Directing
A forty year-old Parisian, Francoise Romand loses herself in various loves and cities. This film is a jubilant self-mockery, passing through several continents and mixing languages in a cultural, racial and sexual diversity anchored in our times.
A little girl plays the violin in a cemetery. Just afterwards, a fisherman collects in his boat a young woman, exhausted from swimming, who is asking for a violin. We guess it's the same person. Space-time has been shattered. The young lady has lost her memory, but not her purse, which contains a real fortune. A romance begins between the enigmatic belle and her saviour, she in search of her identity, he who has given up his profession as a photographer and France to reconnect with his Tunisian origins. She without a past, he has a clean slate.
Ciné-Romand is a mise en abîmé of previous films of Françoise Romand. Spectators are invited to discover them at a happening that mixes fiction and reality as domestic theater. Voyeurs are not always who we think they are. Guest/spectators, hosts, angel-guides, actors and technicians - all become characters in this fictional documentary where Alice's looking-glass reflects a mischievous fantasy with the roles reversed and complementing one another.
In the studios of the Florida in Agen, several groups of young musicians rehearse. A right-wing politician, who initiated the project, speaks out about it, while a colleague from the same party denigrates the initiative. Part of the regional documentary TV program (France 3 Limousin) called "Aléas".
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One of the most remarkable and innovative documentaries ever made, this film follows the famous true story of two English women who as babies got switched in the hospital and 20 years later discovered that they'd been raised by the wrong sets of parents. Romand enlists all the surviving family members in her haunting and bizarre investigation, which involves not only a recounting but a reenactment of all the significant events in the two daughters' emotional histories.
Alain and Yves Dognin, 54 year old twins, live with their parents in a dilapidated apartment that seems to have stopped in time. Alain paints brightly colored canvases while Yves listens to music. Their day is punctuated by mass, medical care and meals. Episode of "Strip-tease", a Franco-Belgian documentary TV series.
In a small French village, Communist activist and poet Ovida Delect undergoes her social gender transition with the unbridled support of her wife Huguette. Meanwhile, the couple's teenage son harbors some serious reservations about Ovida's transition.
The story narrated through the year of a couple of street artist, Ella+Pitr, who travels around the world creating marvelous building-size wall posters.
The story is about international adoption and how painful it can be. It‘s a portrait of a young Colombian adopted by a French family.
Two women that everything opposes, a luxury prostitute and an unemployed intellectual, meet on the landing they share. Against all odds, they become friends and one day decide to exchange their lives...
The director's friend tells her digestion problems and how it affects her everyday life. Two slightly differing versions from 2021 and 2023.
