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In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father has died in Florida. Robert and his son Maxime, travel to Florida for the funeral and then set out from Dixie with his late father's car for the return trip to Montreal.
These are two diaries (filmed) from the holidays at the foot of the cliffs of Etretat, which served as a style exercise for me.
One afternoon in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 18-year-old Philippe meets 16-year-old Frédéric. Their eyes meet, they talk and decide to spend a sensemble weekend in Deauville. But it's not that easy to get to know each other. From surprises to concessions, this weekend teaches them how difficult it is to understand each other and not waste the pleasures that come our way; and that sometimes, at the end of the day, we'd like to do the trip all over again, in reverse.
From the film cycle "Exposing the Text"
This video suggests a dialogue between two buildings : on one side, the empty wall of 212, rue du Faubourg, and on the other, the view from a work room. A busy neighbour, a woman, accentuates the passage of time and the sound relates the presence/existence of a world outside the frame.
Until his death in 1994, the twentiethcentury master Paul Delvaux was the last surviving member of the first generation of surrealist painters. In this portrait, he reminisces about his family, himself, his art and the various phases of his career. He explains that all his visual ideas are derived from childhood memories and the film shows the way in which these scenes have been incorporated into his work. The painter is seen as a young man (the earliest footage dates from 1945) and the film includes some unique shots of the extraordinary Musée Spitzner.
Three penniless Parisians dream of the U.S.: Abdenour has fallen in love with a tourist, Alain ("Mozart") loves jazz, and Karim wants to escape his father. Through trickery, they manage to fly to the United States. Abdenour finds the tourist but that ends quickly. So they head for Bâton Rouge to seek their fortunes. While Mozart pursues a touring jazz singer, the others work at a fast-food restaurant. When immigration arrests Abdenour and Karim and sends them back to Paris, Mozart stays with his lady love. The two in France then hatch a plan to start their own restaurant, a venture that must succeed so that Abdenour can rescue his little brother, Bruno, from foster care.
In a country bar, Mario, a regular, spontaneously decides to integrate his stunt routine into the nude dancer's performance, which leads to a quasi-orgy. After things have calmmed down, Mario's girlfriend confronts him to what he considers to be his true calling: a double career as stuntman and upholsterer.
Three couples—each made up of a man named Roger and a woman named Jeanne—are close friends who plan a convivial dinner gathering. In a humorous twist, the wives unexpectedly fail to appear, leaving the three Rogers to navigate the evening on their own. As they share a meal, the absence of their partners sparks a series of reflective and witty conversations where memories, philosophies on love, life, and death, and existential musings take center stage, transforming an ordinary night into an intimate exploration of friendship and the human condition.
In an institution for deaf pupils, two girls talk about love and their interest in boys.
The film tells the story of a young man (eldest son of a chief) and a young woman (daughter of another chief) who fall in love with each other.
At night, Kamel plays a game of bingo in the streets of Paris. In the morning, he goes home to sleep with his family in the suburbs. The sudden departure of his sick mother to Algeria takes him away from his father. His father loses money gambling while his son is having a love affair elsewhere. They will never see each other again.
Following a nuclear attack on Paris, one of the Notre Dame gargoyles comes to life.
Carole Roussopoulos shoots the life of under-priviledged families living on a model estate at Herblay (Val d’Oise), where volunteers of the ATD Fourth World movement also live with their families.
André arrives in a city he doesn't know. He only has the address of a young woman in his pocket: Adèle Frelon, but he will never manage to see her.
A mentally deficient man spends New Year's Eve in front of the television in his dingy rooming house, in the company of his landlord. The two spend the evening drinking and watching a ten-year summary of global catastrophes before the ominous programming is capped-off with well wishes for the New Year.
A small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking great care not to get involved.
Ruthless lawyer Claude Landot thinks he hit the jackpot when he meets sweet and shy Anna Bellecour : in spite of her humble life, he finds out that she's bound to get a huge heritage. After seducing her and having her falling madly in love with him, he soon discovers that there will be no money in the end... His behavior towards Anna then radically changes, leaving her totally helpless, on the brink of suicide.
In the apartment of Benjamin Baltimore, cinema poster designer, we discover the universe of the early 80's in Paris.
The camera, mounted on top of a wheeled cart, travels through the rooms of the Magasin in Grenoble during an exhibition by Jean-Pierre Bertrand. Special lighting differs from the exhibition. It moves through the space in a labyrinthine path.
Silent and unusual walk in the abandoned villa, before its restoration, of the Viscount of Noailles, built in Hyères in 1923 by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. Snomers appear and disappear as if by enchantment: they are the characters of a film improvised by Man Ray in 1929, The Mysteries of the Château du Dé.
A documentary about tiger-shooting in Sumatra.
From pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed (in the Polish fashion), also called in yiddish (Gefilte Fish) is a traditional dish eaten by Ashkenazi Jews. It is cooked, sweetened and served as a cold dish at the start of the meal. The head is reserved for the head of the family. The film, set in Brussels, on the day of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), aims to show the culinary preparation together with the accompanying prayers and ritual. It focuses particularly on the sacrifice of the fish and on the issue of mass extermination.
In this dated, existential drama, Eva is a young and bored woman whose life never varies from day to day as she moves from home to work and back, against a constant backdrop of media commercials and ads for the 1981 presidential campaign. The continual barrage of repetitive propaganda makes her already banal existence that much worse. Although the film is competent and Eva well-interpreted, the telling of this tale needs a bit more inventiveness to sustain interest in a life that is supposed to be boring.
Such diverse modes of expression as dance, music, poetic narration and images drawn directly on film combine to tell the story of a letter and the joy it carries to its destination. In French, with English sub-titles.
In Adieu bipède (1987), Hébert turned to performance, using the scratching technique for the scenes with dancing and music. He used the same technique in La Lettre d'amour (1988).
A man with a mysterious past befriends someone.
Life aboard the Santik Du, a longliner from Saint-Guénolé, which, with its five crew members and a dog, sails down to the Azores in search of albacore tuna.
Appearance is of great importance to the Bororo, to the Wadaabe in particular. After the rainy season, the Wadaabe hold a gerewole at the home of a rich herdsman. This is a contest of beauty, dancing and elegance for the young men, who dance for four days and nights on end.
Meanderings through a city and associations between sequences of animals enclosed in zoos and their depiction in furniture and objects. Notes on language customs, confinement, abnormal behaviour, nostalgia for savagery, a museum of natural history and male-female relations. Filmed in Super 8 and video, this tape was produced after the famous case of a Japanese cannibal that rocked the Parisian media.
Harry is a television journalist crossing Canada by train to a family event in Newfoundland. While travelling, the journalist is making a documentary about Canada and reassessing his life in response to a friend’s suicide. - http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/william-d-macgillivray
A film about the rebellion that took place in the French department of Ariège from 1829 to 1832, and continued in a less intense fashion until 1872.
Bruno Tessier, a wise executive, was on his way to join his wife and children on vacation on the Côte d'Azur when a hitchhiker forced her presence on him.
A summer landscape in the south of France. Eleven boys seek pleasure through performing pagan rituals.
October 1980, Jacques is preparing to spend his last night as a civilian before being called up for the Algerian War. When he wakes up, the young man realizes he has missed his train and finds himself a deserter against his will. What follows are 48 hours locked in his maid's room, 48 hours during which he meets Elie, a young activist.
A mother's visit to a psychoanalyst who does not belong to the human race. Issues of incest and racial intolerance.
At the "Hôtel des pêcheurs," men gather to participate in a fishing competition. Everything suggests that they have been more drawn to the enchanting song of Antoinette, the pretty guest staying in room number three. Pascal, a forty-something man with a troubled personality, fantasizes about this siren, whom he would like to catch in his nets.
I started from the assumption that the discourse about the hospital could be the objective pretext for communication between two people, the link that allows them to continue writing to each other, the intermediary between two desires.
An eccentric, poor young couple who constantly lives in a dream world, desperately trying to make their existence feel like an adventure movie.
Patrick, who has had diabetes for 25 years and is treated with insulin, is gradually losing his sight. He has agreed to laser treatment as the only alternative to total blindness, a treatment that destroys almost the entire retina, leaving only central vision. For three years, the director followed him in his daily life, walking towards darkness, where he learns day by day to touch, listen, guess, feel, and resist. The camera narrows its field of view over time to "see" as Patrick does.
Sandra, a schoolteacher, would like to control every moment of a life she finds too banal. Even if she seems to have found an ideal in love, she takes two lovers, in the person of Pierre, ordinary but in love, and of Blaise a splendid black photographer.
New quick montage based on the colors of white, red, and yellow objects encountered on my way, scenes from a snow day covered in red felt: we find the team of cameramen from GOVERNMENT CENTER and a view of the painting studio, with a close-up of the head of a painting of a nude, which alternates with the white tarpaulin flying into the blue sky. I was having fun pretending I was using a machine gun.