Liliane Dreyfus
1937 - 2018
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Claude Ventura, Xavier Villetard
Richard Balducci, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Des femmes disparaissent
Édouard Molinaro
Robert Hossein, Magali Noël
Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy Bellinger
The Road to Shame
