Maurice Garrel . He has nominated for two César Awards. He's known for Kings and Queen (2004), Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno (2009) and A Heart in Winter (1992).
In 1963, Clouzot began work on a project called "L'Enfer", a tale of jealousy that leads to madness, and the filmmaker was promised all the time and resources he needed for the picture. However, while the director was me...
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev's A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he'll make her happy on stage - she will shine. But things d...
Paris, 1969. After having taken part in the student uprisings of May ’68, a group of youngsters abandon themselves to the fumes of opium. At the centre of the group a doomed love grows between a 20-year-old boy, Francois and a y...
This film expertly mixes comedy, tragedy and melodrama to tell the emotionally gripping story of the intersecting lives of two former lovers. Nora is a woman in her mid-thirties who wants people to believe that her life is going j...
Two brothers with a problematic relationship in the past, find together again when the elder one gets a dangerous disease and asks his brother to accompany him to several doctors.
A film director wants to make an anti-drug film (his wife died of a heroin overdose). He’s planned the lead role for a young actress with who he's in love with. His search for backers to finance the film is in vain, for all the ...
Following his separation from Anne, mother of his two children, Philippe, an artist, meets Justine, a girl younger than himself, in the street and they start going out together. Despite Philippe’s claims that Justine has been hi...
Stephane and Maxim are partners in a successful business that makes and repairs violins. Maxim falls in love with and plans to marry one of his clients, an attractive young violin performer, Camille. However, Camille finds herse...
Antoine, an unsuccessful writer, is taken aback when his girlfriend, Solange, leaves him for another man. Usually, it is he who ends a relationship, not his partner. In a fit of pique, he decides to take his revenge, not against S...
A filmmaker is going to shoot an autobiographical film. At the last moment, he changes his mind, and denies his wife her own role, which is going to be finally played by another actress. Her wife reacts badly, and the couple break...
Set during the Algerian war for independence in the 1950s and early '60s, this drama centers on Jean (Maurice Garrel) who works covertly for the FLN, the Algerian independence fighters, and although he does not know it, the woman ...
At the core of this docudrama are six French-speaking villages that were transferred to the jurisdiction of a Dutch-speaking province when political lines were drawn.
Un ange passe, like many of Garrel’s other films from this period, works on a model of long uninterrupted takes on the faces of its characters, played this time by Maurice Garrel (the director’s father), Nico (his muse and lov...
A group of anarchist leftist called "Nada" and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz abducts the American ambassador Richard Poindexter in a brothel in Paris and brings him to a farm in the countryside. The French Minis...
Paris, in the spring of 1968. Albin Cérès, 23, the son of a bourgeois couple on the verge of breakdown, seeks happiness in life. Disappointed by Laurent, the leader of a small group of revolutionary students ; disappointed by Pa...
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fon
The portrait of a young girl from the Parisian bourgeoisie. As a brief shot indicates us, it could have been called "Portrait of the artist as a young girl." though probably "young girl" is just a previous titl...
Seven directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Goddard al...
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