Alain Bergala

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living

Fergus Daly, Pat Collins

Abbas Kiarostami, Mohammad Atebbai

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's themes and methods. The director also profiles Kiarostami as a poet and a photographer.

Kurosawa, au dos des images

Jean-Pierre Limosin, Alain Bergala

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Alain Bergala and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired 18 March 2018.

Il était une fois... Le mépris

Antoine de Gaudemar

Brigitte Bardot, Alain Bergala

Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment on it and its tumultuous production. Featuring interviews with: Jacques Rozier, Alain Bergala, Michel Piccoli, Charles Bitsch.

Le Concours

Claire Simon

Alain Bergala, Xanaë Bove

An all-access tour behind the scenes at France’s premiere film school, La Fémis. Showing us how successful candidates get to follow in the footsteps of such luminaries as Louis Malle, François Ozon and Alain Resnais, all of whom attended this prestigious institution. Stumbling over their words, the often-nervous candidates seem vulnerable when confronted with the veterans of the industry, who have the difficult task of discovering true talent among all these eager young people.

Pasolini, la passion de Rome

Alain Bergala

For Pasolini, Rome is neither just a simple setting or a place to live. Rome had a physical, carnal and passionate existence for the man and the poet.

Brunes et Blondes

Alain Bergala

Arielle Dombasle, Nastassja Kinski

Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with erotic, social, and historical meanings. In a bold and unexpected way, the film revisits this ultimate symbol of femininity in international cinema.

Faux fuyants

Jean-Pierre Limosin, Alain Bergala

Olivier Perrier, Genevieve Brunet

After committing a hit and run, a man insinuates himself into the lives of the victim's family.

Chaplin Today: The Kid

Alain Bergala

Amir Abbas, Reza Hachemi

This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004.

Où que tu sois

Alain Bergala

Serge Maggiani, Mireille Perrier

Emmanuel, 37, lives in Paris with his wife, Irene, and his daughter Anne, 14 years old. He accidentally discovers that Irene is receiving mail in the remaining mail. She refuses to follow Emmanuel to Italy where he has to write a biography of Filippo Lippi. Distraught, Emmanuel decided to leave immediately for Florence.

Incognito

Alain Bergala

Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Arielle Dombasle

An almost blind writer moves to a hidden property in an Alpine village with a female friend, Renata. The two play sado-masochistic games including long recitals of elaborate texts. A neighbor, Serge, gets interested in the mysterious couple.

Cinématon XXXVI

Gérard Courant

Alain Bergala, Angeline Neveu

Reel 36 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Du coq à l'âne : Des mains et des objets

Anne Huet

Agnès Varda, Alain Bergala

In a survey of Agnès Varda's work in short films, the director has a conversation with Anne Huet and Alain Berlaga.

Le Temps d'un détour. Marseille au XIXe siècle

Alain Bergala

Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours

Alain Bergala

Víctor Erice

Bergala makes Erice wander about (DV in hand) between Madrid and Paris remembering those primeval scenes in his education as a filmmaker, retrieving places more alive than ever in his cinéphile memory. Paris-Madrid, allers-retours fuses genealogy & elegy, diving into the roots of Erice’s oeuvre.