Catherine Lachens Movies

Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are filled with musicians, mimes, clowns and acrobats...

Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.

Paul and Rene, two men in their forties weary with life. One a widower, the other is divorced and pays alimony to his ex-wife. They live together, go...

A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.

During the summer, Paul, provincial student, shy and bookish, went to Paris to integrate Sciences-Po, bed on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens. One...

Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things...

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.

How do you ask a wild, impetuous hairdresser on a date if you're a pathologically timid philosophy student with no social skills?

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers)...

In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.

In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it...

Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger,...

Jean doesn't want to stagnate in the anonymity of an unattractive life anymore. He chose to start a new career very mediatic but quite dangerous.

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier)...

A man with a serious illness, visits his doctor. His condition does not improve. So, he asks him to come back with his wife. But here is the problem,...

In this routine drama, two men (a crass Brit and a slow Frenchman) decide to evade the war in 1917, but their flight on a stolen boat goes awry and...

A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state...