Movies: Pascal Aubier

1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions....

Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life....

Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22-year-old French girl, her own daughter....

A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments....

The morning of her wedding day, Nana visits a hairdresser's shop in Mamaia, a popular Romanian resort on the Black Sea shore. Bumping into a band of joyous rock-and-roll musicians, she's having a good time. But what with her fiancé?...

A writer goes through a prolonged ritual of preparation but is unable to put a word on paper....

A documentary about the Parisian night club “Bus Palladium”. This film was theatrically released as a complement for Godard's Masculin, féminin....

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In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes, their sadness. Between Mr. Michel, very shy, Mrs. Lebris, a former actress, a former colonial sold...

A deserted soldier takes refuge among the peasants....

This film takes place in the year 2033, where society consists of obese women who visit an agency that provides interactive fantasies. The film focuses on one particular woman, Alice, and her fantasy....

A man's bathroom routine triggers a miraculous vision in a nearby church....

In 1972, what does making a film mean? How does a movie make? What is the relationship between the producer of shows and the spectator? How does meaning travel in the story? These are the questions posed and proposed by the film....

Pascal Aubier 1988...

A worker daydreams while in the bathroom...

A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts... Aubier makes use of a series of successive pictures to portray the series of events that completes a cycle....

Begins with scenes of nature, in which one hears the sounds of birds and water. The final few minutes of the film focus in on a man laying down in the grass....

Life flashes before a soldier's eyes in his moment of death...

A woman feeling weak goes to see her doctor who asks her to undress....