Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier) vive en Lyon con su madre (Marie Bunel), una librera que ha criado sola a su hija. Gabrielle, una joven encantadora y espiritual, es la “mujer del tiempo” en una cadena de televisión de Lyon. Con ocasión del lanzamiento promocional de un nuevo programa, conoce al escritor Charles Saint-Denis (François Berléand), un hombre maduro y casado que vive en la región desde hace algunos años. Brillante y adulador, seduce a la joven nada más conocerla y se enamora de ella. Por otra parte, Paul Gaudens (Benoît Magimel), un hombre más joven, rico y caprichoso, intentará también conquistar el corazón de Gabrielle.
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This French documentary is comprised of almost 300 clips from the past 100 years of cinema Francaise. The images within the documentary are free flowing and not in chronological order; they are also not hindered with unnecessary narration or lengthy introductions. The film represents the collaborative efforts of a collective of the country's finest filmmakers.
Sylvie Drapier is an attractive 40-year old surgeon, specializing in liver transplants, who heads a department in the foremost clinic of a small country town. Divorced, she lives alone with her eight-year-old son, David. One night, returning home from a major operation, Sylvie is violently assaulted and raped in the garage of her building. In the furious struggle with the rapist, she manages to scratch him with a brooch. Several weeks later, the rapist
attacks a pharmacist, but this time, the victim escapes by severely injuring him. The assaulter is hospitalized and must undergo a liver transplant, an operation which only Sylvie Drapier can perform...
Le chef de gare
An unorthodox police commissioner investigates the suspicious death of a man run over by a train.