Director: François Truffaut (1973)
Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit americaine was director Francois Truffaut’s loving and humorous tribute to the communal insanity of making a movie. The film details the making of a family drama called ‘Meet Pamela’ about the tragedy that follows when a young French man introduces his parents [...]
Director: François Truffaut (1977)
Bertrand Morane, a provincial bachelor in his early forties is killed in a car accident. Women of all shapes and description flock to his funeral. Some nurse tender memories and some are cynical as they recall that he was only truly happy watching or making love to women.
With: Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, [...]
Director: François Truffaut (1980)
Truffaut, whose Day For Night explored the world of filmmaking, now turns to the stage in this story of a small theatre company during the German occupation of France. Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve), the theatre’s owner, is desperately trying to keep both the troupe and Lucas (Heinz Bennet), her Jewish husband, alive. [...]
Director: Marina de Van (2009)
Jeanne (Sophie Marceau) a writer, married, with two children – starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Her body is beginning to change. No one around her seems to notice. Her family dismisses these fears as the result of the stress of having to finish her next book, but Jeanne [...]
Director: Mona Achache (2009)
Traces the unexpected encounter between three neighbors who live in a middle-class apartment building in central Paris: Paloma, a fearsomely intelligent and suicidal 11-year-old girl; Renee Michel, an unobtrusive, solitary and erudite concierge; and the enigmatic Kakuro Ozu, a Japanese man who shakes up social conventions.
With: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo [...]