Michael Lonsdale Movies

This is a story of a seemingly quiet and unobtrusive man, author of a colossal and partly unfinished literary work. We will try to trace back to the...

While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his...

Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant...

1970s France. In this modern Parisian city suburb, the paths cross of two neighbours living on the same landing, Georges and Claude: one burying his...

As Gentille opens, Fontaine Leglou is walking down a Paris street, and stops to confront a man whom she suspects is following her. She tells him he...

This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.

The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new...

Julien, a movie director, is on the phase of editing his new film, "Juliette sacrifiée". Hurried by his producer, he asks for the help of a...

A two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet. It features a mixture of archival...

A family in a car that seems to be speeding through the night. We learn that the father, a pharmaceutical sales representative, has contaminated his...

Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy...

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

Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing...

One of four Hanoun films that take their titles from the seasons of the year, SPRING tells two parallel stories: a man, fleeing the forces of order,...

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

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

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