Philippe Martin Movies

A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissner.

“In re-viewing our Super 8 films, shot between 1972 and 1981, it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a testimony...

Lucie makes her living selling bathing costumes on the beach at Marseilles. She would like that her ten-year long boyfriend, Lucien, becomes her best...

Victoria, a little black girl aged 8 from a humble background, happens to spend the night with the bourgeois family of Thomas, one of her classmates....

Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.

Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's...

Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva...

Samuel and Agnes are blocked in an elevator just after Agnes has stolen Samuel's bag. In this enclosed space with no exit, the attacker and victim...

Jafar Panahi sets out to find a Kurdish young woman with a golden voice that has been forbidden to sing by her family.

Two bored extras from the ‘Tristan and Isolde’ opera roam the underground of the Garnier Palace.

A shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film director. Five years later, they have two children, she...

Two sibling doctors take on a young diabetic patient and both fall for the girl’s lovely mother, who tends bar at a local watering hole,...

In the middle of summer 2001, in a small village in Burgundy, a film crew was about to shoot the first images of Jean Luc Gromer's new film, when...

Stéphane Lissner, director of the Paris Opera, entrusts the staging of the opera-ballet Les Indes galantes to the visual artist Clément...

Alain runs Le Detour, a small cafe in Paris where Antoine works. Antoine is reunited with his sister Marie when she's released from prison; they are...

Jonathan Littell revived Monteverdi’s baroque and decadent opera L’incoronazione di Poppea in a modern and fantastic production. From...

Plot under wraps. Depicts the life of visionary English writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.

Noémie and Priscilla, two teenagers from a modest background, nurture the same violence, the same revolt. They seriously worry their families,...

A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of theatre backdrops unspools itself, unveiling two alternate landscapes. Upon the woman’s blue...