IFFR 2003

Jean-Claude Brisseau

Stéphane kills a notorious gangster, well known to the police. The quest for the crime leads to a crucial, cruel and dramatic intensity. With Michel Piccoli and Sylvie Vartan.

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L'ange noir

Mystical and miraculous story about the bond between two women that is so strong that supernatural things happen. A moving, but also tragic film about love and trust.

Céline

The culmination of Jean-Claude Brisseau's long exploration of the relationship between power and sexuality. A fable of our capitalist times in which two libertine women seek to destroy men with their sexual power. But finally they are nearly destroyed by an absolute Machiavellian power.

Choses secrètes

Striking début by Brisseau about the roamings of a group of boys and girls in Paris. Two girls exchange the capital for the countryside. A film in which reality and dream get mixed.

La croisée des chemins

Bruno (13) has to hold his own in a poor suburb of Paris. Flamboyant film mixes realism, dream and lyricism.

The vicissitudes of Bruno (13), who has to hold his own in a poor suburb of Paris. This flamboyant film with a documentary, occasionally violent approach mixes realism, dream and lyricism. A work that poses questions about our role as spectator – of the film and of the world.

De bruit et de fureur

Daring sketch about a rebellious kid growing up. With rigorous mise-en-scène, Brisseau made a film with a worrying and confusing atmosphere, in which seduction and fear intermingle.

Un jeu brutal

François (Bruno Cremer) teaches philosophy at high school; Mathilde (Vanessa Paradis) is his pupil. This lyrical and heart-rending melodrama maps their turbulent relationship.

Noce blanche

A contemporary picaresque novel on a high level, in which questions of morality and society, desire and crime fight for supremacy. What use is a contemporary Robin Hood in the 21st century?

Les savates du bon Dieu

The beautiful Agnès Tessier defies the world in which hard violence rules the roost. A tender and violent look at feminism, trade unions, urban misery, modern violence, loneliness and despair.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025