Commissioned by the Centre d’animation culturelle of Montbéliard, Armand Gatti observed the town of the Peugeot factories where France’s second largest workforce was concentrated and almost 10,000 immigrants of different origins.
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land.
In June 1973 the coal miners at Brookside, Kentucky voted to join the United Mineworkers of America. When the Eastover Mining Company refused to grant the United Mineworkers union recognition, a strike began which was to last 13 long months.
Ostensibly a film for children, this picture book essay about the range of hues that brighten our world has the air of a delightfully playful formalistic exercise.
In Aimé Césaire, un homme une terre, Sarah Maldoror paints a portrait of her friend Aimé Césaire, who was a Martinican poet, politician, essayist, activist and one of the founders of the négritude movement, a progressive artistic and political current that defended black culture.
After being humiliated at school for having her first period, Carrie discovers she has telekinetic powers. When the bullying gets out of hand at senior prom, she uses her newly discovered gift against her classmates and teachers, setting in motion a disastrous chain of events.
A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
“Logan’s Run is a vast, silly extravaganza that delivers a certain amount of fun, once it stops taking itself seriously.”
In Mon coeur est rouge we spend two days in the life of a woman named Clara, played by Françoise Lebrun, who works for an advertising company. Sent away to conduct a poll on make-up, she ends up interviewing women from all walks of life.
In Nazi-occupied Paris, the immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger.
« Si le juif n’existait pas, l’antisémite l’inventerait. »
Documentary made by the autodidact film maker, Renaud Victor, with autistic children from Deligny’s network in Cevennes, south of France.
Commissioned by the Centre d’animation culturelle of Montbéliard, Armand Gatti observed the town of the Peugeot factories where France’s second largest workforce was concentrated and almost 10,000 immigrants of different origins.
« À bord d’une bagnole qu’il faut descendre dans le Sud de la France, quatre types se retrouvent coincés ensemble. Tandis que les deux premiers sont propres sur eux et voudraient bien « y » arriver, les deux autres sont légèrement relous, un peu largués, sacrément gouailleurs.
“Nicolas Roeg’s The man who Fell to Earth presents an alien (David Bowie) whose knowledge and experience of our world is entirely mediated by television.
Two goddesses, a pair of beings from the sphere of the sun or the moon and who take the form of women, engage in a strange battle in the bars, hotels, and mystical power-spots of Paris. They fight over the possession of a magical diamond that will allow them to remain on earth.
“[Kimiavi] employed an authorial, surrealist, and avant-gardist style consisting of real people enacting either their own lives or fictionalized versions thereof; the seamless mixing of fantasy and documentary; ironic, humorous, contrastive, and critical juxtapositions of worlds, elements, and s
A short film in which a director's voice appears to be directing all the action on a busy London street.
“For me, this film reveals a new cinematographic language. As far as I know, a director has never committed, with such obstinacy, to the cinematographic representation of a region: that is to say, to the difficult communion between men, landscapes, and the seasons.
In 1970, Godard and Miéville went to Jordan to shoot footage of Palestinian militants for what was supposed to become a pro-palestinian film for the Palestine Liberation Organization.