Les Démons de Jésus (1997)
Género : Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 57M
Director : Bernie Bonvoisin
Escritor : Bernie Bonvoisin
Sinopsis
Set in the late 1960s, a family of Gypsies live in a dilapidated pavilion in the western suburbs of Paris.
Gérard, detective de un grupo antidroga de la policía, está desolado por el suicidio de Philippe, su amigo y compañero de trabajo. A partir de entonces actuará de enlace con el soplón del grupo, un camello que les informa periódicamente dónde aprehender alijos. Sin embargo, la actividad del soplón acaba planteándole a Gérard un dilema moral. (FILMAFFINITY)
A wood worker is trying hard to make his company survive every day... But a fire in his workshop leaves him in a lot of trouble when he realizes his insurer was swindling him - he does not have any insurance... That's when a crazy idea grows in his mind - he will need all his friends and their different talents to make it work...
Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across an unexploded bomb lying on the ground in open countryside. After a few foolhardy attempts to set the bomb off, Jules makes a surprising discovery. It is filled with thousands of bank notes…
Loic and Sophie are siblings living with their mother in a block of flats. The impetuous, promiscuous Loic is a talented photographer about to make it to the big time, but being pulled back by loyalty to his best friend and ex-lover, both junkies. Sophie, a schoolgirl on holidays, is quietly undergoing a sexual awakening, observing from a distance Loic's milieu; she begins an affair with his business partner to Loic's quasi-incestuous disapproval. Loic is spotted by a prominent editor, but becomes increasingly unhinged, by his friend's violent struggles with dealers, by his lover's demands, by Sophie's 'betrayal', by his own 'demons'. Tragedy inevitably strikes.
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
The story of a friendship between Francis, Lune et Éric, three enraged angels, linked to life and death through the traumas of their childhood and the street, where they took refuge in their adolescence, emerging on the threshold of adulthood. This is a story of resilience and reconstruction, on the price of violence and the strength of love.
En solo veinticuatro horas, y sin haberlo sospechado siquiera, Victor Barail es abandonado por su mujer y pierde su puesto de trabajo. Incapaz de enfrentarse solo a su nueva situación, busca comprensión y afecto en su familia y en sus amigos, pero en ellos sólo logra encontrar a personas que, como él, viven inmersas en sus propios problemas y, por tanto, ciegos y sordos a cuantos les rodean.
La vida, el amor y la casualidad reúnen a tres hombres, Vincent, Henri y Jacques. Los tres acaban en el banquillo de los acusados y son defendidos y juzgados por dos magistrados: Francis y Fabrice, que a su vez están enfrentados a idénticos problemas. (FILMAFFINITY)
En la isla de Jersey, frente a la costa francesa, Mélanie, una bella mujer dotada de una personalidad cautivadora, disfruta teniendo aventuras amorosas sin importancia que su marido Victor, un perfumista mayor que ella, parece soportar con total indiferencia.
Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Césariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Césariot's godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad's mother. Dissembling that he's off to see a friend, Césariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Césariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Césariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.
En París, Lulu, un policía apasionado, trabaja con la fe de un novato, a pesar de la burocracia esclerótica, la incompetencia o la negligencia de algunos de sus colegas. En su nueva posición como inspector de narcóticos, trata de mantener su cordura mientras es testigo de lo peor de la condición humana.
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier reveals he has AIDS and disappears from her life after her profession of love and confession of infidelity.
Nelly, una mujer que acaba de divorciarse, conoce casualmente al señor Arnaud, un magistrado retirado cuya mujer vive en Ginebra con otro hombre y cuyos hijos apenas le hablan. Arnaud le ofrece a Nelly un trabajo: mecanografiar el manuscrito de la novela que ha escrito. La relación laboral resultará enriquecedora para ambos. (FILMAFFINITY)
César es el propietario de un café en el puerto de Marsella. Marius, su hijo, es un romántico y está enamorado de Fanny, pero tiene otra gran pasión: sueña con viajar a tierras lejanas, lo que le impide comprometerse con la chica. Para hacerle cambiar de opinión, Fanny coquetea con otro pretendiente, Honoré Panisse.
Émile Vieuzac vive con su madre en una gran casa de campo. Cuando ella muere repentinamente, él invita a todos sus parientes a acudir al funeral. Son los tiempos de la revuelta estudiantil de mayo del 68. (FILMAFFINITY)
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life…
Para Sonia la celebración de las Navidades requiere un gran esfuerzo, así que ya en octubre empieza con los preparativos. Es rica, está casada, tiene una casa en la ciudad y siempre le toca ser la anfitriona en la cena familiar de Navidad. Sin embargo, detrás de esta perfecta fachada se está gestando una revolución. La modélica familia que tan orgullosamente exhibe como si se tratase de una victoria propia está a punto de desmoronarse.
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.