François Lévy-Kuentz

In the Eye of Luis Buñuel (2013)

Don Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) as intimately portrayed by his friends (Carlos Saura, Jean-Claude Carrière) and actors (Michel Piccoli, Carole Bouquet). Libertarian, subversive, deeply affected by the cruelty and violence of the world, despising jargon and psychology, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST: 

Don Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) as intimately portrayed by his friends (Carlos Saura, Jean-Claude Carrière) and actors (Michel Piccoli, Carole Bouquet). Libertarian, subversive, deeply affected by the cruelty and violence of the world, despising jargon and psychology, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST: 

Feature film.  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST: 

Calder: Sculptor of Air (2009)

Alexander Calder revolutionized the art of sculpture with his distinctive modernism, freeing sculpture from its stand and adding movement to the art itself. He rose to fame in the 1930s with his renowned Miniature Circus but his modernist creativity skyrocketed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Mathieu Amalric  •  Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder revolutionized the art of sculpture with his distinctive modernism, freeing sculpture from its stand and adding movement to the art itself. He rose to fame in the 1930s with his renowned Miniature Circus but his modernist creativity skyrocketed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Mathieu Amalric  •  Alexander Calder

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun (2012)

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Rainer Werner Fassbinder  •  Hanna Schygulla  •  Elisabeth Trissenaar  •  Daniel Cohn-Bendit

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Rainer Werner Fassbinder  •  Hanna Schygulla  •  Elisabeth Trissenaar  •  Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Yves Klein: The Blue Revolution (2007)

Director Francois Levy-Kuentz's film uses previously unreleased archival material, such as Klein's personal films, to capture the artist's astonishing career, from its beginning in 1954 to his death in 1962. In those eight short years, Klein turned the modern art ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Yves Klein

Director Francois Levy-Kuentz's film uses previously unreleased archival material, such as Klein's personal films, to capture the artist's astonishing career, from its beginning in 1954 to his death in 1962. In those eight short years, Klein turned the modern art ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Yves Klein

Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer (2020)

Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus on its relationship with Jean Cocteau, surrealist, poet, director, artist.  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Gaspard Ulliel  •  Panama Al Brown  •  Jean Cocteau

Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus on its relationship with Jean Cocteau, surrealist, poet, director, artist.  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Gaspard Ulliel  •  Panama Al Brown  •  Jean Cocteau

Un été à la Garoupe (2020)

La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films his friends Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Paul Eluard and his wife Nusch, as well as Lee Miller. During these few weeks, love, friendship, poetry, photography and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Pablo Picasso  •  Paul Éluard  •  Dora Maar  •  Man Ray

La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films his friends Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Paul Eluard and his wife Nusch, as well as Lee Miller. During these few weeks, love, friendship, poetry, photography and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST:  Pablo Picasso  •  Paul Éluard  •  Dora Maar  •  Man Ray

Le Scandale Impressionniste (2010)

This film traces the adventure of a group of young painters who, in 1874, launched an aesthetic in total rupture with the historical painting in force in the official Salons. Inspired by the Realist School of Barbizon of Corot, Rousseau, Millet and Daubigny, this ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST: 

This film traces the adventure of a group of young painters who, in 1874, launched an aesthetic in total rupture with the historical painting in force in the official Salons. Inspired by the Realist School of Barbizon of Corot, Rousseau, Millet and Daubigny, this ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST: 

Belmondo l'incorrigible (2022)

Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST: 

Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  François Lévy-Kuentz
CAST: