Movies: Michael Lonsdale

1970s France. In this modern Parisian city suburb, the paths cross of two neighbours living on the same landing, Georges and Claude: one burying his mother, the other about to marry his daughter. Two family events which, on that day, are going to hav...

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female character establishes the dialogue between these individuals and comments on the ideology of each; Until th...

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Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville as visualised by Jean-Louis Bertucelli...

A couple takes charge of mounting the film of love and war of a filmmaker friend faded away....

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Shots of a sequence of a shooting: young girl who must shed tears....

A César nominated short drama....

Constructed like an animated painting in a single fixed shot where light, voice, music and movements interfere....

The life and work of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), an American writer who lived in France for more than half of her life ("... not the half that made me, but the half when I did what I did..."), presented in a montage of her autobiographical texts, wit...

A two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet. It features a mixture of archival footage, scenes from Perec’s films and to-camera readings of excerpts from his work by various actors an...

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John....

A homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”...

N recounts the story of the Frenchman Raymond Borremans, who left Europe for Africa in the mid-20th-century. He devoted his life to the creation of the first encyclopaedia of this other world, dreaming of eternal recognition. He died, however, having...

Herbert, a Candide-like idealistic teenager, wants to become a doctor to help humanity, but his parents insist that he become a rich aviator. Herbert runs away to study medicine with a wise old Boulugre, and vows to help the natives of undeveloped co...

To relieve her boredom, a lonely woman embarks on adventures that turn out to be disappointing....

Film montage of documents shot between 1895 and 1900 by the operators of the Lumière brothers....

A meditation on the passing of time, on a film that was never completed, upon Bazin’s death, on restoration and the future of ruins and on modern-day life that continues in resonance with the old stones....

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