Michael Lonsdale Movies

What happens to the actors when they are left to their own devices? How to tear the screen of conventional cinema?

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

a 22-minute French experimental short film directed by Marin Karmitz and Jean Ravel, based on Samuel Beckett's 1963 play. It features actors...

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

Between a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical experiments and a mother-in-law who is being courted by a rich...

Esoteric documentary narrated by Michael Lonsdale.

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female...

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

A documentary about 1950's Reunion island.

Australian geologist Graves meets Juliane in a Hamburg variety show. She mistakes Graves for a killer and lures him to gangster Tanzmann. When the...

A TV film of the play by Edward Albee. Mild-mannered, complacent Peter is startled when an aggressive stranger, Jerry, starts haranguing him as he...

On photographs taken by Cuchi White of trompe l'oeil painted on the walls of Paris and elsewhere, the comments of Georges Perec and Michel Butor are...

A portrait of the unforgettable actor Michael Lonsdale, already starring in La Question humaine: one last performance, between Artaud and Plutarch,...

After the birthday party of his wife Odile, Louis accompanies a friend to the station. When the train leaves he starts reminiscing about his youth.