Movies

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva begins to...

Adopted by a well-off Swiss couple with slightly older son and daughter, Vinh never cut off links with his country of origin. Postcards from the...

Chantal Akerman was commissioned by Visions to make this short film for £20,000. It was first shown on 21 November 1984, on Channel 4. Akerman...

Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.

80-year-old Jean-Luc is set to play Don Quixote. It's the role he's been waiting for to bid farewell to the stage. Given his health concerns, the...

Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he...

In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to...

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his...

In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhood. Pierre has just finished his medical studies,...

At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron....

"GEMINI - THE TWIN STARS" is a story of star-crossed friendship, growing from one young man's flight from danger and another's quest for adventure....

According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure...

Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him...

Two intertwined families who have made half a century of cinema. La Grande Bouffe, We won’t grow old together, Tchao Pantin, Apocalypse Now,...

After a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger who brings him to a commune that's populated by...

A family settles in an old castle with plans to, among other things, turn its former cemetery into a swimming pool. However, soon they find out that,...

This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in 1975 and 1977, in which she reflects on her films...

The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the reception falls apart as the butler of the...