Version restaurée/Restored Version

Only six years after And God Created Woman rocketed her to international fame, Brigitte Bardot plays herself in this Louis Malle stunner: an instant icon, dogged by the press, and the most famous face in the world. Co-starring Marcello Mastroianni, Malle’s fourth film is, under reconsideration, his greatest French language film.

In one of the most exceptional debut features of the last forty years, two men, a white accountant and a Black masseuse, both work at a sports club, where their sessions increase in intensity. Soon they are on a shared path on which, only perhaps, neither expected to join the other.

Set in the Tunisian village of Chebika in the early 1960s (though filmed in Algeria), and inspired by sociologist Jean Duvignaud’s non-fiction book, Bertuccelli’s film is the story of a young woman in the midst of a labor strike between rural workers at a salt mine and the military deployed against them by the owners.

A portrait of post-’68 labor organizing by a Leninist cell will spark an immediate recognition of themes and locations shared by fellow Swiss auteurs Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Tanner. Léon, a security guard who appears on television, meets Léa, an idealistic activist, as she distributes leaflets. They become involved, to a degree, and form a connection politically, also only to a degree, before diverging.

Following Éloge de l’amour, Godard’s final close-to-traditional work continues the dialogues on the Middle East, the destruction of the Balkans, and the analysis and deconstruction of historic imagery that consume and overwhelm our consciousness. “Another (and scarcely the least) of Godard’s elegies – for the twentieth century, Europe, the cinema, and himself.” – J. Hoberman

A thrilling, behind-the-scenes documentary about the Belgian-born Eddy Merckx, often considered the greatest cyclist and racing champion of all time. Santoni’s remarkable access to a seemingly ordinary activity elevates the sport to visual poetry by an extraordinary exceptional athlete. A major rediscovery of a masterpiece of sports cinema.

A late-career work by Julien Duvivier, starring the youngest New Wave discovery, Jean-Pierre Léaud, as a semi-delinquent living alone in the Pigalle neighborhood of Paris. “Jojo” is known to all in the neighborhood and building: the dancer across the hall, the artist, the boxer, his estranged father, and young women he bounces to and from in his loneliness and confusion.