Movies: Marcel Hanoun

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...

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During the summer of 1968, a young French woman staying in an isolated country house reflects upon her involvement in the events of that May....

The theme of Romeo and Juliet is the starting point from which the film spins a web of several stories. A love story between a boy and a girl whose families are Algerian: they are young, beautiful and they are trying to build a family and a social li...

Deeply moved by the Bosnian tragedy and, more specifically, by the nightmare that the inhabitants of Sarajevo have been living for two years, the filmmaker Marcel Hanoun, like other great creators (from Susan Sontag to Juan Goytisolo), wanted to give...

A brief meeting with the writer and playwright Roland Topor in his studio....

A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the rare kindness of strangers....

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar....

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York)....

Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. “Settling in the Spanish capital to make a documentary, Hanoun sketches out for us the different steps involved in making a ...

On a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female interpreter hiding behind her sunglasses. He makes advances to her by venturing into a series of strange stories....

Processions during a holy week in Valladolid....

Hungarian refugees in Austrian camps after the failed revolution in Budapest....

Julien, a movie director, is on the phase of editing his new film, "Juliette sacrifiée". Hurried by his producer, he asks for the help of a professional editor. It is Anne, with whom Julien is soon falling in love. During the whole of the movie, both...

Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her....

A butcher whose meat is most tender, surrounded successively by ephemeral and delightful cashiers....

The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films, statements by friends of his and shooting sequences of the film itself, tormented filmmaker Marcel Hanoun ...

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By reviving memories that remain of her disappeared friend, Sabine tries to resurrect and mourn....