Michael Lonsdale Movies

Constructed like an animated painting in a single fixed shot where light, voice, music and movements interfere.

Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville as visualised by Jean-Louis Bertucelli

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is...

An adaptation of the Beckett play

Adaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men...

On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to...

The disappearance of some nail clippers in a hotel room puzzles the owners of the capricious object.

Two suicides take place in the same room of a hotel in Paris. The police investigate the reason why two previous tenants was pushed to hang...

Summer is slowly drawing to a close. Jeanne, in her sixties, is abandoned on the side of the road with her suitcase. With nowhere else to go, Jeanne...

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien,...

A year after the death of their father, life can begin again for Macha, Olga, Irina and their brother, Andrei. But the unpredictability of life...

At school, Nicolas is falsely accused of misbehaving and is expelled. On school photo day, Nicolas will try to prove his innocence, with disastrous...

A couple takes charge of mounting the film of love and war of a filmmaker friend faded away.

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...

Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his...

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to their homes?

The theme of Romeo and Juliet is the starting point from which the film spins a web of several stories. A love story between a boy and a girl whose...