A Godard influenced by the “secret agents” and the Ben Barka affair, with Anna Karina as a young woman who seeks revenge for her boyfriend, a journalist murdered in a provincial city, for having a dangerous secret. “One of the wonderful things about Made in USA is that Godard has integrated a political (or about politics) discourse of a rather ‘realistic’ context into a sort of allegory that is not far from science fiction” (Luís Miguel Oliveira). It is the last feature film Godard and Karina did together. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
From archival footage from 1992, “Magalhães” shows a politician in campaign with every connection with the current Brazilian political situation.
As Brazil celebrates the historic inauguration of President Lula, on January 1, 2003, two middle-class families are gathered in an old, poorly maintained house for a champagne-filled barbecue amidst family secrets and frustrations.
Fabiana, a trans woman, lived as a nomadic truck driver all over Brazil for more than thirty years. Now she is approaching retirement and should leave behind her adventures on the road.
Pierre Koralnik’s musical comedy with Anna Karina, from music and songs by Serge Gainsbourg (orchestrated by Michel Colombier) was the first color (tv) film produced for the TV station ORTF. Shot in 35mm on the streets of Paris, the nightclub Bus Palladium and the gare de l’Est, the Porgès castle of Rochefort-en-Yvelines and the beach of Deauville, Anna is made up of musical and choreographic inspiration, but also pop and graphic. The story of a publicist’s passion for the image of a girl photographed by chance in a station. It was an important title in Gainsbourg and Karina’s career, Sous le soleil exactement. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
In a film theater with red chairs, Anna Karina comments on her journey through cinema and music, with special regard on the decisive encounters with Jean-Luc Godard and Serge Gainsbourg.
Demetrius has just arrived on Earth from another galaxy. But the girl brought to him by the commissar, Hostess 703, is not a “physical love” girl; she’s a “sentimental love” one, who only knows how to excite men with language.
Homage to noir, work of science fiction and political fiction. It is, as the full title indicates “a strange adventure of Lemmy Caution”. Secret agent Lemmy Caution goes to the city of Alphaville, where all feelings have been abolished and no one is able to perceive poetry, to try to convince a scientist to return to the “outer planets.” This parable on the future society was entirely filmed in natural settings in and around Paris. Anna Karina opposite Eddie Constantine in a plot “of adventure and love”, “death and mystery” that the characters cross between the meshes of a technocratic dictatorship. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
Based on Lucrecia Martel’s own childhood memories, her second feature,La niña santa,is a film where sex and religion go hand in hand when a spiritual calling gets mixed up with carnal desires.
In a small village of the north called Rey Muerto, a woman runs away from her husband’s violence with her children.
Second episode from Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe’s television show “Vive le cinéma”, hosted by Jeanne Moreau and mostly dedicated to Orson Welles, having lunch at the Ritz hotel.
InVoyage en terre – Philippine,Rozier remembers the shooting of his first feature film, when the war was raging and censorship was still in place.
In the 18th century, a highly-placed servant of the Spanish crown who is obsessed with petty grudges and fantasies plots his transfer to Buenos Aires. Based on Antonio Di Benedetto’s novel, written in 1956.
Paparazzi(together withLe Parti des Choses: Bardot et Godard) results from the footage shot during the shooting of Godard’sLe mépris. It is a portrait of the sensationalist press who persecuted Brigitte Bardot at the time.
Pescadosis the most humorous of Martel’s films. The sound artist and musician Juana Molina joins the director to give voice to a choir of fishes who dreamt of being a car.
In a small village in Provence, on the first day of school, a young boy throws his bag into the river on a bet, and the retrieval of it leads to a thrilling adventure.
Musical based on Jean-Baptiste Lully’s musical piece, Alceste ou Le Triomphe d’Alcide. Directed during the production of the opera staging by music director Jean-Claude Malgoire and stage director Jean-Louis Martinoty.
