Bernard Fresson

Place Vendome

Admin — Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She’s got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.

Germinal

Admin — Wed, 29 Sep 1993 00:00:00 +0000

It’s mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner’s town. They are exploited by the mine’s owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them

The Tenant

Admin — Wed, 26 May 1976 00:00:00 +0000

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.

French Connection II

Admin — Sun, 18 May 1975 00:00:00 +0000

“Popeye” Doyle travels to Marsailles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

Max and the Junkmen

Admin — Wed, 17 Feb 1971 00:00:00 +0000

Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who’s the girlfriend of the group’s leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they’re ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max’s cold plan? Who’s entrapped?

Z

Admin — Wed, 26 Feb 1969 00:00:00 +0000

Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it’s too late to save Z’s life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the facts leak out, those who tell the truth pay the price for their honesty.

Woman in Chains

Admin — Wed, 20 Nov 1968 00:00:00 +0000

Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character. So why would Josée endanger her mature relationship with Gilbert for the morbid observation of Stanislas’s hidden personality?

Far from Vietnam

Admin — Sun, 01 Jan 1967 00:00:00 +0000

In seven different parts, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamees army during the Vietnam-war.

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Admin — Wed, 10 Jun 1959 00:00:00 +0000

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple — lovers turned friends — recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.