Jean Baronnet

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.

The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town.

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.

A quiet French peasant has spent three years as a corporal on the front lines in World War I, and one day he cannot take it anymore and goes AWOL, escaping into the Alps in the southeast of France. He first takes leave of his wife before heading into the mountains and manages to survive in the breathtaking, vast landscape while using all the knowledge and wiles under his command. Even though the area around him is fairly isolated, another deserter arrives on the scene -- but he cannot take the solitude and leaves. As the peasant diligently works at his own survival, the police from the region know he is hiding out somewhere within their jurisdiction, and so his future is anything but secure. This subdued, pacifist film strives for distance rather than emotional involvement, so as to present a pacifist cause as reasonably as possible, but as a consequence, the routine of the deserter's existence verges on a grinding boredom.

A cinematographic poem in the form of variations around the theme of Robinson, a utopian fable freely inspired by Daniel Defoe's novel, which speaks above all of solitude: the immense weakness of today's man in the face of loneliness is no longer that of the hero of the eighteenth century.

The description of the Greek world that Homer gave in the 8th century B.C. was long considered as a purely mythological account. However, in the 19th century, Schliemann's archeological finds at Mycenae and Troy changed the picture : it seems that the places described by Homer really did exist. In the early 20th century, Victor Bérard (educated at École normale supérieure, member of the French school of Athens and translater of the Odyssey) undertook to travel round the Mediterranean with the Genevan photographer Boissonnas. His aim : to show that the literary countries of the cyclopes, Aeolus, Circe, Charybdis and Scylla have a geographical reality. His hypothesis : the epic poem about Ulysses must be a sort of "manual" of information for settlers who emigrated to the East in vast numbers at the time of Homer. An invitation to travel? Jean Baronnet could not resist and put his film into the double wake : of Ulysses and of Victor Bérard...

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The unity of this period was provided by nationalism. Nationalism of the Dreyfus Affair (Barrès, Maurras, Drumont, Déroulède), the republican nationalism (Péguy), and the nationalism of the "Union sacrée" of the Great War. Pitted against these nationalisms was internationalist and pacifist socialism, which would itself adhere to the "Union sacrée "in 1914. This nationalist tendency also affected the young "Nouvelle Revue française" (Gide, Schlumberger, Copeau, Ghéon, Drouin), which defended the notion literature in its own right, but which itself was shot through with the spirit of the period. In counterpoint : Romain Rolland, author of "Au dessus de la mêlée". This first documentary of the series ends with the Russian Revolution.

Daily life on the island of Skinoussa, in the Cyclades archipelago.

Jean Baronnet goes back in time and takes up the story of David and Goliath. What does Goliath say to the Hebrews? Choose a man and let him come down to me; if, struggling with me, he brings me down, then we will be your slaves; if I bring him down, you will be our slaves and serve us. His speech means that it is useless for two armies to confront each other, that we must free ourselves from the laws of war and place this fight beyond conventions. It would seem that the real duel is always between people who believe that, in some cases, no code or legislation can claim to solve their problems. It is perhaps there that the duel begins, curious product of a belief and warrior instinct... From film excerpts, from the reading of ancient texts and recent images, the director then paints the story of the duel, from the time when the "point of honor" was defended with the sword to our contemporaries who fought to settle professional disputes.

Everything you ever wanted to know about American football : its rules and regulations, its heroes, teams, history, cheerleaders, and media coverage. During the retransmission of the Super Bowl, 150 million Americans remain glued to their TV sets... Football, with its team spirit, its sense of leadership, its ability to forge the character, is more than just a national sport ; it has become part of the American dream.

A series based on films by amateur filmmakers, retracing French (film) history.