Damien Odoul

Time Regained (1999)

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raúl Ruiz
CAST:  Catherine Deneuve  •  Emmanuelle Béart  •  Vincent Perez  •  John Malkovich

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raúl Ruiz
CAST:  Catherine Deneuve  •  Emmanuelle Béart  •  Vincent Perez  •  John Malkovich

On Tour (2010)

After leaving France in search of a better life in America, a television producer returns with a group of burlesque dancers to take the Paris club scene by storm.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mathieu Amalric
CAST:  Miranda Colclasure  •  Suzanne Ramsey  •  Dirty Martini  •  Julie Atlas Muz

After leaving France in search of a better life in America, a television producer returns with a group of burlesque dancers to take the Paris club scene by storm.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mathieu Amalric
CAST:  Miranda Colclasure  •  Suzanne Ramsey  •  Dirty Martini  •  Julie Atlas Muz

Errance (2003)

A dramatic love story, set in 1968 in the Gévaudan region. Jacques, in his thirties, is driving at high speed on a steep road. He is drunk. At the same time, in a hospital, Lou, his wife, gives birth to their child, but the delivery goes badly. When the child ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Laetitia Casta  •  Benoît Magimel  •  Mattéo Tardito  •  Yann Goven

A dramatic love story, set in 1968 in the Gévaudan region. Jacques, in his thirties, is driving at high speed on a steep road. He is drunk. At the same time, in a hospital, Lou, his wife, gives birth to their child, but the delivery goes badly. When the child ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Laetitia Casta  •  Benoît Magimel  •  Mattéo Tardito  •  Yann Goven

House of Pleasures (2011)

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A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bertrand Bonello
CAST:  Hafsia Herzi  •  Céline Sallette  •  Jasmine Trinca  •  Adèle Haenel

A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bertrand Bonello
CAST:  Hafsia Herzi  •  Céline Sallette  •  Jasmine Trinca  •  Adèle Haenel

Deep Breath (2001)

David is a troubled city boy, being looked after by his uncle on a farm. He is initiated into the drunken partying of the village and stumbles off drunk to find his friend Matthieu and cell-playing girlfriend in the forest. There he finds a brutal and horrifying ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc  •  Dominique Chevalier  •  Maxime Dalbrut  •  Jean-Claude Lecante

David is a troubled city boy, being looked after by his uncle on a farm. He is initiated into the drunken partying of the village and stumbles off drunk to find his friend Matthieu and cell-playing girlfriend in the forest. There he finds a brutal and horrifying ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc  •  Dominique Chevalier  •  Maxime Dalbrut  •  Jean-Claude Lecante

Rich Is the Wolf (2012)

Perplexed at the sudden disappearance of her husband, a wife watches hours of videotape that he’s recorded over the previous seven years to piece together some clues.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Damien Odoul  •  Marie-Ève Nadeau

Perplexed at the sudden disappearance of her husband, a wife watches hours of videotape that he’s recorded over the previous seven years to piece together some clues.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Damien Odoul  •  Marie-Ève Nadeau

The Rest of the World (2012)

A family drama. A deceased mother and a father with a new wife. Three sisters; the middle one has lost her lover by whom she is pregnant. During a family dinner an old secret emerges. A search for identity and primarily a story about human relationships.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Emmanuelle Béart  •  Mathieu Amalric  •  Charles Berling  •  Jean-Louis Coulloc'h

A family drama. A deceased mother and a father with a new wife. Three sisters; the middle one has lost her lover by whom she is pregnant. During a family dinner an old secret emerges. A search for identity and primarily a story about human relationships.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Emmanuelle Béart  •  Mathieu Amalric  •  Charles Berling  •  Jean-Louis Coulloc'h

De force avec d'autres (1993)

Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back to life, "by force with others"  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon Reggiani
CAST:  Serge Reggiani  •  Simon Reggiani  •  Denis Lavant  •  Pascale Vignal

Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back to life, "by force with others"  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon Reggiani
CAST:  Serge Reggiani  •  Simon Reggiani  •  Denis Lavant  •  Pascale Vignal

The Fear (2015)

Gabriel, a young soldier, is sent to the Western Front in 1914. He experiences the hell of the trenches and the devastating effects that fear has on all the troops. He comes out alive after this horrendous experience, full of rage and fire, and discovers his own ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Nino Rocher  •  Pierre Martial Gaillard  •  Théo Chazal  •  Eliott Margueron

Gabriel, a young soldier, is sent to the Western Front in 1914. He experiences the hell of the trenches and the devastating effects that fear has on all the troops. He comes out alive after this horrendous experience, full of rage and fire, and discovers his own ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Nino Rocher  •  Pierre Martial Gaillard  •  Théo Chazal  •  Eliott Margueron

The Story of Richard O (2007)

Prey to his desire for women, Richard O. explores the sinuous mysteries of eroticism in a Paris full of summer inhabitants in the torrid month of August.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Mathieu Amalric  •  Stéphane Terpereau  •  Ludmila Ruoso  •  Alexandra Sollogoub

Prey to his desire for women, Richard O. explores the sinuous mysteries of eroticism in a Paris full of summer inhabitants in the torrid month of August.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Mathieu Amalric  •  Stéphane Terpereau  •  Ludmila Ruoso  •  Alexandra Sollogoub

After We're Gone (2004)

The dying aristocrat Jean-René decides to execute one of the treasured desires and invites in the lock theatrical company that its participants have rehearsed and have played the play before the only viewer - him  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Pierre Richard  •  Anna Mouglalis  •  Damien Odoul  •  Eugène Durif

The dying aristocrat Jean-René decides to execute one of the treasured desires and invites in the lock theatrical company that its participants have rehearsed and have played the play before the only viewer - him  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Pierre Richard  •  Anna Mouglalis  •  Damien Odoul  •  Eugène Durif

La douce (1988)

From the thirties to the sixties, in a French provincial town, the fate of a man nicknamed the raven. Love, denunciation and vengeance will punctuate his story, to the point of madness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Pascal Pagnat  •  Juan Antonio Fuentes

From the thirties to the sixties, in a French provincial town, the fate of a man nicknamed the raven. Love, denunciation and vengeance will punctuate his story, to the point of madness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Pascal Pagnat  •  Juan Antonio Fuentes

Art vs Wild (2015)

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DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul  •  Marie-Ève Nadeau
CAST:  Tony Coopman  •  Laura Delvaux  •  Julien Detiège  •  Jean-Marie Heyligen

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DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul  •  Marie-Ève Nadeau
CAST:  Tony Coopman  •  Laura Delvaux  •  Julien Detiège  •  Jean-Marie Heyligen

Sans monde (2000)

In a deserted quarry where “the stone is without a world,” a naked man and a woman in black await the apocalypse.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Stéphanie Granel  •  Damien Odoul

In a deserted quarry where “the stone is without a world,” a naked man and a woman in black await the apocalypse.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Stéphanie Granel  •  Damien Odoul

Les barbots (1995)

Through an initiatory and biblical journey, Kiki and Lulu meet evangelical figures as they try to sell porcelain plates with the effigy of the pope.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Jean Fuentès  •  Jean-Claude Lecante  •  Hélène Brochant  •  Philippe Tamburrini

Through an initiatory and biblical journey, Kiki and Lulu meet evangelical figures as they try to sell porcelain plates with the effigy of the pope.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Jean Fuentès  •  Jean-Claude Lecante  •  Hélène Brochant  •  Philippe Tamburrini

Morasseix!!! (1993)

Morasseix, a village hidden away in the remote depths of the French countryside, presents a gallery of astonishing portraits, characters by turn violent, absurd, occasionally touching in their innocence. “All of them cracked”, according to Lili, the hairdresser’s ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Damien Odoul  •  Pascal Pagnat  •  Audrey Bellessort  •  Dora Doll

Morasseix, a village hidden away in the remote depths of the French countryside, presents a gallery of astonishing portraits, characters by turn violent, absurd, occasionally touching in their innocence. “All of them cracked”, according to Lili, the hairdresser’s ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Damien Odoul  •  Pascal Pagnat  •  Audrey Bellessort  •  Dora Doll

Theo and the Metamorphosis (2022)

Theo, a 27-year-old young man with Down’s syndrome, lives with his father in an isolated house in the middle of a forest. They live in harmony with nature and animals, but one day the father goes away, leaving his son alone with his visions… Theo then begins his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Théo Kermel  •  Pierre Meunier  •  Élia Sulem  •  Louise Morin

Theo, a 27-year-old young man with Down’s syndrome, lives with his father in an isolated house in the middle of a forest. They live in harmony with nature and animals, but one day the father goes away, leaving his son alone with his visions… Theo then begins his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Théo Kermel  •  Pierre Meunier  •  Élia Sulem  •  Louise Morin

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DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Céline Sallette  •  Karim Leklou

T.O.B. (tête d'oeuf bouilli) (1994)

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DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Jef Pagnat  •  Pascal Pagnat  •  Paquita  •  Valérie Allain

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DIRECTION:  Damien Odoul
CAST:  Jef Pagnat  •  Pascal Pagnat  •  Paquita  •  Valérie Allain

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre (2005)

This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jérémie Imbert  •  Yann Marchet
CAST:  Pierre Richard  •  Marie-Christine Barrault  •  Maurice Barrier  •  Jane Birkin

This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jérémie Imbert  •  Yann Marchet
CAST:  Pierre Richard  •  Marie-Christine Barrault  •  Maurice Barrier  •  Jane Birkin