The Servant explores the inherent tensions of the English class system through the power dynamics between a wealthy londener and his mysterious butler. Gradually, the butler starts pulling the strings as he gains control over his employer.
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.
Young parisians speak about their life, their hopes and fears, and about love.
« Il s'agit uniquement de onze jeunes qui ont, ou qui vont avoir vingt ans en 1963. Onze personnages c'est tout... choisis dans le but de faire un spectacle et non une enquête. »
Le joli mai is a portrait of Paris and its inhabitants in the month of May, 1962. Although the war with Algeria officially ended and a promise of peace and prosperity fills the springtime air, the spectre of the war still looms.
A subjective voyage through the civilisation, the spaces and the light of the Mediterranean, accompanied by a text by Philippe Sollers and Antoine Duhamel’s music.
“Barbara Rubin’s [...] Christmas on Earth is the filmic record of an orgy staged in a New York City apartment in 1963.
In this, his best known film, characters cavort in a setting reminiscent of the court of Ali Baba, with a mood suggestive of the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch.
Like Columbus who discovered America and changed the course of history, the ‘other Christopher Columbus’, Cristóbal, a shipwrecked mariner from the Mediterranean, discovered America anew in twentieth-century Cuba, where the course of history was again to be changed.
Woman in the book fair: Have you got something about Bergman or Antonioni?
Sr. Corcuera: Bergman... Bergman? The actress?
“Avant-garde filmmakers, in particular, Imamura Shōhei, contest this hegemonic ‘official’ version, or definition, of what essentially it is to be Japanese in an increasingly American-dominated global socio-economic and cultural milieu.
“Listen Robert, denoting your superior as a murderer in public doesn’t seem like constructive criticism.”
The school director
The only film directed by trailblazing feminist Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad. She finds unexpected grace where few would think to look: a leper colony where inhabitants live, worship, learn, play, and celebrate in a self-contained community cut off from the rest of the world.
« J’aurai tant voulu être aimé qu’il me semble que j’aime. »
Alain Leroy
“Dimanche was supposed to be a didactic film, intended to evoke the problem of leisure. Bernhard diverts the order and outwits the trap of the ‘thematic’ film.
“When I think about it, Le mépris, seems to me, beyond its psychological study of a woman who despises her husband, the story of castaways of the Western world, survivors of the shipwreck of modernity who, like the heroes of Verne and Stevenson, one day reach a mysterious deserted island