Cinema
E trema ancora, the other voice of Luchino Visconti
Ischia, a Mediterranean island in the Bay of Naples.
It is the place where Luchino Visconti, an Italian filmmaker, decided to set up his summer villa La Colombaia in 1945. Shortly after, in 1947,
he shot his masterpiece La Terra trema (The Earth trembles), a polemical film that openly denounces the ...
GHOSTS OF AN EMPIRE
This documentary explores the colonial imagination of Portuguese cinema since the beginning of the 20th century.100 years of cinema. As a contrast to the productions that related imperial domination, films and gazes of different generation of Portuguese filmmakers, as well as their testimonies, unma...
MY NAME IS ELIA KAZAN
1972: Kazan presents his latest film at Cannes, The Visitors. André S. Labarthe and Annette Michelson decide to follow him to the USA… 2017: Labarthe decides to make a movie with these unedited interviews. In his final masterpiece Labarthe is helped by his wife Danielle Anezin, ending a 60-year-long...
MAMOULIAN LOST AND FOUND
1965. We ring the doorbell of the Beverley Hills house where a forgotten filmmaker seems to spend his time reminiscing. His name is Rouben Mamoulian. He hasn't been making films for five years, but the cinema has not stopped inhabiting him. This american director and producer directed the first thre...
Lee Chang-Dong, art of irony
A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of his films (Burning, Poetry, Secret Sunshine, Oasis...), most of which have been selected for and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
It is al...
IDA LUPINO, Hollywood’s rebel fiancee
Ida Lupino, the blonde offspring of an English theatrical dynasty, arrives in 1933 in Hollywood as “the english Jean Harlow”. In our film, her ghost returns to a movie set to tell us about her life. How her strong-willed personality made it possible for her to assert herself in the male-dominated wo...
Portrait of Alain Resnais
A portrait of the director Alain Resnais, whose protean work reveals new secrets with each viewing: unbridled fantasy, a sense of the absurd, imagination, playing with the audience, a taste for song, but also a certain darkness, a disillusioned assessment of human nature and what it has produced.
T...
What makes Darry Cowl run?
Sacha Guitry cast him as a wacky director at the beginning of his career. Fifty years later, Alain Resnais allowed him to elegantly close the door as a concierge. In between, the restless and outlandish poet Darry Cowl appeared in 140 films and 30 plays, wrote and directed many others, and composed ...
Tony Gatlif, son of the wind
A portrait of the director Tony Gatlif, whose work celebrates the joy of life, energy, invention and displacement, and sings the praises of a united, but constantly moving, community.
A cinema of heart and soul, there is always a double journey with Tony Gatlif: the physical journey, in which the pr...