Macha Makeïeff

Les Deschiens - C'est magnifique

Les Deschiens - série moderne

Rodelinda

With this DVD and Blu-ray of Rodelinda, one of Handel’s most emotionally complex operas, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm adds to her impressive Erato catalogue of the composer’s works. The imaginative production, by Jean Bellorini, was seen at the Opéra de Lille in Autumn 2018, and the cast features soprano Jeanine De Bique in the title role, countertenor Tim Mead as her husband Bertarido and another countertenor, Erato’s rising star Jakub Józef Orliński as Unulfo. Reviewing the production, Le Monde noted Emmanuelle Haïm’s “intimate connection with this music, which she knows how to unleash in all its violence, passion and heart-wrenching expressivity.”

L’Avare de Molière

Everything's Connected

An analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the stylistic similarities between it and the other Monsieur Hulot films.

Dom Juan

Subversive hero or vile predator? Don Juan has appeared throughout history in many guises. Macha Makeïeff highlights the psychological and societal aspects of the character: desire, domination, and human darkness, which she contrasts with liberating and destructive laughter.

The True Story of Puss 'n Boots

Following the death of their miller father, his eldest son inherits the mill, the middle one a donkey, and the youngest a cat. While initially disappointed, the lad soon learns not only that the cat can talk but is quite resourceful.

Les Précieuses ridicules

Les Deschiens - C'est magnifique

Les Deschiens - série moderne

Rodelinda

With this DVD and Blu-ray of Rodelinda, one of Handel’s most emotionally complex operas, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm adds to her impressive Erato catalogue of the composer’s works. The imaginative production, by Jean Bellorini, was seen at the Opéra de Lille in Autumn 2018, and the cast features soprano Jeanine De Bique in the title role, countertenor Tim Mead as her husband Bertarido and another countertenor, Erato’s rising star Jakub Józef Orliński as Unulfo. Reviewing the production, Le Monde noted Emmanuelle Haïm’s “intimate connection with this music, which she knows how to unleash in all its violence, passion and heart-wrenching expressivity.”

L’Avare de Molière

Everything's Connected

An analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the stylistic similarities between it and the other Monsieur Hulot films.

Dom Juan

Subversive hero or vile predator? Don Juan has appeared throughout history in many guises. Macha Makeïeff highlights the psychological and societal aspects of the character: desire, domination, and human darkness, which she contrasts with liberating and destructive laughter.

The True Story of Puss 'n Boots

Following the death of their miller father, his eldest son inherits the mill, the middle one a donkey, and the youngest a cat. While initially disappointed, the lad soon learns not only that the cat can talk but is quite resourceful.

Les Précieuses ridicules

The Magnificent Tati

This documentary traces Jacques Tati's rise from the Parisian Music-Hall stage to his Oscar winning films of the 1950s, the documentary then explains how Tati bet all he had on his fourth film 'PlayTime' and how this mammoth film ended prematurely the career of a genius while also giving the world one of the most beautiful films ever made.

Clear Skies, Light Breeze

Clear Skies, Light Breeze, is a 2013 visual essay by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet about the debut of Monsieur Hulot

Professor Goudet's Lessons

Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he conclude the disc with a half hour lecture that concludes the themes and methods of the filmmaker.

Les Deschiens : Qui va m'aimer ?

Les Deschiens - Lapin chasseur

The life of a "big" restaurant seen as a world unto itself, a world apart with its own inhabitants, rules, intrigues, movements, hierarchy, history and stories, internal and external relationships... an organic world that pulses, moves, shouts, cries, sings and, of course, eats. Here, the particularity of their vision lies in the stage set-up, which offers two separate, parallel spaces that interact with each other: the "visible" world on the dining room side, and the "underground" world on the kitchen side. At intermission, the spectator switches sides, seeing the same story from two radically different points of view.

La Veuve Joyeuse

Everything Is Beautiful: Fashion

Documentary about the costume design in Jacques Tati's 1958 film MON ONCLE.

Les Deschiens - Les Frères Zenith

Splendeur et gloire des Deschiens

The first best of Les Deschiens on DVD. A selection of the best "classic" and "modern" sketches.

Everything Is Beautiful: Lines, Signs, Design

A documentary focusing on the architecture in Jacques Tati's 1958 film MON ONCLE.

Trissotin ou les Femmes savantes

Les Brigands

“Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and a recipe for the hilarious satire of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Brigands! The Opéra Comique’s rollicking 2011 production took full advantage of the talents of stage directors Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps (members of the wildly successful French comedy troupe Les Deschiens) and the accomplished music director François-Xavier Roth.

Lewis versus Alice

A staging of Macha Makeïeff and Gaëlle Hermant's play "Lewis versus Alice" by Macha Makeïeff. It is based on the tale "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.

Les Deschiens - Les pieds dans l'eau

With their faces of sweet lunatics or lighted beaufs, citizens of the ordinary or pochards between two wines, they interpret, in twos or threes, conversations seized on the zincs of the bistros or in the corners of our kitchens. A few minutes of delirium or absurdity. The Deschiens are the actors of Jérôme Deschamps's troupe, who, as usual, with his accomplice Macha Makeieff, track down the little nonsense of everyday life, between humor and ferocity.

Les Deschiens

Les Deschiens is a French-language comedy television series. It was broadcast from 1993 to 2002 on Canal + (France).

Un film et son époque