Writing
Françoise Sagan, born Françoise Quoirez, was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. She is best-known novel for her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" (1954), written when she was a teenager.
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
Summer 1953. Françoise Sagan, a young French girl, begins writing Bonjour Tristesse. A few months later she becomes a published author, while France is scandalized by her frank description of female youthful sexuality.
Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.
As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and prolific father... Roger Vladimir Plémiannikov, a.k.a. Roger Vadim, tried everything until his death in 2000. Portrait of a man at the cutting edge of fashion and trends.
After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.
Françoise Sagan, Clara Malraux, Henriette Jelinek, and Françoise Mallet-Joris share their views on literature and discuss what drives them to write.
A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.
A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to keep her frivolous lifestyle at all costs.
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
Jérôme and his wife Monika head for the mountains for a hunting weekend with their friend Stanislas, an inveterate seducer, and his latest conquest, Betty. Even before they arrive, Jérôme overhears a tender gesture between his wife and Stanislas.
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle.
A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.
Marivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the "Narcissus" for a musical cruise in company of the famous diva La Doria.