Air Date
May 18, 2003
Episodes
54 episodes
Once upon a time...
Season 1
Overview
French documentary TV series, exploring the circumstances surrounding the making of notable films.
Episodes
1. Tchao Pantin
2. Last Tango In Paris
3. Rome, ville ouvert
Explores the life and work of Roberto Rossllini
4. Tess
5. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"
6. Some Like It Hot
7. Mon Oncle
8. Jules et Jim
9. Lawrence of Arabia
10. Sailor et Lula
11. Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob
12. Le mépris
13. Les enfants du paradis
14. Les echaînés
15. La dolce vita
16. Les tontons flingueurs
17. King Kong
18. Le petit monde de Don Camillo
19. The empire of the senses
Adapted from a 1936 true story, Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (1976), filmed during a period of sexual liberation and featuring unsimulated sex scenes, is a provocation aimed at Japanese society. Drawing on the making-of footage and interviews from the period, David Thompson brings in contemporary members of the crew (Koji Wakamatsu, production manager) and other personalities, such as filmmaker Catherine Breillat.
20. Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
21. Lacombe Lucien
22. A clockwork orange
Documentary that focuses more on the titular movie's cultural and historical contexts and philosophy underpinning the book than on its production and reception. Features new archive material of both Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess.
23. One flew over the cuckoo's nest
24. La règle du jeu
25. Le Père Noël est une ordure
26. La Haine
27. Tout sur ma mère
28. The marriage of Maria Braun
29. To our loves
30. Episode 30
31. Episode 31
32. Episode 32
33. Episode 33
34. Episode 34
35. Episode 35
36. Episode 36
37. Episode 37
38. Episode 38
39. Episode 39
40. Episode 40
41. Episode 41
42. Mommy
In 2014, the movie « Mommy » directed by Xavier Dolan, got the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a great achievement for this director prodigy from Quebec, who had just turned 25. The script - a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and his hyperactive and violent son - and the bold direction electrified the audience. Shot in Montreal, the documentary by Tessa Louise Salomé tells the genesis of this family drama. It also reveals the failures of the society in Quebec : the failure of the mental institution and the impoverishment of the middle class.