Jacques Baratier

A documentary film in which Fabrice Aragno assembles a range of footage from the archives of Radio Télévision Suisse, the Cinémathèque suisse and Cinéma en tête by Freddy Buache’s partner Marie-Magdeleine Brumagne.

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Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?

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30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera.

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directed by Jackie Reynal, from 2003 Autour de Jacques Baratier, directed in 2002 by Jackie Raynal, is a 24-minute documentary portrait that offers a sensitive look at the man and the filmmaker. It stands as a valuable complement to other films about him, helping us understand Baratier’s playful, poetic, and rebellious approach to cinema.

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A young woman gradually locks herself in her fear.

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The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.

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A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.

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An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness.

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A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover. Remake of the 1991 French film Mon père, ce héros.

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A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.

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It's summer in the south of France. A family decides to organize a big fest. There is Bernard, a doctor, and his sister Lise, a libertine architect, also teens Patrick and his brother Julien, both attracted to 15 year old Dina

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A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.

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Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.

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From Pigalle to the Grands Boulevards, via the Champs-Élysées, a stroll through the heart of the Parisian nightlife, until the wee hours of the morning.

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Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.

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