Charles Blavette – MRQE

Toni

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently – like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.

La Vie est à nous

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Manon des sources

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Marcel Pagnol’s adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.

Eyes Without a Face

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane’s.

Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself. A shepherd’s flute conjures a windstorm that throws Alexis together with the luscious Nénette, a farm lass who wants to have a baby but is unimpressed with men.

Naïs

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able to spend more time close to Nais, Micoulin’s daughter. That summer, the estate owner’s son, Frederic Rostaing, decides to rest on the farm during his vacation from Law school. But his real motives are to seduce young Nais, whom he knows from their childhood days, after having seen her in town. Who will win the power struggle between the possessive father, the naive daughter, the vile student and the golden-hearted cripple?

Lumière d’été

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.

Simplet

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A simpleton turns out to be the lucky charm of a village.

L’étrange Monsieur Victor

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker’s tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years’ hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor…

Le Schpountz

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A pompous grocers assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the schpountz heads to Paris for his new career.