Movies: Michel Piccoli

An old man living in an attic in a rundown part of Paris, becomes increasingly lonely and prey to ill-health....

Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is convinced her brother-in-law is responsible, but soon it becomes apparent that those responsible are li...

Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40 times, the Moon through the telescope of the Observatorium of Paris. His visions drive him into a medi...

The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, h...

A comedy. The husband, the wife, the mistress and the housekeeper. A Fable. The ape, the lion and the little boy....

Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love....

In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His political career was at a standstill and, after 19 years of marriage, the couple had grown apart. It was at this point that François Mitterrand met the woman ...

A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers tragic consequences when he later discards him for another youth....

Estudio Fílmico 01 is an experimental reinterpretation of a scene from La Belle Noiseuse by Jacques Rivette, processed through a multi-layered transformation. 1. The scene was first recorded off a screen using a digital camera. 2. This footage was ...

An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life....

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Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and uneventful until the day when, to her surprise, she receives a letter containing a hundred-franc ban...

The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943)....

Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married for three years, but are often separated by their respective professions. They have not lived together for more than six months. During the winter, t...

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In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect coup...

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Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment on it and its tumultuous production. Featuring interviews with: Jacques Rozier, Alain Bergala, Michel Piccoli, Charles Bitsch....

Libero Burro, a former lout from Italy's center-south, dreams of getting rich and takes over a downtown gambling joint in need of a complete overhaul....

An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967.)...