Bernard Pivot
1935 (90 лет)
Maso et miso vont en bateau
Nadja Ringart, Ioana Wieder
Delphine Seyrig, Simone de Beauvoir
The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way.
Maso and Miso Go Boating
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Priscilla Pizzato
Elsa Lepoivre, Denis Podalydès
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Delphine and Carole
Callisto McNulty
Delphine Seyrig, Carole Roussopoulos
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor representation of women in the public media.
Delphine and Carole
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
Pierre Assouline
Bernard Pivot, Pierre Assouline
40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
Days of Darkness
Denys Arcand
Marc Labrèche, Sylvie Léonard
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Days of Darkness
Notre espion chez Hitler
Laurent Bergers
Damien Boisseau, Adolf Hitler
During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma encryption machine, an impossible task to accomplish without the invaluable information that Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a disenchanted but greedy German citizen, had been handing over to the French secret services since 1931.
I Betrayed Hitler
Partir, revenir
Claude Lelouch
Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
Going and Coming Back
Mitterrand et la télé
Serge Moati
Serge Moati, François Mitterrand
May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” supposedly coming upon the Champs-Élysées dressed in red, feared by some, did not march. Serge Moati takes a personal look at this episode, focusing on the relationship the president had with television, that he witnessed and played a role in.
Mitterrand et la télé
Faux et usage de faux
Laurent Heynemann
Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci
Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
La Divine Poursuite
Michel Deville
Élodie Bouchez, Antoine de Caunes
A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.
The Gods Must Be Daring
Un fil à la patte, côté cour, côté jardin
Francis Perrin
Patrice Laffont, Marie-Ange Nardi
Bois d'Enghien, engaged to a young girl from a good family, has to break up with Lucette Gautier, his mistress, a dilettante of salons. Not having been able to tell her of his break-up, he finds her at her fiancée's house, invited for the event. A Mexican general, jealous of his rivals, arrives and complicates the situation, as does a notary clerk, Bouzin, a singer in his spare time.
Un fil à la patte
