Catalogue des films de « François Lévy-Kuentz »

"The Poet and the Boxer" is the story of the ardent relationship between the poet Jean Cocteau and the young boxer Panama Al Brown, a pair that made headlines during the 1930s. The film deals with the rarely represented historical tie between...

La "deuxième génération" est celle des enfants nés de parents rescapés des camps nazis et qui n’avait jamais pris la parole pour elle-même. Elle fut pourtant la génération de tous les cris, de tous les cauchemars, témoin d’une...

Qui fut vraiment Salvador Dalí ? Un personnage médiatique ou l’un des plus grands peintres populaires du XXe siècle ? Construit comme une aventure visuelle racontée par Michael Lonsdale, ce film explore la vie de l’artiste aux multiples...

This film retraces the adventure of a group of young painters, who from 1874, launched an aesthetic that broke away from the style of historical paintings displayed in the official Salons of the era. Inspired by the Barbizon Realism School of...

The work of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) marked a turning point in the history of modern painting. Initially influenced by Cubism, Mondrian invented an original universal language of geometric shapes and primary colours in the early...

How, in 1968, to the mantra, "All power to the imagination!" art school students turned their printing workshops into "popular workshops" and gave birth to the last great pictorial movement of the 20th century. The 60s and 70s were probably the...

L'œuvre d'Alexander Calder (1898-1976), l'un des créateurs les plus révolutionnaires et populaires de son temps, reste moderne et d'une actualité incontestable. Né dans une famille d'artistes, Calder fait des études d'ingénieur avant...

A portrait that both analyzes a unique oeuvre and - as illuminated by anecdotes - retraces an exceptional human and artistic adventure. It is a documented saga, the serial of thought in action. The film insists on the importance of his...

This film relates the life and work of a man who played an essential role in the history of cinema. This atypical filmmaker, imbued with both scientific research and the avant-garde spirit, was close to Jean Vigo, Alexandre Calder and Luis Bunuel....

Chagall, To Russia, asses and others Echoing the retrospective exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, this film retraces the life and work of Marc Chagall. Made with the support of the Chagall Committee, this is the first monograph to be made...