Movies: Jean Négroni

In the harbor of Toulon, on the “Ocean” training ship, the apprenticeship of the cabin boys and experts of the Navy is punctuated by permissions in town, friendships, bullying, and loves....

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, author of "Dangerous liaisons", finds himself in prison and confronting the marquise de Merteuil. Together they discuss his characters of the marquise and vicomte de Valmont and the web of circumstance and intrigue that co...

A study of conscience set against the trial of Eichmann in Israel....

The islands of the Caribbean Sea. Tiberio, an astonishing junk dealer, runs a store selling bits and pieces of wreckage fished here and there... A certain Jeff, a sailor with a passion for the bottle... "works" with Tiberio, perfecting old maps showi...

From April to July 1794, Robespierre forms a triumvirate with Saint-Just and Couthon. He plans to instate his ideal based on virtue and in times of revolutionary crisis, on terror. In May, he establishes the Cult of the Supreme Being. However, he sti...

An anti-nuclear parable, the film tells the story of villagers who each year traditionally hold "sap weddings", thus paying homage to the forest. But a nuclear power plant must be built there. The film was presented in competition at the Thonon-les-B...

Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land. He is hired at the fancy new plant that has just opened where he enters a world of rote work. Fortunately he can go home to his farm ev...

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Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music....

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The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them....

This collection of rare footage examines WWII from an unusual perspective, that of everyday people. How did civilians cope with the ferocity of the "Blitz", occupation, and devastation?...

This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works....

We join the idyllic world of conductor Petre Mihajlovski, whose slow, narrow-gauge Macedonian train was built in 1895, and runs from Prespa to Ohrid. Here are charming scenes of laundry washed by the lake, the soapy water heated in large copper kettl...

Evocation of the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were slaughtered by a Nazi Waffen SS company, based on a visit to Diors' Museum of the Three Wars" and archive photographs....