Alex Descas
7 titles
Filmography
7 results

No Fear, No Die
(1990)
Maya
(2018)December 2012. Two French reporters are released after months of captivity in Syria. Gabriel, just shy of 30, heads to his childhood home in Goa, India, to recover. There, he meets Maya.

Trouble Every Day
(2001)One of the luminaries of the contemporary arthouse, Claire Denis makes her own version of a vampire tale in this elliptical, sensual film of disease and desire. Loaded with mystery and tactility, Trouble Every Day stars Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo with an intense score by Tindersticks.

Late August, Early September
(1999)Thirty-something Gabriel is in romantic transition from Jenny to Anne, while as an editor much of his time is spent on his friend Adrien.

Irma Vep
(1996)Starring alongside Jean-Pierre Léaud, Maggie Cheung is the mysterious, latex-clad femme fatale at the center of haute auteur Olivier Assayas’s spiky and dizzyingly hip 1990s satire of the French film industry. Irma Vep both pays tribute to 100 years of French cinema and adds plenty of its own!

Un enfant en danger
(2013)El caso de un niño desaparecido da un giro inesperado cuando el padre acusa a la madre, de quien está separado, de ser la secuestradora.

Boarding Gate
(2007)From Olivier Assayas comes an erotic thriller about a former prostitute and her onetime pimp-turned-high powered businessman at the center of it.