Claude Roy

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

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People in Paris struggle with loneliness and urban isolation. In the center is Raphaële, a successful architect navigating her fragile relationship with her lover Vincent, a journalist grappling with alcoholism.

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"An Instant" is a short movie made for France télévision's TV program "En sortant de l'école". This program introduces kids to an author's poem through animation.

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights. This was the French language version of Pardon My French (aka The Lady from Boston)

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

No synopsis available yet.

"An Instant" is a short movie made for France télévision's TV program "En sortant de l'école". This program introduces kids to an author's poem through animation.

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights. This was the French language version of Pardon My French (aka The Lady from Boston)

The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his “pink phase.”

A small Breton port is falling asleep: individual and coastal fishing is dying, as is the case for François, an old sailor close to retirement. The only solution is to form a cooperative to buy a motor trawler. Five young sailors help rebuild the Roches-Douvres lighthouse in order to buy their boat "Le Tourmentin". In Brittany too, cinematographically, it was possible to make the future sing. .

Zaa follows the journey of a white camel returning to the oasis it calls home and finds an unlikely ally in a young boy. With Zaa, Bellon shows another side of herself, the lover of animals and children, in a land far from France.

A group of sailors disembark in Hong Kong. One of them, with a very naive character, spots a beautiful young woman. He decides to follow her but loses sight of her. He asks two children to help him find her, but noticing his naivety, the two toddlers take him by boat.

In a small village in Malaysia, a young man and a young girl love each other, but the girl is not free. One evening through the magic of the shadow theater and in the half-light of the room, they see their love in the legendary characters of Rama and Sita.

"Society is a carnivorous flower" - About activists in the student revolt in May 1968. Archive footage shows police entering the Sorbonne, street fighting, meetings and demonstrations. Many interviewees testify to police violence and abuses.