le Pactole

Both the title and the witty, urbane narration delivered by Alexandra Stewart are quintessential Chris Marker, yet this 42-minute essay about the work of photographer Denise Bellon is in fact a collaboration between Marker and Bellon's sister Yannick, a director in her own right who has been making films since 1947. Most of the Denise Bellon photography on-screen comes from France in the late 30s, and the sense of history is as sharp and inflected with literary irony as in Marker's other films.

Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns from her about life.

A couple take their son for the holidays to an uncle, so short of money that he rents part of his big isolated house to a businessman whose wife and daughters are there on holiday too. An affair develops among the adults, while the children start their own explorations. Deaths, disappearances and financial ruin follow as the world drifts into war.

In July 1979, during the Summer holidays, in a house somewhere in Brittany, a whole family (parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and other relatives) are gathered to celebrate Granny Amandine's sixty-seventh birthday. Albertine, who was ten years old at the time, vividly recounts this brief but life-changing experience.

Le Rouge et le Noir c'est Julien Sorel , beau jeune homme de dix-huit ans. Grâce à ses talents de latiniste et ses études en théologie, il quittera la scierie de son père et entrera comme précepteur chez le maire de Verrières, où il ne tardera pas à séduire l'épouse de celui-ci, Madame de Rênal. Eloigné de Verrières, il entrera au séminaire mais se lassant vite de sa vie de séminariste, il échouera à Paris, où là encore, il y séduira la belle Mathilde de La Mole, jeune fille riche issue du grand monde. Ambitieux, Julien y fera son chemin dans le mensonge et la duperie…

"Chiffon" is an eccentric young aristocratic girl, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community.

On the eve of her 16th birthday, Sylvie's father needs cash to stay in his castle so he sells Sylvie's favorite thing, a painting of Alain, the lover of Sylvie's grandmother, killed in a duel. Alain's ghost lives in the castle and Sylvie senses his presence, thinks she loves him, and fears that romance from the living will never come her way. Dad prepares a midnight surprise for Sylvie and her party guests: the appearance of the phantom. He's hired an actor, but two young men in love with Sylvie also volunteer to don white robes: Fred, the rich kid who bought the painting, and Ramure, a jewel thief in hiding. The youths declare their love, and Alain's ghost helps resolve all.

Agé de 73 ans, l'ex Président du Conseil français Emile Beaufort joue toujours un rôle central dans la vie politique du pays. La rédaction de ses mémoires lui permet de revenir sur son parcours et d'évoquer ses relations avec Philippe …

Simon, un cambrioleur en liberté surveillée, accepte de monter sur le plus gros coup de sa vie: Le vol du "Florentin", un diamant mythique mis en vente aux enchères par ses propriétaires. Pour réussir, il devra approcher Julia, l'experte diamantaire, …

Esordio alla regia del paraguayano Marcelo Martinessi, Le Ereditiere è la storia di due donne sulla sessantina, Chela (Ana Brun) e Chiquita (Margarita Irun), entrambe discendenti della borghesia coloniale decaduta di Asunción. Dopo essere state insieme per trent'anni, devono separarsi a causa di una deleteria situazione finanziaria.