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Three witches predict that Macbeth will ascend to the throne of Scotland. To fulfill this prophecy, Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to murder King Duncan, who has come to spend the night at their home. This crime plunges the new ruler into a macabre spiral that will lead him to sink into guilt and madness... The "Scottish play" is being shown live from the Comédie-Française theater in cinemas for the first time.
Accompanied by a child, the mathematician Galileo observes the firmament with a telescope. Ten years ago, the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned in Rome for having supported the idea of an infinite and centerless universe, based on the work of Copernicus. By dint of observations and calculations, Galileo seeks proofs for his hypothesis of a cosmic system where the Earth is "an ordinary celestial body, one among thousands". From Padua to Venice, the mathematician shakes certainties by confronting the power of a Church which wishes to maintain its absolute power in the "crystal spheres" where Ptolemy has hitherto locked up the world.
An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet", staged by Éric Ruf.
A staging of Marivaux's play "The Game of Love and Chance" by Galin Stoev.
Louis, 34, visits his family for the first time in years. He finds his brother Antoine, his sister Suzanne, his mother and his sister-in-law Catherine. Louis did not come back by chance. He wants to tell his family terrible news: his imminent and inexorable death. But as soon as he arrived, his presence brought back memories and old family quarrels. Buried bitterness and annealed tensions resurface one after the other and transform the little suburban pavilion into a stifling family prison. So much so that the unfortunate Louis never finds the right time to share his heavy secret ...
A staging of Molière's play "The Miser" by Catherine Hiegel.
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's children, her nephew Victor. But fate seems to always deny her from any love in return. Still she tries to find someone who'll accept her unconditional love.
In a time and place indeterminate a bandit has kidnapped Rixo Lomadis Bron’s daughter. Bron is a wealthy landowner who reigns over the shepherds of the Purple Mountain. The time has come when Rixo Lomadis Bron accuses Manjas-Kebir of killing his daughter and urges all the country’s inhabitants to track down the assassin. It’s the time when Radovan Remila Stoï, the land’s greatest warrior, rises up against this foolhardy act which has every chance of leading to war...
Blonde admired Brune's intransigence, who loved Blonde's spontaneity. Blonde had known how to say "yes" and enjoy the secondary benefits of her moral weakness (having a husband, children, in short, something like life)... Brunette had known how to say "no" and patiently suffer the inconveniences of her greatness. But now, after ten years of separation, Blonde arrives at her friend's house and the opportunity arises for both of them to try on each other's lives like trying on a dress.
A chronicle of queer lust set against a greasy metallic environment of the last days of a factory that is about to shut down. Among the workers forced to idle away until the end of the week, Jacques, a young technician is busy dismantling a machine while, without noticing it, turning on some of the men around him!
