Essence

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon...

A barber fantasizes about killing his customers after hearing them complain about the world.

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the...

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch...

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize...

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as...

The tormented loves of the young Ottavio, first for the countess Gamiani and then for the writer Georges Sand.

A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.

The city is overwhelmed by consumerism and information. The constant barrage of information starts to glide past all of us. We are neither here nor...

A romantic, a scoundrel, a private man .... The touching and absurd story of the philosopher Albert Camus as seen through the eyes of the many women...