Solemn Communion 1977 ( 4.5)

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.

Plurielles 1979

A couple deal with their problems like any other, while actors read Friedrich Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", and in interviews, the director discusses the status of women in 1978.

Yasmine et la Révolution 2011 ( 8)

Yasmine, an eighteen-year-old girl, visits her boyfriend whom she has not seen for two weeks but not everything is going as usual. The Tunisian revolution of January 14, 2011 made him understand the importance of political commitment. An argument broke out with her boyfriend. Back home, she caught her brother talking on the phone with their father who had stayed in Tunisia: he did not want his children to participate in the demonstration that would take place in the Republic. He opposes his authoritarianism to his son’s arguments…

À l'ombre de l'abbaye de Clairvaux 2024