Catalogue des films de « Gaël Lépingle »

A musical, today? Such was the audacious challenge Gaël Lépingle set himself – to paint a picture in period cinema of the French middle classes: so great in number and yet so rarely depicted on the silver screen. After La Prisonnière du...

Bérengère is 41-years old and she has a dream since her childhood : marching as a majorette in a small village in the North of France. She has one month to learn as an absolute beginner. Magnolias de Douai accept to teach her, even if it’s...

Julien was 18. That summer, he was playing the knight in the village light show. But he was also preparing to leave his friends, his parents and childhood landscapes, to earn his living.

End of the day, French countryside. A woman, my mother, walks in Morvan landscape, where she chose to live because it reminds her of her motherland, Morocco. Communist refugee, opponent of King Hassan II regime, she has lived more than 20 years in...

1958 – a young man leaves Algeria. 2008 – three teenagers and a large flat in Paris. In a room, from a window, looking at a face – in Guy Gilles’ film through traces of voices and images, the film emerges.

Repressed, or simply forgotten, France has undergone violent revolutionary action in recent times. A teenager at the time the members of "Action directe" were arrested in a Loiret farm, not far from Orléans where he then lived, Gaël Lépingle...

Rita Hayworth. My grand-mother. And me.

Florence writes letters, spends her days doing this, applies herself with an obsessive care. She is a country schoolteacher, in a little village where she has been transferred, far from her friends. This epistolary activity has become her main...

Come back. Find. Photograph time past in the memories of time present, the time of Wednesday : time stopped when there was no school, no more timetable, day of childhood when the imagination was strongest. "Les Mercredis" or the search of a...

The film is a sort of day by day dancer's diary, shot during the last rehearsals of a play. Throughout the dancer's perception, the play reveals itself step by step, being composed again and again, such as memories and dreams. And at least, the...