
Acting
Jean-François Lapalus
Acting credits
6.7When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Under the Sand
2001
5.5In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters
Fan-Fan the Tulip
2003
7.0Jeanne has succeeded in lifting the siege of Orléans and Charles has been crowned King of France. However, she is injured in an attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. Captured by the enemy and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
1994
6.6Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".
Brise-glace
1990
6.3In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Time Regained
1999
6.7A worker in a bottle factory, Pierre decides to switch from day shift to night shift. In his new team, he runs into Fred, a charismatic and violent guy. Fred says loudly that Pierre is his boyfriend. In fact, he never misses an opportunity to bully or humiliate him. This could only be a bad joke. But the harassment continues in a downward spiral ...
Night Shift
2001
6.5An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Genealogies of a Crime
1997
6.0An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.
The Little Apocalypse
1993
6.0Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.
Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace
1987
7.6A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.
Life Is a Dream
1987
7.4In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from a man claiming to be his uncle, his world begins to mirror a macabre and cyclical narrative.
The Blind Owl
1987
4.7A young woman painter living in a chalet away from the world one morning crosses the path of a young boy who will gradually invade his daily life. The young woman will seek to unravel her mystery.
Sommeil blanc
2009
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Tout mon amour
2026