Anne Alvaro

Les oubliés du Delta (2024)

Boléro (2024)

Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro. ...

Maurice Tourneur: Weaver of Dreams (2024)

Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film traces the incredible journey of this crucial innovator from Paris to Hollywood. He inspired many of his peers and was also a mentor to some great filmmakers, in ...

Totems (2023)

Bastien is dead. His group of friends decides to get their hands on his sex toy collection before his mother finds out. This is a story of friendship, love and farewell. ...

A Place to Fight For (2023)

Greg is a police lieutenant; he must collect informations on eco-activists, infiltrating them for months. Myriam, a young free woman, is fighting to save a forest from the building of a dam. They meet and fall in love on the Zone. A beautiful life, a joy t ...

Dites que c'est vrai tout le monde vous croira (2022)

Arthur Rambo (2022)

Who is this Karim D. ? The new young writer whom the media can't get enough of? Or his alias, Arthur Rambo, the author of old hate-fuellled messages which are dredged up, one day, from social media websites? ...

Bacri, comme un air de famille (2022)

Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2021, this film tells the story of this quintessential Frenchman: a man turned towards others, an actor by ...

My Life in Versailles (2021)

November 2015. Violette's parents are killed in the Paris terror attacks. She is sent to live with her uncle, a gruff man she hardly knows, who is a caretaker at the Versailles chateau. Little does Violette realize that in this intimidating place she will ...

La fuite (2020)

In a sad imaginary suburb, Jean-Jacques is oppressed by his work, belittled by his girlfriend, pursued by a bailiff. Jean-Jacques is afraid of sinking into madness, until he meets Jeanne and her brother Gilles, with whom he will share a dream, that of seei ...

The Invented Biography (2018)

This film follows Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a great part of his biography. The director searches for him in places where his stories and novels occur, meeting with real and imaginary characters, in a t ...

Some Like It Veiled (2017)

Armand and Leila, students at Science Po, are a young couple. They plan to go to New York to do their internship at the United Nations. But when Mahmoud, Leila's big brother, returns from a long stay in Yemen, which radically transformed him, he is opposed ...

Dans la solitude des champs de coton (2017)

A staging of Bernard-Marie Koltès' play "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Roland Auzet. ...

Guillaume Drifting (2016)

On the day of his dismissal, Guillaume meets Tom his substitute... ...

Les années perdues (2015)

For Marie Launey, the nightmare begins when her mother is found, with a weapon in her hand, near her father's corpse. No doubt for the police: Alzheimer's, Catherine killed her husband Jean in a fit of jealousy. Marie is convinced of her innocence, but as ...

Les Bêtises (2015)

A man named François, adopted as a child, sets out to find his biological mother. Posing as a waiter at a family gathering, he infiltrates her home, hoping to uncover the truth. His clumsy nature leads to a series of comedic mishaps, disrupting the event ...

Le Prince de Hombourg (2014)

A French adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's play "The Prince of Homburg", staged by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti. ...

Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge. ...

Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)

A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman. ...

There Will Come a Day (2013)

Painful family events lead Augusta to leave Italy. On a small boat, immersed in the Amazon Forest grandness, she begins a travel between Indios villages. From the favela to the isolation in the Forest, Augusta will go in search of herself. ...

Camille Rewinds (2012)

Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and despera ...

Le Suicidé (2011)

Sémione is a petty, egotistical, everyman who is transformed by the successive trials he undergoes. It's the rule of vaudeville that sets the wheels in motion: small causes have big effects. An absurd misunderstanding convinces the other characters that S ...

The Clink of Ice (2010)

An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer. ...

God's Offices (2008)

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women. ...

Let's Dance (2007)

In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap dance lessons under the high patronage of Fred Astaire and the search for a companion... The mother, Geneviève ...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinki ...

Sartre, Years of Passion (2006)

Biographical film about French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, concentrating on his passionate affairs with women. ...

Public Affairs (2003)

A television director decides to use his own life and marriage as an inspiration for his latest project. ...

The Taste of Others (2000)

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the cours ...

À mort la mort ! (1999)

The idea for this film about a generation and its lost ideals came to Romain Goupil after attending several funerals of friends in the fall of 1996, where the '68 generation, now in influential positions in media or politics, kept meeting each other. It se ...

Le Cri de la soie (1996)

An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy ...

Une Vue Imprenable (1995)

Two women opposite each other hesitate between confessing or concealing their feelings. ...

La lumière du lac (1988)

An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an elderly man with a penchant for growing sunflowers and an unhappy neighbor girl with emotional problems. ...

Living It Up (1987)

"Miéville captures a moment of disquieting intimacy amid the bustle of a parade. ...

Dans un miroir (1986)

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting. ...

Régime sans pain (1985)

Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone). Ruiz offered a counterproposal that he direct several ...

Vanishing Point (1984)

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen. ...

City of Pirates (1984)

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities. ...

Shadow Dance (1983)

The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old grudge. ...

Bérénice (1983)

Now Titus' father has died, the new emperor will be free to marry his beloved Bérénice. Also In love with Bérénice, Titus' friend Antiochus plans to flee Rome rather than face the marriage. However, public opinion about the pairing causes Titus to choo ...

Danton (1983)

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well kn ...