At her first audition, a young woman is asked by the casting director to talk about what is inside her handbag.
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
הסרט מגולל את סיפורה של משפחת מורגן קשת היום, החיה בכפר בעמק בדרום ויילס, שכלכלתו מבוססת על מכרות פחם, במפנה המאה העשרים. הסרט נוגע בנושאים כמסורת עממית ונוף ירוק הנדחקים בשל הקידמה, פער דורות, תנאי החיים והעבודה הקשים והמסוכנים, שביתות והתאגדות עובדים, פער מעמדות, התעללות בילדים, התמודדות עם רכילות בקהילה קטנה ושמרנית ועוד. עם זאת, הצגת הדברים היא ברוח נוסטלגית והוא מלווה בשירי עבודה וולשיים מקוריים.
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. Brusquely, Dellaplane offers her 1/350,000th of his time, but as their paths cross and she sees his courage and resolve, feelings change. After he finds a surprising connection between her missing husband and a local teacher, Irène makes Dellaplane an offer. This man of action hesitates: has he missed his only chance?
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.
Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
פריז בשלהי מלחמת העולם השניה, כוחות הברית נחתו בנורמנדי ובפריז כוחות ההתנגדות מניפות את נס המרד.בפריז המפקד הגרמני נערך בחצי לב לממש את פקודת היטלר להשאיר אדמה חרוכה מפריז במקרה של נסיגה, בעת שכוחות ההתנגדות מנסות לקבל סיוע על מנת להציל את העיר מחורבן.בסרט מופיע רשימה מופארת של שחקנים כמו: ז'אן פול בלמנדו, קירק דוגלס, איב מונטאן ובתפקיד אורחת סימון סיניורה האגדתית.
Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free, straight from the heart, capable of making people feel alive". His concept of what acting should be begins beyond the stage, out in the streets face to face with the public. Outdoors, in any town square, in a park or in the city's most commercial street, Alfredo and his troupe November start the show; demons to provoke passers-by, displays of social conscience, actions taken to the extreme to put the forces of law and order on full alert. There are no limits, no censorship; only ideas which are always valid so long as the public ceases to be the public and becomes part of the show swept by surprise, fear, tears or laughter. Theater as life, life as theater… there is no longer any difference.
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
פול, הוא בחור בן 30, החי עם שתי דודותיו הקשישות בדירה בפריס. הן גידלו אותו וטיפלו בו מהרגע בו נולד ושאיפתן העיקרית היא שיהפוך לפסנתרן מחונן. בין שיעורי הפסנתר התכופים לחוגי הסלון של הדודות וחברותיהן, פול חיי את חייו כילד בגוף של גבר, כנשמה בודדה שאינה זוכה לממש את הפוטנציאל שלה. יום אחד פול פוגש בשכנתו המוזרה, גברת פרוסט והמפגש הגורלי משנה את חייו.
Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…
There's drama aplenty for the travelling theatre company Chekhov Cabaret. The actors share the good times and the bad as a nomadic tribe where work and private life always mingle. They don’t mince words, these obstreperous actors with a sardonic sense of humour. Theatre always comes first.
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.
Since 2021, Paul Mirabel has been touring across France to share his first show. So nonchalant that he provokes laughter from the audience just by moving toward a water bottle, Paul performs with the sincerity of a dreamy guy who doesn’t denounce or demand anything, but brilliantly highlights the absurdities of everyday life that no one pays attention to anymore.
Frank Tramontana, a hearse driver who unwittingly gets drawn into a scheme his co-workers have concocted for a series of unfortunate "accidents" designed to clean up the neighborhood and fill their funeral parlor with much needed customers.
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the three “character” scenes. In the first scene two people enter a room, chat briefly, and listen to “Strawberry Fields Forever” on the radio. Later, a man (played by filmmaker Hollis Frampton) enters inexplicably and dies on the floor. And last, the female owner of the apartment is heard and seen on the phone, speaking, with strange calm, about the dead man in her apartment whom she has never seen before.