Yannick Bellon

D’où vient cet air lointain? Chronique d’une vie en cinéma (2018)

In the evening of her life, Yannick Bellon reflects on her past. She evokes her career as a film director, which began in the 1940s and the themes, sometimes controversial (rape, bisexuality, drugs, ecology) she chose to deal with. She also tells about her ...

Remembrance of Things to Come (2001)

A personal history of France, told through photos by French photographer Denise Bellon. ...

On Guard (1992)

In this earnest drama, a rural schoolteacher who has become a strong advocate for ecological awareness and is a committed opponent of hunting in the local swamp becomes romantically embroiled with a single mother who has returned to her birthplace since ju ...

Children of Chaos (1989)

Marie is a young woman recently released from prison on drug charges. As a condition of her release, she joins a theatrical troupe composed of young delinquents, and at the same time faces a difficult journey of reintegration into society and strives to re ...

The Cheat (1984)

In Bordeaux, a gay man's murder leads Inspector Verta to investigate. He develops feelings for Bernard, a musician suspect, jeopardizing his marriage and impartiality in the case. ...

L'Amour nu (1981)

Claire, a UNESCO interpreter, begins a romance with an oceanographer named Simon. Their relationship is challenged when Claire receives a breast cancer diagnosis. Faced with her illness and the potential for a mastectomy, she struggles with her self-image ...

Rape of Love (1978)

Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend's advice, she decides to file a lawsuit. ...

Nevermore, Forever (1976)

Claire returns to France following the death of her actress friend Agathe. She attends an auction of her friend's possessions, provoking memories of the past. ...

La femme de Jean (1974)

Nadine's existence changes dramatically when her husband leaves her after 15 years. With the help of her seventeen-year-old teenage son Rémi, who is paternal and protective, she goes back to work. ...

Somewhere, Someone (1972)

People in Paris struggle with loneliness and urban isolation. In the center is Raphaële, a successful architect navigating her fragile relationship with her lover Vincent, a journalist grappling with alcoholism. ...

D'un Céline l'autre (1969)

Passers-by, those who knew him in his youth, René Barjavel, witness of his beginnings, his wife, his doctor, writers ... By questioning them Michel Polac tries to better understand the troubled personality of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Notorious anti-Semite ...

La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire (1967)

Portuguese Vacation (1963)

Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves. ...

The Season for Love (1961)

Sylvain, a suave, witty player as well as an accomplished writer and Genevieve met 10 months ago. He wanted a serious relationship for the first time so they moved to the country so they could be together and he could write. ...

Le Bel Âge (1960)

Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments. ...

Zaa, the Little White Camel (1960)

Zaa follows the journey of a white camel returning to the oasis it calls home and finds an unlikely ally in a young boy. With Zaa, Bellon shows another side of herself, the lover of animals and children, in a land far from France. ...

The Wind Rose (1957)

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world. ...

Un matin comme les autres (1956)

Varsovie, quand même... (1954)

Mina de Vanghel (1953)

A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work for him as a servant, but after a night of love with him, she commits suicide. ...

Colette (1951)

In conversation, in her Paris apartment, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, mime, dancer, novelist, wonders whether she should give the green light to a proposed film about the houses in which she lived. "I'm no longer photogenic," she insists; nearly 80, marriage ...

Paris 1900 (1948)

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enric ...

Goémons (1948)

D’où vient cet air lointain? Chronique d’une vie en cinéma (2018)

In the evening of her life, Yannick Bellon reflects on her past. She evokes her career as a film director, which began in the 1940s and the themes, sometimes controversial (rape, bisexuality, drugs, ecology) she chose to deal with. She also tells about her ...