Movies: Édith Scob

The story unfolds in the winter of the year 1215. A mysterious stranger who has escaped from prison arrives in a tiny, remote village in the kingdom of France plagued by famine and leprosy, and ruled by an ageing lord, a former hero from the Crusades...

Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments....

In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts ...

Crossed portraits of three women each living in the aftermath of the events of May 1968....

In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his maste...

After murdering her abusive husband, a woman on the run develops a friendship with another widow....

Roland is forty years old. Solitary and a bit lunar, he thinks he will discover one morning that he is the hidden son of Arielle Dombasle. He decides to go to meet his mother who will reject him, run away from him, then little by little get attached ...

Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer....

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro wanders between the park and the salons, playing the songs he composed on the guitar. He notices strang...

Two guys facing problems in relationships and wondering about the living on the capitalist society....

In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless night. Her husband received a letter a few hours later asking him to go to a remote place for business...

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arg...

Adapted from Pierre Decourcelle's version of the William Gillette play. Jacques François plays a very mannered Holmes, almost effeminate, who is in love with the young Alice Brent. The story is a mix of A Scandal in Bohemia and The Adventure of the ...

The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representat...

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A woman comes home from a long illness (read: a long absence). The city hasn't changed, the man she's returning to has. She will have to learn how to live all over again....

A man assumes the identity of a dead person and convinces a young amnesiac that he is part of her life....

A woman sitting in front of a screen: we do not know if it is day or night outside. In this place, the light of the screens dominates that of time. The inner voice of this woman recounts a solitary and reclusive life and her confusion in front of an ...

A film in which the house is itself a fundamental element and in which Vecchiali assumes the role of a recurring character, who responds by diverse names. It is the film of Vecchiali in which the representation of the ghosts is literal, in the bodies...