Olivier Père Movies

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their...

Zachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. He falls in love with...

A mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A postnatal woman nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl contracts HIV from an adulterous partner. A woman...

The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois...

A meeting with Gaspar Noé at the Locarno Film Festival, where his latest film, Vortex, was screened. His first feature film for general...

Xavier Beauvois' documentary-style filming techniques, her collaboration with François Truffaut, Xavier Dolan's masterful tone... Nathalie...

Winner of multiple Oscars for Gravity and Roma, also known for Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Mexican director Alfonso...

For several decades, filmmaker Catherine Corsini has been filming different worlds, yet all of them are permeated by the same desire for her...

A French couple burnt out by the routine of their daily family life decides after much hesitation to travel to Sicily for a short holiday.

On the Mexican Pacific coast, the land Ina Marija adopted before dying too young, her father and younger sister Una embark on a journey in her...

Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and...

Afghanistan, summer 2021. As the Taliban gradually seize control of the country, Leila, a young widow, arrives in Kabul. She begins working in a...

Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival.

With his new film "France" now in theaters, we look back at Bruno Dumont's early films "La vie de Jésus," "Flandres," "L'humanité,"...

Filmmaker Lucile Hadzilalilovic, winner of the Silver Bear at the 2025 Berlinale for “The Tower of Ice”, delves into her world of...

A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

A man ascends a barren summit. It is Judas, come to collect Jesus and carry him down the mountain on his back, joking and panting as he does so....

Emmanuel Mouret has crafted a unique cinematic voice, blending comedy, drama and emotion. His films follow strong-willed characters navigating love...

In a handful of deliberately and gently dark films, screenwriter and director Pascal Bonitzer has built a body of work that is both fierce and...

A documentary about the New Romanian Cinema. "Cinemaguerilla" brings together over 30 interviews with directors, producers, actors, film historians...