Philippe Venault

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.

After the death of their child, a couple move to a new place. The mother start witnessing strange events.

Istambul, 1967. Two women meet at Avrenos, a tavern in the old city. Nouchi, the brunette, is mourning the death of Bernard de Jonsac, an employee of the French Embassy who recently died. It is Lélia, the blonde, who asked her to come. She wants to understand the ties that bound them both to Jonsac, to understand the strange couple that this desperate dandy formed with Nouchi, the ex-Bulgarian bar girl. Lélia, the middle-class woman from Istanbul, wants to understand at last, ten years after the tragedy that has left her confined to a wheelchair for life...

After loosing her unborn baby on a car accident, Betty seeks for new purposes on a new job caring after a blind boy in a isolated house. Her hopes on a new beginning turn into a nightmare when she uncovers the Alps' dark secrets.

June 1940. While the Germans advance inexorably on the French territory, the army is in full debacle. While the top brass played "sauve qui peut", a handful of French soldiers desperately resisted on the banks of the Loire. On one side, a company of Senegalese riflemen and a few French soldiers, on the other side, the armored tanks of the Wehrmarcht. An act with no real future, it was considered heroic by some and useless by others. But for their leader, Henri Dragance, there was no alternative but to resist or die.

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.

Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a postcard from her father that comes from a far less exotic place: L'Hospitalet. Carvalho goes to Bellvitge in order to find Yes' father and to discover why he lied to his family. Pedrell never went indeed to the South Seas. He took refuge in Bellvitge where he was murdered.

A young teacher, Pierre, arrives in Africa in the middle of the small French community. Pierre lets himself be won over by the physical and moral torpor that reigns in this micro-society.

Jérôme has killed Driss, of Moroccan ancestry, who used to be his best friend. Is it an accident, a drama caused by jealousy or a racist murder? The story of Jérôme's long drift is discovered as the police carry out its investigation.

Translating his seminal semiotic work on the classic American cinema to video, Raymond Bellour, in collaboration with Philippe Venault, produced l'Image du cinéma as a visual discourse on the cinematic apparatus. Through a sophisticated textual analysis of cinematic representations from Hollywood's classic era, 1948-1953, they trace the psychological and ideological effects of its symbolic production. Representing print advertisements from the Hollywood trade publication The Film Daily, they signify a lexicon of cinematic structurations — the primacy of the look, women's symbolic position — with simple video effects. Focusing on the traditional narrative of desire, with its ennunciation of the family romance and the Oedipal complex as codes, Bellour and Venault articulate an illuminating "history/story" of the American cinema.

Three young soldiers who participated in a military operation that went wrong, and where one of their comrades had been killed before their eyes, are placed in a luxury hotel to prevent a scandal. Despite the help of a young military psychiatrist, the young trio denies any trauma suffered, but they seem to hold a very different secret truth.

Cynical private detective Nestor Burma investigating murders, missing persons, kidnapping and extortion cases in every arrondissement of Paris.