Paul Vecchiali

A young man, Benoît, is in love with a young girl, Victoire, but she breaks up with him to marry a rich farmer. The young man makes a habit of prowling around Victoire's house. One day, she is in labor, and the young man, having heard her screams, forces open the door to help with the delivery...

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A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.

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After the death of his partner, a man discovers on the Internet that the latter had virtual relations with another man.

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A young man (hypothesis 1) and a young woman (hypothesis 2) refuse any dinner or other invitations so as to give themselves over to an evening ritual.

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A film in which the house is itself a fundamental element and in which Vecchiali assumes the role of a recurring character, who responds by diverse names. It is the film of Vecchiali in which the representation of the ghosts is literal, in the bodies and spirits of the director and Edit Scob.

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After moving to Provence, Vecchiali started shooting a series of films that have Villa Mayerling as their main focus. Esotericism and intrigues bath the film around the character of Alain, a shady summer worker.

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A film by Paul Vecchiali. Part of the Villa Mayerling pentalogy.

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A film by Paul Vecchiali. Part 2 of the Villa Mayerling pentalogy.

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A film by Paul Vecchiali. Part of the Villa Mayerling pentalogy.

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A cinephile meets his favourite film maker on a beach in Ramatuelle. He proposes a film project to the director based on the painful adventures that he has just experienced. The two men work on the scenes, each in its own way. The film maker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the shooting is not good. But perhaps there's another reason not to leave the good adventure.

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The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters...

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French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is trying to complete his latest project, a dramatic love story about a young couple whose relationship is complicated by the man's addiction to drugs. Short on funds, Vecchiali approaches the National Cinema Center, who offer loans and grants to independent filmmakers whom they believe are deserving. The NCC is less than impressed with Vecchiali's latest script, and they turn him down, just as they have done a number of times in the past. Angry and determined that the NCC will never break the spirit of another director, Vecchiali and his crew block out a plan to assassinate the nine members of the funding board, though the press and public seem more bemused than outraged by the sudden rash of killings.

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The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

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Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.

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Set within a housing project located on the outskirts of Alsace, this French docudrama features a largely non-professional cast and centers on the interrelationship between a pair of elderly French nationals, Arab immigrants and a newly arrived family from Africa as they struggle to find niches in their rapidly changing world.

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A bisexual married man meets a gay man whilst bathing in a small deserted creek and they fall in love even though the gay man has AIDS... He describes this sudden passion in simple words. Paul Vecchiali contribution to omnibus film 'L'@mour est à réinventer'.

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A series of shorts about the AIDS crisis, homosexuality, and the reinvention of love in such conditions.

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An adaptation of the comic play by Georges Courteline.

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A reluctant boxer is the focus of this unique French romance. Maurice dreams of becoming a violinist. But his father, a former boxing champion crippled by his bouts, has other dreams for his pudgy but strong 18 year old son. He wants Maurice to become the next Champ. Concerned about his son's lack of machismo, the father arranges a tryst between Maurice and Nora, an aging femme fatale. Unfortunately Nora's jealous husband suddenly interrupts their romantic interlude. Maurice accidently kills the husband in the ensuing scuffle. United by the tragedy, Nora and Maurice eventually fall in love. Maurice is then inspired to become a great fighter.

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Paul Vecchiali’s short ode to self-immolation, made in cahoots with the French Federation of Cremation. Didactic and semi-documentary, but, like another dust story, Franju’s Les Poussières, always personal. A film about the body, parents, memory and love after death. With Vecchiali and Françoise Lebrun.

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Sébastien Fischer, a celebrated pianist, takes the advice of his agent and friend Gorgio and decides to take a break and spend some time in a little village in Provence, at the house of Avril Espart.

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Paris, 1931. A beautiful young French woman suddenly gives up her career as a model after she discovers she has leprosy. She then quits her luxury life with her husband and her little boy and leaves for the Fiji Islands in an attempt to get healed in a special place where leprous people like her are taken care of. There, she is soon called 'the white goddess' as she makes a strong impression on many persons around her, especially men. The film describes her life experience because of the secret she holds about her sickness...

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One of the last productions for Diagonale, before De sueur et de sang, the feature film with which Vecchiali would close the cycle of the French production company.

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A mother takes vengeance on her dead son's ex-girlfriend.

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A night of drinking in a local cafe quickly turns to tragedy for two of its patrons.

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Loosely based on the book series by Charles Exbrayat.

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Louis is a family man, with a wife and young daughter, who discovers in mid-life that he is gay.

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A man sings next to a young girl playing the piano. A bucolic landscape, smiles, pensive faces. With them stands a woman (their mother?) who listens to them play and sing.

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Laurent Achard set up his camera on the set of Paul Vecchiali’s film Le Cancre to capture the director’s creative power. Although Vecchiali’s precision is impressive, Achard also shows moments where his collaborators’ input is essential. Under the director’s eye, the stars are becoming actors again, and Achard revives the heritage of Vecchiali’s '70s and '80s production studio Diagonale.

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Odile suspects her husband, Jean, is cheating. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Fate gets her in touch with an actor, Daniel, who she will use for her revenge. The actor, living with a former serviceman, Albert, will make love with her. But there will be unexpected consequences: Odile and Daniel will be bound forever by an irrepressible love.

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A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.

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After the death of his partner, a man discovers on the Internet that the latter had virtual relations with another man.

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A young man (hypothesis 1) and a young woman (hypothesis 2) refuse any dinner or other invitations so as to give themselves over to an evening ritual.

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Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.

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An exchange, between Palermo and Paris, between a director who signs an autograph and his recipient who receives it, while listening to an extract from his favorite film.

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A documentary about the French film director Paul Vecchiali.

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A film in which the house is itself a fundamental element and in which Vecchiali assumes the role of a recurring character, who responds by diverse names. It is the film of Vecchiali in which the representation of the ghosts is literal, in the bodies and spirits of the director and Edit Scob.

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In the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris’s famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of screenings, lectures and performances that amounted to a counter-canonical history of French cinema. During the ensuing merriment (entitled Beaubourg, la dernière Major !) audience members were invited to observe the daily making of this film, directed by Bozon and written by Axelle Ropert, about an inexperienced young journalist (Laure Marsac) sent to the Pompidou to interview a maverick artistic impresario (Thomas Chabrol). The result is an unexpected love story that is also a record of this landmark exhibition, featuring cameos by Raul Ruiz, Paul Vecchiali, Luc Moullet and more !

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After moving to Provence, Vecchiali started shooting a series of films that have Villa Mayerling as their main focus. Esotericism and intrigues bath the film around the character of Alain, a shady summer worker.

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A cinephile meets his favourite film maker on a beach in Ramatuelle. He proposes a film project to the director based on the painful adventures that he has just experienced. The two men work on the scenes, each in its own way. The film maker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the shooting is not good. But perhaps there's another reason not to leave the good adventure.

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French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is trying to complete his latest project, a dramatic love story about a young couple whose relationship is complicated by the man's addiction to drugs. Short on funds, Vecchiali approaches the National Cinema Center, who offer loans and grants to independent filmmakers whom they believe are deserving. The NCC is less than impressed with Vecchiali's latest script, and they turn him down, just as they have done a number of times in the past. Angry and determined that the NCC will never break the spirit of another director, Vecchiali and his crew block out a plan to assassinate the nine members of the funding board, though the press and public seem more bemused than outraged by the sudden rash of killings.

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A documentary on the professional and personal affordances of the influential sound engineer Antoine Bonfanti.

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Paul Vecchiali’s short ode to self-immolation, made in cahoots with the French Federation of Cremation. Didactic and semi-documentary, but, like another dust story, Franju’s Les Poussières, always personal. A film about the body, parents, memory and love after death. With Vecchiali and Françoise Lebrun.

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On Paul's initiative, Françoise and Paul met after a long separation, on the pretext to search in commun for a lost memory, a song. It soons appears that Paul's objective is to win her back.

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Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media.

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Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.

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Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper.

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Paul a Mayerling, un ritratto is a personal and choral account of a life inextricably linked to cinema. In the mid-2000s, chance led me to meet Paul Vecchiali online. From that moment on, a relationship was born, marked by lively discussions about cinema and life.

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Odile suspects her husband, Jean, is cheating. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Fate gets her in touch with an actor, Daniel, who she will use for her revenge. The actor, living with a former serviceman, Albert, will make love with her. But there will be unexpected consequences: Odile and Daniel will be bound forever by an irrepressible love.

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A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.

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After the death of his partner, a man discovers on the Internet that the latter had virtual relations with another man.

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A young man (hypothesis 1) and a young woman (hypothesis 2) refuse any dinner or other invitations so as to give themselves over to an evening ritual.

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After moving to Provence, Vecchiali started shooting a series of films that have Villa Mayerling as their main focus. Esotericism and intrigues bath the film around the character of Alain, a shady summer worker.

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The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters...

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Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.

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A reluctant boxer is the focus of this unique French romance. Maurice dreams of becoming a violinist. But his father, a former boxing champion crippled by his bouts, has other dreams for his pudgy but strong 18 year old son. He wants Maurice to become the next Champ. Concerned about his son's lack of machismo, the father arranges a tryst between Maurice and Nora, an aging femme fatale. Unfortunately Nora's jealous husband suddenly interrupts their romantic interlude. Maurice accidently kills the husband in the ensuing scuffle. United by the tragedy, Nora and Maurice eventually fall in love. Maurice is then inspired to become a great fighter.

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Paul Vecchiali’s short ode to self-immolation, made in cahoots with the French Federation of Cremation. Didactic and semi-documentary, but, like another dust story, Franju’s Les Poussières, always personal. A film about the body, parents, memory and love after death. With Vecchiali and Françoise Lebrun.

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Paris, 1931. A beautiful young French woman suddenly gives up her career as a model after she discovers she has leprosy. She then quits her luxury life with her husband and her little boy and leaves for the Fiji Islands in an attempt to get healed in a special place where leprous people like her are taken care of. There, she is soon called 'the white goddess' as she makes a strong impression on many persons around her, especially men. The film describes her life experience because of the secret she holds about her sickness...

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Lili is twenty years old, has an English mother, a magician father, a voice from elsewhere and a gift that only children know: the power of her own desire. It all starts with a summer night: that summer, Lili and Bruno will find love.

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A mother takes vengeance on her dead son's ex-girlfriend.

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A night of drinking in a local cafe quickly turns to tragedy for two of its patrons.

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Louis is a family man, with a wife and young daughter, who discovers in mid-life that he is gay.

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Part of the omnibus 'Sexy Folies' aired on French television on 1986. A veiled woman watches a couple have sex on the beach.

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In a supermarket parking lot, two shoppers push a shopping cart to their car. A helpful man approaches them. Friendly at first, his behavior soon becomes strange, invasive and aggressive.

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A radiant young sex worker thrives amidst the clients of Paris’s Les Halles under the protectiveness of her pimp. Her carefully balanced existence unravels when she meets a working‑class man and falls in love, forcing her to confront the emotional and social consequences of pursuing a different path.

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On Paul's initiative, Françoise and Paul met after a long separation, on the pretext to search in commun for a lost memory, a song. It soons appears that Paul's objective is to win her back.

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A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.

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The tribulations of a bisexual who's a bit of an exhibitionist.

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Ginette is at phone with the famous Rachah Rangers, who hosts a daily radio program. She talks about her break with Richard, her various relationship problems, her desires, fears and reproaches. Her friend, Simone Barbes, advised her to live, urgently, a new relationship ...

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A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail and eventually tracks her down to the bar she had visited. As the dragnet around her closes in, it becomes apparent that the young woman's stepmother is behind the effort to locate her. But questions over why she is hiding out and what she is hiding from begin to take on more importance as the history of the young woman starts to surface.

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Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observing eccentric customers in the cinema’s lobby. Tonight, she clocks out and heads off to meet her girlfriend, a waitress at a lesbian club. Later, she’ll encounter a lonely man on the prowl.

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Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, only accepting love after being diagnosed with a deadly illness.

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Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years voluntarily locked up in his room. An encounter between two persons and two worlds where the relationship of the young man to this closed, strange and unknown universe rapidly turns tragedy.

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The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.

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Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media.

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The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his wife dies, he makes plans to seek out whatever remnants of civilization exist. However, the arrival of a group of children and their older mentor changes his plans.

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A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.

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A well-known politician receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a female detective to figure out who is trying to blackmail her.

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