In order not to be thrown from his big Parisian apartment by his sister, the idiosyncratic pensioner Joseph takes the 20-year-old farmer's daughter Marilyn with him. She wants to complete an apprenticeship as a make-up artist in the capital, preferably for horror films. An unequal pair, which soon...
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends up in a jail full of political prisoners for whose freedom he had been working. Eventually he manages to escape but only one would follow...
Valentin is a young gay painter who lives in the imaginary world of his paintings. When he finds his grandmother Nina, a Polish Jewish émigré whith whom he feels very close, he confesses his lack of inspiration and loneliness. During these few days together in a psychedelic Paris, Valentin...
Munich-based graphic artist Lukas is an artist with no fixed abode and no desire for commitment, who never stays in the same place for long. His only possessions are his duck, his clothes and a few everyday objects with which he moves from apartment to apartment as a lodger. There he prefers to...
Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.
Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of...
An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her is as tyrannical as more overt superior colonialist dogma. Based on a novel by Enrico Emmanuele.
The owner of Black Angel is shot by Mamba, a killer in the pay of the Chinese mafia. The victim's daughter, who witnessed the murder and knows she is threatened, refuses to collaborate with the police and prefers to call on an old friend of her father's, Lemmy Caution, but is this man, who lives on...
In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend's tomb. In Ajaccio, he meets Helene, who she rescues from her kidnappers, who take advantage of her "charms" in a house of ill reputation. They hide then somewhere in the mountains, where they...
On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Guillaume Gouix and Alexandra Stewart read some extracts of Bernard Bastide's new biography Bernadette Lafont, une vie de cinéma, including some...
Joshua, in his thirties, has just learned that his file has been classified “child of X” : in other words, the identity of his parents remains unknown to this very day. He thereupon decides to designate his parents himself and sets out to “conquer” his unknown mother and father.
Anna lives a secluded life with her husband Count Alessio Capilupi, who is almost twice her age, and her son Sergio, whom she adores. Antonio, a young man from one of the wealthiest families in Italy and a successful powerboat racer, falls passionately in love with her; but at first she keeps her...
This short film shows a young couple during a short period after the explosion of a nuclear bomb 120 km above Paris. The city appears unaffected, but the man begins to notice changes in the behavior of the people in general and in that of his girl friend in particular. Part of the Italian anthology...
Nicholas is a conscience-stricken international news photographer. Revolted by what he has seen in wars in Africa and Indochina, he leaves his job and his girlfriend to do sports coverage. While covering a rugby match between the French and Irish teams in Ireland, he runs into an ex-American...
The stage director of the play L’œuf de Pâquesis given the importante Molière award. Taking this reward for a bad joke, he thinks that a conspiracy mounts against him and decides to rewrite the play, transforming it into Molière’s La critique de l’École des femmes.
Héléna Werner leads a reclusive and deserted life. Alone, as if withdrawn from the world in her apartment of refined luxury. She places an ad for a private secretary, a "handyman" who would take her away from the daily grind. As soon as he starts working, Milo adopts an intriguing behavior. From...