Fanny Ardant

Complete TV series with adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories.Read More »

Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin’s monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.Read More »

A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.Read More »

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.Read More »

It describes the twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Under the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.Read More »

Synopsis
Ulrike Ottinger, then a young painter, lived in Paris in the 1960s. Now a film-maker, she looks back on that time, weaving memories of the Parisian life and the upheavals of the time into a cinematic poem with the city at its center.Read More »

Drama set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined.Read More »

Paris, je t’aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. The filmmakers have five minutes each; the audience must weave a single narrative out of eighteen moments. The moments are fused by transitional interstitial sequences and also via the introduction and epilogue. Each transition begins with the last shot of the previous film and ends with the first shot of the following film, extending the enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, preparing the audience for a surprise, and providing a cohesive atmosphere. There’s a reappearing mysterious character who is a witness to the Parisian life. A common theme of Paris and love fuses all.Read More »

The film discusses how to save a marriage when one is surrounded by heterosexual as well as homosexual people.

Adrien is a successful businessman but gay. To help clinch a deal with an ultra-straight banker, Alexandre, Adrien persuades his close friend, Eva, who runs a gay bistro, to pose as his wife at a dinner party. Alexandre is intrigued by Eva and pursues her on her home ground, leading others – including his wife – to think he must be secretly gay. Adrien meanwhile becomes jealous of Alexandre’s interest in Eva and does his best to prevent their nascent affair.Read More »