Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Bungalow 21 (2024)

In 1960, two legendary couples stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Simone Signoret and Yves Montand stayed in bungalow 20: they loved each other, they were beautiful, still young, full of life, at the height of their fame. But Marilyn Monroe, ...

Kleine Eheverbrechen (2023)

After a blow to the head, Gilles wakes up in the hospital. He knows that his wife Lisa caused the injury. The act is the result of years of accumulated desperation and shows the extent of the rift in the marriage. So he decides to fake amnesia for everyone ...

Piccoli crimini coniugali (2017)

Following a terrible accident at home, Elia loses his memory. His wife tries to help him through a long conversation to piece together their life and perhaps give him a chance to reinvent himself. ...

Hibernatus (2015)

Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)

Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink he meets ...

Oscar et la dame Rose (2007)

Odette Toulemonde (2007)

Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn't. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind ...

L’Évangile selon Pilate (2005)

Volpone (2004)

A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends". ...

Milady (2004)

Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously. ...

Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)

Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store. ...

Aurélien (2003)

France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman. ...

Sarah (2003)

A stage play by John Murrell, adapted by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, performed to perfection by Fanny Ardant and Robert Hirsch about the last days of Sarah Bernhardt. The play concentrates on an uneasy relationship between Sarah and her servant to whom she dict ...

Hôtel des deux mondes (2002)

The Libertine (2000)

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence. ...

Heavy Weather (1996)

Over the course of five seasons, this film chronicles a young woman's rise to power within a tempestuous all-female office. Employing elements of fantasy, realism, drama and satire, much of the story takes place in the confines of an oppressive looking ste ...

Jamaica Inn (1995)

A young woman finds an isolated inn is the base of a gang of smugglers ...

Les Scandales de « La Religieuse » (2023)

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary, caused the same explosion in the 19th century France as in that of the 1960s, when Jacques Rivette decided to a ...

Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (2020)

On the street called Blue in a very poor neighborhood in Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim is an old Muslim Turkish owner of a small market. He becomes friend of the teenager Jewish Moises, tenderly nicknamed Momo, who lives with his father in a small apartment on t ...

La Dernière Campagne (2013)

December 15, 2011. In front of an audience stunned, the penalty falls : Jacques Chirac is convicted and sentenced by the correctional court of Paris, a 2-year suspended prison sentence. Never in the history of the Republic, a former president had suffered ...