Virgil Vernier

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Started with Flics and then Commissariat, Virgil Vernier continues here his exploration of our passions. Manifest of his obstinacy of observer and moralist, the exergue here, borrowed from La Bruyère: “The city is divided into various societies, which are like so many small republics, which have their laws, their uses, their jargon, and their words to laugh.” To the program of this sentence follows a fixed frame: outside night, entrance of a nightclub in Paris. A “physiognomist” is at work. He sorts, withdraws behind the silence of the verdict, sometimes argues, distributes, always generous, sentences.Read More »

“It was that morning that I left the castle. At daybreak, I left without waking anyone. All I remember then is that I came home like a sleepwalker.”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 »

Orleans in the year 2011. Joane and Sylvia are twenty. They work as dancers in a striptease club at the edge of town. In the center the annual Joan of Arc commemoration is underway. The two girls find themselves caught up in these strange festivities.Read More »

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In a Parisian suburb of Bagnolet two receptionists who work in the lobby of the titular high-rise drift from one enigmatic situation to the next going to the pool, visiting a maze-like sex club and hunting for new employment.Read More »

Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.Read More »