Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens 2005

10.00

Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.

2005

Caffè Italia, Montréal

Caffè Italia, Montréal 1985

1

Using archival documents, fictions, current accounts, and excerpts from a theatrical creation, Paul Tana paints a nuanced portrait of the Italians of Montreal. From the first waves of immigration at the beginning of the century to the men and women taken to a prisoner of war camps during World War II, to the hardships and joys of building vibrant lives in Montréal. Caffè Italia Montréal chronicles a significant chapter in Canada’s history.

1985

The Beautiful Otero

The Beautiful Otero 1954

2.00

An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.

1954

Fiesta

Fiesta 1995

4.80

A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.

1995

Post Mortem

Post Mortem 1999

7.00

A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.

1999

Dead Man Talking

Dead Man Talking 2012

6.41

8pm in a rundown prison. A prisoner on death row will be executed. He has the right to make a final declaration. But the law doesn't stipulate how long he can talk. So, as long as he talks the execution is postponed…

2012

Jules Ferry

Jules Ferry 1993

1

The romanticized life story of lawyer and journalist Jules Ferry, who fought for the freedom of citizens.

1993

The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg

The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg 1967

3.00

A surrealist saga in four parts: 1.) The credit sequence in which title cards show successively larger foetuses pulsating on the screen until the baby is born and cries. 2.) Etoile-directly referring to Cocteau, Lethem shows an adolescent sucking a starfish and then giving birth to a smaller starfish. A statement of inadequacy. To give birth involves an emasculation and a loss of vitality. 3.) Corps-two images of a man on a couch groping for each other, watched by a mysterious peeping Tom. As the two superimposed images come together, the heavy breathing subsides…the statement that the birth of desire is a self – realisation. 4.) Hymen – The decaying body of a girl is shot through green filters, and the final image reveals her vagina crawling with maggots and overlain with a crucifix. A representation of Catholicism preventing the free expression of desire.

1967

Being 14

Being 14 2015

4.00

The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.

2015

Zoo Piece

Zoo Piece 1990

5.80

A quietly observed montage of animals in captivity—seals, leopards, gorillas, wolves, monkeys, ostriches, and others—Zoo Piece shifts perspective from spectacle to confinement, reflecting on the boundaries between observation and imprisonment.

1990

Rendezvous

Rendezvous 1976

7.38

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

1976

Calamity

Calamity 2017

4.00

France meets her son’s girlfriend for the first time. She loses control...

2017

Jeannou

Jeannou 1943

1

Jeannou lives in a castle in Périgord with his father, the last man of aristocratic lineage landowners, very attached to traditions. She meets Peter, a young engineer, she joined in Paris, decided to marry her. A few months later, pregnant, she returned to the area where the wedding will be celebrated.

1943

The White Knights

The White Knights 2015

5.60

Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.

2015

The Anonymous

The Anonymous 2013

7.90

A counterterrorism task force investigates the 1998 Ajaccio assassination of Claude Érignac, the prefect of Corsica. Based on true events.

2013

Borderline

Borderline 2011

5.43

An attorney stumbles upon a suitcase filled with cocaine.

2011

Savage State

Savage State 2020

5.53

Saint Charles County, Missouri, December 1863. Edmond, a prosperous French perfume merchant, decides to flee to a safer place when the storms of the American Civil War start knocking at his door, threatening the life and fortune of his family.

2020