Joan of Arc's trial for heresy. Joan is interrogated by the French Clerical Court. Her judges try to make her say something that will discredit her claim, but she remains steadfast. When she is threatened with burning at the stake, she finally breaks and allows a priest to guide her hand in signing a confession, but after realizing that she has been unfaithful to God, she de...
After her father's death, Amelia follows her mother's strenuous path back to a normal life. A television, a camera and an hamster are the tools which will accompany a nine years old girl towards a world which is suffocating and imaginary.
The movie tells the story of Karrer, a depressed man who carries a secluded life, left out from everything and everybody. He spends his days walking adrift and his night s at a local bar, the Titanik, where he falls in love for a married torch singer. One day he is offered smuggling work by the bartender at the bar, but he offers the job to the husband of the singer to get h...
The movie was born from a bizarre analogy which compares social movements to clouds. Clouds appear to be all the same, but only from a distance; they change all the time, and even when they cause damage they are crucial to life on earth. In the same way, social movements put energy back into circulation; they are a response to bottled-up energies in the society at large. Gu...
Hélène, a young widow, and Jean have pledged their love to each other, but are not engaged to marry. Their love affair allows dalliances with others, but they have promised to put each other first above all others. Hélène has been warned by a friend that Jean's love for her has cooled and fears this is correct. She tricks him into confessing, by pretending her own feelings f...
Allie lives in New York and shares an apartment with a girl. At nights, he wanders adrift around deserted streets. The surrounding buildings are covered with vegetation and at distance you can hear the shower of bombs of a non specified war. After having stolen and sold again a car for 800 dollars, Allie comes back home, packs his stuff and leaves a message for his friend. ...
Le Plaisir is based on three short stories by Guy de Maupassant: Le Masque, La Maison Tellier e Le Modèle. Each story offers some food for thought about people's ever-evolving definition of pleasure. A fascinating triptych narrated by the voice of Jean Servais.
In the 23rd century, Commander John Adams and his crew are sent on expedition to a distant planet to investigate on the silence of the scientists living there. On arrival, they finds out that an unknown "planetary force" killed nearly everyone except doctor Morbius and his daughter, Altaira. Later on, doctor Adams finds out something he doesn't want to share with anybody e...
After the umpteenth fight with his employer, Esse decides to move to Marseille. He talks about it to his girlfriend, steals her money and leaves. Once in Marseille, he joins a gang who robes luxurious villas and starts training in a gym. When Sylvain asks him to be Toni's brother's whore's guardian, he thinks to be at the beginning of his carrier in the organized crime.
Michel, an intellectual bourgeois, starts pickpocketing as a provocation against humanity and to feel above the law and the moral code. Stealing gives him almost an erotic pleasure and all his attempts to stop are useless. Only the love for girl will help him. The movie is full of references to Crime and Punishment and it is Bresson's fifth successful feature film.
