Movies by Françoise Lebrun

Being Blanche Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq travels to Guadeloupe to take part in a look-alike contest, whose jury is chaired by Blanche Gardin. But unforeseen events will plunge our duo into the heart of a bizarre intrigue.

The Sower
In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, they make an oath in case a man arrives in the village.

Et + si @ff
The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters...

Fragments sur la grâce
A filmmaker and his crew try to enter the passionate world of Port-Royal and of Jansenism. Another Age of Louis XIV comes to life, the age of Pascal, Racine and of the “Friends of Truth”. The film itself comes up against the unanswerable question of grace.

Jean-Pierre Léaud - The Child of Cinema
Unforgettable hero of The 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Léaud made his major debut at the age of 14 – and never stopped being an actor. As an icon of international auteur cinema, he redefined masculinity and the approach to embodying a character alongside some of the greatest directors: Truffaut, Godard, Assayas, Tsai Ming-Liang & Aki Kaurismaki, etc.

No One and Nothing
At the dawn of a fatherhood that is refused to him, Jean, an orphan who has been involved in delinquency and is now repentant, decides to leave everything behind by stealing from the godfather who had protected him until then.

At the Top of the Stairs
A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.

Vortex
Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.

Looking for Her
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.

Love Blooms
Martin, in a last ditch hope, comes to meet Léa in Paris. They are both twenty-five and shared their first love story together. They are both now striving to mature.

The Girl Without Hands
A poor miller gets tricked by the Devil and accidentally sells his daughter for a bit of gold. But Satan can't take her because she's too pure and has wept on her hands. So Satan orders the miller to cut her hands off. It's the beginning of the young girl's journey towards freedom.

Ceux de la nuit
The French-Italian border at the Montgenèvre pass. Daytime reality: tourism, capital invested to make the mountain profitable. At night: the fragile destiny of more than ten thousand men, women and children who, in four years, risked their lives to cross the border.