Guy Gilles

During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers…Read More »

Guy Gilles’ view of Mexico focuses mainly on the dreams of ordinary Mexicans and their ways of expression: fun and festivity.Read More »

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From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust.

Made for French television on the occasion of Marcel Proust’s centenary.

Guy Gilles’ film freely intersperses documentary language with fiction, embodied in the figure of a visitor in search of the places and faces that Proust loved, from the Illiers-Combray of his childhood to the longed-for Venice that he never got to know.

With the participation of Patrick Jouané, Céleste Albaret, Pierre Larcher
and the voice of Emmanuelle Riva

Collaboration: Jean-Pierre Desfosse, Philippe Rousselot, Gérard Alary, Denise Baby, Prosper Seban.

ORTF production
, Roger Stéphane (broadcast June 17, 1971)Read More »

mk2 (a bit revised) wrote:
Jeanne and Jean, a sensitive young man, have one last rendez-vous at the “Pan Coupé”, the little café where they always meet. A few weeks later Jean flees, disappears… Jeanne confides in her friend Pierre and his father. They all begin an investigation of their own into the young man’s disappearance. Disillusionment, poetry and dark romanticism combine to create a compelling film in urgent need of rediscovery.Read More »