Movies: Henri Colpi

  • 1958
    Les hommes de la baleine

    Les hommes de la baleine (1958)

    Les hommes de la baleine

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    In a small fishermen's village in the Azores, an enormous whale is being jointed, carved and stocked. Once this task is over, the whalers ready themselves for another hunt, a fascinating but trying and dangerous experience......

    Les hommes de la baleine
  • 1986
    Le sphinx

    Le sphinx (1986)

    Le sphinx

    01986HD

    Fragments of a text by Jean Genet – “Four Hours in Chatila” – are illustrated by summer images of a park in Brussels. The contrast between what is seen and what is said attempts to stop, to break the flow of information which tends to neutralize horr...

    Le sphinx
  • 1959
    Monsieur Tête

    Monsieur Tête (1959)

    Monsieur Tête

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    Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his head is broken, like everyone else....

    Monsieur Tête
  • 1957
    La Déroute

    La Déroute (1957)

    La Déroute

    01957HD

    How to make the most of a defeat. How to make money from Napoleon's fiasco at Waterloo....

    La Déroute
  • 1995
    Life Lesson

    Life Lesson (1995)

    Life Lesson

    71995HD

    To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic reflection on the theme of paradise lost. Some fifty persons illustrate the planet's convulsions and the worl...

    Life Lesson
  • 1995
    Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue

    Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue (1995)

    Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue

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    Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano Player, and Jules and Jim....

    Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
  • 1957
    Chères vieilles choses

    Chères vieilles choses (1957)

    Chères vieilles choses

    01957HD

    Georges Delerue (composer). Commentary written by Boris Vian (under his pseudonym Michel Arras) and spoken by Jacques Mauclair. Jacques Rivette: …Chères vieilles choses, de Raymond Vogel, film imparfait, zigzagant, inégal, mais qui, dans les marges ...

    Chères vieilles choses
  • 1958
    The Sea and the Days

    The Sea and the Days (1958)

    The Sea and the Days

    6.51958HD

    Everyday life of fishermen on Brittany's Ile de Sein....

    The Sea and the Days
  • 1969
    Bilocation

    Bilocation (1969)

    Bilocation

    01969HD

    "Professor Marian died under mysterious circumstances."...

    Bilocation