Jean-François Balmer

Two young elephants freely roaming the wild plains of Africa find themselves on a life-changing adventure when they get separated from their family.

Andrzej Zulawski's final film, a literary adaptation suffused with his trademark freneticism, transforms Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's novel into an ominous and manic exploration of desire. Witold, who has just failed the bar, stays at a guesthouse run by Madame Woytis, where reality mutates into a whirlwind of foreboding omens and surrealistic logic as he becomes obsessed with her daughter.

When Louis XVI summoned the Etats-Generaux he unleashes a revolution that would change his country and cost his life. This is the story of one of the crucial points in the history of France, and Europe, divided into two parts.

A teacher pushes a student with extraordinary gifts to keep on writing -- even though he knows the young author's research methods are questionable.

You can almost smell the hairspray in Akerman’s exuberant but subversive musical about the many romantic entanglements of salon workers in a shopping mall basement. Its natty 1980s style, witty song lyrics, rapturous dance sequences, not to mention a gloriously bitchy male-suited quartet, deliver all the joys of the genre.