Farid Chopel
1952 - 2008Jane B. by Agnès V.
Agnès Varda
Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Léaud
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Il banchetto di Platone
Marco Ferreri
Lucas Belvaux, Jean Benguigui
At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.
Plato's Banquet
La Goutte d'or
Marcel Bluwal
Lilah Dadi, Farid Chopel
Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promises to send him a copy. But when nothing arrives during the next months, Idris becomes worried. His father advises him to get his "face" back or bad things may happen to him. So he sets out to Paris... and discovers Paris as a world full of strange things and weird behavior.
La Goutte d'or
La femme de mon pote
Bertrand Blier
Coluche, Isabelle Huppert
The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends. Pascal accumulates women, much to the chagrin of Micky, who is consoled of his failures by listening to his friend talk about his successes. Viviane arises, ravishing and icy, but she's seasonal. Pascal, sincerely in love, seduces her and then leaves. This is a dire situation for Micky: Pascal is far away and the beauty is so kind to him. Complications arise once Pascal returns.
My Best Friend's Girl
Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
James Wilby, Arielle Dombasle
An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
La carne
Marco Ferreri
Sergio Castellitto, Francesca Dellera
A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…
The Flesh
C'est beau une ville la nuit
Richard Bohringer
Richard Bohringer, Romane Bohringer
Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.
A City Is Beautiful at Night
Un vampire au paradis
Abdelkrim Bahloul
Bruno Cremer, Brigitte Fossey
Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic country with an obsession with death? On the other hand, why is the previously cheery Parisian teenager Nathalie Belfond throwing fits and speaking in Arabic? Her strange behavior began with the appearance of a caped and cadaverous man outside her window. Mr. & Mrs. Belfond have their hands full trying to sort this mess out, in this extremely unusual and award-winning comedy which puts a new wrinkle on the vampire mythos.
A Vampire in Paradise
Les Fauves
Jean-Louis Daniel
Daniel Auteuil, Philippe Léotard
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.
Wild Animals
Irena et les ombres
Alain Robak
Farid Chopel, Denise Virieux
Costa, a projectionist in a porno cinema, plunges into a dark story of abduction, following a phone call that was not intended for him. Is Mome Pralier dead? Has the ransom been paid? Who killed Baumgartner? What's the doc up to in his clinic? AND SURTOUT - who is Irena? - and how far will she take Costa?
Irena and the Shadows
