Pascale Ferran

The first cinema adaptation directed by a woman of D. H. Lawrence's masterpiece. Pascale Ferran ("Coming to Terms with the Dead" Golden Camera, Cannes 1994) explores the complex mechanism of women's sexual desires. (filmdistribution.com)

Mathias, whose dead father was a diplomat in Germany, decides to study the forensic medicine in Paris. In the train, he has some troubles with the border police, and is insulted and threatened by a strange man, who disappeared quickly. Next day, he discovers in his luggage a shrunken human head. He soons becomes fascinated by it, feeling responsible (sentry of the memory of the head's owner) and starts his own investigation. What will leads him to cope with French secret services. (imdb)

It's summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man around 40 is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them : a boy, Jumbo, aged 9 ; Francois, aged 30, and his sister Zaza, around 40. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished. (imdb)

An American arrives in Paris, checks into a hotel, turns off his cell phone and starts his life anew. (imdb)

The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds. (imdb)

Ten young people ( boys and girls) at the age at which all is possible. They meet, they love, they choose. The film comes and goes between all those people, revealing their anguish, their dreams, depicting the portrait of a generation of the '90s which has both the fury and the fear of life. (imdb)

A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him. (imdb)

Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles.