La concierge
Désiré Landru - husband, lover - and murderer. Based on documented facts, this is the full story of one of the most ambiguous criminals and lovers of the 20th century, the first modern serial killer.
Fernanda, la bonne
La brillante y espontánea Louise deja su pequeña casa de campo en Le Mans para visitar a su estirada hermana en París. Las vidas de las dos hermanas parecen mapped out: una vida anodina para Louise, con un hombre del que está perdidamente enamorada; una agitada vida social para Martine, casada con un hombre al que cariñosamente detesta. Louise ha escrito una novela y ha ido a París para reunirse con un editor que pretende publicar su libro. El hecho de ver a su hermana como una escritora de éxito y tres días de lágrimas, risas, recuerdos y recriminaciones entre las dos hermanas hacen que el mundo de Martina se derrumbe a su alrededor.
Concierge
This French-German-Belgian thriller, reminiscent of Misery (1990) and The Collector (1965), begins after Fred Astaire-fan Clement (Jean Rochefort) invites comic-book artist Luc (Guillaume Canet) to Sunday dinner with Clement and his wife Violette. Luc's girlfriend Margot announces her pregnancy, prompting Luc to forget about the invitation, but Clement insists that Luc join him. After Luc arrives and sees that Violette is only a life-size plastic doll, he decides to leave but gets clobbered on the head. Awakening, he finds he's been handcuffed to the bathroom sink and gagged. Cruelties ensue, with crazed Clement getting visionary advice from both Astaire and Violette. Award-winning composer-arranger-orchestrator Philippe Haim made his feature directorial debut with this drama, and music is very much a part of the film from Haim's score and music-box melodies to tap dancing, honky-tonk piano, and a full musical comedy production number.
In Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research. He's a coward, as is his debonair son, Armand, who has one daughter, Philippine. On her eighth birthday, Armand picks her up from her repressive boarding school and takes her to Fernand's to celebrate. Father and son quarrel, and Armand leaves, only to be arrested and shot for violating curfew. In grief, the curmudgeonly Fernand does not tell Philippine, but invents a life for Armand as a captain of the Resistance. Fernand takes her from school to live with him and his sensible wife. Along the way, Philippine finds out the truth and Fernand discovers courage.
Nanon
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.
Clémence
Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.
Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother's leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?
Monique Zimmer
Monique Zimmer, in her sixties, killed her lover, Oscar Foulard, cut up the body of the corpse, and is now walking with a suitcase containing Oscar's trunk. This one continues to speak, and comes to testify during the trial of his widow.
Minette
Photographer Maurice Martin turns into a woman named Héloïse every night at 8 p.m.
En un lujoso piso de París, Roger, de diez años, vive rodeado de mujeres, su bisabuela, su abuela y su madre. Desea una presencia masculina, que se concreta en un hombre enamorado de su madre...
Raimonde de Rols
Aldea de Artigat, sur de Francia, verano de 1542, durante el reinado de Francisco I. Martin Guerre y Bertrande de Rols contraen matrimonio. Pocos años más tarde, acusado de haber cometido un robo, Martin desaparece repentinamente. Cuando, casi una década después, un hombre llega a Artigat diciendo ser Martin, la familia Guerre le reconoce como tal; pero pronto empiezan a surgir dudas sobre su verdadera identidad.
Mme Chapon
Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects but when she realizes gangsters are looking for Victor she will put her life at risk to help him and save their family.
Madame Doullens
Película que narra las relaciones entre una joven "lolita" de 14 años y su padrastro, tras la muerte accidental de la madre. Estrenada en el Festival de Cannes, no estuvo exenta de polémica, más que por su escenas eróticas, por la corta edad del personaje protagonista. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jacquot's Mother / Concierge
Durante la ocupación de París por las tropas alemanas, un grupo de actores trata de sacar adelante una obra de teatro. Nadie sospecha que, en el sótano del edificio, se oculta el director del grupo, un hombre de origen judío que desde su escondrijo dirige la obra a través de las indicaciones que da a su mujer, que es la protagonista.
L'infirmière de nuit
Following a recent divorce, Hélène Gallois (Florence Giorgetti), a well-known writer, meets Edouard Fournier (Renaud Verley) in a specialized clinic where she is being treated. A kind of friendship is formed between them which evolves very quickly towards a sexual complicity ...
