LIST OF FEATURE FILMS D1/12 A PLEASURE PARTY (Une Partie De Plaisir) Starring Daniele GEGAUFF, Paula MOORE, Paul GEGAUFF Directed by Claude CHABROL Paul and Esther seem to live an idyllic life, unclouded by the conven- tional stresses of marriage. They even sleep with other people, at the behest of Paul. However, Paul, unable to witness his wife enacting his scheme for the ideal marriage, reacts violently when Esther sleeps with Habib, a guest at one of the couple’s rollicking free-for-all parties. Paul unleashes an unrelenting stream of subtle and severe brutality, jealousy, and cruelty. INNOCENTS WITH DIRTY HANDS (Les innocents Aux Mains Sales) Starring Romy SCHNEIDER, Rod STEIGER, Jean ROCHEFORT Directed by Claude CHABROL Julie and her young lover, Jef plot to murder Julie’s rich and impo- tent husband Louis Wormser and make it look like and accident. After the deed. Jef disappears and Julie is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband, but through the eforts of a clever and manipulative lawyer, she is released. Upon returning home, she discovers her husband, Louis, has retur- ned in what proves to be the first of many plot twists in this tense thriller from France’s master suspense. TEN DAYS’ WONDER (La Décade Prodigieuse) DRAMA / SUSPENSE DRAMA / Starring Orson WELLES, Anthony PERKINS, Michel PICCO- LI, Marlene JOBERT Directed by Claude CHABROL Orson Welles plays an eccentric tycoon who lives in an Alsatian cha- teau with his young wife (Jobert), whom he bas groomed since ta- king her in as poor orphan, and his adopted son (Perkins), a sculptor given tom hallucinatory fits that cause him to fear he has unknowin- gly committed murder. Of course Perkins and Jobert are having a passionate afair and being blackmailed, which sets in drizzling motion the complicated plot. Piccoli plays the Ellery Queen figure, the rational friend drawn into this bizarre web out of friendship and intellectual curiosity.... ARTEDIS - 12 rue Raynouard - 75016 PARIS - tel : 33 1 53 92 29 29 - Fax : 33 9 81 38 21 79 - E-mail : [email protected] D2/12 THE BREACH (La Rupture) Starring Stephan AUDRAN, Jean-Pierre CASSEL, Michel BOUQUET Directed by Claude CHABROL Helene (S. Audran) is a good mother with a checkered past as a stripper and barmaid. She divorces her ne’er-do-well husband after he attacks her and her son over breakfast. Her former in-laws blame her for causing her husband’s addiction and set out to remove their grandchild from Helen’s custody; Thwarted by the courts, they hire a seedy penniless operative, Paul, to destroy her reputation. Paul moves into her rooming house and begins to insinuate himself into her life, hatching darker and more convoluted plots to implicate Helene in everything from drugs to a bizarre kidnapping plot. THE BUTCHER (Le Boucher) Starring Stephane AUDRAN, Jean YANNE Directed by Claude CHABROL In a provincial French town, a sophisticated schoolmistress avoids attachments but strikes up a congenial friendship with the char- mingly passionate local butcher, a veteran of Indochina. As a serial killer spreads terror throughout the countryside, the efort of these two people to come back from their emotional islands to some kind of mutual understanding and reality builds from oblique tenderness and humor to shattering tragedy. THIS MAN MUST DIE (Que La Bête Meure) DRAMA / SUSPENSE DRAMA / Starring Caroline CELLIER, Jean PANNE,Michel DUCHAUS- SOY Directed by Claude CHABROL A hit and run driver kills a child. The child’s father Charles Thenier (M. Duchaussoy) makes a solemn vow to find and kill the man who ended his son’s life. Through a bizarre series of hunches, coincidences, and lucky guesses, Charles tracks down Helene (C. Cellier), the sister-in-law of the man he suspects is the killer, and begins to seduce her in order to insi- nuate himself into her family life... ARTEDIS - 12 rue Raynouard - 75016 PARIS - tel : 33 1 53 92 29 29 - Fax : 33 9 81 38 21 79 - E-mail : [email protected] D3/12 WEDDING IN BLOOD (Les Noces Rouges) Starring Michel PICCOLI, Stéphane AUDRAN, Claude PIE- PLU Directed by Claude CHABROL Piccoli who is the mayor’s assistant, is living an intense passion with the mayor’s wife. The lovers decide, that for this great passion they need to get rid of their spouse. ABOVE SUSPICION (Une Sale Afaire) Starring Marlène JOBERT, Victor LANOUX Directed by Alain BONNOT In order to trap the mayor of a little harbor town, narcotics agent Novak intrudes into the life of Hélène a close collaborator of this elected ofcial beyond reproach... Novak uses all means in his possession to fulfill his mission... But he will never be able to indict the mayor as the latter now fills an important post at the European Parliament. A LION ON THE STRING (Le Mouton Enragé) DRAMA / SUSPENSE DRAMA / Starring Jean Louis TRINTIGNANT, Jane BIRKIN, Romy SCHNEIDER, Jean-Pierre CASSEL Directed by Michel DEVILLE Nicolas (J-L Trintignant) is a shy and an unassuming bank teller de- termined to become a business tycoon and bed as many women as possible with the help of his plotting, needy fried, Claude (j-P Cassel) in this dark and twisted tale of complicated love and tangled rela- tionships. Claude, in a wheelchair and desperate for fodder for his next novel, manipulates Nicolas into unsing his female connections to generate lucrative business deals. However the plan is threatened by Nicolas’ own ineptitude, stubborn pride and eventually the love of a beauti- ful woman (R. Schneider) ARTEDIS - 12 rue Raynouard - 75016 PARIS - tel : 33 1 53 92 29 29 - Fax : 33 9 81 38 21 79 - E-mail : [email protected] D4/12 DILEMMA (MALDONNE) Starring Robert HOSSEIN, Jean TOPART, Elsa MARTINELLI Directed by Sergio GOBBI Jacques Christens gets a strange proposition one night. After the vanishing of a woman’s husband, Jacques is asked to become the man’s replacement. If he accepts, Jacques stands to inherit a for- tune from the woman’s uncle who is near the point of death. Immediately, he would receive one million in cash and nine million upon the uncle’s death. Jacques refuses... But then reconsiders. FLAMES OVER THE ADRIATIC (Flammes Sur L’Adriatique) Starring Gérard BARRAY, Claudine AUGER Directed by Alexandre ASTRUC April 1941. The most beautiful destroyer of the Yugoslav fleet is at- tacked by a squadron of the Luftwafe. Without a declaration of war, Germany has invade the country. On board the damage is important and the ship is immobilized on the high seas. Two ofcers will attempt to get a new axle at the naval dockyard of Plotche by crossing the debacle of the defeat of Yugoslav. FORCE 8 (Force 8) DRAMA / SUSPENSE DRAMA / Starring Christian ALERS, Agnes DESROCHES, Didier KA- MINKA Directed by Pierre SISSER Out of idealism, four students rob an armored car on behalf of Boli- vian revolutionaries. After which, they take refuge on the yacht of a philosophy teacher and force him to set sail to Algeria. During the crossing of the Mediterranean, the true nature of each of the prota- gonists is revealed. Not all will survive... ARTEDIS - 12 rue Raynouard - 75016 PARIS - tel : 33 1 53 92 29 29 - Fax : 33 9 81 38 21 79 - E-mail : [email protected] D5/12 GYPSY (Les Princes) Starring Gérard DARMON, Muse DALBRAY Directed by Tony GATLIF Nara, a gypsy, lives with his family in a tenement apartment. But he has trouble getting used to living from petty swindles. Ultimately, the temptation to go back on the road becomes an ob- session. So, when the family gets evicted lie convinces his wife and her bro- thers to return to their ancient ways. But, the grandmother is too old for the trip, and will never get over it. This allows Nara and his family to follow their destiny. MADO (Mado) Starring Michel PICCOLI, Romy SCHNEIDER Directed by Claude SAUTET Simon LEOTARD, 49, a middle-class bachelor and liberal-minded construction promoter, meets Mado, 22. He is fascinated by her mysterious personality and dates her often. He becomes acquainted with her friends, especially Pierre and Alex. Simon hires Pierre first as a chaufeur, then as an accountant. As a result of an investment gone wrong, Simon’s partner Julien falls into the clutches of Lepidon, a ruthless, invincible financier. Simon who has an unbending respect for the law, succeeds in paying back Lepidon. But he has every intention of taking revenge. NIGHT FLIGHT FROM MOSCOW (Le Serpent) DRAMA / SUSPENSE DRAMA / Starring Yul BRYNNER, Henry FONDA, Dirk BOGARDE, Philippe NOIRET, Michel BOUQUET, Virna LISI Directed by Henri VERNEUIL Yul BRYNNER, plays a senior Soviet spy who defects to the West and brings along a «gift» for his American host, a list of several high ranking Western ofcials who are Soviet double agents. If Vlassov is telling the truth, every Western government has been infiltrated by Soviet intelligence and at the highest level. The case is a political time bomb and it’s up to intelligence ofcials, Davies (H. Fonda) and Boyle (D. Bogarde), to put a stop to it. And in the espionage business, there are no good guys or bad guys - only pro- fessionals. ARTEDIS - 12 rue Raynouard - 75016 PARIS - tel : 33 1 53 92 29 29 - Fax : 33 9 81 38 21 79 - E-mail : [email protected] D6/12 SEXY GANG (SEXY GANG) Starring Linda VERA, Sylvain CORTHAY Directed by Henry JACQUES Michele, an opportunist... Entrusted with $1,000,000 in cash by her dying boyfriend Bastian, she hides the cash... When the master mind of the robbery cornes looking for the money.