Palette Productions Movie Trailers
Most Popular Palette Productions Trailers
Total trailers found: 47
Not Dead Yet Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
A fast-paced documentary about a second generation of punk rockers living in Toronto. It offers insight into this segment of culture by videotaping in the streets, bars, and homes of punks.
Le Dernier Regard – L’Européenne, portrait du Fayoum Trailer (1998)
06 November 1998
Using a funerary portrait from the Fayum preserved at the Louvre Museum, this documentary explores the art of portrait painting in Roman Egypt during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
Pablo Picasso « Les couleurs de la passion » Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
The Crucifixion is a rather surprising painting of Picasso's. The painter has in fact very rarely painted religious subjects.
Rembrandt« Le miroir des paradoxes » Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
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 engraving, drawing, or painting.
Stefano Di Giovanni dit Sassetta « Le Retable en morceaux, Polyptyque » Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
Stefano Di Giovanni, nicknamed Sassetta from the 18th century onward, painted this polyptych in Siena between 1437 and 1444 before delivering it, in accordance with his contract, to the Franciscan convent of San Sepolcro near Arezzo.
Pierre Bonnard « Le mimosa mimétique » Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
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 (ultramarine, emerald, orange, pink and the bright yellow of the mimosa), L'Atelier is one of Bonnard's last great paintings.
Rubens « La gloire de la chair » Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
In 1630, Rubens who is settled in Anvers marries in a second marriage Hélène Fourment. In the huge studio he has had built, he paints several portraits of Hélène, in the garden, in furs, in a carriage, which are minutely analysed in this film.
Édouard Manet « Le modèle au chat noir » Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Scandal at the 1865 Salon. Édouard Manet shows a pale, naked girl lying indifferently on a divan. "What is this odalisque with a yellow belly, an ignoble model picked up God knows where, who represents Olympia? The crowd gathers as if at the morgue before M.
Andy Warhol « Ten Lizes » Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
Ten similar faces are printed in black, in two rows, on a big canvas measuring 5,65 meters long by 2 high.
Piero Della Francesca « Le rêve de la diagonale, La Flagellation » Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
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 been made without success.
Dans le sillage d'Ulysse Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
The description of the Greek world that Homer gave in the 8th century B.C. was long considered as a purely mythological account.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir « Les beaux dimanches d’été » Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Dedicated to one of the major paintings by Auguste Renoir, created in 1876, this documentary combines a meticulous analysis of the artwork with engravings and photographs showing the true “face” of Montmartre Hill at the end of the 19th century.
Le Caravage « Anges et bourreaux » Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
It was a French prelate who commissioned the decoration of the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of Saint Louis of the French in Rome, dedicated to his patron saint, Matthew.
Van Eyck « Miracle dans la loggia » Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
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 assistant grinds pigments, another mixes them with linseed oil, and a third arranges them on palettes.
Henri Matisse « A vif dans la couleur » Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
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 meters by three, is one of the last great works of Matisse.
Courbet « La place du mort » Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Who were they burying that day in Ornans ? A gathering of ordinary people, a priest, altor boys, all inhabitants of Courbet's native village.
Jean Honoré Fragonard « L’amour dans les plis, Le Verrou » Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
An image that appears ordinary, with a highly explicit subject, can carry troubling undertones. Is it not most strange that this painting may have been created during a religious scene? This final variation on the opposition between sacred love and profane love brings several centuries of religious painting to a close and opens a new era: eroticism is no longer the domain of ancient gods but is shared here and now, in the most everyday setting.
Gauguin « Harmonies sauvages » Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
Gauguin was a sailor and then a stockbroker at the money market. Husband of a young Danish woman, Mette Gad, he became a father.
La Dame à la Licorne « Le sixième sens » Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
A hanging composed of the six most famous tapestries in the world. These pictures, reproduced everywhere and in all possible forms, have become the emblems of a certain form of romantic art of the late Middle Ages.
Johannes Vermeer« Le grain de la lumière » Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
The primary characteristic of Vermeer’s work is the assimilation of his perspective to a photographic vision.
Francisco de Goya « La Lettre, la Flèche et le Balai » Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
Why have these two paintings, The Young Women and The Old Women, always been presented together? Historical investigation does not provide an answer.
Georges Seurat « l’Utopie orange vert pourpre » Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
A century later, Alain Jaubert rediscovered the exact location where Seurat prepared his painting, as well as the studio where he completed it.
Shitao « L’Unique trait de pinceau » Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
Shitao, one of the most skilled painters of his time, was deeply imbued with Buddhist spirituality, as he was forced to take refuge in monasteries from a very young age.
Léonard de Vinci « Le sourire et l’entrelacs, La Vierge, l’enfant Jésus et Sainte Anne » Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
On the right, a very dark tree clings to the slope of a hill. At the center stands Saint Anne. She wears her hair in braids, her eyes lowered, smiling.
Grünewald « Le retable des Ardents » Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
Around 1515, Master Mathis added painted panels arranged as double wings to a sculpted altarpiece created twenty years earlier for the convent-hospital of Isenheim in Alsace.
Ingres « Le regard captif » Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
At the end of his career, Ingres brought together 25 nude women in a painting he prepared with great care.
Le Lorrain « Les théâtres du Soleil » Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
A harbor illuminated by the setting sun in a city of Italian style. On the left, a small temple topped with a clock.
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin « La saveur de l’immobile, La Raie » Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
A still life featuring a large fish, painted in the Dutch manner, The Ray immerses us in the quiet life of familiar objects that the artist took pleasure in depicting.
Euphronios « Euphronios a peint » Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
Euphronios is one of the rare Greek vase painters whose name has come down to us. An exceptional artist, he stopped painting at the height of his career to devote himself to making the vases he had once decorated.
Bacon « Les figures de l’excès » Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
A plunge into the strange and fascinating world of Francis Bacon, whose painting struggles to exorcise violence and death.
Yves Klein « Traces de l’époque bleue » Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Blue period, blue traces, blue sponges... Yves Klein deserved his nickname of "Yves the monochrome". Even though he used many other colours, it is the colour of the sky that he chose above all, used over and over again and that he made into not just a mode of expression but a sort of spiritual energy.
Théodore Géricault « La beauté du désastre » Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
By painting his monumental work The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819, Théodore Géricault elevated a news event to the level of modern history painting.
Paolo Uccello « Vacarmes en Toscane, La Bataille de San Romano » Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
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 of the 15th century.
Van Gogh « La haute note jaune » Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
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 Mausole Hospice near Saint-Rémy, he feels compelled to paint two copies of this picture which he is especially fond of.
Edouard Vuillard « Les allées du souvenir » Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
A bit disregarded by the historians, the painter Edouard Vuillard is now finding a place of very first plan in the history of modern art.
Hokusai « La Menace suspendue » Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
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, and advertisements.
Tiziano Vecellio dit Titien « Un souvenir d’Arcadie, Le Concert Champêtre » Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Is the painting by Giorgiorne or by Titien ? It is difficult to distinguish the work of Giorgione (who died in 1510 at the age of 33) from the early works of Titien (who, for his part died in 1576 at a great age).
Georges de La Tour « Le tricheur à l’as de carreau » Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Three cards in hand, gold on the table—we are in the middle of a game of prime, a precursor to poker.
Jean Antoine Watteau « Le pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère, Les secrets de la fête galante » Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
The Pilgrimage to Cythera's island is one of the glories of the Louvre Museum. Praised by Baudelaire, Nerval and Proust, copied by countless painters, continually analysed, it is both legend and utopia.
Cézanne « La violence du motif » Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Born in Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne returns to settle there after some journeys elsewhere. He takes as his motif the Sainte-Victoire mountain close by and paints it more than sixty times in different ways and at every time of year.
Kandinsky « Figures de l’invisible » Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
At the time Wassily Kandinsky painted Yellow-Red-Blue (1925), he was a professor at the Bauhaus. In this work, the painter applies the principles of color and analytical drawing that he also taught to his students and developed in several theoretical writings.
Delacroix « Sous les pavés l’image » Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Alain Jaubert uncovers the details, interprets the symbols, and analyzes the composition. Why did the painting spark such controversy when it was presented in 1831?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec « Une légende fin de siècle » Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
La Goulue, the famous cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge and queen of Belle Époque Paris nightlife, had somewhat fallen from grace.
Rafaello Sanzio dit Raphaël « Portrait de l’ami en homme de cour, Portrait de Baldassare Castiglione » Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Raphael strives to capture the open and sympathetic face of his friend and deliberately simplifies his composition.
Véronèse « Un tableau en procès » Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
A study of Veronese’s painting The Feast in the House of Levi (1573), originally conceived as a representation of the Last Supper.
Nicolas Poussin « Admirable tremblement du temps » Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
During his final years in Rome, Nicolas Poussin painted four works for the Duke of Richelieu evoking the seasons.
Pompéi « Cérémonies secrètes » Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
In 79 AD, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the city and inhabitants of Pompeii under volcanic debris and preserved—until excavations in 1909—a vast fresco painted a century and a half earlier in a suburban villa.
