Catalogue des films de « Valérie Manuel »

La vie de Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, dit Le Caravage, peintre du XVIe siècle à l'origine d'une véritable révolution esthétique : le clair-obscur. Il extirpe l'homme de l'ombre pour l'amener à la lumière ; cette lumière représente...

Picasso's entire art is erotic. His work is always associated with the sexual urge – from his first drawings, at the age of eight, until his last drawing, just weeks before his death at the age of 92. The erotic fusion reflects different moments...

In the 1920s in Montparnasse, within a few instants you could see Picasso, Modigliani, Chagall, Soutine, Foujita, Pascin, Brancusi. These artists from Japan, Russia, Bulgaria, the United States, met at the Dôme, the Closerie des Lilas, the...

The image of Christ tells the life of men : the pride of the powerful, the fragility of the humble, the barbarity of war. The artist is there to show what one would not see without him. This representation is like a documentary about our...

The "Belle Époque". The turn of the century. A group of young people – the Fauves – Vlaminck, Derain, Dufy, Braque, gathered around Matisse. They wanted to "transform life" though painting. Initially, they were non-conformist, even...

Francis Bacon 1909-1992 is one of the most important English painters. He left his family at the age of 17 with no schooling and this self made man absorbed everything : politics, art, literature, horrors of the century, to give his vision of our...

"La Clairière" is a place where people have always resisted. At the beginning of the century when it was founded by the pastor Wilfred Monod (father of Théodore Monod), they were resisting poverty, prostitution and alcoholism. In the middle of...

The works of Pablo Picasso show his genius brushwork. This documentary is focused upon this essential aspect of his work. For the first time are reunited the face and bodies of his wives, his mistresses, his children, of the "Picasso tribe". Each...

A film about the collectors Nélie Jacquemart and Edouard André, heirs of rich protestant bankers who built on boulevard Haussmann, in the late 19th century, the mansion that was to be the home of their fabulous collection, the most important in...