June 1939, fifteen year old Julien, spends his summer holidays in a family house in the countryside. He is in love with his cousin Julia, a little older than him. But she ignores him, more interested in horses, lipstick and...
Jean Pasqualini was the child of a Corsican Frenchman and a Chinese mother, living in China. When the communist regime tightened its controls over Chinese society in 1957, Pasqualini was sentenced to 12 years of...
Moretti’s second feature plays out as a sardonic series of "fumetti" following a group of young Italians as they struggle to come to terms with growing up in an unfeeling world. Michele (Nanni Moretti) goes from one...
One of Moretti's first critically-recognized works, this is a daring, auto-biographical, very amusing look at a young performer, Michele, struggling to survive in Rome's underground theater movement by producing a play with his...
Adaptation from Emile Zola’s novel, « La faute de l’abbé mouret », Father Serge Mouret is a frail and devout priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by beautiful and...
Dassa, a bar owner who refuses to sell drugs to his costumers, is killed by men working for Tavernier, a gangster known as Le Mandarin. Dassa’s sister Hélène is also in danger for the same reasons. Inspector Favenin and the young...
USA
Annecy 2012
France
Locarno