Le sommeil d’Adrien (Adrien’s Sleep). 1991. France. Directed by Caroline Champetier. Screenplay by Champetier, Emmanuel Salinger. With Bulle Ogier, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Marie Rivière. 35mm courtesy WhyNot Productions. In French; English subtitles. 24 min.
Le sommeil d’Adrien reunites Bulle Ogier with the wonderful Éric Rohmer actress Marie Rivière, one of her costars in Venus Beauty Institute. The film is a rare directorial effort by the great French cinematographer Caroline Champetier, who previously had worked with Ogier on Jacques Rivette’s Gang of Four and Le Pont du Nord and who also collaborated so memorably with Chantal Akerman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Leos Carax.
Bête de scène (The Bear). 1994. France. Directed by Bernard Nissille. Screenplay by Nissille, Michel Fessler. With Bulle Ogier, Emmanuel Salinger, Michel Piccoli, Patrice Chéreau. 35mm courtesy WhyNot Productions. In French; English subtitles. 18 min.
Bernard Nissille’s little gem imagines a love triangle between the director, the Queen, and the Bear during a staging of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. An actor who appeared with Bulle Ogier in Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep, Nissille enlisted the brilliant opera and film director Patrice Chéreau to appear in the film opposite Ogier, Michel Piccoli, and Emmanuelle Salinger, the star of Arnaud Desplechin’s The Sentinel.
Program 42 min.