Чудесный летний день в сельской местности – семейство Дюфур вышло на прогулку. Мадам Дюфур и ее красотка-дочь флиртуют с повесами Анри и Родольфом. Для мадам это лишь легкое увлечение, юная Генриетта мечтает о большой любви. Последствия загородной прогулки аукнутся через много лет...
По роману Луизы де Вильморен. Жюльетту (Дани Робен), почти школьницу, выдают замуж за богатого мужчину средних лет, чего Жюльетте страшно не хочется. В канун свадьбы она затевает розыгрыш, цель которого убедить окружающих, что семейный адвокат (Жан Маре) - ее давний любовник. Добивается Жюльетта в основном того, что все, включая надменную невесту (Жанна Моро) уже обрученного адвоката, начинают потихоньку сходить с ума.
Oscar Winning 1948 short film by Alain Resnais, not to be confused with either the Short 1966 TV doc or the 1991 feature film by Maurice Pialat, both of which shared the same name.
Cochu, a peasant, is the whipping boy of his regimental comrades. He is called "buffer of the capiston", that is to say the captain's order. But he finds himself in the service of Hortense, the captain's sister.
Short documentary on Paul Gauguin by Alain Resnais
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951. Directed by Marc Allégret, with whom Gide traveled extensively in French Equatorial Africa, the film was made in the year leading up to the writer’s death.
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.
Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish Civil War. Narration by Jacques Pruvost highlights the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, followed by a poem by Paul Eluard read by María Casares to a discordant score by Guy Bernard.
Although suspected and hunted down by policeman Sherlock Coco and inspector Hector, the Pieds Nickelés (Croquignol, Filochard and Ribouldingue) manage to save the legacy of Monsieur Miradoux, who will be very grateful to them.
Sherlock Coco, famous detective, tries to thwart the machiavellian plans of the trio of shock. Croquignol, Ribouldingue and Filochard must be extra vigilant, but the profit motive is too strong. As a corollary, the famous pink diamond is also of interest to their legendary enemy, Jo Papillon. But always inventive, they will work out multiple scams and tricks to reach their goals.
A Cannes film festival nominated short feature.