Movies: Jean-Claude Brisson
- 2002
Philanthropy (2002)
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In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unassuming high school teacher, never could afford it. Looking for a source of income more substantial th...
- 1998
Central Station (1998)
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An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew....
- 1966
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966)
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Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and ...
- 1994
Rice People (1994)
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A poor, rural Cambodian family slowly disintegrates during the cycle of a single rice crop....
- 1983
Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
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Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story....
- 1985
Tokyo Melody: A Film about Ryuichi Sakamoto (1985)
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Documentary about the eclectic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording sessions for his 1984 album "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia"....
- 1984
Manoel’s Destinies (1984)
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When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in th...
- 1976
Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre (1976)
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Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe (1963), Sarah Maldoror portrays her friend as a politician, a poet, and a founder of the Négritude movement....
- 2000
Comedy of Innocence (2000)
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Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that day, Cami...
- 1989
Énumérations (1989)
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- 1992
La vie de Galilée (1992)
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Mise-en-scène, at the Comédie-Française, of La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht. This is the last staging by Antoine Vitez....
- 1983
The Man with the Suitcase (1983)
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A sensitivity to sounds coming from the activities of an unwelcome guest in the close quarters of an apartment is only one important component in this atmospheric, avant-garde drollery by Chantal Akerman. When the apartment owner comes home, her gues...
- 1978
The Suspended Vocation (1978)
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The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arg...
- 1977
Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak (1977)
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Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire....
- 1990
Pour un oui ou pour un non (1990)
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Two childhood friends who have not seen each other for a long time decide to meet again. They talk and look for what could have caused their estrangement: words pronounced in a certain way, an intonation etc. Very quickly, an argument begins and turn...
- 2004
Pinochet and His Three Generals (2004)
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In 1976-77, José Ma Berzosa contacted General Pinochet during a trip to Chilean Antarctica. On his return to Santiago, Pinochet agreed to be interviewed. In front of the camera, the General and three members of the junta speak about their memories an...
- 1991
La Fable des continents (1991)
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- 1980
The One-Eyed Man (1980)
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With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world....
- 1973
Images du carnaval de Bâle (1973)
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It was in 1973 that this film, the first film shot in Super 8 mm with magnetic sound, was broadcast on television. The Carnival of Basel is famous for the music of its fife-and-drum military bands. The imaginary quality of the carnival comes face to ...
- 1994
My Chinese Sister (1994)
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In 1977, one year after Mao died, a French man ( played by Alain Bashung) comes back to China to work as a school teacher with his daughter. He quickly ignores the interdiction of getting in touch with Chinese people and finds himself drawn into myst...