Before Fireworks

A man with a bowler hat that seems straight out of a Magritte painting walks around a city with a lot of construction works going on eventually gets run over by a car.

The plot of the film takes place in a foreign company located in southern Serbia. The warehouse manager enjoys his free weekend, which is interrupted by a warehouse worker who invites him to come to the warehouse in order to have a serious conversation with a new client from London. The manager had no idea what had happened there and what is yet to happen in the warehouse.

Three schoolgirls get more than they bargained for when attempting to communicate with the dead.

When Conrad returns to his hometown to identify his mother's body, he is forced to confront the painful memories of his childhood.

A man who cheats death through the help of cryonics has to learn the hard way that death is a undeniable part of life.

An investigator finds F. W. Murnau's diary, which leads him to discover the secret hidden beneath the history of Nosferatu and a mysterious cult seeking the secret of eternal life.

A typical night in the life of a noir detective.

An electrician is trapped in a looping room and goes mad.

Mic, partially deaf and injured after a robbery, is abandoned by his accomplice in an unidentified forrest. A young woman, acting strangely is then going to take care of him, although difficulties of communication separate the two individuals, each of them appearing to live in a world of his own.

The film applies an unconventional narrative. It presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature.

Shot in 16mm, Berenice is Rohmer’s first finished film. The film is based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who becomes obsessed with his fiancé’s teeth. The film was shot at Andre Bazin’s house by Jacques Rivette. Rivette also edited the film.