Aurore Clément

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Miloš Forman

Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders

Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

El sur

Víctor Erice

Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren

A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.

Lacombe, Lucien

Louis Malle

Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément

In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.

Il piccolo popolo

Cinzia Th. Torrini

Stephen Brennan, Leslie Malton

The Meetings of Anna

Chantal Akerman

Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem

On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.

Le Juge Fayard dit le shériff

Yves Boisset

Patrick Dewaere, Aurore Clément

Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.

I Don’t Belong Anywhere : Le Cinéma de Chantal Akerman

Marianne Lambert

Chantal Akerman, Gus Van Sant

I Don’t Belong Anywhere - Le Cinéma de Chantal Akerman, explores some of the Belgian filmmaker’s 40 plus films. From Brussels to Tel-Aviv, from Paris to New-York, this documentary charts the sites of her peregrinations. An experimental filmmaker, a nomad, Chantal Akerman shares her cinematic trajectory, one that has never ceased to interrogate the the meaning of her existence. Thanks in great part to the interventions of her editor, Claire Atherton, she delineates the origins of her film language and her aesthetic stance.

Nous sommes tous encore ici

Anne-Marie Miéville

Aurore Clément, Bernadette Lafont

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work. The husband of one of them rehearses his part in a theatrical play, reading a 20th century philosophical text about totalitarianism.

Festa di laurea

Pupi Avati

Carlo Delle Piane, Aurore Clément

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

Adieu

Arnaud des Pallières

Olivier Gourmet, Michael Lonsdale

Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him the time he is away. In the letters that he writes to the daughter that he left behind in his homeland, he tells his own story in the guise of the biblical tale of Jonas and the Whale. Somewhere in France, an elderly farmer has just lost his young son. His three other children help him as much as they can to get through the trial of the funeral, but the ceremony is halted when the old man falls ill. The two stories unfold parallel to each other and are alternated.

The Hatter's Ghost

Claude Chabrol

Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour

A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).

La vie lointaine

Sébastien Betbeder

Manuel Vallade, Nathalie Boutefeu

It is a mild winter and Martin has just settled into the isolated house that was his father's. One night, at the edge of the woods, a strange man called Haruki appears before him. He invites Martin to lose himself in the forest in order to encounter a stranger. The stranger comes in the form of Yoshido, a peculiar Japanese filmmaker, who, assisted by Mathilde, is preparing to shoot a film based on Haruki's unfinished novel La Vie lointaine.

Les Années 80

Chantal Akerman

Aurore Clément, Magali Noël

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterwards, they are seen going through the grueling routines of learning the music and rehearsing.

Le crabe tambour

Pierre Schoendoerffer

Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich

"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.