Palette Productions Movies

1998
Le Dernier Regard – L’Européenne, portrait du Fayoum
Le Dernier Regard – L’Européenne, portrait du Fayoum
01998HD
Using a funerary portrait from the Fayum preserved at the Louvre Museum, this documentary explores the art of portrait painting in Roman Egypt during...
1983
Not Dead Yet
Not Dead Yet
01983HD
A fast-paced documentary about a second generation of punk rockers living in Toronto. It offers insight into this segment of culture by videotaping...
2000
Dans le sillage d'Ulysse
Dans le sillage d'Ulysse
02000HD
The description of the Greek world that Homer gave in the 8th century B.C. was long considered as a purely mythological account. However, in the 19th...
1997
La Dame à la Licorne « Le sixième sens »
La Dame à la Licorne « Le sixième sens »
01997HD
A hanging composed of the six most famous tapestries in the world. These pictures, reproduced everywhere and in all possible forms, have become the...
1989
Véronèse « Un tableau en procès »
Véronèse « Un tableau en procès »
01989HD
A study of Veronese’s painting The Feast in the House of Levi (1573), originally conceived as a representation of the Last Supper. By...
1992
Francisco de Goya « La Lettre, la Flèche et le Balai »
Francisco de Goya « La Lettre, la Flèche et le Balai »
01992HD
Why have these two paintings, The Young Women and The Old Women, always been presented together? Historical investigation does not provide an answer....
1994
Van Gogh « La haute note jaune »
Van Gogh « La haute note jaune »
01994HD
In october 1888 Vincent Van Gogh who has been living for eight months in Arles, paints his room. A year later, when he is at the Saint-Paul de...
1995
Henri Matisse « A vif dans la couleur »
Henri Matisse « A vif dans la couleur »
01995HD
Composed in Nice, at the Hôtel Régina where the painter had been living since 1949, The Sadness of the King, a 1952 painting nearly four...
1994
Rafaello Sanzio dit Raphaël « Portrait de l’ami en homme de cour, Portrait de Baldassare Castiglione »
Rafaello Sanzio dit Raphaël « Portrait de l’ami en homme de cour, Portrait de Baldassare Castiglione »
01994HD
Raphael strives to capture the open and sympathetic face of his friend and deliberately simplifies his composition. Yet the image is filled with...
1998
Pierre Bonnard « Le mimosa mimétique »
Pierre Bonnard « Le mimosa mimétique »
01998HD
A square format market by the rhythms of its many obliques (the frame of the glass window, the guardrail in the foreground) and its brilliant colours...
1995
Bacon « Les figures de l’excès »
Bacon « Les figures de l’excès »
01995HD
A plunge into the strange and fascinating world of Francis Bacon, whose painting struggles to exorcise violence and death. The anguished and very...
1999
Grünewald « Le retable des Ardents »
Grünewald « Le retable des Ardents »
01999HD
Around 1515, Master Mathis added painted panels arranged as double wings to a sculpted altarpiece created twenty years earlier for the...
1999
Paolo Uccello « Vacarmes en Toscane, La Bataille de San Romano »
Paolo Uccello « Vacarmes en Toscane, La Bataille de San Romano »
01999HD
These three very big panels scattered in three different museums (London, Paris and Florence) are considered to be a sort of manifesto of the new art...
1993
Piero Della Francesca « Le rêve de la diagonale, La Flagellation »
Piero Della Francesca « Le rêve de la diagonale, La Flagellation »
01993HD
This is certainly the most mysterious painting of all the history of painting. Thirty different attempts of finding out the hidden meaning of it have...
1989
Van Eyck « Miracle dans la loggia »
Van Eyck « Miracle dans la loggia »
01989HD
Let us travel back to the 15th century and imagine the interior of the workshop of the painter Jan van Eyck: a porter delivers a wooden panel, one...
1991
Ingres « Le regard captif »
Ingres « Le regard captif »
01991HD
At the end of his career, Ingres brought together 25 nude women in a painting he prepared with great care. The study of the painter’s extensive...
1989
Delacroix « Sous les pavés l’image »
Delacroix « Sous les pavés l’image »
01989HD
Alain Jaubert uncovers the details, interprets the symbols, and analyzes the composition. Why did the painting spark such controversy when it was...
1995
Jean Honoré Fragonard « L’amour dans les plis, Le Verrou »
Jean Honoré Fragonard « L’amour dans les plis, Le Verrou »
01995HD
An image that appears ordinary, with a highly explicit subject, can carry troubling undertones. Is it not most strange that this painting may have...
1991
Rembrandt« Le miroir des paradoxes »
Rembrandt« Le miroir des paradoxes »
01991HD
From his very first paintings, Rembrandt stages himself. Thereafter, at least a hundred times, he would take his own face as the sole subject of an...
1999
Hokusai « La Menace suspendue »
Hokusai « La Menace suspendue »
01999HD
The silhouette of a giant wave about to engulf fragile boats: this image of suspended fate has traveled the world in the form of postcards, posters,...