Richard Copans Movies

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has...

An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a...

Resorting to the images that make up three quarters of the last century, Jean-Louis Comolli chose films that crossed his path fifty years ago,...

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.

From 1954 to 1962, during the Algerian War, French citizens provided concrete assistance to the FLN in France: sheltering refugees, forging...

In a small town in northern Algeria during the 1990s, at the height of the dark decade that tore the country apart, three unemployed young men...

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...

During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands of Jean Kepler in Prague who at the time was the...

On Good Friday in Burzet, a small town in Ardeche, the locals gather to remember Jesus's Crucifixion through solemn pageantry. Between 1980 and 2003,...

A documentary following 12-year-old Paul and his brother Germain during a transformative summer in rural France. The film explores the loss of...

Cédric is a child like millions of others. The only difference is that the little boy is seriously ill and must spend six months in a...

The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in France in 1999. Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of...

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.

A small company valiantly struggles to survive under the respectful yet probing camera of Claire Simon in “At All Costs.” As the docu...

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the...

Norman Mailer frankly discusses American culture, politics, literature, and his own tumultuous life.

In 1941, those who had remained around too long to completely escape the Nazi blitzkrieg had one small, slim chance to escape persecution. They could...