Michel Albertini
1953 (72 года)
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
The Public Woman
Andrzej Żuławski
Valérie Kaprisky, Francis Huster
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
The Public Woman
L'Homme voilé
Maroun Bagdadi
Bernard Giraudeau, Michel Piccoli
Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two terrorists, Claire and Kamal are violently confronted by Kamal's abandoned wife and family. The ravages of the conflict extend to those who are never participants in the battle but are among the casualties of war.
The Veiled Man
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
L'Amour braque
Andrzej Żuławski
Sophie Marceau, Tchéky Karyo
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
Mad Love
Le Trésor des Iles Chiennes
F.J. Ossang
Mapi Galán, Stéphane Ferrara
The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by the fusion of two primary substances. Ulysses, Kryo'Corp's heir, organises an expedition to the only place these substances occur.
Treasure of the Bitch Islands
L'araignée de satin
Jacques Baratier
Catherine Jourdan, Alexandra Scicluna
The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.
The Satin Spider
