french experimental movies (1970s)

Uno studente parigino di 25 anni, disilluso, fa i conti con un profondo senso di distacco e sconforto man mano che la sua indifferenza aumenta.

He was eleven and two months old. He had just run away from home.

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds to achieve his goal... A very gloomy movie, exuding despair and uneasiness, with pathetic characters.

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of "truth" and "history".

A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.

A dying writer bases his last book on his own perception of his family.

French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.

"Je" è una ragazza rinchiusa in una stanza volontariamente. 'Tu' è la sceneggiatura. "Il" è un camionista. "Elle" è la ragazza.

Una vedova casalinga solitaria fa le sue faccende quotidiane, si prende cura del suo appartamento dove vive con suo figlio adolescente. Succede qualcosa che cambia la sua sicura routine.

Immagini impersonali ma belle della vita di Akerman a New York sono combinate con lettere della madre amorevole ma manipolatrice, lette dalla stessa Akerman.

In a 360° circular panoramic shot the camera slowly pans an entire apartment (or house). When it first passes the bedroom there is nobody there but each time it shows the room again Chantal Akerman is sitting on the bed, motionless first, then busy doing something (peeling an orange, eating an orange, etc.). When she is last seen she yawns and lies down on her bed. The camera continues panning but after 10 minutes and 21 seconds the film comes to an end and she can't be seen asleep.

Director Anna traverses Europe for film events, encountering strangers, family, and a Polish Jewish refugee friend, listening to their personal stories. The aftermath of war persists throughout her journey across the continent.

Dopo i disordini del maggio 1968, in Francia, un sordomuto e un truffatore si imbattono contemporaneamente nei superstiti di una società segreta.

A shorter version of Out 1 (1971), however some of the omitted scenes of the long version are included.

Una coppia di giovani donne misteriosamente legate trova la propria vita quotidiana ostacolata da uno strano melodramma da boudoir che si svolge in una realtà parallela allucinatoria.

Una serie di sogni surreali, praticamente senza trama, incentrata su sei persone della classe media e i loro tentativi costantemente interrotti di cenare insieme.

A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

In un flashback vengono raccontati i rischi romantici di Mathieu, un sofisticato francese di mezza età che si innamora della sua ex cameriera diciannovenne Conchita.

Una serie di sequenze surreali che criticano la moralità e la società in un flusso di stile di coscienza.

Patricia, un'operaia, ed Emile, uno studente, si trovano per diverse serate a discutere di problemi politici, sociali, morali, linguistici, artistici. Il loro finisce per essere un pellegrinaggio nel contraddittorio mondo della conoscenza.

This is a fictionalized replay and meant as a documentary film on the occupation of a factory by its workers - both male and female - during a strike. The workers also lock up a manager in an office-room. The film is situated in France. Some workers tell personal stories on their lives.

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.

Una coppia di intellettuali in crisi, lui regista impegnato, lei giornalista americana, è coinvolta nell'occupazione di una fabbrica di salumi dove si scontrano sindacalisti tradizionali ed estremisti.

A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France was not involved in any war.