Modern Retro

With a Golden Lion nomination at the Venice Film Festival and with the dazzling Gong Li in the lead role, Ye Lou's Saturday Fiction ends up being a powerful spying thriller, reminiscent of those of the good old days. — In 1941, the Allied forces hire a Chinese actress to work as a secret agent in Shanghai. She collects information successfully, until she discovers that a group of Japanese people are planning a secret attack upon Pearl Harbor. — Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2019

Loyal to the cinema he has served for over 50 years, the veteran Philippe Garrel trusts black and white, the trials of intimate relationship dynamics and erotic whims, while relying on a playful script that observes with admirable accuracy his story's characters. — Devastated by a recent breakup with her partner, a 23-year-old woman is forced to take refuge in her father's small apartment in Paris. However, his new young mistress now lives in the same house. — SACD Prize - Directors' Fortnight | Cannes Film Festival | 2017 Official Selection | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2017

The greatest love stories have yet to be told. An elderly woman embarks on a long journey and thus unleashes a grand, tender, peculiar, unique second part in a film for which just one time is not enough. — A woman spends her retirement years taking care of the people around her. Most of all, she's troubled by her lonely neighbor, an eccentric 80-year-old who believes her maid is using voodoo on her. The old woman wants to meet a man from her past, so the retiree and the maid join forces to help her find him. The man has a story to tell. A story that unfolded 50 years ago, before the Portuguese colonial war, and begins as follows: "He had a farm in Africa, at the base of mount Tabu..." — Alfred Bauer Award | Berlin International Film Festival | 2012 FIPRESCI Prize | Berlin International Film Festival | 2012 Audience Award | Las Palmas Film Festival | 2012