Guy Gilles Movies

The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that...

An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and...

The title sums up the mood of this elegant short film in which a woman recalls her life, locked up for 30 years in the courtyard of a building where...

A verlan discussion in a cafe between two young people about a motorbike and girls.

Marchers in an Indepence Day celebration in Mexico are transformed into tiny soldiers, tiny articulated automatons, turning a serious event into...

Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN...

A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch,...

A day in Aurillac on a rainy Sunday.

A day in a little café of Paris.

From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Freely intersperses documentary language with fiction, embodied in the figure of a...

Study of the passengers of a steamship during a Mediterranean cruise. (uniFrance)

The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.

It was while going to film Jeanne Moreau in the summer of 1970 in her house at Garde Freinet that Guy Gilles fell in love with her. She will appear...

In the Saint-Lazare metro and station, a young man dreams of getting away from the dullness and everyday life. Colored snapshots of postcards, metro...

Guy Gilles' 1962 short on the wintertime in Paris.

Documentary about a small village near Le Mans, commented by the village school-teacher.

An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing here the life of the French between 1946...