Movies: Luc Chessel

  • 2014
    Fort Buchanan

    Fort Buchanan (2014)

    Fort Buchanan

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    Four seasons to tell the fluctuating moods and mores of a small community that shares its daily chores and life experiences in the military base of Fort Buchanan. In this imagined (perhaps dreamed?) location, peculiar habits respond to the needs of ...

    Fort Buchanan
  • 2023
    Marinaleda

    Marinaleda (2023)

    Marinaleda

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    Marinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of Marinaleda in southern Spain....

    Marinaleda
  • 2012
    Atomic Age

    Atomic Age (2012)

    Atomic Age

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    Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the ...

    Atomic Age
  • 2012
    Low Life

    Low Life (2012)

    Low Life

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    A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying...

    Low Life
  • 2019
    Journey Through a Body

    Journey Through a Body (2019)

    Journey Through a Body

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    Thomas, a Swiss-German musician, is stuck at home because of a broken foot. He wanders around his tiny Parisian flat, his leg in a plaster, busy composing a new piece. At sunrise, an unexpected female visitor is showing up for him at the door....

    Journey Through a Body
  • 2018
    Milla

    Milla (2018)

    Milla

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    A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions....

    Milla
  • 2022
    Almost a Kiss

    Almost a Kiss (2022)

    Almost a Kiss

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    A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her....

    Almost a Kiss
  • 2019
    When Comes the Night

    When Comes the Night (2019)

    When Comes the Night

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    Marie, 22, works in her parent’s hotel-restaurant, a place of hard-work where three generations mix but barely speak to each other. Suzanne, 42, shows up for the night. She ends up staying two nights, then three and finally settles for a moment. To M...

    When Comes the Night
  • 2013
    Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles

    Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles (2013)

    Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles

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    This short film is part of the clandestine dialogues of the Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval’s 2015 feature, “Ceremony”....

    Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles
  • 2023
    Ninon O'Clock

    Ninon O'Clock (2023)

    Ninon O'Clock

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    Andréa spends the summer writing in a holiday home. Inconsolable after a break-up, she urges her sister Ninon to join. But her ex-girlfriend Elise unexpectedly shows up to patch things up. And it’s already too late to tell Ninon not to come. Let the ...

    Ninon O'Clock
  • 2019
    Allonzo's Nights

    Allonzo's Nights (2019)

    Allonzo's Nights

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    Two boys meet by the side of a road. A strange desire drives them to cross the volcanic landscapes of Auvergne together, like a huge treasure hunt. To probe the mysteries that inhabit the mountains, they tell old stories of condemned wizards, spells ...

    Allonzo's Nights
  • 2019
    Solitude(s) : L'insomnie

    Solitude(s) : L'insomnie (2019)

    Solitude(s) : L'insomnie

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    An old thunderstorm rumbles in my head. A thunderstorm born 25 years ago. A storm at times distant, almost forgotten. A thunderstorm often deafening. Literature assured me men existed for a long time. Music taught me their melancholy preceded them. P...

    Solitude(s) : L'insomnie
  • 2018
    The Plagiarist

    The Plagiarist (2018)

    The Plagiarist

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    Ideas improve. With the help of the meaning of words. Plagiarism is essential. Progress implies it. It embraces a writer's sentence, uses his expressions, erases a false idea, replaces it with the right one....

    The Plagiarist
  • 2011
    Val d'or

    Val d'or (2011)

    Val d'or

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    Two teenagers meet one Saturday evening to hang out together. While they cross Paris, meetings and disappointments are linked and push them to ask themselves about the feelings they have....

    Val d'or
  • 2020
    Episodes - Spring 2018

    Episodes - Spring 2018 (2020)

    Episodes - Spring 2018

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    Marta, Luc and Charlotte, aged twenty-five to thirty-years old, have a lot to share in the city of Paris: friendships, demands and refusals. Ideas grow in the occupied university departments. THE EPISODES - SPRING 2018 is so singular in its approach ...

    Episodes - Spring 2018
  • 2021
    Brûler dans la ville

    Brûler dans la ville (2021)

    Brûler dans la ville

    02021HD

    On the one hand, the stories of Simon Johannin, raw and tender, dirty and sensitive, stemming from the asphalt, from a chaotic feeling of everyday life, from a certain youth. On the other, the performance techno of Jardin, autotuned, ambient, or proj...

    Brûler dans la ville