Laurence Bachman

Emma Bovary

1857. A courtroom. The prosecutor and defense counsel prepare to face off. Between them: Gustave Flaubert, the man on trial. Madame Bovary is charged with obscenity and offending public morals. As the two sides lay out their cases, the novel springs to life. Emma's story unfolds before our eyes. The trial is a reality check for us, rekindling the debate over the status of women at the time. What will the verdict be for Flaubert? What will the verdict be for women - for all the other Emmas?

Mademoiselle Drot

In 1938 a young woman French woman, Benedicte Drot, is having a child and is not married. The child is placed in a religious orphanage, and when her family throws her out she's obliged to work as a governess for family Treives. She is at first horrified when she discovers that the family is Jewish, but when madame Treives is arrested by the the French militia, when leaving the free zone to join her husband in Paris, Benedicte decides to take care of the Familys newborn son and the house they left behind.

The Battle of Hernani

Drama chronicling the premiere of Victor Hugo's 1830 drama Hernani, and the dramatic Romantics that rallied around it.

Théo et Marie

After the arrest of his mother, who is accused of collaboration, 14-year-old Theo decides to go join his grandfather in Paris. On the road he meets Marie, an 11 year old orphan.

The Red and the Black

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a noble who had hired him as tutor to his children.

Le mas Théotime

Pascal lives on the land in Provence that his father left him. He is supported by the Alibert family, his tenant farmers, to counter the maneuvers of his cousin Clodius who wants to compromise the irrigation of the vines or contaminate the beehives. It is in this atmosphere of suspicion that Geneviève returns to the country, charged with a mysterious past.