Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard

Changement de trottoir

Evil Seaweed

A scientist in yellow overalls is taking samples of green algae on a beach in Brittany. Lifting his mask, he suddenly drops down dead. There’s panic in the village – he’s not the first person to disappear, and the municipality suspects that toxic algae are the cause. Nevertheless, it’s out of the question to endanger the tourism industry or accuse intensive farming for this maleficent bloom. The mayor prefers to suspect the Parisian “bobos” who rent the Airbnb on the beach. But all it takes is one high tide for the dead to re-emerge from the seaweed carpet as zombies.

Voyage Along the War

Ukraine, summer 2022: a filmmaker makes the journey. He films the ravaged country, meets refugees and writes down his impressions. From the edge, he gets to the heart of life in a country at war.

The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu

Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.

Struggle for Life

Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away…

Vade Retro

Norbert, the posh conservative aristocrat vampire, must find a pure blooded woman to bite if he wants to survive and not be rejected by his parents. Sent by ship to Japan, along with his museum watchman butler, he’s shipwrecked on Boulet Rouge Island…

Old Fashioned

Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and even buy a ticket. It is with extraordinary luck that the beautiful young Ava happens to be sitting at the counter: a spark ignites and wedding bells begin ringing in the distance.

Panique au Sénat

Following elections organized at short notice and a strange game of alliances, the new Senate president is an ecologist. His reign begins.

Les secrets de l'invisible

In a Paris in full economic slump, Jojo and Eugène have one after the other loving failures. And if all this was connected ? Our two infiltrated agents thus begin a investigation on young girls. We discover that the young girls are not always young and sometimes not even a girl.

Vous voulez une histoire?

You want a story ? Put two girls on a train and imagine that one of them is a redhead.

Mandico et le TOpsychoPOR

Bertrand Mandico discovers Topsychopor, a psychological game invented by Topor.

La grève des ventres

Women have decided to exercise the power which they have between their thighs and threaten the humanity to progressive extinction. Lise and Clara, two of them, lovers and cheerful, meet the attractive Alexandre.

Yellow Saturday

Diplopia “is a functional vision disorder that results in the perception of two images for a single object” (Clément Chéroux). Antonin Peretjatko literally brings this double vision to the screen. He uses it to tackle one of the issues approached in Yellow Saturday – the perception of the so-called Yellow Vests protest movement, a lengthy political episode that has fuelled the media in their field-based battle to portray the demonstrators.

L'Opération de la dernière chance

"What I like about the journey, is the surprise you find when your back. It is not me who said it, it is Stendhal. And it's a pity that I am not Stendhal because I was going to be served. A big surprise waited for me at the Cosmos Agency."

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.