Director: Radu Mihaileanu (2009)
A celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra in Moscow loses his post during the Soviet regime when he refuses to fire his Jewish musicians. Twenty-five years later, the man is working as a custodian in the same theatre and helps his wife organize mock demonstrations of communist nostalgia. One day he intercepts [...]
Directors: Jean-Marie Larrieu, Arnaud Larrieu (2009)
When the end of the world is announced, Robinson Laborde is recovering from a failed love affair, for which he had decided to leave his wife. Despite the looming disaster, or perhaps because of it, he embarks on a romantic odyssey that takes him through France and Spain.
With: Mathieu Amalric, [...]
Director: Raymond Depardon (2008)
For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness.
This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land.
With: Paul Argaud, Germaine Challaye, Marcel [...]
Director: Raymond Depardon (2005)
In Lozère, Ardèche and the Haute-Loire we meet up again with several families living a rural life that appeared in an earlier documentary by Raymond Depardon. Young farmers set up house in these mountainous regions, while at the same time, numerous others sell off their estates which become vacation houses for urbanites.
The [...]
Director: Raymond Depardon (2001)
French rural life has undergone enormous changes in the last century. Raymond Depardon offers us a glimpse of this world that he knows so well, having spent his childhood on the Gret farm, in the Saône Valley in the center of France. Profils paysans : L’approche opens the doors to several family [...]