Film archive
The Fall of the American Empire La chute de l'empire américain
Denys Arcand / Canada / 2018 / 127 min / English, French
In this soulful and satirical robbery caper, Denys Arcand (The Barbarian’s Invasion) reflects on a society that has allowed money to become its greatest signifier of value.
La Commune (Paris, 1871) La Commune (de Paris, 1871)
Peter Watkins / France / 2000 / 345 min / French
The Creation of Meaning La creazione di significato
Simone Rapisarda Casanova / Italy / 2014 / 94 min
The Crusade La croisade
Louis Garrel / France / 2021 / 67 min / Slovene subtitles, French / 12+
Abel and Marianne are terrified to discover that their 13-year-old son Joseph has secretly been selling their most precious possessions, only to find that he is not alone in this: hundreds of kids worldwide have banded together to finance a mysterious project… To write this eco-fantasy packed with humour and optimism, the director and actor Louis Garrel (The Innocent) teamed up with the legendary Jean-Claude Carrière.
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet La danse – Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
Frederick Wiseman / France, USA / 2009 / 159 min / French
Goddess of the Fireflies La déesse des mouches à feu
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette / Canada / 2019 / 105 min / French
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The Ape Woman La donna scimmia
Marco Ferreri / Italy, France / 1964 / 92 min / Italian
Marco Ferreri’s tragicomic satire and perverse love story, starring Annie Girardot and Ugo Tognazzi, bears all the marks of its maker, the surreal humanism and compassionate nihilism of a master provocateur, an anarchic anti-conformist and a visionary genius.
Memoir of War La douleur
Emmanuel Finkiel / France, Switzerland, Belgium / 2017 / 127 min / French
1944, occupied France. Gifted young writer Marguerite Duras and her husband Robert Antelme are active members of the resistance. When Robert is deported, Marguerite is prepared to do anything to save him. To do so, she releases herself into dangerous circumstances with local collaborator Rabier – but are his motives as pure as meets the eye, or is he trying to obtain to details of the resistance movement as an informer? Based on Marguerite Duras’s 1944 autobiographical novel, Pain.