Claude Faraldo
1936 - 2008
Bof... Anatomie d'un livreur
Claude Faraldo
Marie Dubois, Julian Negulesco
Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.
Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
Deux lions au soleil
Claude Faraldo
Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Pierre Sentier
Paul and Rene, two men in their forties weary with life. One a widower, the other is divorced and pays alimony to his ex-wife. They live together, go on vacations together. This last vacation has been a washout and so is their return.
Two Lions in the Sun
Merci pour le geste
Claude Faraldo
A story about a man and his dog, this film is a wrought urban drama about the gritty realities of life on the street. Middle-aged Michel wanders the streets of Paris aimlessly until he happens upon an abused dog. When the police threaten to take the animal away, he reluctantly turns to his former lover who works with the city. The results prove to be disastrous for the brittle Michel.
Thanks for the Gesture
Les Fleurs du Miel
Claude Faraldo
Brigitte Fossey, Gilles Ségal
On the hill in Saint-Cloud, in a broad street bordered by residences, a delivery man is going through the back of his van. He prepares the delivery: wine, water, alcohol... After checking the order he routinely loads the crate on his shoulder and strides under his load through a small delivery gate in the wall of a garden, he rings and enters... All the action will take place in one night, a single night, in this bourgeois house in Saint-Cloud.
The Honey Flowers
The Black Angel
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Sylvie Vartan, Michel Piccoli
Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a spiderweb of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.
The Black Angel
Flagrant Désir
Claude Faraldo
Sam Waterston, Marisa Berenson
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?
Flagrant désir
Blanc de Chine
Denys Granier-Deferre
Robin Renucci, Michel Piccoli
Mathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody slaughterfest, the key to the mystery lies with the orphan girl who Mathieu helped to escape during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Now a beautiful young woman, Mathieu is reunited ten years later with the refugee, and together they attempt to solve the case. He uncovers a CIA plot that has carried over from the last days of the Vietnam War and that is related to the Paris murders.
Blanc de Chine
