Romy, A Free Woman / 2022

Romy Schneider has been En Compétition ever since 1957 with Sissi, before coming back to the Croisette multiple times, notably for Claude Sautet’s Les Choses de la vie. This exceptional documentary recounts her illustrious career with passion and dedication.

A Free Woman /

About the relationship between a mother and her 18 year-old son.

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman / 2008

Acclaimed filmmaker Jennifer Fox maps the world of female life and sexuality today -- from the dramatic turns in her own life to the stories of women around the globe that shed light on the universal issues all women face. Employing a groundbreaking camera technique, called "passing the camera", this powerful series creates a new type of documentary...

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman / 2007

Acclaimed filmmaker Jennifer Fox maps the world of female life and sexuality today -- from the dramatic turns in her own life to the stories of women around the globe that shed light on the universal issues all women face. Employing a groundbreaking camera technique, called "passing the camera", this powerful series creates a new type of documentary language and storytelling that mirrors the special way women communicate.

Fuoco di paglia / 1972

Elisabeth ha trent'anni, è divorziata da poco e di professione fa la segretaria-traduttrice, ma trova molte difficoltà a inserirsi nel mondo del lavoro e a recuperare il proprio equilibrio. Per ottenere la custodia del figlio Nikki - che al momento si trova con il padre - ella dovrebbe risposarsi e, sempre per ottenere la qualifica di donna "sistemata", dovrebbe risolvere la situazione professionale in maniera stabile, accettando anche alcuni compromessi a cui è contraria. Giorno dopo giorno Elisabeth si rende sempre meglio conto che la società accetta l'emancipazione femminile solo in teoria. Alla fine la donna eviterà di scendere a patti con i suoi datori di lavoro e si sposerà forzatamente con un ingegnere conciliante.

The Life, Love and Hate of a Free Jazz Man and His Woman / 2020

This is the story of Arthur Doyle, once a promising saxophonist in the New York school of Jazz' New Thing in the late 1960s and 1970s. Doyle, like many of his contemporaries, has struggled to maintain a healthy balance between life and music. The evidence of years spent pursuing a completely original sound is all around him. It is in his eyes, in his home and in the voices of his family. This film tells the story of a man who managed to live through his relationship with music. Now nearly 70, Doyle seems to be defying those forces that would keep him as a footnote in the history of American music.

Una donna libera / 19546.33 voti

Combattuta tra nozze borghesi e il desiderio di libertà e di realizzazione personale, una giovane donna vive diverse esperienze sentimentali, scegliendo infine la solitudine.

Free Woman / 1982

A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her ancestral land stifling and it eats away at her vitality.

Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman / 2016

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey. Her grand-daughters, Anna, Juliette and Solène, revisit the dreams of Bernadette, in the family home in the Cevennes region where they, like her, grew up. Her close friends, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, reminisce on their artistic and human complicity. Throughout the film, Bernadette Lafont in person, with her inimitable character actress voice, re-evokes a life in cinema marked with insolence, courage and freedom.

A Flower of Passion / 1927