December 1995. France is paralysed by the transportation strikes. Nadia, a young woman, survives on her limited unemployment benefits. She has been a mother for the last six months, raising Christopher all on her own. One day, while watching the news about the rail-road strike at the Austerlitz station, she thinks she sees her child's father and decides to find him. That nig...
Cherbourg, 1957. Geneviève Emery, whose mother sells umbrellas at her at a tiny boutique, loves Guy Foucher, a young mechanic who lives with his sickly aunt. When Guy leaves to become a soldier in the Algerian war, Geneviève finds out to be pregnant and decides to marry the wealthy Roland Cassard. Demy tells about an impossible love story which takes place in a port city ...
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...
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...
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.
In a suspended, dreamlike space, symbolic elements and characters made out of baling wire and colored with tempera run after each other, frame after frame. A firstborn and his newborn brother in the eternal fight for survival which usually begins when the newborn arrives and everything changes.
François porta la fidanzata Catherine e un gruppo di amici sull’isola Les Sanguinaires, per passare il capodanno del 2000 lontano dal caos dei festeggiamenti. Ma l’isolamento dal mondo fa degenerare i rapporti all’interno del gruppo e la confusione per la fine del millennio sembrerà poco a confronto con la violenza dell'isola.
Bernard and Mathilde are good neighbors, but he avoids meeting her. Seven years before, they were lovers and now they are both married. Passion will rekindle again and the tragedy is behind the corner. A movie about unforgotten loves and bourgeois treasons, with an extraordinary Fanny Ardant.
On the day of his marriage, Julie's husband gets killed for fun by a group of friends. After an attempt of killing herself, Julie decides to take revenge, killing all the five men. Julie reminds of Tarantino's bride of Kill Bill. For both of them, revenge is a dish best served cold.
