René Gilson

Juliette et l'air du temps

René Gilson

Un été à Paris

René Gilson

Against a background of music and songs by Charles Trenet, the hesitant love of Clara, a painter, and a walker, who meet on the Pont des Arts. A tribute to Trenet, a tribute to love but above all to "the city seen in its most magnificent beauty".

L'escadron Volapük

René Gilson

Juliet Berto

This somewhat talky French-language film concerns a goofy bunch of military types and involves them in encounters with a variety of late '60s radicals who spout off a bit. It is notable chiefly because it was about to be subjected to severe censorship for its political content but was saved by the incoming Culture Minister Jacques Duhamel.

Barres

Luc Moullet

Jean Abeillé, Jean-Pierre Bonneau

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.

On n'arrête pas le printemps

René Gilson

Marc Chapiteau, Jeanne Goupil

Four high school students in Paris question the education system and try to provoke a dialogue with their teachers. A portrait of the French youth after 1968.

Ma blonde, entends-tu dans la ville?

René Gilson

La brigade

René Gilson

Brigitte Fossey, Edward Wojtaszek

This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the resistance is simply a continuation of their prior activities. After the war, some of them continue to have a "resistance" mind-set. One of the stories concerns a love relationship between a Polish boy and a French girl who are thrown together because of their war efforts. After the war, they get together and reminisce.