L’Archipel des amours

Screening Schedule

Nov 12 (Sat.) 18:00 at Hiroshima City Cinetamatographic and Audio-Visual Library

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Details

Nine short films concerning the same single subject: the distress over the love that comes and goes. Features films from Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Claude Guiguet, Jacques Davila, Jean-Claude Biette and Michel Delahaye （in his single directorial foray）.

Directed by Jean-Claude Biette（Pornoscopie）,Cécile Clairval（Enigme）,Jacques Davila （Remue-ménage）, Michel Delahaye（Sara）,Jacques Frenais （Passage à l'acte）, Gérard Frot-Coutaz （Le Goûter de Josette）,Jean-Claude Guiguet （La Visiteuse）, Marie-Claude Treilhou （Lourdes, l'hiver）,Paul Vecchiali （Masculins singuliers）

Country: France
Year of production: 1983
Running time: 100min

Director

Paul Vecchiali
The cinematic style of Paul Vecchiali draws heavily from the French cinema of the 1930s, especially the works of director Jean Grémillon. Over the course of his career Vecchiali has become known for his ability to deal with controversial themes in an intelligent, and engaging manner. His most famous film Femmes femmes（1974）, was so highly praised, and thought of by Pier Paolo Pasolini that he used it as a source of inspiration for his film Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom, as well as taking on two of its actresses Hélène Surgère and Sonia Saviange. In 1976 Vecchiali founded the production company Diagonale, which he would use to create a number of excellent films, in his unique style. In 1988 Vecchiali would release Once More, making him the first French director to examine the link between homosexuality and AIDS. Other important films of his include; L'Étrangleur（1970）, La Machine（1977）, Corps à coeur （1979）, En haut des marches（1983）, White Nights on the Pier （2014）. His most recent full length film is Le Cancre （2016）, which has been officially selected for the 69th Cannes Film Festival, as well as the HIFF.