Anniversaires Série de courts métrages sur le thème de l'anniversaire dont Éric Rohmer a initié la production et dont il a confié la réalisation à quelques-unes de ses comédiennes et techniciennes complices. France Diane Baratier France / 1996 / 17 min / Numérique Avec Nathalie Moncorger, France Zobda, François Raoul-Duval. RÉTROSPECTIVE ÉRIC ROHMER JEUDI 31 JANVIER 2019, 14H30 SALLE GEORGES FRANJU

1998 short film

1998 short film by Éric Rohmer

The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.

The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.