Movies: Clémence Poésy

In 1924, Simone de Beauvoir, a girl with polished appearance, prepares for her final examination in philosophy and meets Jean-Paul Sartre. He seems to know her true personality and considers her the only woman worthy of his intellect. Their chaotic l...

A washed-up musician befriends a reclusive artist with an unusual name....

A man tries to avoid his problems whilst on a night out in a karaoke bar....

From petty theft on the benches of Belleville to the over-publicised hold-ups of the large Parisian banks, this is the spectacular rise of Simon and his gang. They are capable of emptying a series of safes under the very nose of the police who are be...

A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman....

It’s summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet’s Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist paint...

Christmas Eve. Sophie, an intern in the emergency psych ward on the brink of a burnout, is tasked with admitting Marie, a disturbed patient who was brought to the ward by the police after a crisis. Despite her incoherent ramblings and obvious psychic...

A 16 years old Olga is dreaming about leaving house when suddenly she meets a mysterious man who is ready to join her....

Louis is a super nice guy. But in his lawyer's office, this is not a compliment. When his doctor wrongly diagnoses a serious disease, his colleagues behaviour changes : they care about him, they ask him questions and they listen his answers. Finally,...

Florence is an actress. The preparations for her next film will put her through an unexpected ordeal: an initiation with real bullets....

Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears...

Intimacy and entertainment, melancholy and fury, modesty and drive, birth and disappearance. Four girls, four boys. Eight solitudes told with lyric and passion, between Earth and Cosmos, along the way towards their Metamorphoses....

A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty....

Chloé, a young baby sitter, must look after Blanche, the daughter of Agnes and François, for the first time. Once the couple has left, Chloé falls asleep in front of TV. When she wakes up, she is horrified to discover that the baby is no longer there...

A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai....

In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite....

Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to ta...

Observing in close up the students of the Opéra National de Paris' dance school, who day after day build their future as dancers, Clémence Poésy offers a novel gaze that leaves the bodies at work off screen. By capturing the intimacy of faces, she re...

La vie quand même (LIFE AFTER ALL) is another film in a series collectively called 'Tales from the Orphanage'. The story is simple on the surface (children coping with the sudden loss of parents), but in the hands of writer Sophie Tasma and director ...

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