L'ombre du Caravage

Cirque du Soleil's Anniversary Collection 1984-2005 is a 12-disc retrospective of the Canadian troupe's distinctive brand of performance, involving the fantastic feats of acrobatics and athleticism, balance and contortion; the single-ring techno circus; the multicolored lights and costumes; the abstract story lines of fantasy and self-discovery; the music that fuses rock, New Age, and various world influences; and the madcap clowns that prey on their live audiences.

In medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim.

Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of China’s greatest poet, Du Fu. From the Yellow River to the Yangtze Gorges, and down to the forested hills of Hunan, Michael Wood travels in the footsteps of China’s most-loved poet. Born in 712, the age of Beowulf in Britain, Du Fu lived through the violent fall of China’s brilliant Tang dynasty. As rebel armies sacked the capital, and floods and famine wrecked the country, he was forced to flee, taking his family on the roads as refugees.

This is the story of a childhood and an adolescence which are expressed through a hundred small sequences passing in the forties, fifties and sixties in a modest family of the Pas-de-Calais. Paul, the main character to be found in five, thirteen and eighteen years, is the thread of this story broke that works in the disorder of memory.

In medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim.

A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find each other.

In medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim.

Robert Tassen, jeune militaire français, est le seul survivant d'un massacre dans lequel son frère a péri sous ses yeux. Aveuglé par sa vengeance, Robert s'engage dans une quête solitaire et secrète à la recherche des assassins. Mais sa rencontre …

Ariane et Hugo décident d'échanger leur vie pour échapper à la routine, qui, après dix ans de mariage, leur donne le sentiment d'être des hamsters pédalant dans une roue. Elle se retrouve du jour au lendemain à la direction d'une entreprise de location de matériel de chantier. Et lui s'improvise vendeur de bijoux à domicile… Mais la vie est-elle plus belle lorsqu'on la contemple de l'autre côté du lit ?

The film opens with a three-minute, twenty-second tracking shot widely considered by critics as one of the greatest long takes in cinematic history. On the Mexico/US border, a man plants a time bomb in a car. A man and woman enter the vehicle and make a slow journey through town to the US border. Newlyweds Miguel "Mike" Vargas (Charlton Heston) and Susie (Janet Leigh) pass the car several times on foot. The car crosses the border, then explodes, killing the occupants…