Bruno Nuytten Movies

After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road.

The story of a serial killer but bears little resemblance to a slasher movie. We know almost at once who the killer is and the emphasis is not on the...

Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the...

With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen...

In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family.

In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one’s mature years — this series of mood swings...

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

Albert dreams of going to Australia. Jérôme loves Jeanne, but ignores her while cramming for exams. An African named Charles writes and...

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their...

A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them,...

Shortly after returning home one evening with her husband, Alma is visited by her one-time lesbian lover Carole. In the ensuing emotional torrent,...

Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script....

On the island of Porquerolles, Alice spies on Bernard, a man who has returned to France after living in Brazil for some years. The two had once been...

Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).

Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to...

A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with it.

At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of...