Jean-Claude Drouot

The story takes us to an island with no future, given that it’s already partly submerged underwater. A woman is caring for ten or so very elderly individuals, but the arrival of five travellers turns their lives upside down…

The story unfolds in the winter of the year 1215. A mysterious stranger who has escaped from prison arrives in a tiny, remote village in the kingdom of France plagued by famine and leprosy, and ruled by an ageing lord, a former hero from the Crusades, Lord Ocam. Together with his horde of knights, Ocam abducts a young girl from the village in order to exert his droit du seigneur over her. A handful of villagers, backed up by The Stranger, attempt to release her, but they only have until nightfall…

On the island of the monks in Brittany, Constant Lucas, a former war photographer, lives in the memory of the one who was nicknamed "the star of Siberia". The old man cannot forget this passionate love that haunts him! His son Sergio suddenly arrives on the island with the little Adela that the old man does not know...

Two septuagenarians return to a small town in the Dordogne. Every step they take brings them closer to the event that changed their lives sixty years earlier.

An adaptation of Pierre Corneille's play "Le Cid", staged by Yves Beaunesne.

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80-year-old Laurenne lives in a retirement home. Discreet and disciplined, Laurenne is also silently depressed. Until she meets 40-something Sylvie, freshly hired in the establishment. While they become friends, Laurenne finally discovers boldness.

A staging of Paul Claudel's play "L'Annonce faite à Marie" by Yves Beaunesne.

In 2006, director Agnès Varda followed Jean-Claude Drouot, who plays François in 'Le bonheur', as he returned to the movie's setting of Fontenay-aux-Roses and retraced his steps. He also reconnects with local residents, some of whom were featured in the film.

On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to last nearly ten months and occupy 48 sessions in the Chamber of Deputies. They have to study the bill of separation of the Churches and the State. This law, which founded laicity in France, was adopted on December 9, 1905.