Paula's father
Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. The Internet site “L’âme-sœur” is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis...
Fourcade
Maurice (Michel Piccoli) es compositor, y un viejo miembro de la resistencia. Por azar, comparte casa con una adolescente que, también por azar, es su nieta. Claire, a sus 17 años, está impaciente por vivir toda clase de cosas y cuanto antes mejor, y se rebela ante cualquiera que quiera impedírselo. Entre las competiciones de natación y los primeros encuentros cercanos con los chicos, pasa su vida, acogida por su abuelo después de haberse quedado huérfana. Pero esta convivencia es difícil: ambos se evitan por los recovecos de una gran casa, escapándose por las ventanas si es necesario, para vivir en las estancias que les cede ese ente invisible que es su incomprensión mutua. Y, sin embargo, tienen algo en común: ambos son insurrectos a su manera, sólo que uno de vuelta de todo y la otra apenas emprendiendo el camino de ida.
Papa Allegre
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
Doctor
En un accidente de coche, Julie pierde a su esposo Patrice, un prestigioso compositor, y a la hija de ambos, Anna. Al recuperarse de sus lesiones, Julie decide comenzar una nueva vida, independiente, solitaria y anónima, alejada de los privilegios que antes disfrutaba. En su propósito se cruza Sandrine, una periodista especializada en música que la persigue intentando probar que era Julie quien componía las piezas que hicieron famoso a su marido. También pretenderá entrar en su vida Olivier, el ayudante de Patrice, enamorado de Julie desde muchos años atrás, que la convence para terminar el «Concierto para Europa», una ambiciosa obra inacabada del músico.
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.
Véronique's Father
Weronika vive en Polonia y tiene una brillante carrera como cantante, pero padece una grave dolencia cardíaca. En Francia, a más de mil kilómetros, vive Véronique, otra joven idéntica que guarda muchas similitudes vitales con ella, como su enfermedad y su gran pasión por la música. Ambas, a pesar de la distancia y de no tener aparentemente ninguna relación, son capaces de sentir que no están solas.
Lesterlin
Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.
Jacobi
In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for their gardens. These were actual people who were willing to live in squalid conditions and serve as something like museum exhibits for the amusement of the wealthy. This movie takes that notion and transfers it to 18th century France. In the story, an English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.
Vicar
Durante cuatro años, Beatrice espera el regreso de su padre y de su hermano, que han caído prisioneros en la batalla de Crecy (1346). Durante su ausencia, ha tenido que luchar para conservar las propiedades de la familia. Cuando regresa su padre, convertido en un rebelde que se opone al orden establecido, Beatrice le demostrará su fortaleza moral.
