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Hécube, pas Hécube (2024)

Le blé, l'autre arme de Poutine (2024)

Brecht & Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 (2023)

Theater director Thomas Ostermeier stages Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's timelessly magnificent "Threepenny Opera" with the ensemble of the Comédie Française in Aix-en-Provence, based on a new translation of the original text by Alexandre Pateau. In Lon ...

Molière and the King (2022)

The life and work of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-73), the greatest French-language playwright, Molière, who revolutionized theater by bringing to the stage, with lucidity and dazzling modernity, the themes of his time and who had a special relationship w ...

Gisèle Halimi : La Cause des femmes (2022)

Touchées (2022)

Lucie has just moved to Anduze with her son Léo to get away from her violent ex-husband. In the hope of rebuilding her life, she enrolls in a fencing-based therapy program offered by a local association. There, she meets other women who have been sexually ...

Des traîtres dans la Résistance (2021)

In May 1943, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the new head of the Reich Central Security Office, gave Hitler a report describing in detail the organization of the French Resistance. Indeed, during the Second World War, most of the Resistance networks had been infiltra ...

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius (2021)

He is the only actor in the history of cinema to have won three Oscars. Known for the dramatic intensity of his roles – which are as striking as they are diverse (aristocrat, petty thug, outcast or criminal) – for directors such as Martin Scorsese or S ...

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 ...

Dangerous Liaisons: A Feminist Manifesto? (2021)

Well known for its exploration of seduction and revenge, the "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos caused a scandal from its first publication in 1782. Despite – or because of the scandal – the book was a top-seller. Since then, it stood the test ...

L'Appartement (2021)

Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent (2021)

In "Gone with the Wind" she was an unforgettable Scarlett O'Hara. Beauty, two-time Oscar winner, celebrated Hollywood star and great Shakespearean interpreter - Vivien Leigh was all that. Behind the celebrity, however, was a fragile person. Her bipolar dis ...

Charlotte Perriand, Pioneer in the Art of Living (2019)

This documentary explores Perriand's development from her own perspective, from the 1930s, when she made common cause with Le Corbusier and avant-garde art, to her discovery of Japan, where she was inspired to incorporate aspects of Japanese tradition into ...

Hitchcock Confidential (2019)

Alfred Hitchcock is known as a giant of movie making, a facetious master of suspense, obsessed with blond heroines in peril, with the reputation of being tyrannical towards his actors. But who knows the real Hitchcock? During his last public appearance, "H ...

Électre / Oreste (2019)

In Her Hands (2018)

A young man from a modest family gets the chance of a lifetime to reveal his hidden talent for piano but can he find the strength and courage to live up to the challenge? ...

Le Mariage de Figaro (2018)

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

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate. ...

The No-Job Agency (2016)

Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to close because of a lack of unemployed. The three colleagues then have the crazy idea of creating unemploy ...

Les Damnés (2016)

Sophie's Misfortunes (2016)

Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille and Madeleine. She always insists on having her own way, often getting into trouble, to the despair of one and all. But her mother is unbending and otherwis ...

Henri Rousseau, or The Burgeoning of Modern Art (2016)

Henri Rousseau started to paint in Paris around 1880, at the age of 40. This self-taught artist was friendly with the poet Apollinaire, Robert Delaunay and Pablo Picasso, who recognized his genius, and yet his work was to remain underrated during his lifet ...

Three Sisters (2015)

For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov's greatest, most expansively mela ...

Louis XIV, roi des arts (2015)

Les Pères Noël (2014)

Cecile lives alone with her mother since her dad left after an umpteenth quarrel. She welcomes warmly Henri, a new step father arrived for Christmas. But the little girl will learn that against grown-ups' instability even Father Christmas is quite powerles ...

Meurtre en trois actes (2013)

With the ghost of Delphine, a sociétaire who committed suicide several months earlier, still hanging over the place, an unexplained series of backstage murders occurs at the Comédie-Française. Domont and his associate Strozzi investigate at this famous ...

The Dandelions (2012)

A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her. ...

It's Only the End of the World (2010)

Louis, 34, visits his family for the first time in years. He finds his brother Antoine, his sister Suzanne, his mother and his sister-in-law Catherine. Louis did not come back by chance. He wants to tell his family terrible news: his imminent and inexorabl ...

Et + si @ff (2006)

The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters... ...

Amer Amour (2000)

Tribute to Alfred Lepetit (2000)

Who is Alfred Lepetit? Unknown by the general public but glorified by all the movie industry, Alfred is about to receive a lifetime achievement award for his film career. A portrait of a living legend among stars. ...

Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition (1998)

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. ...

Juste avant (1997)