La Belle époque

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 1890-1914, a time in which the wealthy upper classes of the Western world gave themselves over to a life of elegance and taste-making, their eyes closed to the increasing social and political turmoil fermenting beneath the surface of polite society. The program uses period motion pictures, photographs, and sound recordings, as well as the arts and fashions of the period to supplement the spoken memories of the participating interviewees who actually lived... La Belle Epoque.

When I decided to interview my father about his past, he had just been diagnosed with a severe stage of Alzheimer. I decided to travel to his hometown to look for his memories. A journey among childhood friends or relatives who remained in the country. In the village of Bayel, a collective remembrance is uncovered, a rural community weakened by delocalization, people who dwell on a fantasies from the past. As my father’s memory slowly disappears, it is a whole era that fades away.

In the 2000s, Karl, a 20-year-old young man accompanied by his two sidekicks Pac and Sisko, live their daily lives shared between sex, drugs and alcohol and evenings with friends...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

The Bokelberg photographic collection brings to life the Paris of the Belle Époque (1871-1914), an exhibition of workshops and stores with extremely beautiful shop windows before which the owners and their employees proudly pose, hiding behind their eyes the secret history of a great era.

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.