Michael Lonsdale Movies

A homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”

The life and work of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), an American writer who lived in France for more than half of her life ("... not the half that made...

After a businessman is captured by kidnappers, his rescue seems incumbent on a group of filmmakers, rather than a lackluster police force -- a...

This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to their homes?

A meditation on the passing of time, on a film that was never completed, upon Bazin’s death, on restoration and the future of ruins and on...

From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun)...

Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville as visualised by Jean-Louis Bertucelli

The disappearance of some nail clippers in a hotel room puzzles the owners of the capricious object.

A paean to Darwin and his theories, this documentary on the increasing complexity of life forms as they go up the evolutionary scale is fascinating...

Bobo and Michael Lonsdale are alone in the Château de Versailles. Together, they are walking around this ghostly place of power. The director...

A blind moviegoer tells his niece about the time he screened Casablanca to a rural village fifty years ago.

Esoteric documentary narrated by Michael Lonsdale.

Martin raises alone his son Jonas. Road works Ministry, which employs him, is upset by fighting for power between the Director and Gosselin his...

Shots of a sequence of a shooting: young girl who must shed tears.

Between dance and drawings, Arnaud des Pallières relates different moments of Degas’s life and unveils some of his darker sides.