Éva Ionesco

Recently widowed fifty-something Margaux looks to start chapter two. Moving in with her sister, she re-enrolls at university for pursuits she’d never realized. However, Margaux begins to experience another kind of awakening, the compulsions of which begin to take over.

París, Francia, 1979. Rose, una rebelde huérfana adolescente, y Michel, un joven aspirante a pintor, disfrutan de su loco amor bajo las luces de neón del decadente club nocturno Le Palace, donde establecen una ambigua relación con Lucille y Hubert, dos burgueses bohemios que cambiarán sus vidas.

París, Francia, 1979. Rose, una rebelde huérfana adolescente, y Michel, un joven aspirante a pintor, disfrutan de su loco amor bajo las luces de neón del decadente club nocturno Le Palace, donde establecen una ambigua relación con Lucille y Hubert, dos burgueses bohemios que cambiarán sus vidas.

Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her passion for ornithology. As she wanders the twisted shores, observing birds and people alike, Louise also keeps track of old Florelle, another broken soul who searches the beaches, seemingly waiting for the crashing waves to return something to her. Observing the locals' reactions to Lambert's return, the heir of a family lost at sea, Louise is intrigued by his past but, at the same time, attracted to him. As their relationship deepens, they start to unravel the web of secrets that have haunted the small village for decades. Together, they struggle to uncover the truth that could set them both free.

Violetta es una niña de 10 años que vive con su abuela en un pequeño apartamento. Hannah, su madre, es una fotógrafa impredecible que vive con Ernst, mecenas y renombrado pintor. Un día, Hannah fuerza a Violetta a posar como modelo. La fama de esas fotos crece rápidamente en la comunidad artística parisina de los 70 y Violetta entra en el juego. Entre su ascenso como estrella provocativa y su aburrida existencia como niña precoz, su cuento de hadas se convertirá finalmente en un infierno.

Violetta es una niña de 10 años que vive con su abuela en un pequeño apartamento. Hannah, su madre, es una fotógrafa impredecible que vive con Ernst, mecenas y renombrado pintor. Un día, Hannah fuerza a Violetta a posar como modelo. La fama de esas fotos crece rápidamente en la comunidad artística parisina de los 70 y Violetta entra en el juego. Entre su ascenso como estrella provocativa y su aburrida existencia como niña precoz, su cuento de hadas se convertirá finalmente en un infierno.

Muinski, a dealer, lives at night in an old, mysterious project. He's accompanied by Tô, an Asian man who is dying. Tired and lacking clients, Muinski wants to shut down his business and to set up a bookstore. But he starts receiving strange packets containing black powder, an unknown drug... He tries it. One night, he invites a few friends over for a party, at the end of which his life takes a sudden turn. Under the influence of the drug, Muinski commits an irreparable crime. But things aren't as clear-cut as they seem.

He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, mayor of a small provincial city, madly in love with his wife, an interfering father and provocative son. This man is driven by an obsession with his family. Which leads him to test the force and fragility of these bonds.

A young woman travels to Moscow, speaking with the people she meets of the region's recent past.

Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having some familial, financial difficulties. But the girl is a junkie too.

Kate screams, burns, kisses furiously. But the times are tepid, the music "cold," and Kate can no longer come. Until Julien, who died ten years ago, gives her pleasure again.

Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.

Alberte has a passionate affair with Mathias, her doctor. He treats her under narcoanalysis to be able to detect a deeper symptom. He enters her without her knowing it and takes possession of his being in order to read what is chasing him, why people blame him, what is the strange disease that inhabits him.

Alberte has a passionate affair with Mathias, her doctor. He treats her under narcoanalysis to be able to detect a deeper symptom. He enters her without her knowing it and takes possession of his being in order to read what is chasing him, why people blame him, what is the strange disease that inhabits him.

Alberte has a passionate affair with Mathias, her doctor. He treats her under narcoanalysis to be able to detect a deeper symptom. He enters her without her knowing it and takes possession of his being in order to read what is chasing him, why people blame him, what is the strange disease that inhabits him.

A budding electronica artist gives up his shot at stardom to pursue a woman from a telephone dating network.

Glamorous theater actress, Diane de Montalte, finds it difficult to accept that her 23-year- old gay, live-in son, Marc, wishes to live a more low-key life. While Marc travels frequently from Paris to Marrakesh to visit his lover, Dionys, Diane begins a casual relationship with the only somewhat dashing Roland.

Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of the the government's bureau, is determined to entrap him. She asks her secret lover, Jacques Loriot, an expert player in the casinos, for help.

The story of Le Palace, the famous parisian night club in the late seventies. The documentary is a conversation between ex-clients, founders and workers of the place. Owned by Fabrice Emaer, this nightclub became in 1978 the center of the french social life.

"Nocturnes at the Golden Gate" - invites us to discover the world and work of Irina Ionesco, a unique figure of contemporary photography. Since the early 70's, she photographer has been working in her apartment near the Porte Dorée, in Paris, principally with the female body. Scraps from the past and elements of the present come together to evoke the coherence and multiple meanings of Irina's baroque universe : the solitude of her Romanian childhood ; her youthful debut in the music hall ; her relationships with her models and her way of building images. Little by little, her work is illuminated and takes on different vibrations, though we have never left the apartment : her workspace, temple and museum.

Un tímido experto informático cae enamorado de una bella compañera mientras intenta convertirse en director de cine. Cinco años después, ellos tienen dos hijos, ella se ha convertido en una ejecutiva de éxito, mientras que la carrera de él no va a ninguna parte, y su relación está llegando a su fin.

Federica (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) es rica, demasiado rica. Esto que a priori no sería un problema para ninguno de los mortales, para ella es una gran carga y un enorme lastre para poder vivir su vida. Si a esto le unimos las presiones de su novio para crear una familia, la vuelta inesperada de un antiguo amante, y sus conflictos familiares, el resultado es una vida completamente desestabilizada. Para poder soportar la rutina diaria, Federica busca consuelo en lo imaginario: sueños donde la realidad se vuelve perfecta y maravillosa. (FILMAFFINITY)

Jean-Pierre (Jacques Villeret), un attaché humanitaire qui travaille au ministère des Affaires Etrangères, accepte de reconduire un jeune clandestin (Lorant Deutsch) dans son pays d'origine. Celui-ci appartient à la tribu des Hommes Gris d'Irghiz, réfugiés depuis la préhistoire dans une cité interdite du Haut Atlas.

Two women, angry Myope and happy Lunette (both played by Franssou Prenant), bounce ideas off each other in a small apartment, until Lunette fashions a story about Agathe (Cecile Garcia Fogel) and her husband Pierrot (Manuel Cedron), a one-time musician who now teaches gym. While the two love each other, they cannot communicate without quarreling.

Nicolás (Nico Tarielashvili) es un joven de clase alta que prefiere pasar los días deambulando de aquí para allá por los barrios de la ciudad, apartado de la lujosa casa de campo de sus padres y en compañía de sus amigos gamberros, vagabundos, etc. Sin embargo, en uno de sus escarceos termina en la cárcel, episodio tras el cual será recogido por su familia y devuelto a su verdadero ambiente, un destino que deberá finalmente ir aceptando tras su paseo por el lado menos amable de la vida.

A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.

The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really let himself go. Though a successful writer, and supposedly working on a book about 'regret,' he is barely functioning. He can't sleep at night. During the day he is easily distracted, irresponsible and moody. He also ignores his patient live-in lover Aliette who has stuck by him for 10 years. As he mopes through another day, he gets into several awkward occasions. One of his students, Florence tells him off in a café. A young woman, Catherine hears this and afterward introduces herself as a fan. Later he decides to find her address and visit her apartment. There Abel meets Catherine's roommate Aurore and the former's jealous boyfriend Bruno for a tense scene. He is returning home when Abel encounters his brother's former lover Olga and this creates more awkwardness.

After raising her daughter, one would think that Julie's life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission in Pondicherry, India to teach her skills to Indians. She can only do this if she gets her high-school diploma, something she neglected to do earlier. The idea of this new post motivates her to rectify her youthful omission, and she goes back to school in Montparnasse. Just before classes are to start, her current boyfriend's condescending ways prove too much for her, and she breaks up with him, reacting to that by getting drunk. Thus, when she has to take the subway to school on the first day, being unfamiliar with the route and somewhat the worse for wear, she gets lost. Fortunately, she meets an elderly man, a retired musician for the Paris Opera, who is headed for the very same destination. The two form a relationship of mutual encouragement and support.

Tras el suicidio de una joven, amigos y familiares se reúnen con el fin de interrogarse sobre lo sucedido.

Serge and Yvette are on the verge of separating. Hervé and Irene are already separated. Serge will meet Irene and Yvette will meet Hervé. Chance will make them meet other characters.

Events of strange and serious nature mark the invention and the manufacture of the nylon stockings. For example inhuman exploitation of workers in artificial silk factories. The US army was a substantial promoter of the nylons.

The adventures of Monsieur, a polite young man who is brilliant at ping-pong, who lives with his fiancée's parents and who, pursued by a neighbor, tries to escape the world and people until the day he falls in love...

A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.

Elisa and Eric are two teenage war orphans. They change their apartment on the outskirts of the city into a photo-studio to make a living, and they are very devoted to it. The two seem to live like heavenly beings without connecting to the outside world. Their only contact with the exterior is through Jacques, a loyal friend, but he also cuts himself out of any social life. The sister and the brother then take to get in touch with the world by Mrs Jean, a friend of their deceased mother with whom Elisa takes courses of singing. They live in harmony until a young man, whom Elisa falls for, eventually leaves with Eric for the USA and left her brokenhearted alone in France.

Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild side of Paris nightlife.

On an island in the middle of the ocean, inhabited by men and women-frogs, Nora, a beautiful Russian spy, wants revenge for the betrayal of her lover, the artist Tibor.

A murder is committed in the building where Aurélia Maudru, inspector of the judicial police in charge of the investigation, lives.

In Marseilles, in a house of correction reserved for teenagers, it is the young Patricia who, by its authority and its force, imposed herself on all her classmates.

Un grupo de amigos intenta ligar con una chica, sin saber que es una prostituta. Ella concede sus favores al más ingenuo, que aún no se ha estrenado en las lides amorosas.

Laura y Fabrizio, una pareja de adolescentes, pasan el verano en la casa de verano familiar de uno de ellos. Juntos pasan el día en el bosque de los alrededores, disfrutando de la naturaleza y amándose. Pero la irrupción de Silvia provoca en Fabrizio un cambio de actitud en su relación con Laura.

Una nave atraviesa el cielo nocturno surgiendo de una espesa niebla. En su interior viajan Spermula y su corte de vampiras hermosas. Su misión es traer su mensaje de paz y libertad a un mundo que ha enloquecido. Estas mujeres, que se comunican mediante telepatía, un poder que también utilizan para atraer a los hombres a su círculo, se instalan en una gran mansión en la que van a tener como vecinos al alcalde de la ciudad, a su insatisfecha esposa, al ayudante del alcalde y a una viuda obesa y frustrada que desea incestuosamente a su ocioso hijo.

Un tímido conserje (Roman Polanski) se muda a una habitación, en la que una chica intentó suicidarse arrojándose por la ventana. A medida que pasa el tiempo, el nuevo inquilino empieza a temer que sus vecinos intenten provocar en él un estado de paranoia que lo induzca también a saltar por la ventana.