Romain Goupil
Politically committed to the left, Romain Goupil, born in 1951, is the most eloquent representative of the spirit of the revolution of May 1968. From his first feature in 1982, Mourir à 30 ans (1982) to his latest to date Les mains en l' air (2010), he has managed to remain faithful to his ideals, quite a feat if you think of all of his fellow revolutionaries who have changed sides, lured by money and/or power. His films, whether documentaries or fiction, have failed -with one or two exceptions - to draw large audience but they will remain a mirror of a whole generation.
Fat Girl
as FrancoisAnaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older...
Movie pageA Christmas Tale
as Analyst's FriendWhen their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant...
Movie pageGodard Mon Amour
as CinephileIn 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with...
Movie pageVenus Beauty Institute
as Le médecinAging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train...
Movie pageRoom 666
as SelfDuring the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at...
Movie pageHis Mother's Eyes
as OlivierA writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television...
Movie pageGodard Cinema
as SelfJean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he...
Movie pageOn the Road in France
as SelfFifty years after the events of May 68, Dany Cohn-Bendit and Romain Goupil have decided to start...
Movie pageGustave Courbet, the Origins of His World
as (voice)Gustave Courbet defied the conventions of classical French painting to become an innovator of...
Movie pageÀ mort la mort !
as ThomasThe idea for this film about a generation and its lost ideals came to Romain Goupil after...
Movie pageHands in the Air
as LucMarch 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen...
Movie pageHalf a Life
as SelfMichel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to...
Movie pageYoung Cinema: Godard and His Emulators
as SelfInfluenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis...
Movie pageRien dans les poches
as Daniel Manikowski25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17,...
Movie pageA Letter to L...
as Lui (uncredited)She was 18. They were in love and lived together for ten years. 20 years later, he receives a...
Movie pagePurely Coincidental
as SelfA handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a...
Movie pageMarguerite Duras and the '68ers
as SelfHere Duras assumes a more distant role, less an interviewer than an invested documentarian. Her...
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