Anne Kessler

Two Pianos (2025)

Returning to France after a long exile, pianist Mathias Vogler reunites with his mentor, Elena, to prepare a concert. In a park, an encounter with a child who looks just like him will lead him to Claude, the woman he once loved. ...

Dracula (2025)

In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II's bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to w ...

The Monkey's Paw (2024)

French countryside, 19th century. A peasant woman finds herself in possession of a magical object: a monkey's paw that can grant wishes. She decides to use it, only to realize that the wishes are actually curses she must endure until the end... ...

Winter Boy (2022)

Lucas is a 17-year-old gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother with w ...

Guermantes (2021)

Paris, sum­mer 2020. Actors from "la Comédie-Française", France's most pres­ti­gious the­ater, rehearse Christophe Hon­oré's new play, an adap­ta­tion of Mar­cel Proust's "The Guer­mantes Way". When the show is sud­den­ly can­celed, the dra ...

Le Mariage de Figaro (2018)

A staging of Beaumarchais's play "The Marriage of Figaro" by Christophe Rauck. ...

In Safe Hands (2018)

Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to ...

Un soir au club (2009)

Simon Nardis was once an internationally renowned jazz pianist but for the past ten years he has led a more orderly life as a husband and father. But all that changes when he walks into a jazz club by chance one evening. He comes face-to-face with the de ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (2007)

Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his ...

Saint-Jacques… La Mecque (2005)

Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth. ...

Stricteternum (2005)

A little house in the suburbs in the middle of nowhere. A car trapped in the snow. The great desperation of a couple who kill time in front of the television. And this strange impression of déjà-vu. But you better hold on because at any moment everything ...

Everybody Is a Killer (2004)

A psychoanalyst gives a strange advice to a mechanic whose marriage is falling apart: to take the blame for a murder, any murder, to impress his beautiful and indifferent wife, and his patient does just that. ...

Le Dindon (2003)

George Dandin (1999)

Theater play "George Dandin" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999. ...

La serva amorosa (1996)

Coraline, a young servant in love with Florindo, will thwart the plans of Beatrice, the second wife of Ottavio, father of Florindo, who wants to capture the legacy of Florindo for his own advantage and that of his own son. ...

La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué (1996)

La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical comp ...

Un Air de Liberté (1993)

High school life chronicles set before, during and after the events of May 68. ...

My Wife's Girlfriends (1992)

A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated. ...

Vincennes Neuilly (1992)

Jérôme and Sophie are "foreigners". They evolve in a world whose rules seem to them as many constraints and adopt unusual behaviors which can disorientate their interlocutors. They say they are brother and sister and many people prefer to believe them an ...

Love Without Pity (1989)

25 year-old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings. ...