Catalogue des films de « Olivier Barrot »

The Irish writer, Jonathan Swift is above all the author of "Gulliver’s Travels" which is much more than a book for children. Prince of irreverence, apostle of revolt, this man of the Enlightenment was a modern spirit. He wrote quite a lot of...

Established secret agent in the service of His Majesty, Graham Greene fought worried pessimism with literature. Hailed everywhere with enormous success, an exceptional story-teller, he knew how to make every reader an accomplice. Mystery, danger...

We no longer have any idea of the glory that was Walter Scott’s and his influence on 19th century European literature. The greatest authors loved his novels of chivalry like "Ivanhoe" or "Quentin Durward" and they were right. He was...

Lord Byron is Casanova. He seduced everybody, all over Europe, at the same time as he was composing one of the great works of romanticism. Dandy, provocative and contradictory, he is a legendary figure. He is the model of romanticism, the...

George Orwell was a true visionary. His novel "1984" which came out in 1949, draws the picture, with very black humour, of a totalitarian society. Poor, son of poor parents, committed to his time, he was a literary combatant. He was to die...

This film traces the life of the Austrian writer of Sephardic origin, Elias Canetti, born in 1905 in Ruse (Bulgaria). A cosmopolitan, polyglott author, from a Judeo-Spanish family, immersed in various cultures, in 1924 he entered Karl Krauss’s...

Already while he was alive Shakespeare was seen as an exceptional talent. Since then, posterity has crowned his genius like that of Cervantes or Dante, like Goethe or Hugo... He is a monument of mankind.

David Herbert Lawrence, the man who brought scandal, a man from the black country of coal mines, was attracted throughout his existence by green nature, by "elsewhere". He was a man of blood and sex, a primitive being haunted by life. In his...

Harold Pinter, by himself, embodies the renewal of the English theatre in the early 1960s. He read the theatre of the absurd, the theatre of Ionesco and Beckett ; he adds a violence and a manic precision that thrill actors and audience.

Edward Morgan Forster, or the desire for the South and the quest for self. Trained at Cambridge, he travelled to Italy, Egypt, India, where he gathered the material for several of his novels, but England also inspired Forster. He was brought up by...