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Foundation date 13 may 1998
Carlotta Films est une société française de distribution de films fondée en 1998 par Vincent Paul-Boncour et Jean-Pierre Gardelli.
Carlotta Films, société de distribution de films en salles et d'édition DVD, a été créée en 1998 dans le but de valoriser le cinéma dit de patrimoine. L’objectif était, et demeure, de sortir en salles des films anciens en copies neuves et restaurées pour que le public puisse les (re)découvrir dans les meilleures conditions, tout en créant une nouvelle identité visuelle pour chaque film (affiche, bande-annonce…).
Afin d’approfondir son travail, Carlotta Films s’est dotée d’un pôle édition DVD en 2002 avec pour ambition de proposer des films inédits en DVD (et, depuis 2008, également en Blu-ray) dans des éditions de haute qualité en termes de bonus et de packaging.
En avril 2010, Carlotta Films inaugure son site d’information et de vidéo à la demande, pour prolonger sa politique éditoriale avec les moyens de diffusion les plus récents.
Au fur et à mesure, Carlotta Films a développé son catalogue de films dans lequel se distinguent les constituantes majeures de l’identité de la société : les cinémas américain, japonais, italien et jeune public. De Billy Wilder à Pasolini, d’Ozu à Fassbinder et Carlos Saura, en passant par des trésors du cinéma muet, la richesse et l’originalité de son catalogue ont largement contribué à faire de Carlotta Films une référence dans son domaine.
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Filmography of Carlotta Films (11 films)
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Alleluia (2014)
, 1h35Directed by Fabrice Du Welz
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Stéphane Bissot, Helena Noguerra, David Murgia, Renaud Rutten
Déçue par son mariage et manipulée par un mari jaloux, Gloria se sauve avec sa fille et tente de refaire sa vie. Sur les conseils d'une amie, elle accepte de rencontrer un homme contacté par petite annonce. Elle fait ainsi la connaissance du charmant Michel, un quadragénaire et petit escroc qui dépouille les veuves de leurs économies après les avoir séduites. Troublé par cette femme tombée follement amoureuse de lui, Michel prend la fuite. Mais Gloria le retrouve et se montre prête à tout pour sauvegarder leur amour, comme se faire passer pour sa sœur afin qu'il poursuive ses arnaques. Devenus éperdument amoureux l'un de l'autre, les amants s'enfoncent dans une passion destructrice et entament une odyssée meurtrière.
Carrie (1976)
, 1h38Directed by Brian De Palma
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about religion, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films about school violence
Actors Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, John Travolta, Nancy Allen
Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), a shy and friendless 17-year-old girl, is the scapegoat and outcast of her school in North Carolina. At home, she is abused by her mentally unstable mother Margaret (Piper Laurie), who is a Christian fundamentalist.
Silence (1971)
, 2h10Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Katō, Mako Iwamatsu, Tetsurō Tanba, Eiji Okada, Taiji Tonoyama
Le film raconte l'histoire de la suppression du christianisme au Japon, du point de vue d'un prêtre fugitif.
, 1h39Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot, François Maistre, Raymond Pellegrin, Perrette Pradier, Annie Anderson
Secret Agent OSS 117, Colonel Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (Frederick Stafford) has his Alpine ski holiday interrupted to receive a briefing on a series of suicide attacks performed by trusted assistants of their targets that they blow up with themselves. Using the cover of a journalist named Hubert Delacroix, de La Bath flies to Brazil to meet his contact Thomas Ellis (Claude Carliez) who believes the killers have been drugged and hypnotised to perform their assassinations.
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
, 1h45Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Poésie, Transport films, Films about dragons, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Adaptation d'un poème, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Nigel Green
Pelias (Douglas Wilmer), misinterpreting the prophecy given to him by the god Zeus (Niall MacGinnis), usurps the throne of Thessaly by killing King Aristo and most of his family. The infant Jason is spirited out by one of Aristo's soldiers. Pelias encounters one of the king's daughters, Briseis (Davinia Taylor), seeking sanctuary in the temple of the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman) and slays her. Because the murder has profaned her temple, the angry Hera becomes Jason's protector. She, disguised as the high Priestess, warns Pelias to beware of a man wearing one sandal.
Lord of the Flies (1963)
, 1h32Directed by Peter Brook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Adventure
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, L'enfance marginalisée, Political films, Dystopian films, Films about school violence
Actors James Aubrey, Nicholas Hammond, Hugh Edwards
A group of British schoolboys, living in the midst of a war, are evacuated from England. Their airliner is shot down by briefly glimpsed fighter planes and ditches near a remote island.
Contempt (1963)
, 1h43Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll, Raoul Coutard
American film producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) hires respected Austrian director Fritz Lang (playing himself) to direct a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Dissatisfied with Lang's treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), a novelist and playwright, to rework the script. The conflict between artistic expression and commercial opportunity parallels Paul's sudden estrangement from his wife Camille Javal (Brigitte Bardot), who becomes aloof with Paul after he leaves her alone with Prokosch, a millionaire playboy.
Victim (1961)
, 1h36Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Dennis Price, Sylvia Syms, Nigel Stock, Peter McEnery, Anthony Nicholls
A successful barrister, Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) has a thriving London practice. He is on course to become a Queen's Counsel and people are already talking of his being appointed a judge. He is apparently happily married to his wife, Laura (Sylvia Syms).
Breathless (1960)
, 1h29Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about films, La provence
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Van Doude
Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a youthful criminal who is intrigued with the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots and kills a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. Penniless and on the run from the police, he turns to an American love interest Patricia (Jean Seberg), a student and aspiring journalist, who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the streets of Paris. The ambivalent Patricia unwittingly hides him in her apartment as he simultaneously tries to seduce her and call in a loan to fund their escape to Italy. At one point, Patricia says she is pregnant with Michel's child. She learns that Michel is on the run when questioned by the police. Eventually she betrays him, but before the police arrive she tells Michel what she has done. He is somewhat resigned to a life in prison, and does not try to escape at first. The police shoot him in the street and, after a prolonged death run, he dies “à bout de souffle” (out of breath).
Purple Noon (1960)
, 1h52Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'usurpation d'identité, Films about psychiatry, Escroquerie
Actors Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Elvire Popesco, Frank Latimore
The American Tom Ripley (Delon) has been sent to Italy to persuade his wealthy friend, Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet), to return to the United States and take over his father's business. Philippe intends to do no such thing and the impoverished Tom enjoys living a life of luxury, so the two men essentially spend money all day and carouse all night. Tom is fixated on Philippe and his girlfriend Marge (Marie Laforêt) and covets the other man's life. Philippe eventually grows bored with his friend's fawning and becomes cruel and abusive to him. The final straw is when, during a yachting trip, Philippe strands Tom in the dinghy and leaves him to lie in the sun for hours.
Early Spring (1956)
, 2h24Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Chikage Awashima, Ryō Ikebe, Chishū Ryū, Keiko Kishi, Daisuke Katō, Teiji Takahashi
Office worker Shoji Sugiyama (Ryō Ikebe) wakes and goes about his morning routine, attended by his wife, Masako (Chikage Awashima), before commuting to his job in the Tokyo office of a fire brick manufacturing company.