François Mauriac

La fin de la nuit (2014)

Twenty years have passed. Thérèse lives alone in Paris. We exiled her there. She seems to be asking nothing more for life. She is sick and lives in slow motion. One day, we ring rue du Bac. It is Mary, her daughter, whom she sees so little. She is twenty ...

Thérèse (2012)

An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting. ...

The Desert of Love (2012)

A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child. ...

Un adolescent d'autrefois (1983)

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young man from the upper middle class tries to escape the constraints of his family. ...

Le Sagouin (1972)

In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a life of anguish and sadness in a sinister castle. He exasperates his mother who sees in him only the hated re ...

La Fin de la nuit (1966)

Therese (1962)

Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. They live in an isolated country mansion surrounded by servants. Early in her marriage her only comf ...

Asmodée (1959)

Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband's death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country house, with her four children. The eldest one, Emmy, is a beautiful and pure young girl of seventeen, who tentati ...

The Black Angels (1937)

Two brothers-in-law hate each other but, for business interests, they want their respective son and daughter to marry. The young fiancées are not in agreement, as the boy has a happy relationship with a woman, and the girl is in an isolation mood. A crime ...

Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir (1962)

This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works. ...