Ministre de l'Education
With the President of the Republic very ill, an advisor offers an unusual suggestion: hire a double to replace him during his convalescence. The lucky chosen one is a member of the Comédie-Française but he is also shy, unexciting and often consigned to the supporting role...But a seismic change is about to happen in the Republic.
Cornélie
"Berthe Morisot, una joven pintora, descubre en una galería el cuadro Olympia de Manet. Pronto se reúne con Édouard Manet y éste se interesa por la joven aprendiz de artista cuya cara le inspira."
Edmond no es como los demás. Cuando sus compañeros de trabajo se burlan de él colocándole un gorro de asno, de pronto Edmond tiene la revelación de su verdadera naturaleza y parece que se siente a gusto con su nueva identidad. Aunque ello marque aún más la distancia entre él y los demás. Franck Dion nos cuenta con delicadeza la historia enternecedora de este tierno marginal, y aborda el tema de la dificultad de ser uno mismo frente al conformismo social. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jeanne
August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their family, some are searching their childhood, some want to escape boredom or eventually searching for love. They are all bearing the fact that these moments they are sharing are maybe the last ones.
La mère de Jeanne
Jeanne (Isild Le Besco), una joven actriz que lucha y se esfuerza por conseguir un papel, mantiene relaciones esporádicas y poco satisfactorias. Pero lo que más le preocupa e incluso obsesiona es no conocer a su padre; lo único que sabe es que su madre tuvo una relación con un indio. Decide entonces ir a la India a buscarlo con un nombre como única pista
Dominique Verdier
When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
Luce Bauer
In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In 1962, exiled on Hatray cruises and feeling the coming death, Alex decides to compose for his love a testament: the photographic report of his agony.
Georgette Petiot
A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petiot (Michel Serrault) offered to help Jews escape the Nazis. They would come to his house, and he would kindly give them lethal "vaccinations" for their anticipated travel to Argentina. Then he would steal everything the brought with them (in addition to their up-front payment to him) and burn their bodies in his home-made crematorium.
Mrs. Griffith
Italia, principios del siglo XX. Tras la quiebra de la cantera familiar, los hermanos Nicola y Andrea emigran a América en busca de fortuna. Los dos acaban trabajando en Hollywood, construyendo decorados para el famoso cineasta D. W. Griffith, y se casan con dos bellas actrices. Pero cuando estalla la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), Nicola y Andrea lucharán en bandos opuestos.
Tante Marguerite
La película describe el despertar sexual y las aventuras de un adolescente Roger durante la época del estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Fabian Cortés, un músico latinoamericano, virtuoso del bandoneón, desaparece de su casa parisina donde vive desde hace doce años. Su mujer, Danielle, una joven abogada, decide avisar a la policía tras una investigación infructuosa. Unos días después, Fabián reaparece sin dar ninguna explicación.
Frédérique
A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
La femme de Joseph
In 1859, Savoy Alps, Joseph is a peddler who leaves his mountain village to travel through Northern Italy to sell cotton, thread, lace and trinkets. His road will be strewn with pitfalls and encounters, sometimes funny, sometimes pathetic.
En 1919, tres jóvenes pasan sus vacaciones en el castillo de un amigo. Los cuatro serán protagonistas de diversas historias que, inevitablemente, acabarán entrelazándose.
Mireille
La historia de Albert Spaggiari, cerebro de uno de los mayores robos a un banco de la historia moderna, cuando unos cuantos hombres y él entarron por las alcantarillas en la Société Général de Niza y robaron 60 millones de francos. (FILMAFFINITY)
La fille du maire
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
The first verse of an elegy by Louise Labbé, a Lyon poetess, the subject of an unfinished project.
Two beings, a man and a woman, coming from elsewhere, find themselves in a church in ruins after all life on Earth has disappeared.
