Pierre-André Bertrand

Un poeta ve que se acerca la hora de su muerte y decide hacer balance de su vida y de su obra. Entre sueños de inmortalidad y ansias de renacimiento, irá desfilando una serie de surrealistas personajes que darán lugar a un preciso análisis de la inspiración, las fobias y las obsesiones del artista. Parte final de la trilogía órfica de Jean Cocteau: La sangre de un poeta (1932), Orfeo (1950) y El testamento de Orfeo (1960).

Una mujer burguesa está casada con un hombre respetable y además, tiene un amante español que es jugador de polo. Sin embargo, su vida le parece tediosa. De repente, un día, volviendo desde París a su casa de campo, se le estropea el coche, pero consigue llegar a su casa gracias a la ayuda de una joven. Este breve encuentro la hará recapacitar y plantearse la posibilidad de comenzar una nueva vida.

Jacques Decrey, un industrial, descubre que su esposa Gloria tiene un amante. Haciéndose pasar por un hombre llamado Berthier, él la chantajea. Después de un tiempo, Decrey decide hacer ver que Yves Normand, un joven actor desempleado y amante de Gloria, es el chantajista. Pero al hacerlo, ha desatado una máquina infernal...

Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.

The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South American whose suicide would mean the collapse of the company. Finally, the accountant discovers an attempted insurance scam and marries the surly and charming interpreter who was the liaison between the South American and himself.

Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.

Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate in Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts. He becomes embroiled in a bizarre web of intrigue and discovers no shortage of possible murder suspects, all of whom appear to be surprised to see him still alive.

The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.

In a freshwater pond, it's "eat or be eaten." A dragonfly larva eats a midge; a water beetle larva eats a damselfly larva. Snail larvae grow. A beetle larva eats one. Up close, we see the eating apparatus of a damselfly larva—with a retractable hook beneath mandibles. Some creatures bite and chew, others suck. A water beetle larva holds on to its prey, injects a poison that turns the victim's insides to soup, and then sucks it dry. We watch one eat a damselfly larvae and then another water beetle larva. Some have ingenious ways to camouflage themselves, like the water scorpion, and to breathe air while hunting under water. Caddisfly larvae hide in debris, then eat.