Jean-Claude Biette

A “three-person relationship” with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.Read More »

The story of two brothers and an essay writer who’s become a theater comedian, switching between dream and reality — knowing that dream is always closer to reality…Read More »

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Une jeune fille doit interpréter le role d’Ophelie du “Hamlet” de Shakespeare dans le théâtre d’un metteur en scène américain quelque peu oublie. Quelque temps auparavant elle est sauvée in extremis lors de l’accident d’une centrale nucléaire. Mais Ophelie est malade. Robert son frère veut la soigner avec un drôle de champignon découvert par Marie au moment de l’accident. Pour Jean-Paul Civeyrac, étudiants de la Femis, “le vrai sujet du film est la possibilité compromise d’inventer une histoire, de faire un projet d’existence alors que le monde peut se détruire”.Read More »

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The Saltim Brothers: younger Frédéric runs the family bank, while older brother Bruno turned down the executive position in exchange for financing a theater. Between them and among them, various characters navigate. The brothers each try to control their elegant niece Vanessa’s future. Café owners Eve and Jim complicate matters with their lies and betrayals, and a strange exiled stage director arrives. The lack of money reveals everyone’s true colors on- and offstage.Read More »

Writer-director Jean-Claude Biette’s 1982 French comedy drama Loin de Manhattan is intriguing and densely scripted, with playful performances and teasing results. It stars Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Howard Vernon, and Laura Betti. In Biette’s complex screenplay, Christian (Jean-Christophe Bouvet), the employee of a Paris art gallery, gets the help of his friend Ingrid (Sonia Saviange) to try to solve the mystery of why famous painter René Dimanche (Howard Vernon) did not produce a single painting in eight years.Read More »

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The life of Arthur, a professor living in Paris, changes when Frank comes to live on the same floor of the building where he is residing.Read More »