Mariette Désert

Writer

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Filmography

House of Pleasures

The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.

6.3

Zero Fucks Given

Cassandre, 26, is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she’s always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, parties and lazy days. When she suddenly gets dismissed, she is forced to return home.

6.5

The World Doesn’t Exist

Adam Vollmann is 40 years old; he is a journalist for the web editorial staff of a major national daily newspaper. One morning, the portrait of Axel Challe, designated as the main suspect in the murder of a young girl, in Guerches-sur-Isoire, appears on the television screen in front of him. When he insisted to his editor-in-chief to go straight away to report there, he explained to him that he was from there, that he grew up there. What he doesn't say is that he knows Axel Challe well: he was his friend. Even more, Axel Challe was the demigod of his childhood.

6.9

The Passengers of the Night

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.

6.1

That Summer in Paris

Paris, the 2024 Olympic Games. Blandine (30) arrives from Normandy to watch the swimming competitions. Disorientated by the hustle and bustle of the city where nothing seems to go her way, she navigates the chaos of Paris and an unexpected reunion.

7.2

Dandelion's Odyssey

Two dandelion balls are the only survivors of a series of nuclear explosions that are destroying the Earth. At the end of their odyssey, they will find a new soil for the survival of their species.

5.6

This Summer Feeling

In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York.

6.9

Suzanne

The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.

6.1

Memory Lane

August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their family, some are searching their childhood, some want to escape boredom or eventually searching for love. They are all bearing the fact that these moments they are sharing are maybe the last ones.

5.6

Love Like Poison

Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?

7.1

No Way Back

After years of toxic relationship with Joachim, Laura is raising their daughter on her own. Joachim's new partner, Shirine, shows up at Laura's door in trouble. Laura realizes that they are both under the same harmful influence. The two women try to help each other find a path out of the toxic relationship.

5.4

France Is a Gas

In 2020, the greatest minds in France gather at the President’s home in order to save the country from catastrophe.

4.4

Particles

As winter sets in and P.A. sees the world shifting around him, he starts to observe strange phenomena in the environment. The changes are imperceptible at first, but gradually his whole world seems to be on the brink.

N/A

L'âge de son retour

Tony, in his forties, works in a shoe factory. His wife, Sophie, cultivates a small garden and babysits. Since the couple is over-indebted, they live in a mobile home in a campsite. While the budget is tight, and every expense is noted, Rémi, their seventeen-year-old son, returns to live with them.

5.4

Mercuriales

This story takes place in a far distant time, a time of violence. All throughout Europe, a war was spreading. In a city there lived two sisters...

5.3

La leçon de guitare

A man with nothing to do all day decides to take guitar lessons. He falls for his music teacher’s flatmate who flirts with him slightly and even has the same name as the Serge Gainsbourg chanson he’s struggling to learn “Laetitia”. Not so much a passionate love story as a finely woven, laconic film about what it’s like to be just that little bit in love.

7.0

Village in the Snow

Two park benches, chewing-gum, a student waiting for her exam results, a strange young man who hangs around the park walkways, another who is bored. And a lot of sunshine. We are in a little southern French town at the end of June. Beads of sweat dot skin, skirts are shorter. The afternoon has only just begun.

2.0

Dominoes

At a small seaside resort that is at risk of being submerged by the ocean, the inhabitants have been ordered to leave. Among those resigned to their fate are a reality TV candidate, a porn movie actress and a gay couple roaming the pine forest in search of themselves.

6.7

Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker in Beirut, loves Ahmed, a Syrian refugee who struggles to survive dealing in second-hand metal scraps, while affected by a mysterious physical condition related to shrapnel wounds exposure during the war. Their love story seems to have no future, but since they have nothing, they can lose nothing. When the opportunity presents itself, they leave Beirut in a hopeful and desperate get-away while Ahmed’s physical condition gets worse and worse.

6.2

Unforgettable Memory of a Friend

In Liban, Chadi, a thirteen-year-old boy, the top of his class, discovers that he can make money from his talent. But money is not really the target. Instead, he wants to attract the interest of pretty Raya, whom he dares not speak to.