BESTIARY OF LOVE

Presented by Laurence Braunberger, producer at Les Films du Jeudi

From the night of the seas to the light of the summits, nature is one immense and perpetual scene of love. Not a twitch, not a colour, not a fancy plumage or carapace that does not respond to the primordial need to embrace the other and to exchange with it something to perpetuate the species. Everywhere, always, the animal lives to unite and unites to live again. For it is all there: to give oneself is to want to give life. Later, the heart and mind of man will detach the fruit from the tree by inventing pleasure without offspring and offspring without pleasure. But here, only the concern to give birth remains.

The restorer – LES FILMS DU JEUDI

Les Films du Jeudi (also responsible for Les Films de la Pléiade and Les Films du Panthéon) has a catalogue of films ranging from 1920 to the present day. Most of them were produced by Pierre Braunberger, one of the most important independent producers of the 20th century, a discoverer of outstanding talent, yet largely unknown to the general public. Pierre Braunberger was involved in the beginnings of most of the Nouvelle Vague directors (François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, François Reichenbach, Jean Rouch and Chris Marker), and before that, Jean Renoir and Jean-Pierre Melville, and more recently Gérard Pirès, Gérard Krawczyk and so many others! The Centre Georges Pompidou paid tribute to him in 1987, and the Cinémathèque Française in May 2001.

Since his passing, Laurence Braunberger, his daughter, has taken over the management of the companies and devotes herself to the preservation and restoration, generally with the support of the CNC, of films from her library, as well as to their marketing. She produces, with as much parsimony as her father did with bulimia, projects that are dear to her heart.