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Sébastien Buchmann

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The Adolescent · 2001

The Adolescent

★ 8.02001

MovieDrama

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.

David, who gets by doing odd jobs, meets Léna, who has just moved up to Paris, and falls in love. But soon after, his life is brutally interrupted by the sudden death of his sister. Beyond the shock, and the pain, David now finds himself alone with his young niece Amanda to care for.

Animal Serenade · 2013

Animal Serenade

2013

MovieDrama

At 25, Nina adopts a dog. She is sure: with her new companion Jojo, she will be doing better.

Grace of Monaco · 2014

Grace of Monaco

★ 6.02014

MovieRomanceDrama

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment.

Jilted on his wedding day, Laurent, a stage actor playing the role of the famous seducer Don Juan, cannot help but see his ex-fiancée in every women he meets. In an attempt to mend his broken heart and ego, he tries to seduce them all but none are receptive to his elaborate (and musical) advances. Meanwhile, at the theater, the leading lady quits and the production brings in Laurent’s ex-fiancée as the replacement.

The Destructions · 2011

The Destructions

2011

MovieDrama

Test and spiritual training of a young man of today. When the risk of youth threatens to take everything

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The Adolescent · 2001

The Adolescent

★ 8.02001

MovieDrama

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.

Cinematography

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Animal Serenade · 2013

Animal Serenade

2013

MovieDrama

At 25, Nina adopts a dog. She is sure: with her new companion Jojo, she will be doing better.

Director of Photography

Grace of Monaco · 2014

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A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment.

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Destructions · 2011

The Destructions

2011

MovieDrama

Test and spiritual training of a young man of today. When the risk of youth threatens to take everything

Director of Photography

Determined to change his life, the Count of Servadac donated his castle and each of the bodies of the family members to the avant-garde medicine of William Stein (great-grandson of Victor Frankenstein), duly poisoned for this purpose. . Opportunity for Stein to carry out the first transplant of memory neurons on human corpses.

Director of Photography

Rue du Conservatoire · 2024

Rue du Conservatoire

★ 6.82024

MovieDocumentary

In 1996 I took the conservatory exam. I missed it. A year ago I was asked to do a masterclass on acting in cinema. I went there. I met a lively, joyful and passionate youth. Among my students there was Clémence. The following year, she asked me to film their last show. I felt her urgency and the fear she had of leaving this mythical place. So I accepted.  By filming this youth, I revisited mine.

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A café terrace. Couples of teenagers are sitting here and there. They discuss things in life, but curiously with the experience of people much older than they seem. The watchful and caring waiter of the café responds to them in song, offering a touching and poetic filmed fantasy.

Director of Photography

Little Solange · 2022

Little Solange

★ 6.02022

MovieDrama

A sensitive 13-year-old watches her parents’ marriage unravel and struggles to keep her family together, clinging to the impossible hope that love will never end.

Director of Photography

Silvia’s father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she’s promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress.

Director of Photography

Declaration of War · 2011

Declaration of War

★ 7.02011

MovieDrama

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.

Director of Photography

James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre · 2020

James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre

2020

MovieDocumentaryTV Movie

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist

Director of Photography

Vitalium, Valentine ! · 2017

Vitalium, Valentine !

2017

MovieComedy

Director of Photography

Lads & Jockeys · 2011

Lads & Jockeys

2011

MovieDocumentary

In a small village near Paris, 14-year-old boys and girls enter the training center for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal. Though sharing the world of teenagers -- flirting, cell phones and PlayStation -- they enter a world where the comfort of the horses comes before that of the human.

Director of Photography

This Summer Feeling · 2015

This Summer Feeling

★ 5.62015

MovieDrama

In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York.

Director of Photography

A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.

Director of Photography

The Great Game · 2015

The Great Game

★ 5.02015

MovieThrillerDrama

Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to take on a strange mission that takes him back to a past he’d prefer to forget, and puts his life in danger. In the middle of all this, Pierre falls in love with Laura, a young extreme-left activist. But in this world of subterfuge, who can really be trusted?

Director of Photography

The Passengers of the Night · 2022

The Passengers of the Night

★ 6.92022

MovieDrama

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.

Director of Photography

The Green Perfume · 2022

The Green Perfume

★ 5.32022

MovieComedyCrime

In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Suspected by the police, he’s also chased by a mysterious organization, Le Parfum vert, that seems to have ordered the murder.

Director of Photography

Le Dieu Saturne · 2004

Le Dieu Saturne

★ 7.02004

Movie

Laurent comes to visit his father not far from Bethune. But his father, who lives a hermit's life deep in the woods, has only one thing on his mind : to do away with his six children in order to relieve them of the miseries of life. Welcomed at the Caboche farm where his brother Frederic works (Frederic advises him not to try to see their father), Laurent is delighted to see hardy 81 year old Alfred again. The gods are not far off, and, despite all, the pleasures of existence too.

Cinematography

Right in the middle of a school inspector’s visit, Ari, a 27-year-old student teacher, collapses. Angry with him for being a failure, his father kicks him out of the house. Emotionally raw, and alone in the city, Ari reluctantly forces himself to rekindle his relationships with old friends. As his memories of the previous months successively ebb and flow, Ari discovers that other people aren’t doing as well as he imagined, and that perhaps he has been sleepwalking through his own life.

Director of Photography

Marquise de Merteuil, betrayed by Valmont, embarks on a daring journey to become Paris' leading courtesan.

Director of Photography