Jacques Doniol-Valcroze – MRQE

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.

Une journée bien remplie ou Neuf meurtres insolites dans une même journée par un seul homme dont ce n’est pas le métier

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

A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.

L’immortelle

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

French avant-garde novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, who previously wrote the screenplay for the ground-breaking L’Annee Derniere a Marienbad, made his directorial debut with this allegorical drama. A man known as N (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) encounters L (Francoise Brion), a mysterious woman who may or may not be involved with M (Guido Celano), a Turk who kidnaps women and forces them into prostitution. N finds himself falling in love with L, who suddenly disappears. When she reemerges, N persuades L to join him for a vacation; as they drive out of town, one of her dogs dashes into the road. Swerving in a desperate effort to save the dog, N loses control of the car and L is killed. N becomes obsessed with the accident, for which he cannot forgive himself. L’Immortelle was nominated for the Golden Bear award at the 1963 Berlin Film Festival.

Le Coup du berger

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

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?