Didier Haudepin

  • Didier Haudepin – Paco l’infaillible AKA Paco the Infallible (1979)

    Didier Haudepin1971-1980ComedyDramaFrance

    In 20’s Spain, young low-class women want to be hired as nannies by rich families. To get milk, these women ask help to young worker Paco to be pregnant. Paco, whose wife is sterile, accepts and earns money that way.Read More »

  • Didier Haudepin – Le plus bel âge… AKA Those Were the Days (1995)

    1991-2000Didier HaudepinDramaFranceRomance
    Le plus bel âge... (1995)
    Le plus bel âge… (1995)

    “A strikingly atmospheric work – intense, dark and at times extremely disturbing… ~FrenchFilms

    Synopsis:
    A few weeks into a preparatory course for entry to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, Delphine witnesses the suicide of a fellow student, Claude. Traumatised by the experience – which is made more acute by the fact that Claude spoke to her a short while before she killed herself, Delphine finds herself drawn to unravel the mystery of the tragic death. She is attracted to Claude’s charismatic boyfriend, Axel, in spite of his cruelty and extreme political views. Axel agrees to have sex with Delphine if she first manages to sleep with Claude’s brother, Bertrand, a cadet who hopes to enter the elite military academy, St. Cyr. Through Bertrand, Delphine finds out more about Claude’s life and the reason for her suicide…Read More »

  • Roger Vadim – Hellé (1972)

    Roger Vadim1971-1980DramaFranceRomance

    Synopsis
    Haute-Savoie, 1951. Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the holidays in her village…Read More »

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