Gerda Diddens

Odette (Catherine Frot) no tiene, aparentemente, ninguna razón para ser feliz, pero lo es. Balthazar (Albert Dupontel) no tiene, aparentemente, ninguna razón para ser infeliz, pero lo es. Odette es una cuarentona torpe que trabaja en la sección de cosméticos de unos grandes almacenes. Sueña con Balthazar Balsan, su escritor favorito, a quién cree que le debe su felicidad. Balsan es un hombre de éxito, atractivo y seductor que está a punto de aparecer inesperadamente en la vida de Odette. Un cuento mágico sobre dos náufragos de la vida a los que les separa todo...

Bruno Davert es un alto ejecutivo que trabaja desde hace quince años en una fábrica de papel. Debido a la reestructuración económica de la empresa, él y cientos de empleados son despedidos de la noche a la mañana. En principio la medida no le preocupa; es joven (ronda los cuarenta), tiene una preparación excelente y confía en encontrar pronto un puesto de trabajo similar. Tres años después, aún sin trabajo, sólo piensa en sobrevivir y garantizar el futuro de su familia. Por ello, decide, con la ayuda de un arma, pasar a la acción y aniquilar a la competencia de una forma ordenada y lógica. Al mismo tiempo prepara el asalto a la Corporación Arcadia, el último obstáculo entre él y el puesto laboral que ansía.

Luxembourg's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003

After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.

Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers "her" two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.

Romeo, a lovelorn Roman musician in his 40s with 20 years since his only hit, consults a fortuneteller who predicts he'll find love and money with a foreign singer named for a flower. In Brussels he meets Marguerite, an older chanteuse who interprets Jacques Brel and loves her yappy dog.

Prajevitza es un lugar pequeño, agradable, aunque con mucho paro. Dos emigrantes de esta república del Este intentan regresar a casa y descubren con horror que su país no aparece en los mapas de los ferrocarriles franceses. Ahí arranca el enredo cómico de esta simpática parábola sobre la Europa de las nacionalidades.

Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a man she's not very interested in. It's not at all irrelevant that her news beat includes stories on terrorism, the greenhouse effect, pollution and genetic engineering, because when her baby's due date comes and goes, she starts hearing from her infant from in the womb. It is telling her that it and many other babies are refusing to be born into such a horrible world. She learns that this is true, and that the children born through induced labor are dying.

The antiques shop Gerard owns should help him to get rid of his financial problems. He dreams of writing the most important Dutch novel ever. Unfortunately he spends money like water. As a result he is constantly broke. His sister Ingrid is married to Pierre. She wants a child but he refuses. While Gerard is willing to consider leading a normal life, a wish mainly expressed by his parents, Ingrid's marriage falls apart.

Martin (Heinz Bennent), a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his second wife is at his bedside, comforted by his first wife -- also present.

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.

The last film prohibited by Francisco Franco. Jean-Marie Buchet plays the role of a collector of used tampons in this avant-garde comedy-adventure film.

Gerda Diddens' "Sprookje, of l'homme-objet" and "Découpage" form a very funny double metaphor about cinema and machismo.

An actor on screen insults the audience. How will spectators react?

Gerda Diddens' "Sprookje, of l'homme-objet" and "Découpage" form a very funny double metaphor about cinema and machismo.

Gerda Diddens' "Sprookje, of l'homme-objet" and "Découpage" form a very funny double metaphor about cinema and machismo.