Mademoiselle Julie is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve on the estate of a Count. The young woman of the title is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean (Nicolas Bouchaud), who is particularly well-traveled, well-mannered and well-read....
Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin , Paris From 16 janvier to 28 avril 2018. The Game of Love and Chance (French: Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard) is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. The Game of Love and Chance was first performed 23 January 1730 by the Comédie Italienne....
Jean-Marie Bigard plays Clérambard, a ruined squire, his family's slavery slave, cat taster, parish priest eater. Converted after an appearance of Saint Francis of Assisi, he becomes as violent in good as he was in evil. A tailor-made role! He no longer touches animals, even if they are...
Theatron, the film by the multi-award-winning film-maker Giulio Boato, is an unprecedented portrait of Romeo Castellucci. Castellucci and his theatre company, the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, are key protagonists of avantgarde theatre. To a Vivaldi soundtrack, Theatron layers Romeo and Claudia...
Leonard is a couch potato statistician who in his spare time writes railway station novels, with the secret hope of one day being published. After sending a good number of manuscripts that remained unanswered, luck finally smiles on him. His novel is selected by a publishing house. But having...
"Jerk" is an imaginary reconstruction – strange, poetic, funny and somber – of the crimes perpetrated by American serial killer Dean Corll who, with the help of teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, killed more than twenty boys in the state of Texas during mid-70s.
Paul, a 45-year-old businessman, is about to radically change his life ... He organized everything down to the smallest detail the lucrative sale of his website to a Russian company, his divorce and his departure on a paradise island with his mistress .... The sole confidant of his stratagem and...
Maxime Depratte, a charismatic company director, invites Corentin Michelot, his meticulous and unassuming accountant, to dinner to "fix" a compromising financial statement just hours before a board meeting. Ségolène, Maxime's wife, is very upset about being an accomplice to this foolish dinner....
Always egocentric and in search of good words, always an assumed homosexual, but this time in couple with a companion whom he loves to martyr, it is now his desire to have a child that will be the crux of the story. He wants a son and he has promised him to two women: Sylvie, his best friend, and...