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Philippe Claudel (born 2 February 1962), is a French writer and film director.
Claudel was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe-et-Moselle.
In addition to his writing, Claudel is a Professor of Literature at the University of Nancy.
He directed the 2008 film I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime).
Much admired, it won the 2009 BAFTA for the best film not in English.
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Alexis Pasquier, a young French teacher, begins his first day of classes at the Nancy prison. There he meets Léa, a young woman with whom he falls madly in love. Two worlds open up to him: true love and the prison environment. He will never be the same anymore.
A theatre registration of the theatre concert 'Where Are We Now' by Sven Ratzke. With Jetse de Jong on the piano, Ratzke dives into Bowie’s world. In an intimate setting they unravel the songs in all their beauty and pureness. In ‘Where are we now’ Ratzke looks back – and ahead in the life of Bowie. By giving the songs their own personal touch. Ratzke is able to transfer the classics in a brand new light without losing the style and sound of the original master. There are also newly written songs that could have come from the master himself. The show is interwoven with the typically crazy and witty Ratzke stories.
They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his life, Paul can’t resist the lure of an ambiguous and dangerous relationship with a mysterious young woman. Might there be something sinister behind the roses delivered to his office and the “chance” meetings?
Alessandro teaches musicology at the university of Strasbourg. He is also a volunteer reader in hospitals. He shares his apartment with his daughter, 15-year-old Irina, and his anarchist brother Luigi. Life is not always rosy at Alessandro's for three main reasons : he is a widower and has never really recovered from the death of his young wife ; his brother is some kind of parasite who refuses to sell his paintings to capitalist speculators and so to contribute to the cost of the household ; Irina, whom he has raised alone since she was five months old and always felt close to, is rapidly changing from little girl to teenager and wishes to be treated as such. One day, Florence, a beautiful young woman, gets into Alessandro's life. Will he eventually take his chances with her? And will he manage to stop stifling Irina? And will he finally get on with Luigi?
Roger Frison-Roche born in Paris in 1906 and moved to Chamonix at the age of 17. He was quickly adopted by local mountaineers and became the first guide in the Company not to have been born in the valley. He is also an insatiable explorer, in love with landscapes and peoples, having traveled from the Hoggar to the Sami camps in Lapland. And the author, among others, of the famous adventure novel Premier de Cordée! This documentary, made up of archive images and interviews, exposes the prolific life of a man who communicated his passion for the mountains by all possible means. A young journalist from Chamonix follows in the footsteps of Roger Frison-Roche. She meets people who knew him and others who followed in his footsteps: guides, filmmaker and author Philippe Claudel, a director, his family; on a trip to Lapland, Algeria, Chamonix.