When Élodie goes to visit Lucien, her grandfather, now living in an old people's home, she asks him one specific question: why had he abused her, thirty-one years ago?Quand Élodie rend visite à Lucien, son grand-père, pensionnaire d'une maison de retraite, elle lui pose une question très précise : pourquoi l'a-t-il abusée, il y a trente et un ans ?

May 1968. Charles de Gaulle is 77. His great career is behind him. Obsessed by France's prestige, he's looking with distance to the student demonstrations. An intimate portrait of the General through the tale of 68'events.

This arty Canadian drama centers on a young Vietnamese woman who marries a petty thief she does not love so she can emigrate to Canada. The rest of her family moves there too, but none of them find a particularly happy life, though Lucky, Lulu's husband, would do anything to insure his wife's happiness, even if it is self-destructive.

Live performance of Alban Berg's opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the social ascent and the demise of a deadly woman, driven by men to behave in murder, to her own. dead.

Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make trouble", from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Berg's score is intensely beautiful, and the rich characterisation brilliantly executed.

Henrik and his younger lover Lulu go on an intimate trip to France. Unexpectedly, Henrik's son, David, arrives.

Everyone is addicted to Lulu. As a symbol of the seductress, she drags everyone around her into the abyss: the elderly Dr. Goll, the mediocre painter Schwarz, her foster father Dr. Schön and the lesbian Countess Geschwitz - all succumb to her beauty and pay with their lives.

At the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Kirill Petrenko conducts this new production of Alban Berg's Lulu, directed for stage by Dmitri Tcherniakov and starring the soprano Marlis Petersen (Lulu).

New peoduction, 2009. Filmed by the Royal Opera House in co-production with Opus Arte, June 13/17.

Lulu loves Henrik. There's no doubt in her mind: "What are we waiting for?" She's a gallery owner and he is one of her biggest clients. Henrik is crazy about Lulu as well, although he is married to Sophia with whom he runs his company. Henrik invites Lulu to stay with him in his house in France. A trip just for the two of them. A new beginning - except for a few work-related engagements. But in the house in France, the idyll is disrupted when Henrik and Sophia's homosexual son David unexpectedly shows up to prepare for his exams at his boarding school. Below the surface he is scheming and mean towards Lulu. David longs for his father's recognition and despite resistance from Lulu, he chooses to face the challenge, and stay in the house David strives for his father's recognition and decides despite Lulu's presence, to face the challenge, and stay in the house. Henrik doesn't tell David to leave when Lulu asks him to do so. Given a mutual spite towards each other's presence, Lulu and ...