Georges Leclerc

Commandant Gardefort, horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time until then, he buys a mare, Milady, and in two years trains her to the highest dressage haute ecole standards. But he finds himself in dire financial straits over his divorce, and is obliged to sell the mare. She is bought by a rich Belgian banker, who transforms Milady into a circus horse. Visiting him, Gardefort resolves the situation in the only way he sees fit.

Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, "The Electric Floor Polisher," is an opera-like story of a woman who is obsessed with polishing her floors. Part Three is a musical interlude featuring Jeanne Moreau singing "When Love Dies." Part Four, "The Virtue of Tolerance," concerns an old man, his young wife, and how they come to terms when she has an affair with a man her own age.

Dos jóvenes militantes se reúnen en un estudio de televisión desierto y comienzan a discutir sobre ideas cinematográficas radicales. Son Émile, en tataranieto de Jean-Jacques Rousseau y Patricia, una hija de la Revolución Cultural. Están de acuerdo en que el cine debe reinventarse para sobrevivir, debe volver hasta sus orígenes y volver a empezar desde el principio, usando el sonido y la imagen en una manera radicalmente distinta. (FILMAFFINITY)

Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to the New Testament, the daughter of Herodias demanded and received the head of John the Baptist. This is a choreographed version of the play by Oscar Wilde.

Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with plenty of unresolved anger. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him. Having just moved there with his beautiful girlfriend, he begins to feel the pressure. When the May Day revolt begins, he goes crazy.

In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.

Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a large abandoned villa. One day, a group of people from another time, come in. The villa and the nature around become the theater of strange phenomena…

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.

En junio de 1940, en un campo de prisioneros del nordeste de Francia, tres soldados planean escapar y volver a la vida normal. Son un cabo de clase media, un intelectual miope y un obrero. Después del fracaso de su primer intento de fuga, volverán a intentarlo una y otra vez. (FILMAFFINITY)

Además de candidato a la presidencia de Europa, Etienne Alexis es un científico que trabaja en la inseminación artificial como método para mejorar las relaciones sociales y realiza terapias para eliminar la pasión. Comprometido con una condesa, Etienne desea celebrarlo con un picnic. El sonido de la flauta de un pastor en el templo de la diosa Diana, provoca un impetuoso viento que libera la pasión de los personajes y destruye el orden establecido. Así, Alexis, en contra de sus principios se fuga con la campesina Nénette.

'El testamento del doctor Cordelier' está basada en la novela, de Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. La intriga que se presenta está dirigida por el director Jean Reinor. El doctor Cordelier, interpretado por Jean-Louis Barrault, un famoso psiquiatra, le confía a Maitre Joly, su abogado, un testamento a favor de Opale, un individuo siniestro, sádico y asesino. Cordelier presenta a Opale como un paciente al que le cuenta sus experiencias, pero pronto sabremos que Opale y Cordelier no son lo que parece.