French

A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between.Read More »

Chloe, a young woman, is going on holidays. She entrusts her beloved cat to Madame Renée’s care. But one day Madame Renée (an old lady of the neighborhood) can not find the cat. Chloe starts searching the neighborhood… This is the pretext for the exploration of a quarter of Paris and his inhabitants.Read More »

Take a trip to A Town Called Panic, the acclaimed cult comedy phenomenon featuring Cowboy, Indian and Horse, three plastic toys sent on strange and hilarious adventures.Read More »

France, 1942. During the Nazi Occupation, the Ardennes falls in the “forbidden zone” between the German Occupied North and the Vichy governed South. Its inhabitants face starvation as movement of people and supplies into the area are strictly controlled. To save his family, Clovis risks his life crossing the boundary to get hold of potatoes which he intends to plant in a patch of unused land. Knowing that his family’s survival depends on the success of his scheme, Clovis becomes increasingly obsessed with his crop of potatoes…Read More »

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

Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won’t bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.Read More »

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An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.

In 1984 director Philip Gröning asked the Order of the Carthusians for permission to film them. He was told that it was too soon. Perhaps in ten or fifteen years. Sixteen years later came a call from “Grand Chartreuse” monastery. The time had come.

The preparations for the film lasted two years, shooting alone took one year, and post-production another two years. Twenty-one years elapsed between the first idea and the finished film.Read More »

Bernard Pivot hosts Vladimir Nabokov in his TV program Apostrophe no. 21, broadcast on May 30, 1975.
Color, 60 min.

This is a rare televised interview recorded two years before Nabokov’s death.Read More »

Living like a primate walled in solitude, Joseph, the train cleaner, goes home on a rainy night. On a sidewalk, a human form lies in blood and mud. Joseph lifts this injured body like a feather, takes it home, nurses it and “repairs” it with skillful hands. The young woman recovers her strenght and becomes the “shining part” of his poor existence. Until the day where…Read More »