Paul Vecchiali

Pierrot, mechanician in Paris, falls madly for an older woman, a chemist, who at first refuses his love. Finally she accepts his love when she discovers she is affected by a deadly illness. In the background we see everyday stories of a community of Pierrot's younger and older friends.

The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris. (letterboxd.com)

Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man. In one instance, he impersonates a psychologist on a TV show he and Emile appear on together and attempts to provoke Emile into revealing himself.

A man sick of his life, decides to leave his wife and find his happiness elsewhere. Along the way he meets a man with whom he falls in love. The film covers a decade of his life, each scene taking place roughly during his daughter's birthday.

A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her. But then the man she's been yearning for arrives. (imdb)

Odile suspects her husband, Jean, is cheating. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Fate gets her in touch with an actor, Daniel, who she will use for her revenge. The actor, living with a former serviceman, Albert, will make love with her. But there will be unexpected consequences: Odile and Daniel will be bound forever by an irrepressible love. (letterboxd)

Anthology of stories adapted from the Série Noire books.

Rosa la Rose is a Parisian hooker who works in Les Halles area. Her pimp is an understanding guy and she leads an uneventful life. One day she meets Julien, a young worker and falls in love with him. She is torn now between her new found love and her "professional conscience"... (imdb)

It tells the story of a widow, who returns to a former house that had been hers 18 years after her husband was killed. (Wiki)

Simon, a young man, loves Victoire, a young girl. One day, Victoire does not go to their meeting and Simon discovers that she will marry the richest farmer in the area. Unhappy, he prowls around the house where the couple lives and see that Victoire is pregnant. In other occasion, through the gate, Simon hears screams. Victoire is giving birth. (41ª Mostra)

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging around him , Rodolphe has but one obsession: meeting Marguerite again, the first love of his life. (imdb)

Short film by Paul Vecchiali; starring Germaine de France.

An adaptation of Jan Potocki’s The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

A cinephile meets on a beach in Ramatuelle his favorite filmmaker. He proposes to film the painful adventure that is just live. The two men will knit the scenes, each in its own way. (imdb)

It is a film shot in parallel with the feature film "Nuits blanches sur la jetée"; a sort of incestuous reverie built on the playful permutation of the two performers, Astrid Adverbe and Pascal Cervo, this time again as fictive son and daughter , tenderly fantasized by the director. (KG)

Ginette is at phone with the famous Rachat Rangers, who hosts a daily radio program. She talks about her break with Richard, her various relationship problems, her desires, fears and reproaches. Her friend, Simone Barbès, advised her to live, urgently, a new relationship. (Letterboxd)

Maurice, a reluctant boxer, dreams of becoming a violinist, but his father, a former boxing champion crippled by his bouts, has other plans for his 18 year old son. Concerned about his son’s lack of machismo, the father arranges a tryst between Maurice and Nora, a femme fatale. Nora’s jealous husband suddenly interrupts their romantic interlude, but ends up killed by Maurice. United by the tragedy, Nora and Maurice fall in love. He is then inspired to become a great fighter. (Letterboxd)

The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters... (imdb)

Geneviève Garland, famous actress, is acting in « Andromaque » by Racine, with her husband André. She feels a deep malaise to play this part and cede it to her friend Isabelle, which is her husband's mistress as well. Geneviève goes away with her sick son in her childhood village. She seems to escape a reality difficult to accept. (Epicentre Films, distributor)

Pierre Lentier murders a girl and faces death penalty.

A young policeman searches for the murderers of his drug addict sister. While he carries out his investigations, the criminals manage to get him charged with murder. (Letterboxd)

A closeted bisexual married-man recounts his memory of meeting and falling in love with a man who had AIDS. (imdb)

Set in a cafe which has become the hangout for a group of unhappy and frustrated men, this slice-of-life film follows them as they complain to one another about their lives, discuss their options, and generally quarrel and suffer.

''A short film screened in 1992 at the 7th Festival Vidéo de Gentilly, produced by Vecchiali's company Diagonale and the channel La Sept (Pierre Chevalier), but which was never broadcast. A little girl who disappears, wooden merry-go-rounds, memories of funfairs, we find in Fugue in G minor (25 minutes) all the tenderness of Paul Vecchiali.''

On Paul’s initiative, Françoise and Paul met after a long separation, on the pretext to search in commun for a lost memory, a song. It soons appears that Paul’s objective is to win her back.

When his train arrives at Draguignan station, Jean-Luc decides to jump off and make an unplanned visit to his father, whom he hasn't seen in over six years.