Bulle Ogier

The Duchess of Langeais

Admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he’s captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy.

Belle Toujours

Admin — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and then takes a slow revenge on her.

See How They Fall

Admin — Wed, 31 Aug 1994 00:00:00 +0000

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon’s story is related with Marx and Johnny’s one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.

Le Pont du Nord

Admin — Wed, 24 Mar 1982 00:00:00 +0000

Marie, is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie’s former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotted with mysterious traps, puzzling clues, and chance encounters. Maybe they are bricks in some sinister scheme, maybe they are playing a board game, maybe it’s a fairy tale, maybe it’s yet something else…

The Third Generation

Admin — Fri, 14 Sep 1979 00:00:00 +0000

A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released in 1979, largely unavailable until 2004. International kapitalist PJ Lurz’s secretary is a gang member, while her Polizeikommissar father-in-law/lover hired Lurz’ corporate security force.

Duelle

Admin — Wed, 15 Sep 1976 00:00:00 +0000

The Daughter of the Moon battles the Daughter of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris.

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Admin — Wed, 18 Sep 1974 00:00:00 +0000

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Admin — Fri, 15 Sep 1972 00:00:00 +0000

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.