Director: Jan Kounen (2009)
Paris, 1913. Coco Chanel is in love with the young and wealthy Boy Chapel, but she is above all dedicated to her work. Igor Stravinsky rehearses The Rites of Spring. The composition’s revolutionary dissonance bring to mind, in many respects, the clothing designer’s radical work.
Coco goes to the premiere of the The [...]
Director: Agnès Varda (2008)
Celebrated filmmaker Agnès Varda (CLEO FROM 5 TO 7) turns the camera on herself for this autobiographical documentary. While roaming the beach, the beatific 80-year-old revisits her past–including memories of fellow Left Bank directors Jacques Demy (later her husband), Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker. Incorporating clips from Varda’s work, animation, and photographs, [...]
Director: Joann Sfar (2010)
It’s the story, amusing and fantastic, of Serge Gainsbourg and his famous mug. It’s the story of a little Jewish boy who saunters about in a Paris occupied by the Germans; of a young, timid poet who leaves behind his paintings and his room beneath the rooftops to dazzle nightclub crowds during [...]
Director: Anne Fontaine (2009)
‘Coco Avant Chanel’ tells the story of the woman behind the name, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. Not only a document of what ‘Chanel’ has come to represent, the film tells the story of a humble seamstress who grew up in a poor, rural household and went on to become a legendary couturier as [...]
Director : Jean-Francois Richet (2008)
The first part of the Mesrine legend. From the 1960s in Paris to the beginning of the 1970s in Canada, the film explores the early career of a criminal in a class by himself: Jacques Mesrine.
With: Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche, Roy Dupuis, Elena Anaya, Florence Thomassin, [...]