Bernard Murat

Directing

Bernard Murat

Born 1941-11-24 · Oran, France [now Algeria]

Acting credits

Amitiés sincères poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amitiés sincères

2006

Solférino poster
7.0

Revisits the two rounds of the 2007 French presidential election (April 22 and May 6, 2007), where Conservative leader Nicolas Sarkozy won a clear victory over his Socialist opponent, Ségolène Royal. Faced with the activist, the journalist, the political figure and the gigantic media device set up for the occasion, the audience is taken on board without real or comprehensive explanations. Strangely, the chaos seems organized. Just like when we are considering the range of 'unplanned' events that get media exposure, so much so that we wonder if they really are being planned. Is all this period of unrest visibly set in motion by social activists, agitators, ordinary people, politicians, publicity agents?

Solférino

2008

Adieu Paris poster
4.7

An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ...

Adieu Paris

2022

What's in a Name poster
7.3

Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable...

What's in a Name

2012

Nobody from Nowhere poster
6.4

Sebastien Nicolas is a reclusive realtor leading a double life – in his spare time he creates complex disguises based on acquaintances. Combined with minutely studied and rehearsed impersonations, Sebastien can disappear completely into other people's lives. Things spiral out of control after he impersonates the wrong man.

Nobody from Nowhere

2014

L'Éloignement poster
NR

A televised broadcast of a play: the anxieties of an author who, with each new play, thinks only through the prism of media coverage. Thus, each critical response turns into a veritable exaltation of moods.

L'Éloignement

2009

Male Hunt poster
6.5

A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.

Male Hunt

1964

Rose poster
5.5

Rose, 78-year-old, has just lost her beloved husband. When her grief gives way to a powerful impulse to live her life, making her realize that she can still redefine herself as a woman, the whole balance of the family is upset.

Rose

2021

Merci Zaza - La Folle Histoire de la Cage aux Folles poster
9.5

A look back at "La Cage aux Folles", which ran non-stop for five years, from February 1973, on the stage of the Théâtre du Palais Royal in Paris. At a time when homosexuality was considered a crime by the law, Poiret and Serrault achieved great success in boulevard theater. Their success continued on the silver screen, with three Oscar nominations and a Broadway musical. Combining never-before-seen archives from the play, extracts from the film, confessions by Poiret and Serrault, and interviews with witnesses, this is the story of a wild epic.

Merci Zaza - La Folle Histoire de la Cage aux Folles

2023

A fixed idea by Paul Valéry poster
NR

A beach on the shores of the Mediterranean, crushed by the sun, under an implacable blue sky, isolated on a rock like Sisyphus rolling away his bitterness, a man is on the verge of suicide. While ruminating on his fixed idea, he is disturbed by an intruder, a doctor on vacation like him. The man with a fixed idea (Pierre Arditi) declares "I felt in a state of inhumanity", the doctor (Bernard Murat) decked out in all the holidaymaker's accessories: a landing net, an easel and a colored box, comes to invade the morbid loneliness. The importunate debonair begins a conversation that will turn into a philosophical joust where we approach science, Einstein, politics, and the verb. THE MATERIALIST AND THE PHILOSOPHER scrap at speckled foils with the sharpest and most divinely French spirit. Conversation is a balm, an intellectual bandage. The good doctor is a good practitioner and a brave man!

A fixed idea by Paul Valéry

Graduation Year poster
8.5

In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the preparation of high school diploma.

Graduation Year

1964

Le temps des copains poster
6.0

Three young students, who met on the train, arrive in Paris and decide to find accommodation together.

Le temps des copains

1963

Du vent dans les branches de sassafras poster
6.0

John Rockefeller is completely overwhelmed by events: he must simultaneously face the perpetual attacks of "colorful" Indians , the multiple romantic imbroglios which are playing out within his home, the sudden crisis of dementia of his wife and finally the drunken wanderings of the local doctor, Doctor Butler, a man particularly given to drink.

Du vent dans les branches de sassafras

2016

Bye Bye Barbara poster
5.0

A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.

Bye Bye Barbara

1969

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 1ère partie

1968

Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire poster
6.1

A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists.

Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 2ème partie

1968

Mode d’Emploi, Les Nouveaux Réalistes poster
NR

Filmed in the 1970s with the art critic Otto Hahn, this film is the only visual document which brings together the thirteen Nouveaux Réalistes who participated in the artistic movement created by critic Pierre Restany in 1960 and including the text of the declaration collective was signed by Yves Klein in nine copies. Each of the artists appropriates a piece of land from the civilization of waste: from Arman the accumulations, from César the compressions of scrap metal, from Jean Tinguely the rusty machines, from Raymond Hains the torn posters.

Mode d’Emploi, Les Nouveaux Réalistes

1970

Behind the camera

Amitiés sincères poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amitiés sincères

2006

Tailleur pour dames poster
7.0

Doctor Moulineaux, "serious and established" after a dissipated youth, lives a bourgeois life with his wife Yvonne and his servant Étienne. But he has gone to the Opera ball to win the heart of the elegant Suzanne Aubin. He arranges to meet her in a mezzanine that belonged to a seamstress. Impromptu visits from his acquaintances force him to pretend to be a tailor.

Tailleur pour dames

2008

Desire poster
5.5

Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation. He has fallen in love with with Odette.

Desire

1996

La répétition ou L'amour puni poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La répétition ou L'amour puni

1986

Sarah poster
7.0

A stage play by John Murrell, adapted by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, performed to perfection by Fanny Ardant and Robert Hirsch about the last days of Sarah Bernhardt. The play concentrates on an uneasy relationship between Sarah and her servant to whom she dictates her memoir, as well as a fragile relationship between her memories, actual history and reality.

Sarah

2003

Faisons un rêve poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Faisons un rêve

2007

L'Éloignement poster
NR

A televised broadcast of a play: the anxieties of an author who, with each new play, thinks only through the prism of media coverage. Thus, each critical response turns into a veritable exaltation of moods.

L'Éloignement

2009

Sentiments provisoires poster
6.0

A young woman announces to the man she has lived with for ten years that she is leaving him ... and that she is leaving him for his best friend. But is it so easy to break up a couple and lose a friend? ... "

Sentiments provisoires

2010

Quadrille poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quadrille

2013

Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles poster
5.0

A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming

Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles

1991

Le Prénom : la pièce de théâtre poster
7.8

Vincent, a triumphant forty-something, is about to become a father for the first time. Invited to dinner at the home of Élisabeth and Pierre, his sister and brother-in-law, he reunites with Claude, a childhood friend. While awaiting the arrival of Anna, his eternally late wife, he is pressed with questions about his impending fatherhood, all in good humor... But when Vincent is asked if he has already chosen a name for his unborn child, his answer plunges the family into chaos.

Le Prénom : la pièce de théâtre

2012

Le Paradis sur terre poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Paradis sur terre

2011

A fixed idea by Paul Valéry poster
NR

A beach on the shores of the Mediterranean, crushed by the sun, under an implacable blue sky, isolated on a rock like Sisyphus rolling away his bitterness, a man is on the verge of suicide. While ruminating on his fixed idea, he is disturbed by an intruder, a doctor on vacation like him. The man with a fixed idea (Pierre Arditi) declares "I felt in a state of inhumanity", the doctor (Bernard Murat) decked out in all the holidaymaker's accessories: a landing net, an easel and a colored box, comes to invade the morbid loneliness. The importunate debonair begins a conversation that will turn into a philosophical joust where we approach science, Einstein, politics, and the verb. THE MATERIALIST AND THE PHILOSOPHER scrap at speckled foils with the sharpest and most divinely French spirit. Conversation is a balm, an intellectual bandage. The good doctor is a good practitioner and a brave man!

A fixed idea by Paul Valéry

Le Nouveau Testament poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Nouveau Testament

1999

La porte à côté poster
6.0

She is a psychiatrist. He sells yogurts. They are neighbors of level, they hate each other cordially, and like millions of singles lost in the city, they furtively explore the dating sites in search of love - someone who would be just at the antipodes of this infernal character who saw the door next to it. And when, at the end of the day, they find their soul mates, they do not resist the pleasure of announcing it. History of bowing again ... The last?

La porte à côté

2014

Du vent dans les branches de sassafras poster
6.0

John Rockefeller is completely overwhelmed by events: he must simultaneously face the perpetual attacks of "colorful" Indians , the multiple romantic imbroglios which are playing out within his home, the sudden crisis of dementia of his wife and finally the drunken wanderings of the local doctor, Doctor Butler, a man particularly given to drink.

Du vent dans les branches de sassafras

2016

Du vent dans les branches de sassafras poster
6.0

John Rockefeller is completely overwhelmed by events: he must simultaneously face the perpetual attacks of "colorful" Indians , the multiple romantic imbroglios which are playing out within his home, the sudden crisis of dementia of his wife and finally the drunken wanderings of the local doctor, Doctor Butler, a man particularly given to drink.

Du vent dans les branches de sassafras

2016

Tout ce que vous voulez poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tout ce que vous voulez

2017

Encore un instant poster
6.0

In love, there are miracles that cannot be explained. Even after thirty years of marriage, Suzanne and Julien are still madly in love with each other. A happy, close-knit couple. Suzanne is an actress adored by the public. An adoration that sometimes goes as far as fetishizing her young tenant Simon. For her return to the stage, she hesitates to act in Max's new play, specially written for her. What Suzanne wants is to be alone, for just a moment longer, with Julien. Julien whom she loves and who loves her, Julien who grumbles and laughs, Julien who lives but whom no one sees or hears. Except Suzanne...

Encore un instant

2019

Two for the Seesaw poster
6.0

Jerry Ryan, a lawyer, is devastated after his divorce. Desiring to make a change in his life, Jerry moves to New York in the hopes that it will be good for him. Jerry's life takes a different turn when he meets Clara Mosca, a free-spirited woman in New York.

Two for the Seesaw

2007

Joyeuses Pâques poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Joyeuses Pâques

2002

Mon père avait raison poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mon père avait raison

2007