Aurore Clément

It is 1944 and in rural France an eighteen-year-old finds himself caught between his job as a member of the Gestapo, and the Jewish girl he is falling in love with.

In 1950s Paris, a young girl is found dead dressed in an evening gown. While tracking down her killer, Chief Inspector Maigret becomes personally invested in solving the crime. Adapted from Georges Simenon’s ‘Maigret and the Dead Girl’.

An actress, Brigitte, plays the cult French singer Barbara in a film that soon begins shooting. Brigitte works on her character, her voice, the song and scores, the imitation of her gestures, her knitting, the lines to learn. Things move along. The character grows inside her. Invades her even… Yves, the director, is also working – via encounters, archival footage, the music. He seems inhabited and inspired by her… But by whom? The actress or Barbara?

A drifter wanders out of the Texas desert to reconnect with the young son he abandoned and find his missing wife.

After the death of her life-long best friend, Claire vows to watch over her husband, David, and their young daughter. But when she makes a surprising discovery about David, her own subconscious desires are unleashed, taking her on a journey that will change her life irrevocably.

This languorous, beguiling adaptation – where, again, Akerman resets our sense of time – probes possessive love. A wealthy young man obsesses over his girlfriend. But who is the captor asks Akerman, who considered a person could be a cage as much as a room.