Laurent Achard set up his camera on the set of Paul Vecchiali’s film Le Cancre to capture the director’s creative power. Although Vecchiali’s precision is impressive, Achard also shows moments where his collaborators’ input is essential. Under the director’s eye, the stars are becoming...
Set within a housing project located on the outskirts of Alsace, this French docudrama features a largely non-professional cast and centers on the interrelationship between a pair of elderly French nationals, Arab immigrants and a newly arrived family from Africa as they struggle to find niches in...
In a supermarket parking lot, two shoppers push a shopping cart to their car. A helpful man approaches them. Friendly at first, his behavior soon becomes strange, invasive and aggressive.
A man sings next to a young girl playing the piano. A bucolic landscape, smiles, pensive faces. With them stands a woman (their mother?) who listens to them play and sing.
This filmed letter commissioned by Michel Boujut and broadcasted in October 1983 in his TV programme Cinéma cinema takes the viewer right to the heart of Vecchiali’s system.
A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
A bisexual married man meets a gay man whilst bathing in a small deserted creek and they fall in love even though the gay man has AIDS... He describes this sudden passion in simple words. Paul Vecchiali contribution to omnibus film 'L'@mour est à réinventer'.
An exchange, between Palermo and Paris, between a director who signs an autograph and his recipient who receives it, while listening to an extract from his favorite film.
