François, un joven poeta, participa en las revueltas de Mayo del 68, en París. Entre la bruma y la confusión, ve a la bella Lilie, a la que conocerá, un año después, en una fiesta en casa de un amigo. Entre ellos nacerá un amor intenso y tierno que hará revivir la ilusión tras el desencanto de la revolución perdida. El sexo, la poesía, el opio, la pintura y la escultura, serán los nuevos territorios frecuentados por el grupo de jóvenes revolucionarios que verán cómo el mundo que habían querido construir se irá desmoronando poco a poco.
Monsieur Badurain
After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.
Rose Bonbon, a small singer of light variety with a naughty and colorful imagination, is in the glue with Roger, a characterful brute who thinks he is a manager. Between shabby hotels and cheap restaurants, she meets the handsome Dubel, an impresario on the sidelines. He hires Rose at the drop of a hat because he has to replace Hermine Zibeline for a tour in the Paris region with the famous Billie Boys from Broadway.
Vincent and Olivier have an intense, rocky relationship: Vincent evades tenderness, just as he does desire, forcing the couple to hunt for a third partner to participate in their sexual games. Olivier has a background in the theater. He believes in, but is preoccupied by their relationship; he wants to free Vincent from the ghosts haunting him. But Vincent is locked into the past. His father, a pilot, was killed in a plane accident. Vincent’s job is a strange, uncommon one that plunges him deep into contemplation from which no one can make him budge: he deciphers plane disaster recordings. Vincent’s unconscious repression is so powerful that he hasn’t even recognized the link between his father’s death and his work. It will take the stormy encounter with Olivier for Vincent to obtain his ‘black box.’ Indeed, the two young men come to life through their connection with each other, a connection which shatters the framework of typical love stories.
M. Guilloux
Bruno Sachs es un médico de pueblo que atiende en su consulta todo tipo de enfermedades, incluso psicológicas. En el pueblo sólo hay otro médico, que es mayor que él, y al que manda algunos pacientes. Además, Sachs es cirujano y, con motivo de una operación, conocerá a una mujer capaz de sacarlo de la mediocridad espiritual.
Maître Becquard
Durante los últimos meses de la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un hombre decide convertirse en héroe de un conflicto en el que no ha participado. Para ello, se inventa una vida admirable, más viva y rica que la suya, falsificando papeles y urdiendo artimañas que le presentan ante las autoridades francesas como un activo miembro de la Resistencia
Marco Ricardi
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.
Faber
Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station. She got a raw deal when she was a child.
While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is what it seems. Brandon is not what he appears...
Doctor
Gérard de Nerval vuelve a la vida un siglo más tarde de su muerte y se encuentra un París donde todo ha cambiado, donde el extraño es perseguido por la policía y donde nadie puede encontrar su identidad. Al final, en una gran manifestación todo parece volver a su cauce, pero quién sabe si todo es un espejismo.
Eugene Atget
Meet France’s mysterious master of photography, neglected in his own lifetime but since feted for helping position the medium as an art form, and as an inspiration to surrealists. This meditative Arts Council documentary introduces Eugène Atget, a former actor who began to document the streets of old Paris from the 1890s. Little is known about his early life and the three decades he spent capturing, in eerie tableaux, urban spaces since lost to progress. The film includes dramatised scenes from his life, including his belated ‘discovery’ by American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, who published many of Atget’s works after his death in 1927.
Dr. Saxe
In a village located in the central French region of Sologne, a young girl notes the negative effects of urbanization on her environment; then she imagines the appearance of the Ampélopède, a strange creature living in the woods.