Benvenuta
Door André Delvaux
1983 | 115 min | Klassiekers
Un jeune scénariste rend visite a une romancière pour les besoin d'un film au sujet du livre qu'elle écrivit il y a quelques années.
Mathieu Carrière
ActeurFilms
L'Oeuvre au noir
Door André Delvaux
1988 | 110 min | Klassiekers
Sébastien Theus, médecin alchimiste, revient clandestinement à Bruges, sa ville natale. Malgré de puissants protecteurs, il va être arrêté et condamné.
Appointment in Bray
Door André Delvaux
1971 | 90 min | Klassiekers
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful but mute woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.
Special Treatment
Door Jeanne Labrune
2010 | 95 min | Drama
Jeanne Labrune's drama stars Huppert and Lanners as, respectively, Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation. Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne Labrune's drama stars Isabelle Huppert and Bouli Lanners as, respectively, Alice, a disaffected call girl ...
Le Coup de Grâce
Door Volker Schlöndorff
1976 | 97 min | Klassiekers
A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster. 1976's Coup de Grace (released in Germany as Der Fangschluss) was inspired by a Marguerite Yourcenar novel and directed by Volker Schlondorff. The story is set in Latvia in 1919, at the height of the Soviet Civil War. Margarethe von Trotta plays an aristocrat sympathetic to the Communist cause. Besides her ruinous habit of falling love with men who do not love her, Margarethe's tragic flaw is her refusal to acknowledge the cost of ...