Olivier Py

Carmen

Olivier Py, Vincent Massip

Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Yonghoon Lee

Live performance from the Opéra de Lyon, July 1 2012. Controversial production by Olivier Py.

Lulu

Olivier Py, François Roussillon

Patricia Petibon, Julia Juon

Live performance of Alban Berg's opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the social ascent and the demise of a deadly woman, driven by men to behave in murder, to her own. dead.

Méditerranées

Olivier Py

Dug up after twenty five years, 8 millimeter movies give rise to a meditation on the fate of a family and a generation. The Mediterranean Sea is a faction, the story of a couple, a family, which becomes confused with the story of Algeria and France in the 1960s. The glance of Olivier Py is at the same time lucid and nostalgic.

Corps inflammables

Jacques Maillot

Olivier Py, Aurelie Rusterholtz

Juliette loves Bruno, but he does not notice. Perhaps because he is mad about Corinne, and Corinne is not aware of it. She does not seem to love anybody, but she has an affair with Luc. Luc is gay, and he wonders how to tell Bruno he loves him.

When the Cat's Away

Cédric Klapisch

Garance Clavel, Zinedine Soualem

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.

Late August, Early September

Olivier Assayas

Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen

A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.

Au petit Marguery

Laurent Bénégui

Stéphane Audran, Michel Aumont

Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.

Violette

Martin Provost

Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.

75 centilitres de prière

Jacques Maillot

Alain Beigel, Eric Bonicatto

4 young people are long time friends. They have a dinner together, which will turn into a mess when they play a game which consists in writing a vow on a little piece of paper to be put into a bottle: they love each other, but they are not able to transcend their loneliness and their selfishness.

Funny Bones

Peter Chelsom

Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.

Nos vies heureuses

Jacques Maillot

Marie Payen, Cécile Richard

Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and painful life changes.

Les yeux fermés

Olivier Py

Olivier Py, Samuel Churin

Vincent and Olivier have an intense, rocky relationship: Vincent evades tenderness, just as he does desire, forcing the couple to hunt for a third partner to participate in their sexual games. Olivier has a background in the theater. He believes in, but is preoccupied by their relationship; he wants to free Vincent from the ghosts haunting him. But Vincent is locked into the past. His father, a pilot, was killed in a plane accident. Vincent’s job is a strange, uncommon one that plunges him deep into contemplation from which no one can make him budge: he deciphers plane disaster recordings. Vincent’s unconscious repression is so powerful that he hasn’t even recognized the link between his father’s death and his work. It will take the stormy encounter with Olivier for Vincent to obtain his ‘black box.’ Indeed, the two young men come to life through their connection with each other, a connection which shatters the framework of typical love stories.

Les Contes D'Hoffmann

Olivier Py, Philippe Béziat

Marc Laho, Stella Doufexis

Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand comparison with the superlative Powell and Pressburger film (whose ideas it occasionally borrows). Olivier Py's baroque imagination, which sometimes leads him into self-indulgence and incoherence, is well suited to bringing out this opera's darkness and he does an excellent job

Le bruit des gens autour

Diastème

Bruno Todeschini, Emma de Caunes

This is not a chorus film. Well maybe just a little… Avignon Festival - Summer. First, there’s Maud and Alex, who have just broken up but need to pretend to be two love birds on stage. Then there’s the playwright of their play, Richard, who could start to fall in love with Léna, but is still grieving his lost wife. Léna is also grieving her ex but can’t remember why she dumped him. So she sings her blues, on stage, with Louise, who might have a little crush on her sound engineer. Then there’s the famous dancer Kate who sleeps with her assistant Marko, who’s always prefered men. Oh, did we tell you that Kate the dancer and Maud the actress are friends and would love to invite everyone to a party?

Peut-être

Cédric Klapisch

Ромен Дюри, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.

Dis-moi oui, dis-moi non

Noémie Lvovsky

Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi, Emmanuelle Devos

Cécile thinks one thing and its opposite. She wants one thing and its opposite. She doesn't know what she thinks or what she wants. So she talks about one thing and its opposite.