
Coraly Zahonero
2021Melville, le dernier samouraï
Cyril Leuthy
Laurent Grousset, Rémy Grumbach
Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming the father of the Nouvelle Vague and one of the most iconic directors of French cinema.
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Claude Sautet
Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Une nuit au Louvre : Léonard de Vinci
Pierre-Hubert Martin
Coraly Zahonero
A guided tour through the corridors of the Louvre to closely contemplate the works of Leonardo in the company of the curators of the exhibition, Vincent Delieuvin and Louis Frank.
A Night at the Louvre: Leonardo da Vinci
La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Frederick Wiseman
Jean-Pierre Miquel, Claire Vernet
La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)
La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Les trois soeurs
Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi
Laurent Stocker, Michel Vuillermoz
For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most expansively melancholy plays.
Three Sisters
Die Jahrhundertlawine
Jörg Lühdorff
Désirée Nosbusch, Vincent Perez
In the Austrian Alps have found the body of a young woman who died in a skiing accident eight years earlier. Dr. Marc Pelletier decides to return to the scene, as it is the brother of his ex-girlfriend. When he reach the ski resort, a dreadful avalanche buries all the people.
Die Jahrhundertlawine
Les rustres
Jean-Louis Benoît
Gérard Giroudon, Bruno Raffaelli
Written in 1760, Carlo Goldoni’s comedy has never been performed at the Comédie-Française, perhaps overshadowed by the famousHoliday Trilogy. A satire of the Venetian merchant class, embodied by narrow-minded, complaining and intolerant men whose mistrust of the fairer sex borders on the absurd, The Boors perfectly illustrates Goldoni’s theatre, a “theatre of life with a real content, characters observed in reality, and a natural expression.” Thus, a theatre in which the man Voltaire described as “nature’s son and painter” scrutinises his contemporaries, their relationships and their social behaviour. His work served to entertain while providing posterity with an acute testimony of the morals of his time. Indeed, Jean-Louis Benoit warns against reducing the author to a simple “photographer of reality”.
Les rustres