En la Vietnam colonial de 1929, una adolescente francesa, que vive con su madre y sus dos hermanas, conoce a un apuesto comerciante chino. A pesar de las tensiones que se viven en el sureste asiático y a la diferencia de edad entre ambos, pronto se convierten en amantes.
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
Narra las experiencias de un grupo de niños de diferente edad y condición que viven en la pequeña ciudad de Thiers. Patrick vive con su padre inválido y sueña con recibir su primer beso. Julien vive en un hogar pobre y desestabilizado; su madre es alcohólica y lo maltrata. Alrededor de estos dos personajes gira la vida de otros niños de una pequeña escuela francesa de provincias cuyas historias se irán conociendo durante el verano de 1976.
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
