Contempt (Le Mépris)
At the height of the French New Wave, director Jean-Luc Godard procured Brigitte Bardot for a big-budget film which was not quite what the investors were expecting. Filmed in lavish Cinemascope and Technicolor, but often shot with a handheld camera, the film pushed boundaries and appalled traditionalists. This documentary places the film within its era, as French society is in turmoil at the end of the Algerian war of independence, and the movie industry is in crisis. It features extensive contributions from Jean-Luc Godard and Michel Piccoli and archive interviews with Brigitte Bardot and Fritz Lang.

Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis)
Regularly voted as the finest French film ever made, and one of the top three films of all time, “Les Enfants du Paradis” is a magical, yet somewhat black piece of escapism set in nineteenth century Paris, a deeply romantic and theatrical tour-de-force. The film was made by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert in 1943 during the golden age of French cinema under the German occupation of France. Through archival interviews with French legends Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Brasseur, as well as original contributions from Bertrand Tavernier and Edward Turk amongst others, this documentary tells of the making of the film, its storyline and themes.