Georges Pompidou

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (2024)

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of Presid ...

Madame Soleil, la femme qui était supposée savoir (2023)

L'Âge d'or de la pub (2023)

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of creative little films would seduce and build our collective memory. Kitschy or cult spots, humor, slogans, ...

TGV, génie français du rail (2022)

Cent jours (2022)

From the first minutes after his inauguration, the newly elected president wants to translate his promises and his campaign project into action. "Change is now", "Change life", "Together everything becomes possible": all campaign slogans promising a break ...

De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire (2022)

Mitterrand et la télé (2021)

May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The "soviet tanks" supposedly coming upon the Champs-Élysées dressed in red, feared by some, did not march. Serge Moati takes a personal look at this episode, focusing on the rela ...

Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français (2019)

De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France's current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general's personality through ...

Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape (2016)

A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays. ...

Bokassa Ier, empereur de Françafrique (2011)

Out of It (1978)

The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage. ...

A Grin Without a Cat (1977)

Chris Marker's A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global left from the 1960s to the 1970s. Through archival footage and commentary, the film examines revolutionary movements in France, Latin America, and bey ...

A Real Young Girl (1976)

Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality. ...

The Society of the Spectacle (1974)

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society. ...

Le Désirable et le Sublime (1970)

A couple has found peace in a strange manor by the sea but, on a hot evening, a visitor comes, troubling their solitude. However, three is not actually a crowd and they start start talking, exchanging points of view about philosophy, sociology and politics ...