La Vie

"A beach in Normandy, children running. Suddenly a female voice appears. A woman begins to take stock of her life, evokes a sexual assault experienced in her childhood. On the beach her children intermittently short-circuit her thoughts In the image, a sharpness never before acquired, something that seeks... A coming and going is created between the softness of this seaside scene and the interiority of this woman stripped bare at the same time. , taken as witness, the spectator attends the reconstruction of this bruised identity."

Despite preconceived ideas, pupils with high intellectual potential are not always successful at school. At the end of the 1980s, the French Ministry of Education was first called to account for this paradox. Was there a link between intellectual ability and certain difficulties in adjustment? Over the course of a school year at the Georges Brassens state secondary school in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, where an integration scheme has been in place for these types of pupils for the past fifteen years, the narrator and the various protagonists look back over their lives to identify the nuances of this question, which has become a key issue in the public debate.

At the border between traditional live coverage (that describes the stages of grape reaping) and a private family movie, the film shows a visit to the estate of Avram Ghiltcik.

Documentary about Polish-American pianist, Arthur Rubinstein.

Constance, a succesful thirty year old woman , is leaving for her bachelor party. Once arrived, her dream turns short: her fiancé informs her he is breaking the engagement. Unable to tell her friends, Constance has to confront this harsh reality by herself.

Filmed in Berlin's spectacular Waldbuehne Amphitheatre, an 8000 seat outdoor concert venue like no other in the world. Rieu's magic is captured witth all its charma and energy in this DVD.

This Civil War anthology adapts three Ambrose Bierce stories "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga" and "The Mockingbird."

Loie Fuller, in her 1920 feature-length film Le Lys de la vie, […] explored the new technique for poetic ends, creating fleeting, dreamlike images that "freed" the medium from "illusionism" and imbued it with fantasy. A 17 minutes fragment is held at the Cinémathèque française.

Geneva train station. A woman leaves for Marseilles to give a conference. A man is on his way to Berlin to discover his new born child. A young woman is off to live in Naples. When one person invites itself to take a seat next to someone else, a new reality can start off. Three people meeting, three life stories which switch on the platform of a railway station.

A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in America, returns and wants to hasten the financier's death.

Un chef de gare surréaliste, un poète de la mécanique, un retraité "à la coule", une centenaire à l'humeur chantante, un paysan voyageur, un gyrocoptère qui fait du sur-place, un coq qui passe à la casserole... La Vie comme elle va prend les choses comme elles viennent et les gens comme ils sont. Loin du cynisme de la ville, le film révèle la réalité décalée d'un petit village de la campagne aveyronnaise : un bouquet champêtre d'humanité dont les héros sont reliés par un même désir, celui de vivre à Najac, proches de la nature, et y vivre bien, libres.

The life and work of French statesman Georges Clemenceau is detailed in this 80-minute documentary. Using family photographs, newspaper layouts, newsreel clips and other such sources, the film traces Clemenceau from his earliest political triumphs to his dotage. Much emphasis is placed upon the subject's involvement with the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles. The narration by Yves Furet is counterpointed with excerpts from Clemenceau's most celebrated speeches. The patriotic fervor of La Vie Passionee de Clemenceau tended not to play too well in non-French markets.

In the not-too-distant future, humanity will be confronted with an inexorable energy crisis. To face it, a team of astronauts in suspended animation is sent to another galaxy to collect uranium. Seventy-four years later, Apollo disembark on this wild planet where the resources seem miraculous.