Pascal Cervo

Bonjour la langue (2025)

When his train stops at Draguignan station, Jean-Luc suddenly decides to get off and pay an impromptu visit to his father, who he hasn't seen in over six years. An answer to "Adieu au langage" by Godard. ...

Ghost Trail (2024)

After being imprisoned by the Assad regime in Syria, Hamid now works undercover as part of a secret group pursuing their leaders, including the guard he suspects was responsible for his torture. ...

A Safe Place (2023)

Alain lives locked up in a large house with his husband, Raphael. They were about to renovate the place and turn it into a bed and breakfast. A new virus, still unknown, poisoning the air, stops them in their dream. Alain is now obsessed with the idea of p ...

Winter Boy (2022)

Lucas is a 17-year-old gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother with w ...

Marc Chagall – Between Two Worlds (2020)

Marc Chagall was an artist caught between two worlds, between traditional art and modernism, figuration and abstraction. The film accompanies him on an important stage of his life from 1910 to 1930, between Paris and Vitebsk. Chagall's home town was a labo ...

Love Blooms (2019)

Martin, in a last ditch hope, comes to meet Léa in Paris. They are both twenty-five and shared their first love story together. They are both now striving to mature. ...

Train de vies (2018)

"Train de vies" crosses a series of characters who, in pairs, confess to each other their innermost desires and their most secret memories. ...

The Seven Deserters Or The Never Ending War (2017)

In a ruined house, four men and two women find a nun. All these people have deserted an anonymous war. ...

Strange Birds (2017)

Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and uncertainty. 76-year-old misanthrope Georges runs a bookshop in Paris – or has he merely been forced to take ...

4 Days in France (2016)

A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four days and four nights of wandering, during which his lover tries to locate him via Grindr, a smartphone dating ...

Enfant chéri (2016)

A car trip will be an opportunity for a son to at last tell his father everything that is weighing on his heart. ...

The Dunce (2016)

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging aro ...

Un, parfois deux (2016)

Laurent Achard set up his camera on the set of Paul Vecchiali's film Le Cancre to capture the director's creative power. Although Vecchiali's precision is impressive, Achard also shows moments where his collaborators' input is essential. Under the director ...

It's Love (2016)

Odile suspects her husband, Jean, is cheating. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Fate gets her in touch with an actor, Daniel, who she will use for her revenge. The actor, living with a former serviceman, Albert, will make love with ...

Two Rémi, Two (2015)

Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi? ...

Le Juif de Lascaux (2015)

Prendre l'air (2014)

Some days in the life of Colette, her escape from the hospital Sainte-Anne in the borders of the Camargue. Some days to review her past and to try to take back control. ...

White Nights on the Pier (2014)

A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her. ...

Wrong Harmonies (2014)

After the death of his partner, a man discovers on the Internet that the latter had virtual relations with another man. ...

Biette (2013)

Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette. ...

Le Tableau (2013)

In the twilight of their life, Odile and Marcel still love each other. Affected by an incurable disease, Odile must be hospitalized. Feeling the end of Odile so close, the couple decided to commit suicide, so not to be separated. The time of a last Sunday. ...

Coming Home (2012)

A young woman tries to adjust to freedom after she spends eight years as a prisoner to a strange man. ...

The Last Screening (2011)

Sylvain, a young man, devotes his life to small, local movie theater destined to be shut down. He lives in the theater's basement and is the theater programer, projectionist, and ticket seller. Each night, after the last screening, he leaves the building t ...

Iris in Bloom (2011)

An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer. ...

4 garçons dans la nuit (2010)

In 1995, four student friends formed a band. Upon returning from a party, they discover the body of a young waitress of 19 years at the edge of a road. The young woman died in their arms. Commissioner suspect the four boys but can not prove it. None of t ...

French Courvoisier (2009)

It is the end of a meal. Eight people are gathered around a big table. They evoke the memory of a lost friend. Through the stories of each about the absentee, the character traits, the haabits or the expressions, a portrait in hollow is outlined. ...

Army of Crime (2009)

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the gro ...

Regarder Oana (2009)

Oana is working. I am watching her. Tonight, the very last file will be closed. She does not want to translate the words of others anymore. She thinks that tomorrow she will start writing her own words. ...

Sans Howard (2008)

François, a young photographer is hitch-hiking on a Mexican road. He comes across two strange ladies called Colette and Evelyne, they stop and take him in their car heading to some hot springs in the middle of the desert. ...

Lady Jane (2008)

After having perpetrated a serious crime, Muriel, François and René, childhood friends born in the working-class streets of Marseille, go their separate ways, until, 15 years later, they meet again when another crime is committed. ...

Demented (2006)

It's summer and the beginning of the long vacation period for eleven-year-old Martin, who lives on a farm, and, at a loss, observes his family's disintegration : his mother lives locked-up in her room ; his older brother, who he adores, drowns himself in d ...

She's One of Us (2003)

At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her ...

Saltimbank (2003)

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, ...

The War in Paris (2002)

In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance. ...

The Girl (2000)

A torrid affair between two women, a struggling artist and a flame-haired blues singer, upsets a man who has a thing for the girl. ...

Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999)

After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follo ...

More Than Yesterday (1999)

The last weekend of summer. Mother is preparing the jars for winter pickling, love-struck Françoise is practising karaoke in front of her little brother Julien. In the shed behind the house, Karim is doing some "undeclared" work, having given up on his ac ...

Denis (1998)

The love story between a young man and a married woman 20 years his senior. ...

Full Speed (1996)

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with ...

Youth Without God (1996)

This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It attempts to provide insight as to why certain German youths were so easily lead into becoming Nazis by using t ...

Lovers (1994)

In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older and ostensibly free-wheeling half-sister, learning to trust himself and become independent. ...

The Habit of a Young Man (2019)

It could have been a normal day for Virgile, but that's not the way it turned out. After being the victim of a strange attack, the young man is then forced to share a dressing room with Robert Lesmur, the main actor of the play in which he plays an extra. ...

Hugues (2017)

Hugues is forty years old. He's an actor but he doesn't want to perform. He's taken refuge with Serge, his partner, in the house where he grew up. However, Micheline, a director, insists that he tread the boards once again. Serge gives him an ultimatum: it ...

Monsieur Lapin (2014)

Thierry is a night watchman in a hotel. Solitary and indecisive, some nights he joined Mr. Zutawski, a painter, and poses for him. ...

Valérie n'est plus ici (2009)

Valérie left the gallery of Madam Frédérique Sainteure, collector of art, renowned for her taste and her demanding nature. For the organization of the first exhibition since her departure, Marine has the difficult task to succeed her. ...