Stanislas Merhar Movies

Several interconnected chapters follow a variety of Parisian couples navigating love, desire, and relationships. Isabelle, frustrated by a year of...

Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially...

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to...

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without...

Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. He is a spoiled but penniless child who wants it all while she is a celebrated...

Haunted by the mysterious death of her son, found drowned, Anna returns to the town where he lived.

Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she...

Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to...

An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer.

After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy.

"Don Juan woman", according to the expression of Balzac. A princess, a great seductress. Of a diabolical intelligence. This woman, who has had many...

19-year-old Morgane puts her studies on hold and moves to Amsterdam to work as an Au Pair for a French family. Eager to stretch her wings and...

In Brittany, a notary is killed with shots to the head. His wife Joséphine is a suspect. Her husband had just sold part of their property to...

Two police officers investigate a murder in the middle on an endless winter in a small town.

Carmela is almost sixteen. She has just lost her mother and is suddenly sent to a boarding high school in Montpellier, the city of her paternal...

This is the story of an actor who trains, a man who remembers, a son who mourns. It is also the story of a book, and of a character who enters into...

The loss of youth and innocence can be played for comedy or tragedy. The stunning black-and-white cinematography and hypnotic electric guitar that...

A BFI video essay on Chantal Akerman's "La Captive" by writer and critic Cristina Álvarez López.