Marc Barbé
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

Mozart's Sister
(2010)The untold story of Mozart’s older sister, Maria Anna, who was a talented and featured performer, yet restricted in her art due to sexism in Europe.

Calm at Sea
(2012)October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as ‘retribution’.
Paris Police 1905
Paris, Christmas 1904. When the Paris police department - under the orders of Police Chief Lépine - begin to clean prostitutes off the city’s streets, a man’s body is found in the Bois de Boulogne gardens. Inspector Antoine Jouin is entrusted with the investigation, which leads him into an illicit world where pimps, blackmailers and crooked doctors are interlinked in a web of intrigue.

The Other Laurens
(2023)Private detective Gabriel Laurens is forced to face the ghosts of his past when his niece recruits him to investigate her father’s suspicious death.

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
(2017)Impoverished and solitary, Gauguin pushes deep into the Tahitian jungle, where he meets the Maoris and Tehura, his muse, who would go on to inspire his most iconic works of art.

Paris Police 1900
Paris, 1899: A young, ambitious detective is thrust into a murder investigation against the dark backdrop of La Belle Epoque.

Let the Corpses Tan
(2017)Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani turn their genre-scrambling attention to European crime films of the 1970s with this kinetic brain-melter. Fixing Sergio Leone in its stylistic crosshairs, Let the Corpses Tan reduces plot to essentials, all the better to let rip with a psychedelic formal assault.

The Nun
(2013)Adapted from Diderot’s eponymous novel, The Nun tells the story of a woman trying to resist imposed religious values, revealing the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life. Sent to a convent against her will Suzanne, a young Nun, finds herself taunted by her fellow Sisters and subjected to sadistic punishments after breaking her vows. Taken in by a kindly Mother Superior, she soon finds that her affection comes at a price, but despite her suffering, Suzanne refuses to accept her fate and her desire for freedom never diminishes.