On the terrace of his regular café haunt in Paris' 14th arrondissement, Jean Rouch regales Noël Simsolo and Jackie Raynal with stories from the life of a self-described "amateur filmmaker".
A storm breaks out in a high mountain village. Thirty-year-old Maude then discovers a mysterious bird, which will inevitably lead her to a witch's abode.
She had been a director. He had been a film critic. Lockdowned in their flat, rue des chaufourniers, he begins to carry out household chores, which she would take charge of criticizing.
An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness.
For many, the name Lazard is synonymous with the banking dynasty that pioneered the modern investment bank with the invention of mergers and acquisitions. Jackie Raynal sets out one summer for the mountains of Haute-Savoie to meet Simon Lazard, one of the heirs of the group. Lazard, at the age of...
“My purpose in filming NOTES ON JONAS was not to make a portrait per se. As a film editor, I was mainly curious to know about his editing technique. When I tried to get an interview, Jonas played his accordion, his tuba, his harmonica… He even organized a jam session in the basement of AFA. I...
A tribute to Raynal’s parents, who were Resistance fighters and communists in the South of France during World War II. The interviews with those who worked together to save the persecuted are unmistakably moving, at once intimate and sprawling.
