Lucile Chaufour

East Punk Memories

Lucile Chaufour

In the late 80's, the filmmaker shot with a group of punks who were struggling with the communist regime. 20 years later, she comes back and asks them how do they see life in Hungary before and after the fall of the Berlin wall? Their testimonies help us understand how the market economy has put the Hungarian population in an ambivalent situation. With a liberal left-wing dismantling the socialist heritage and a social right-wing reverting to nationalism, the traditional line between the Right and the Left has been blurred. What remains is an ideological confusion that we all have to face.

Violent Days

Lucile Chaufour

Frédéric Beltran, Lucile Chaufour

A group of pals are united by their love of Fifties rock’n’roll, the fact that they’re working class and the outsider status this confers upon them. This weekend, the group, accompanied by the girlfriend of one of their members, and more or less their scapegoat, has decided to head to Havre for a concert. The whole rockabilly community is there. As they hang out, beer flows and fights erupt. And so the night passes.

Léone, mère & fils

Lucile Chaufour, Lucile Chaufour

Léone, the owner of a bar-restaurant in a Parisian suburb, is a wise cracking ogres who swings her impressive figure between tables of regulars. All curves, peroxide hair and quickfire repartee, Léone is a woman in a men's world where her word is law. Among them is her son, Patrick, who is still a child and only has eyes for her.