Franck Oger

Franck Oger

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The Insomniac on the Bridge
Title: The Insomniac on the Bridge
Released: October 2, 1985
Type: Movie
This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.
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The Satin Slipper
Title: The Satin Slipper
Character: Don Pélage
Released: September 24, 1985
Type: Movie
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
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Voyage of a Hand
Title: Voyage of a Hand
Released: July 18, 1984
Type: Movie
In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might decide that what we receive was a story full of intentions; or we might decide that it was a spineless joke empty of sense or direction. In any case, it will be difficult to deny the acid sense of humor that animates the film.
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The Real Presence
Title: The Real Presence
Character: Adam Shaft
Released: July 3, 1984
Type: Movie
Ruiz on the film: "I began La présence réelle (The Real Presence) first. I. N. A. had commissioned me to produce a personal vision of the Festival d'Avignon. This became a fiction about the theater because if I had filmed the actual performances at Avignon I would have had to respect their staging, I would not be able to change anything. As such, I wouldn't be doing anything more than a retransmission of Antenne 2 or FR3. And since a lot would have to be paid for rights to each play, it would end up costing as much as a fiction feature. So it is a story about the theater, a bit Rivette-ish. I shot all the exteriors in Avignon, the interiors in Paris a few days later and I finish the film next Tuesday."
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Three Crowns of the Sailor
Title: Three Crowns of the Sailor
Character: The Blind Man
Released: April 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.
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Bérénice
Title: Bérénice
Character: Paulin
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Now Titus' father has died, the new emperor will be free to marry his beloved Bérénice. Also In love with Bérénice, Titus' friend Antiochus plans to flee Rome rather than face the marriage. However, public opinion about the pairing causes Titus to choose his duty to Rome over his love for Bérénice, and he sends his love rival to tell Bérénice the news...
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Chinese Shadows
Title: Chinese Shadows
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.
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The One-Eyed Man
Title: The One-Eyed Man
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.
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The French Calvinists
Title: The French Calvinists
Released: February 22, 1972
Type: Movie
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons.