre and Anne. The first sign appears at the theater one evening, when she refuses to take his hand – but it’s only the first. Other signs follow, leading up to the confession : she loves another man. They talk it through and try to set things straight, to save a love which has shredded away over the years. They go through wobbly reconciliations, scenes and crises before they finally see that their affair is dead and now it’s time to turn to face the second separation – that of parents and child : Louis, aged 2. There is more wrenching, pain and resignation ahead, but the play is over and the curtain falls on a stage where nothing is left but the shadows of former happiness.Read More »

Between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic run powerful rivers called gaves. Corn fields make them thirsty, and dams block the flow of salmon. Human activity is disrupting the water cycle and the river’s biodiversity. Men and women look with curiosity and love at this fascinating world of beauty and disaster…Read More »

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Jean Eustache is filming an evening with friends here, during which actor-turned-psychoanalyst Jean-Noël Picq delivers his personal analysis of Jérôme Bosch’s painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Between this conversation between friends, cigarette and glass of wine in hand, the infernal creatures of Bosch arise, raising more questions than explanations…Read More »

Bécassine, a naive and clumsy farm girl, is hired as a nanny in a bourgeois family.Read More »

A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.Read More »

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Almost the entire hour and three-quarters of Jean Eustache’s 1971 film “Numéro Zéro” is filled with the director’s interview of his grandmother Odette Robert on Feb. 12th of that year. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production—the director himself is seated at the table with her, pours her some whiskey, speaks with the camera operator, manipulates the clapboard at the head and tail of the reels, and even takes a phone call from a foreign firm that wants to distribute one of his early short films. Odette Robert had come from her home in the provinces to live with Eustache in Paris and help care for his son Boris (who is seen, at the beginning of the film, helping guide her through the streets of Paris—she had recently had eye operations and had to wear dark lenses, including on-camera).Read More »

Two ten-year-old children, Gloria and Jacques, meet at the former’s birthday party. It is love at first sight and they vow eternal love. Unfortunately, the First World War breaks out and they are separated. The people around them do not understand the deep feelings that link them to each other. When they meet again after the war, Gloria has become a cabaret dancer whereas Jacques has married in the USA. Nothing seems possible between them any longer…Read More »

After crossing the desert in his career as an actor, Yazid finally sees the end of the tunnel emerging. Sober for six months, he wants to show his new fiancée and his 16-year-old son, Hassan, that he is now another man who has regained a taste for life. However, in a few days, the old demons resurface and with them the memories of his childhood in Algeria.Read More »