Known for Camera
Romain Winding (25 December 1951 – 20 July 2023) was a French cinematographer. Winding died at his home in Ardèche, France, on 20 July 2023, at the age of 71. Source: Article "Romain Winding" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born
December 25, 1951
Died
July 20, 2023 (age 71)
Birthplace
Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Filmography
36 films, 1 show


Diary of a Chambermaid
2015 · 1h 36m
country: France
In the late 19th century, a chambermaid from Paris relocates to a remote household in Provence, engages in trysts and finds herself enraptured with a coach driver.


The Bélier Family
2014 · 1h 45m
country: France
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.


Superchondriac
2014 · 1h 47m
country: Belgium
Romain Faubert is a 39 year old, single, medical photographer... and a raging hypochondriac. His doctor and only friend Dr. Dimitri Zvenka thinks he knows the cure for Romain: dating! But with the arrival of freedom fighter Anton Miroslav, everyone might get more then they bargained for...


Josephine
2013 · 1h 28m
country: France
Josephine doesn't like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister and parents keep pushing her to find a good husband. To shut them up, she creates a handsome Brazilian millionaire but her little white lie has a flip side - she loses everything to find the love of her life.


Looking for Hortense
2012 · 1h 40m
country: France
Damien, a Chinese civilization professor, lives with his wife, Iva, a stage director, and their son Noé. The couple's relationship has drifted into routine that has drained it of love. Damien finds himself trapped one day by Iva, who orders him to ask his father, a senior member of the French Council of State, for help in preventing Zorica, a woman Iva knows, from being deported. But Damien and his father don't get on and are barely ever in touch with each other. This dangerous mission throws Damien into a spiral that will turn his life upside down.


Farewell, My Queen
2012 · 1h 40m
country: France
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.


When Pigs Have Wings
2011 · 1h 38m
country: France
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar.


I Love You Very Much
2010 · 1h 31m
country: France
When the mother they have never known dies, three half brothers aged 8, 15 and 17 respectively, who were all brought up in different ways, meet for the very first time. They spend the long summer holidays with Nonna, their grandmother, and start sharing secrets and rabbits, polenta and mean tricks, adventures and first time experiences, together. At last their once solitary lives take a new direction.


The Candidate
2007 · 1h 35m
country: France
Shortly before the presidential election in a European state, Michel Dedieu stepped in at the last minute to replace his party's candidate, who was forced to withdraw due to a rapidly spreading cancer. The day after the first round, he has very little time to prepare with his close team for the televised debate that will pit him against his opponent. Unpopular with the media and the public, he must improve his image and refine his arguments at all costs.


My Dad Is Into Terrorism
2006 · 1h 30m
country: France
Hostage-taking, deadly bombings in Paris, lobbying, media and judicial machinery. This is the story of a carefree little girl, suddenly confronted with death threats, the bodyguards, to fear ... until the final drama, one winter evening in 1990.


The Giraffe's Neck
2004 · 1h 24m
country: Belgium
A clever little girl convinces her grandfather to visit her grandmother, whom she has never met.


At Home with the Rozes
2003 · 1h 30m
country: France
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary...


A Moment of Happiness
2002 · 1h 24m
country: France
Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in. He works seasonal jobs in the restaurant industry. Betty, 20, is a young mother full of life and tenderness for her 5-year-old son, Damien. They still live within the family household, but Betty's relationship with her father is strained. Damien is affected by this tense atmosphere. Betty finds a job, leaves the family home, and gains independence. Betty and Philippe will cross paths.


Room to Rent
2001 · 1h 35m
country: Unknown
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.


Workers for the Good Lord
2000 · 1h 47m
country: France
After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy.


The False Servant
2000 · 1h 36m
country: France
A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.


Keep It Quiet
1999 · 1h 45m
country: France
A businessman convicted of a white-collar crime becomes a changed person upon his release from prison.


Belle Maman
1999 · 1h 42m
country: France
At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.


The Misadventures of Margaret
1998 · 1h 45m
country: France
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.


The Revengers' Comedies
1998 · 1h 26m
country: France
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin the life of the woman who married Karen's boyfriend, while Karen will work as a secretary for the man who took Henry's job. Whether revenge will be sweet – or bittersweet – is anyone's guess.


Seventh Heaven
1997 · 1h 31m
country: France
A bored, sexually frustrated woman's life improves when she begins hypnotherapy and tries feng shui, but her husband's life unravels.


Limited Edition
1997 · 1h 25m
country: France
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Edward comes to the conviction that it reveals that it was Nicholas who raped the woman Edward loved, and that he is therefore responsible for her subsequent suicide. Very carefully, he plots his revenge.


Vicious Circles
1997 · 1h 30m
country: United States
When a young man is arrested for trafficking drugs, his girlfriend tries to help him out by making some big money as a member of an exclusive group of high-end prostitutes.


The Black Angel
1994 · 1h 35m
country: France
Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.


Emma Zunz
1993 · 51m
country: France
Based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the tale recounts how its eponymous heroine avenges the death of her father.


The Stolen Diary
1993 · 1h 50m
country: France
A young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her.


Céline
1992 · 1h 28m
country: France
After the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy fiancé to leave her. Following several failed suicide attempts, Céline is hospitalized and comes to the attention of a nurse, Genevieve, who has struggled with depression. Under her personal care, Céline gradually recovers, and the two women grow close.


The Discreet
1990 · 1h 34m
country: France
There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.


White Wedding
1989 · 1h 32m
country: France
A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.


Sound and Fury
1988 · 1h 35m
country: France
This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.


Yağmur Kaçakları
1987
country: Turkey
The film tells the story of a man who flees abroad and his relationship with a foreign woman. The man is in prison for a thought crime. The man's sole purpose in escaping from prison is to leave the country. With the help of a friend, he goes to France to stay with his brother. There, he meets a woman named Michelle, who is going through personal difficulties. Despite the language barrier, the two quickly fall in love. Meanwhile, the man applies for asylum in France. However, when his application is rejected, he leaves France and returns to Turkey. Michelle, who refuses to give up on her lover, decides to follow him to Turkey.


Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
1984 · 1h 40m
country: France
Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.