L'homme au scooter
Just vagabundea por las calles de París, recogiendo el último recuerdo de algunas personas antes de que pasen a otro mundo. Un día, se cruza con una chica de cabellera pelirroja y ojos azulados, que dice conocerle. ¿Podrían amarse? No será fácil, pues ella está viva, y él es un fantasma.
Alexandre de Mareuil
El partido Rassemblement National Populaire está en plena campaña e intenta convencer a Pauline (Émilie Decquenne), una enfermera liberal “que todo el mundo adora”, de que se presente a las elecciones municipales en una ciudad que el partido ha elegido como objetivo nacional simbólico. Pero a través de su historia de amor con Stanko (Guillaume Gouix), la joven irá descubriendo las relaciones turbias de sus padrinos políticos con los paramilitares del Bloc y los mecanismos de marketing que disimulan su papel de rostro amable (“no uses nunca palabras racistas; di 'gentuza’, todo el mundo lo entenderá”)
Bernard Desqueyroux
Twenty years have passed. Thérèse lives alone in Paris. We exiled her there. She seems to be asking nothing more for life. She is sick and lives in slow motion. One day, we ring rue du Bac. It is Mary, her daughter, whom she sees so little. She is twenty years old now and comes to see her to escape her middle-class south-west. She is very in love with a boy, she expects from her mother a support, a freedom of point of view. His name is Murad. The arrival of her daughter awakens Therese with her reserve and torpor. It does not shock Mary, who is very busy with her love. Thérèse proposes to meet Mourad. She quickly understands that he is not willing to marry Mary but wants her without wanting to bond more deeply to her. It is she Therese, that the young man looks ... She wanted to help her daughter to be happy, a wish too official not to be suspicious. Here she is delivered to the power of her own seduction ...
Le directeur de la PJ
In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witnessed the murder, and heard the wails of the women crying for help. So have the neighbors, certainly. But at the end, nobody called the police. Nevertheless, sorrows are too heavy for Pierre, which feel the needs to tell everything to his wife (Sophie Quinton), and to the police. During the investigation, it appears that 38 people witnessed the murdering, and none reacted...
Short stop motion animation film based upon the work of Pierre Corneille.
Georges Colinet
Pascal es un policía de Grenoble, casado con Agnès, profesora y adicta a la morfina, y se sirve de sus contactos para conseguirle la droga. La persona que se la suministra quiere que Pascal atrape a Bruno, un terrorista que acaba de fugarse de la prisión, y deja de facilitarle la sustancia hasta que lo consiga. Entretanto, Cécile, amiga de Agnès, pide a Pascal que vigile a su marido porque cree que le está siendo infiel. Pascal, cansado de ser un instrumento al servicio de la adicción de su mujer, se enamora de Cécile mientras Agnès descubre a Bruno en la residencia de vacaciones de ésta, y logra que le proporcione la droga... Es parte de una Trilogía estrenada a la vez junto con Una pareja perfecta y Escapando. La acción se desarrolla en la misma ciudad, en el mismo periodo de tiempo y con los mismos personajes. Aunque con diversos puntos de vista y distinto ambiente narrativo.
René
While France is on strike, Jean, a Parisian bookseller, opens his shop. A former trade unionist, he has in fact decided not to take part in the movement. However, a phone call from his friend René awakens his enthusiasm.
Roland (Marinette's Brother)
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together
Le procureur
La historia de un triángulo amoroso, en que todos los componentes llegan a conocerse íntimamente, hasta el punto que todas sus fantasías y fingimientos salen a la desagradable luz de la realidad. (FILMAFFINIT)
Daniel
Delphine, Daniel and François, three friends with a passion for sailing, decide, at the end of an evening, to go on an adventure on the roads of northern France, to join their boat in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Gustave Flaubert. Emma Bovary es la insatisfecha mujer de un médico rural que ansía pertenecer a la alta sociedad francesa. Sus ambiciones y un apasionado affaire con un joven aristócrata la conducirán a una situación de trágicas consecuencias. La musa de Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, encarna a la fatal heroína.
L'homme de l'EDF
25 year-old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings.