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The fact that Paula can't have children doesn't curb her desire for a child at all - then they'll be adopted. And the fact that there are other competitors for 'Lieselotte' only makes the task all the more attractive. In career-conscious times like these, competitors are there to be beaten out of the field. By any means, including criminals.
After a few months in prison, Lee, 26, is hired by Raymond who makes counterfeits with the help of a slightly disturbed accountant.
Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back to life, "by force with others"
A son is accused of involuntary manslaughter while his younger brother is put in a foster home... .
The fifties in Cuba, at the time of the "dias felices", the happy days, the American mobsters were the kings of the country, Hemingway lived there, the Hollywood stars came to hide their secrets, the number of bars and clubs rose amazingly, celebrities came to spend vacation, the business of cigars flourished, gambling was not a vice, everybody was dancing on frenzied music, while rum and cigars were flowing. At the beginning of the fifties, the huge storm that threatened Cuba was unpredictable.
“Sophie was doing a series of portraits of friends reading. I suggested to her, along with our common friend Sophie Marie Le Pallec, that we make an adaptation of Mercier and Camier set in the coach on the Fécamp/Le Havre line that passed in front of the houses where we lived.”
Film by Heiny Srour
North African performers and their families and friends reunite in a French café to watch the Scopitone videos they made in the late 1960s when they were struggling new immigrants in France.
Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Richard Marquand's The Return of The Jedi
MATAMATA AND PILIPILI reclaims an important episode in Congolese cultural history, while exploring the complex terrain of colonial relationships, media representations, and popular culture.
Anyone who has ever ventured to the "Land of the Deafs" will have been struck by the strangeness of the choreographed signs with which deaf people express themselves. Developed ages ago, these signs constitute a veritable language. As precise and subtle as speech, they are as effective as spoken language in making a declaration love or providing a detailed technical description. Jean-Claude, Jeanine, Eric, Cyril, Alain, Juliette, Guy, Aurélien and René have one thing in common - they are all profoundly deaf. So they dream, think and communicate in sign language. Which means that they see the world differently. Viewers embark with them on a discovery of the distant land of the deaf, where sight and touch assume enormous importance.
Georges Livanos, nicknamed the Greek but pure child of Marseille, amateur mountaineer, opened more than 500 routes in the Calanques, 40 in the Dolomites, and repeated many of the greatest routes in the Alps in the company of the best climbers of his time, d friends, and especially his wife Sonia. He is also the author of the classic "Beyond the vertical". This report follows for a day the legend, still 71 years old, of his apartment in the Marseille city in the Calanques. As a true Provençal, he speaks without filter of the exploits that made him famous, gives his opinion on modern climbing and on life in general: the portrait of a great climber and above all of a fascinating character with a sense of humor sharp.
The Contacts collection is an invitation to discover the artistic approach of the greatest contemporary photographers from an original angle. Through a series of images (contact sheets, proofs, prints and slides), with a commentary by the photographer, the viewer enters the secret world of their creation and is guided into the heart of the photographic creative process.
The last weekend of summer. Mother is preparing the jars for winter pickling, love-struck Françoise is practising karaoke in front of her little brother Julien. In the shed behind the house, Karim is doing some "undeclared" work, having given up on his acting dreams. In a few hours, the new canning factory, where Father works, will be inaugurated. No one is expecting Sonia, who decides to turn up that very morning.
Concert on French TV
Eleonor, a beautiful young woman, works as an artistic director in the advertising agency of her ex-husband, Michael. The latter never fully overcame their divorce and decides to hire a man, Gregoire, to seduce his ex-wife and then dump her so that she suffers as much as he did..
A trendy taxi-driver races through the streets of Dakar. His passenger is a western, blonde young lady who doesn't seem in the least interested in her surroundings. He tries to catch her attention and breaks the silence by saying: 'I can even see the wind pass by.'
"This iconoclastic film, midway between fiction and documentary, explores the "over-sacred" side of Jerusalem. A political gamble for its inhabitants, a myth for its visitors, Jerusalem remains a universal object of desire that borders on fetishism. The film takes its inspiration from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a psychiatric syndrome, officially recognised in the 19th century, and from which the pilgrims and tourists that visited the Holy City suffered. A camera visits Jerusalem looking for a new approach to show the city. In parallel a young boy wanders the streets and discovers one night a prostitute with golden breasts. The boy, as does the camera, becomes a victim of a violently feminine Jerusalem." - DAfilms
Alain and Yves Dognin, 54 year old twins, live with their parents in a dilapidated apartment that seems to have stopped in time. Alain paints brightly colored canvases while Yves listens to music. Their day is punctuated by mass, medical care and meals. Episode of "Strip-tease", a Franco-Belgian documentary TV series.
Wayne Szalinski is receiving the "Inventor of the Year Award" for his shrink ray. When attempting to demonstrate it, it goes haywire and ends up shrinking you, the audience, instead
A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.
Luc Bondy's 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in Paris. These seven performances were blessed with an all-star cast, loaded with important singers either starting their careers (Roberto Alagna) or at the height of their dramatic powers (Karita Mattila, Jose Van Dam.)
In the 60s, five young teenagers find themselves on the bangs of the school system because of their family history. They are placed in a remedial class with Monsieur Raffin, a teacher who has himself fallen from the hierarchy of the French education system.
A compilation of the most spectacular TV moments thanks to the presence and evocation of Jean-Luc Godard on the small screen. Godard's presence has never been, and never will be, anodyne or banal. The subversion of everyday television.
French documentary on the history of pin-up models.
It's New Year's Day. Antoine Garnier has decided to invite all his family and friends to dinner at his house the day after New Year's Eve. But the family being large, he is going to be overwhelmed since no less than 35 guests are expected.
“At the same time as I was helping my new friends Yves Edouard and Patrick Hébert with the harvest of 1997, there appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique: “The Fourth World War Has Begun”, a geostrategic analysis by Sub-Commander Marcos. On reading this manifesto, the idea of the film came to me.”»
Somewhere in the Drôme Valley, there is a farm where old shepherd Fernand lives with his two sons. A young woman arrives at the farm to learn the farm-work and disturbs the calm.
A film about my relationship to New York since 1962. It deals with the distance between a memory and the image of this memory, a distance one always tries to abolish. In this personal film we see the images of a city from a close distance, with autobiographic fragments on the soundtrack. The distance of recollection. The trace of this distance shapes the memory as much as the places, haunted by so many stories, so that our marks will blow up in a crash. A crash leading to a collapse in a vortex of affects.
Serge Daney (1944-1992) expressed himself strongly about the world, using the tools of a "Barthes cinema lover in early retirement" as he used to call himself. Co-writer of the book "Devant la recrudescence des vols de sacs à main", Pilippe Roger has filmed Serge Daney confronting him with four major stages in the evolution of cinema : by screening extracts from films by Chaplin, Stevens, Eustache and Truffaut, adding rhythm into this vivid and intelligent, strict but piercing documentary. Serge Daney takes risks : he rushes forward, plying between ethic and aestheticism, destruction and salvation, past and present, Europe and America, fantasy and reality, cinema and psycho-analysis, literary and technical languages, watching and showing. There's enough material here to reconsider the video.
Alba lives in Paris. She is the daughter of a Chilean who was murdered under Pinochet. On TV, she discovers the face and name of the executioner of her mother. She decides to go to Chile for revenge.
Anri Sala created the encounter between his Albanian heritage – a snapshot of the famous Studio Marubi, which had introduced photography into the Balkans as from end of the 19TH century – and a masterpiece of French art – Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe by Édouard Manet – in an incongruous juxtaposition. We can see three women in traditional costume busying themselves around a sewing machine; the view is frontal, the pose frozen, a pure “Studio Marubi” snapshot. The insertion of a detail from Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe within this image looks like an “accidental encounter” introducing colours and nudity into a very classic photo. The characters in Déjeuner are gradually “swallowed up” by the sewing machine which soon will have finished weaving a traditional dress for the naked young woman painted by Manet, making her similar to the seamstresses. In less than a minute and in a manner apparently light even poetic, Anri Sala touches on the main themes so dear to this work.
Ali, a young Algerian who carried out an attack in Algiers, hastily leaves the city to join the resistance. But he is disappointed to find that the National Liberation Army consists of only a few fighters scattered throughout the mountains. However, he is impressed by the authority of the leader, Si Tayeb, who gives him a weapon. Meanwhile, a young French sergeant, Gachon, arrives in Algeria with his contingent of conscripts. In civilian life, he is a schoolteacher, and he becomes the colonel's secretary. One night, the FLN group invades a village, the dechra of Beni Allel: waking the inhabitants, the leader gives them a propaganda speech to incite them to fight the French, then gives them weapons; He claims that all the other villages have rallied to their cause, which is false. When he finds himself in difficulty at one point, he is rescued by Ali, who saves the day with his authority and skill.
Cécile adopted Benjamin at the age of two and has managed over the years to create a harmonious balance with the young boy. She is considering marrying Marc, a divorced engineer and father of two, when she receives a call from Francis Haudrant, her son's biological father. Panicked at the idea of losing him, Cécile agrees to meet him. He tells her that Benjamin's mother died when he was two months old and that he served five years in prison before going to live in Africa. Now a suburban mechanic and about to become a father again, he feels the need to know what happened to his son.
Director Arnaud de Pallières presents an experimental three-part film designed to stimulate the intellect and inspire reflection on the past. The first part tells the story of the last living Holocaust survivor, who is nearing the end of life and regrets not leaving behind an official record of the horrors he witnessed during the dark years of World War II. Later, a young historian researching a concentration camp in Drancy is shocked to discover that the site now houses an unwelcoming housing project called La Muette (the Silent). The trilogy winds to a close with the story of a ship's captain who recalls the time he ventured up an uncharted river towards an undiscovered civilization.
Tintin and his friends go to Syldavia and join a secret space program.
Short documentary film "Les anges dans nos campagnes" by Rémi Lange, broadcast as part of the program "L'œil du cyclone" on Canal + in December 1994
Vittorio finds himself in Venezuela, where Laura his wife, enjoys happy days with the wealthy Domingo Villaverde.
Anne divides her time between her children, a 16-year-old son and twins Lili and Lolotte and her work as an editor. Her life is turned upside down by the reappearance on the scene of Arthur, one of her first loves, whom she never wanted to see again. He doesn't know that he is the father of the twins but he is determined to win Anne over. The trouble is, she is surrounded by men desperate for her hand and thinks she is in love with one of them.
This film was broadcast on La Sept in October 1990 as a part of Hélène Mochiri's Cinéma de poche program devoted to Soviet cinema. The documentary was produced in-house at La Sept and based on an exclusive interview with Alexei Guerman in May of that year. It has not been seen since.
In 1993, Sophie, a young French diplomat, disembarked from the military plane that brought her to Sarajevo. She is taken in charge by an officer of the blue helmets: the commander Michel Mercier. The day after her arrival, as she exited a school, a sniper shot children in front of the peacekeepers, who had orders not to shoot back. The wounded children were taken to hospital. Sophie devises a plan to evacuate the children, who are in constant danger of death, to France...
Vincent Lannoo, the film-maker, pitches a new TV show to a producer. The show will portray the life of 10 poor people and Vincent has already filmed some sequences for the show. One of the sequences, however, may not go over too well.
During my journey there are encounters of everyday music. My neighbour’s cello, my flatmate’s voice mixes with piano tuners. If we walk around, the Romanian Circus gipsy dances take over the street and Paris livens up with the sunny pace of a town with ocean reflections, however ignored by the local children.
Summoned into life by a god-like deity, two Easter Island statues engage in a fierce battle in outer space.