Movies: Brigitte Taillandier

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother....

After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come bac...

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence....

A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out....

Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain...

Intense love and hate bring a man and woman through personal tragedy....

She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with the filmmakers with whom she invented herself not to be a “cold blonde actress”, thanks to great int...

After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy....

A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age....

Fils unique details the emotive relationship between a father and his son who can only communicate their mutual feelings via unspoken words or provocation. It's the confrontation of an adolescent looking for his limits and a father who, through love ...

While hiking in the countryside near a coastal town in Normandy, two young lovers have a spat and separate. The woman is run down by a ghostly Land Rover and disappears. Meanwhile, her beau comes to a big old house where he is taken in by an old and ...

The life and work of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), an American writer who lived in France for more than half of her life ("... not the half that made me, but the half when I did what I did..."), presented in a montage of her autobiographical texts, wit...