I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive
Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.
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Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.
This is the diary which the French philosopher Simone Weil kept when, as a twenty-five-year-old, she took a one-year sabbatical from school and her studies and worked in a Parisian factory from December 4, 1934 until Aug
More than twenty sports journalists – working mainly on television (BeIN Sports, RMC Sport, France Télévisions, Canal+, TF1) but not only (L'Équipe, Radio France) – testify to the anger, despondency and helplessness they
From the young Ensor, brilliant artist, rebel and relatively unknown, to the esteemed Baron Ensor, who only painted scenes in which he plagiarized himself, Luc de Heusch provides an interpretation of a man and an oeuvre.
Reflections on a murky memory.
"What does the animal see when it looks at me?" Three animals and a woman in an enclosed space. As they study each other, their own methods of communication create a wordless conversation. We view them in close-up and fr
Thierry is a former battered child, who has managed to build himself up despite the violence he has suffered. But the childhood traumas are still present, generating anguish and a perpetual lack of self-confidence. The a
It is like a miracle that has occurred five times a century since 1797. The Fête des Vignerons frees the character of the Vaudois from their legendary restraint. It turns an entire region into a gigantic drunken boat. Th
An anxious filmmaker apprehends the reception of his film.
BBC2 documentary of Eddie Izzard's first foray into world touring. Beginning in her "hometown" of Eastbourne and and culminating in her month long show in the East village of New York, Izzard travels to Paris (her first,
This film is based on a text the director wrote, drawn from her own experience of living in China, Hong Kong, and Paris. The film explores imprisonment, walls (both tangible and those in our minds), people in exile, and
Gated communities are proliferating in Marseille, illustrating a phenomenon of withdrawal and isolation. One dreams of countering this madness with that of Don Quixote. What if he were to decide, flanked of course by his
Up North in the Atlantic, in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, lies the archipelago of the Magdalen Islands, where 12,000 souls live far from the mainland. On one of them, a pretty house swept sometimes by capricio
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both ci