Françoise Michaud

Les Jours et les Nuits (2021)

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin. ...

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (2018)

An aging movie actor who is preparing to shoot a death scene finds himself visited by the spirit of a dead, long-ago lover. ...

Tu es si jolie ce soir (2015)

Prosecutor Vadim, who has an uneasy relationship with his glamorous wife Chanéac, vanishes at the time a psycho is offing club girls to the strains of the "Tu es si jolie ce soir" song. ...

Almost an Island (2015)

Elias, a twenty year-old student, comes back home for the holidays. He gets back to his mother Françoise and an old childhood friend, Bob. Before Elias left town, they were still lovers. Since, Bob became the town boy's punching bag. ...

Duchess of Warsaw (2015)

Valentin is a young gay painter who lives in the imaginary world of his paintings. When he finds his grandmother Nina, a Polish Jewish émigré whith whom he feels very close, he confesses his lack of inspiration and loneliness. ...

Dors mon lapin (2014)

It's the story of a young married man name Lionel who is swamped by colossal debts and whose wife is soon to give birth. At his wits' end, he decides one day to commit an irreparable act and kidnaps his millionnaire neighbors' 1-year-old baby. He demands a ...

À votre bon cœur, mesdames (2013)

The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction. ...

J'adore ma vie ! (2013)

Angélique is a nursery school teacher. She loves the children: other people's, of course, and those of her partner Damien, who is going through a divorce. It is then that she realizes that she has contracted a very rare allergy... to children! ...

Rust and Bone (2012)

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident. ...

Votes for Women: Wanted! (2012)

From the late nineteenth century to 1928, those who were nicknamed the "suffragettes" made the United Kingdom move from the census vote to universal suffrage, completely redefining the notion of citizenship. This documentary follows the struggle of five of ...

The Empty Home (2012)

Ascel longs to escape her village in Kyrgyzstan and dreams of going to Moscow. The big city indeed tests her survival skills. ...

Switch (2011)

In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteau ...

Mon pote (2010)

The story of a friendship between Victor, owner of a magazine, and Bruno, a car thief. ...

Silent Voice (2009)

An elderly woman wants to meet her son's murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the place of ...

2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder (2007)

I'd Like to Share Spring with Someone (2007)

Joseph Morder begins to film his life with a cell phone and thus begins to realize some life-changing experiences in attempts to discover a new film language ...

El Cantor (2005)

William's great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, t ...

Mon fils d'ailleurs (2004)

A schoolteacher takes in a 16-year-old immigrant boy who has found himself without a foster family. ...

The Butterfly (2002)

An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl. ...

Flowers of Blood (2002)

In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the level of ...

Femme Fatale (2002)

A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And t ...

Le journal de Joseph M. (2000)

Love, Math and Sex (1997)

A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man. ...

A Saturday on Earth (1996)

A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is c ...

Le fils de Paul (1995)

Clément, a young entrepreneur, is a happy father: married to the beautiful Alex, he is also the happy father of "Petit-Bonheur", his son. Despite his 30 years, he can't live without his father, Paul, a musician and widower, with whom he has a very close r ...

Voyage à Rouen (1995)

Guillaume, thirty years old, a man of images who never goes out without a filming device, decides one morning to take a voyage to Rouen empty-handed. ...

Romamor (1992)

A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship. ...

A Fine Romance (1991)

An Italian gentleman and a doctor's wife plot to break up their spouses' tryst in Paris. ...

Eminent Domain (1991)

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events. ...

The Ghost Valley (1987)

The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling woman in his production. ...

The Adventures of Eddie Turley (1987)

Poetic sci-fi film as an homage to Cinema, Cocteau, Goodis and to American B-series of the 1940s. Constructed exclusively on photograms in black and white and freely inspired on Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville. ...

Trio (1987)

Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to do what they want. ...

The Dead Tree (1987)

The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South America. ...

The Unsewing Machine (1986)

The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit. ...

Family Business (1986)

A recently released safecracker returns to stealing in order to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to induct his teenage son into the 'family business'. ...

Mémoires d'un juif tropical (1986)

In this avant-garde exercise in self-reflection, director Joseph Morder reminisces about his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. The heat of August in Paris brings forth memories and at the same time the ad ...

Portrait de groupe (1986)

Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a single fixed, wide shot (style: family photo) and silent of 3 minutes and 20 seconds. ...

Les nuages américains (1984)

On 30 October 1967, Joseph Morder began a unique experiment in France: a diary filmed on Super 8. Les Nuages américains (journal filmé neuf) is one of the episodes of the filmed diary that Joseph allowed himself to show to the public. The story of this f ...

Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage (1984)

Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. "Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and materials, stains, signs, are a movie subject. ...

Chutes de Feuilles d’été (1983)

Feuilles d'été (1983)

Teo Hernández films some friends in a park under the Parisian summer heat. ...

Cinématon XX (1982)

Reel 20 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

L'Amour trop fort (1981)

Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out o ...

Cocktail Morlock (1981)

The Under-Gifted (1980)

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in de ...

Cocktail Molotov (1980)

"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening som ...