Once upon a time...
French TV documentary series, covering the circumstances surrounding notable films.
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Tchao Pantin
Last Tango In Paris
Rome, ville ouvert
Explores the life and work of Roberto Rossllini
Tess
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"
Some Like It Hot
Mon Oncle
Jules et Jim
Lawrence of Arabia
Sailor et Lula
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob
Le mépris
Les enfants du paradis
Les echaînés
La dolce vita
Les tontons flingueurs
King Kong
Le petit monde de Don Camillo
The empire of the senses
Adapted from a 1936 true story, Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (1976), filmed during a period of sexual liberation and featuring unsimulated sex scenes, is a provocation aimed at Japanese society. Drawing on the making-of footage and interviews from the period, David Thompson brings in contemporary members of the crew (Koji Wakamatsu, production manager) and other personalities, such as filmmaker Catherine Breillat.
Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Lacombe Lucien
A clockwork orange
Documentary that focuses more on the titular movie's cultural and historical contexts and philosophy underpinning the book than on its production and reception. Features new archive material of both Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
La règle du jeu
Le Père Noël est une ordure
La Haine
Tout sur ma mère
The marriage of Maria Braun
To our loves
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Mommy
In 2014, the movie « Mommy » directed by Xavier Dolan, got the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a great achievement for this director prodigy from Quebec, who had just turned 25. The script - a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and his hyperactive and violent son - and the bold direction electrified the audience. Shot in Montreal, the documentary by Tessa Louise Salomé tells the genesis of this family drama. It also reveals the failures of the society in Quebec : the failure of the mental institution and the impoverishment of the middle class.
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