Catalogue des films de « Pierre Beuchot »

Entre avril 1974 et novembre 1975, l’Europe du sud voit s’écrouler trois dictatures anachroniques. Au Portugal, en Grèce, puis en Espagne, ces régimes au passé sanglant font place à des systèmes démocratiques que renforce l’adhésion...

Claude Lévi-Srauss remains alongside Deleuze, Sartre or Malraux one of the greatest French thinkers of the twentieth century. Author of fundamental books such as "Tristes tropiques" or "Race et Histoire", he develops during these interviews his...

La Résistance, comme fraction des "années noires" de l’Occupation, fait partie des enjeux de mémoire toujours vivaces soixante ans après. En tant que mémoire glorieuse, elle a été instrumentalisée dès la Libération, en particulier par...

Pierre Beuchot et Dominique Rabourdin ont filmé la sélection d’œuvres prestigieuses que Werner Spies a réussi, très exceptionnellement, à faire venir au Centre Georges-Pompidou. Il y a là les Dali les plus fous, les plus beaux Magritte,...

Alain du Perier de Larsan, who has been the mayor of his Normandy village for the past quarter century, has now decided to step down. Weakened by illness, he no longer leaves his château, the last remaining possession of the family patrimony –...

Sade spent a third of his life in prison. In six tableaux, the filmmakers dramatise the various accusations against Sade and his work. The trial at the Aix-en-Provence parliament in 1778, the obscenity trial of publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert in...

When Jean Thibaudeau asked me to go with him to Chambon-sur-Lignon, taking the road that Francis Ponge had himself charted, he probably had in mind a film of mine which he had admired, "Le Temps détruit". This time, it was to "regain the time" of...

From the major post-war purge trials to the trial of Maurice Papon, this film retraces the 50-year evolution of France's collective memory regarding the haunting question of collaboration. It draws on period archive footage and the recollections...

This portrait of Léopold Sédar Senghor is a journey down the century between France and Africa. It attempts to show how a man who should have been split apart by suffering has succeeded, both inwardly and in the eyes of others, in synthesising...

What are we to make of the strange case of Robert Walser ? This German-language Swiss writer never enjoyed success although he was admired by the great figures of his day, among them Robert Musil, Stefan Zweig and Walter Benjamin, not to mention...