Plateforme HENRI - Cinémathèque française
En réponse à la fermeture des salles de cinéma, la Cinémathèque française propose depuis le 9 avril 2020 une sélection de films rares à visionner gratuitement et librement sur sa plateforme en ligne HENRI. Ces films issus des collections de la cinémathèque sont les suivants (certaines œuvres sont disponibles pour une durée limitée) :
Mise à jour : 23/04/2023
Mise à jour : 23/04/2023
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- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsNathalie LissenkoJean AngeloCamille BardouA vehicle for Russian émigré company Albatros's big star Nathalia Lissenko: the lover and the son of a society woman are both chronic gamblers in this critique of wealth and bourgeois hypocrisy.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsJean DebucourtMarguerite GanceCharles LamyAllan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsJeanne HelblingSuzy PiersonOlga DayPsychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). Overpowered by weakness, the coward sidesteps the obligations that love affairs impose: rather than living up to his dates he takes his sports-car from an ultra-modern garage and speeds to the fashionable beaches of Deauville. On his way, he is fatally hit by a descending swallow. The film is divided into three segments each of which consists of events the woman experienced. These sequences are embedded in scenes in which each of the three women is telling and casting her mind back to her own love affair. Thus, present, future and past merge and cannot be distinguished clearly. The intertwinement of several layers of time experience, recollection, telling and showing have been regarded as a source of inspiration of Alain Resnais and this film prefigures his "L'Année dernière à Mariënbad" to a certain extent.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsIvan MozzhukhinFrançois ViguierNathalie LissenkoIn the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and coveted by the Grand Khan. Fleeing the country, he takes refuge in Paris and his presentability allows him to be hired as an actor by a French film company. The trouble is that Anna, the star of the movie, is attracted to him. Which displeases banker Morel, the producer and Anna's lover...
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsSandra MilovanoffMaurice SchutzNino ConstantiniSet before the French Revolution, the film tells the story of Bernard De Mauprat, a noble orphan, raised by despicable aristocrats, who is saved from the gallows by his cousin Edmée and his father, the knight Hubert De Mauprat. The return of Bernard causes tensions within Mauprat's family since him tries to win the heart of his cousin Edmée (Knight of La Marche's fiancée) after obtaining her pledge of loyalty under a certain threat of rape.
- DirectorJean EpsteinJean Epstein's short documentary filmed on the Breton island of Sein.
- DirectorJean EpsteinIn a village in Brittany, a young maid and an old woman are spinning while the wind blows threateningly outdoors. In spite of the bad omen, the young maid's boyfriend decides to sail away. Worried, the young maid ask for help to a mysterious old man and his magical crystal ball in order to calm down the rough seas.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsAndré GaudinIllustrated version of the popular Fauré's setting of Prudhomme's poem sung by L. Gaudin of the Opéra-Comique
- DirectorJames June SchneiderStarsJean EpsteinMarie EpsteinJean-Yves LeGallA documentary meditation on the French film director stresses the time he spent in Brittany and includes interviews, archive material, extracts of writings and juxtapositions of locations used in the work and their present day equivalents.
- DirectorIvan MozzhukhinStarsIvan MozzhukhinNathalie LissenkoNicolas KolineA woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on the other hand, torments himself by imagining rivals. One morning she awakens from a nightmare in which she has been pursued by a man in various guises, who turns out to be the famous Detective Z, whose memoirs she has been reading. When she and her husband quarrel over leaving Paris permanently for a country estate, he goes to the "Trouve Tout" Agency and hires, of all people, Detective Z, to win back her affection. She promptly steals their marriage contract. Z tracks down the document and is nearly seduced in the process, but he resists her and returns to the comforts of home, his adoring mother, and a pet bulldog. In a chic restaurant one evening, she challenges him to a dancing duel, which he wins. After her confession of love, he goes home with a toothache. The contract is returned, the married couple plan to go away on a trip - all is ending as it should...
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsIvan MozzhukhinMarcelle PradotLois MoranMathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romilde, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well as his job as assistant librarian in his home town. His only moments of lights are his mother and his baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked he leaves his hometown and gets to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the Casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he now is free from all ties to his old live, decides to start a new one, and goes to Rome, where he rents a room in a pension full of fake spiritualists who are controlling the owner. The chief of the gang, Terence, wants to marry the owner's daughter Adrienne, and has convinced her father to give her to him, with no regards of Adrienne's feelings, who is in love with and loved by Mathias. When Terence steals Mathias 50,000 Lira, and Mathias, being officially dead can neither marry Adrienne nor denounce Terence to the police, he decides to do something about his state and travels home, just to notice that Romalinda has remarried.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsJean ForestRolla NormanFrançoise RosayA sincere working-class 13-year old in France is adopted by a well-meaning philanthropic millionairess from America -- who promises his doting mother that the boy will have the finest education -- but things are not so simple.
- DirectorLucie DerainDocumentary about Paris, beginning with views of Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe, Les Invalides, Place de L'Opera, Louvre, the Paris Metro, traffic on the Seine, unloading coal and other forms of work, ending with shots of Pigalle-Montmartre at night.
- DirectorRené ClairThe great French filmmaker René Clair crafted this elegant sepia-toned profile of Paris's iconic landmark almost forty years after the Eiffel Tower took its first bow (at the 1889 Exposition Universelle). It clearly still fascinates and awes in this loving and playful tribute. LA TOUR takes the viewer first up and then down the mighty structure while also acting as a tribute to its eponymous designer, Gustave Eiffel. The film initially burrows into blueprints and photographs of the earliest stages of its construction ahead of the opening of the World's Fair but Clair's film revels in the completed structure itself, reverently scaling its heights and accompanying tourists on up through the various levels toward the topmost landing. Clair also makes strategic use of double exposures and dissolves in capturing the mechanical exuberance of the tower lifts (which help make the great swooping steel latticework edifice a bounding symbol of the modern age). - Robert Avila
- DirectorJacques RozierStarsRene FerroFrancis De PerettiElisabeth KlarRecapturing a spontaneous moment in time witnessed by the director, when a couple of free wheeling youths on their scooters in the summer of the Riviera try to pick up a girl or two.
- DirectorJacques RozierWilliam RozierStarsFouli EliaBerthe GranvalHelene LazareffDocumentary about the 1962 capes fashion, from the designing process by the stylists of "Elle" magazine to photo studio to the women wearing capes in the street.
- DirectorJacques RozierStarsBrigitte BardotJean-Luc GodardFritz LangMay 1963: Jean-Luc Godard and his two stars, Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli, arrive on Capri, where they want to shoot scenes for the feature film "Contempt".
- DirectorJacques RozierStarsMichel PiccoliJean LescotDavid TonelliPaparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt).
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsGennadi KrasheninnikovSofiko ChiaureliOtar IosselianiA man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsTatyana ChanturiaGia ChiraqadzeAkakiy ChikvaidzeA young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiDocumentary of the Rustavi Metal Works, in the country of Georgia.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiAn old man, in love with nature, makes magnificent flower arrangements. But tractors are gradually invading the flower fields.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsAndré ForestEtienne RozeOlivier NelleThe contrast between the daily lives of five french Augustinian monks in the monastery Castelnuovo dell'Abate and the life in the village of Montalcino.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiUnder the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous psalmody passed over from generation to generation, what Otar Iosseliani captures in reality is the snapshot of a not-so-distant past that coexists with the world we might know yet transports us to what used to be.