Catalogue des films de « Jean-Paul Fargier »

C’est un film spirale, un tourbillon d’histoires emboîtées ! Avec en son centre, un drôle d’énergumène qui en parcourt toutes les strates. Au départ, en 1977, il y a l’histoire de Lucien, lycéen humilié à cause de son accent par...

A Chinese hat spotted in the window of a St. Germain des Près shop is what inspired the shape of  Centre Pompidou-Metz, says architect Shigeru Ban. His cohort, Jean de Gastines adds that he imagined that hat posed in a garden. How to fit a...

Il habite le monde comme sa maison : immobile. Il ne peut plus parcourir le monde : il le contemple jour après jour depuis sa maison. Il est cinéaste. Il imagine faire un film avec toutes ses images fixes, se ranimant par conjonction,...

At the age of 74, Claude Monet, the patriarch of the Impressionist Movement, decided to devote himself entirely to an implausible dream. A dream which had been on his mind for over twenty years. Finally, in 1914, as World War I was about to erupt,...

Jean Cocteau was, as few others have been, an artist of his century. His thirst for discovery and knowledge led him to dabble in all the arts, literature, poetry, the plastic arts, stage and screen, even dance and music. This eclecticism was fed...

The Gardens of Versailles – their beauty is celebrated the world over, their very name evokes luxury, opulence, fabled wealth and glory. But they possess another, a more secret beauty, less known, seldom spoken of, that of the relation between...

Mason, slate worker, glassmaker, cobbler, all use hammers adapted to their profession. The forge hammer is indissociable from the anvil on which it hammers. For a blacksmith, a good hammer is a hammer which he can forget, which so naturally...

Pour aborder deux décennies de commande publique en France, les auteurs ont choisi de mettre en avant certaines créations (à Paris, Strasbourg, Avignon, Digne, Hérouville Saint-Clair, Montpellier...), en interrogeant des responsables sur leurs...

In the middle of the 19th century, a movement of painters in Great Britain totally challenged existing artistic values – a phenomenon common in art ! They were the Preraphaelites. The name of the original groupe – The Pre-raphaelites...

Solal at the piano : an outpouring of ideas, rhythms, melodic inventions, harmonic inspirations, surprising inventions (that he modestly calls "technical solutions"), all that makes up improvisation sounds like the most ingenious of...