Jacques Renoir

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

Dans cette « fantaisie dramatique », Jean Renoir filme avec humour et sans fard l’aristocratie française de province. Des châtelains aux domestiques et de bal masqué en partie de chasse, un petit monde se grise de mensonges, de faux bonheurs et d’amours en trompe-l’œil, au point de maquiller un meurtre en accident. Pas de vrais méchants ni de vrais gentils, dans ce film qui casse les codes de la narration et multiplie les audaces techniques. Haï ou incompris à sa sortie, le film est considéré aujourd’hui comme un des chefs-d’œuvre du cinéma mondial.

Cousteau : De l'homme à la légende s’appuie sur plus d’une centaine d’heures d’enregistrements audio, d’interviews et de témoignages de ses collaborateurs et membres d’équipage. Ce portrait intimiste évoque la première épouse et collaboratrice de Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Simone Melchior (que l’équipage du Calypso surnommait la Bergère), ses expériences familiales, sa seconde épouse, Francine Triplet, la création de la société Cousteau, le travail extraordinaire que ses membres accomplissent, et l’évolution du commandant lui-même, devenu l’un des principaux militants écologiques du XXe siècle, dont les mots et les images sont aujourd’hui plus indispensables que jamais.

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the airport slaying of a man handcuffed to him and decides she needs a good story to go with her picture.

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the airport slaying of a man handcuffed to him and decides she needs a good story to go with her picture.

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the airport slaying of a man handcuffed to him and decides she needs a good story to go with her picture.

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the airport slaying of a man handcuffed to him and decides she needs a good story to go with her picture.

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the airport slaying of a man handcuffed to him and decides she needs a good story to go with her picture.

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the airport slaying of a man handcuffed to him and decides she needs a good story to go with her picture.

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the airport slaying of a man handcuffed to him and decides she needs a good story to go with her picture.

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the airport slaying of a man handcuffed to him and decides she needs a good story to go with her picture.