Sydney Pollack directed Three Days of the Condor in 1974. Portrait of a film: Joseph Turner aka Condor, played by Robert Redford, is an unsuccessful novelist who works for the CIA, reading spy novels in search of ideas or leaks. One day, returning…

Portrait of a film: Manuela, a single mother, accidentally loses hes 17 year old son and starts searching for the father of the child. The latter lives as a transvestite prostitute in Barcelona. The film offers a gallery of women’s portraits - nurses…

Portrait of a film: Suzanne, aged only 15, collects sexual encounters. Her father, whom she admires, suddenly leaves the conjugal home. Now living with her half-mad mother and her despotic brother, Suzanne decides to flee. She engages in a loveless…

Rainer Werner Fassbinder shot Maria Braun's wedding in 1979. Story of a film: The film is about the life and destiny of Maria Braun and tells the rise and fall of this great adventurer and exceptional woman who lived in West Germany between 1945 and…

During the eleventh edition of the famous Easter Festival the Mariinsky Orchestra is travelling across the vastness of Russia by train. In this documentary we will follow the orchestra on this musical journey and on its various concert stations. By…

Mathieu Kassovitz shoots Hate in 1995. Portrait of a film: punctuated by the relentless countdown of a predetermined drama, Hate is the story of three young friends from a low-rent housing zone on the outskirts of Paris, the day after a night of…

Milos Forman shoots One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975. It is the first film produced by Michael Douglas. Portrait of a film: In order to escape prison, a delinquent (Jack Nicholson) manages to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. There he…

Louis Malle shoots Lacombe Lucien in 1973. Portrait of a Film : A small town in the South-West of France in June 1944, shortly after the Allied landings. Son of peasants, Lacombe Lucien seeks to join the Resistance, but he is considered too young…

Stanley Kubrick directed A Clockwork Orange in 1971. Portrait of a film: in England, in the near future, the Droogs gang spreads terror through gratuitous acts of violence. Arrested for murder, Alex, their leader, agrees to serve as a guinea pig for…

Luis Buñuel directed The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in 1972. Portrait of a film: Belonging to the same circle of worldly notables, six characters try repeatedly to share a meal but each attempt fails, due either to the intrusion of strangers…