Fr. Hartl
Christine (Sylvie Testud) es una mujer discapacitada que lleva casi toda la vida en una silla de ruedas. Para salir de su aislamiento, viaja a Lourdes, legendario lugar de peregrinaje en los Pirineos, buscando consuelo o quizá de un milagro. Una mañana se despierta y está curada. Parece un milagro. El jefe del grupo de peregrinos, un apuesto voluntario de la Orden de Malta, empieza a interesarse por ella. Por lo demás, la curación provoca en los demás tanto envidia como admiración. (FILMAFFINITY)
Old Lady in Park
Louis es un fotógrafo que intenta encontrar el modelo perfecto de Jesucristo. En su búsqueda conoce a Sybil, una joven encantadora que vivió un romance con un pianista que acaba de salir de la cárcel.
Natasie
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Gustave Flaubert. Emma Bovary es la insatisfecha mujer de un médico rural que ansía pertenecer a la alta sociedad francesa. Sus ambiciones y un apasionado affaire con un joven aristócrata la conducirán a una situación de trágicas consecuencias. La musa de Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, encarna a la fatal heroína.
La sacristaine
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.
Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as it has always done in life with strength, determination, and above all with humor. In his fight, it is supported by Ferdinand, his fiery lover and naive who is a journalist. In the hospital, treated by Prof. Tobman, deeply human doctor, she met a group of women, all living with the same bad but each following a different social environment. This group will become his new "family".
La Concierge
Una noche, Michel Gerfaut descubre a un herido dentro de un coche. Se lo lleva al hospital y se va sin hacer ninguna declaración. No duda en ningún momento de que acaba de meterse de lleno en una peligrosa conspiración destinada a eliminar uno por uno a los dirigentes de una empresa de armamento. Michel se convierte en un testigo que incomoda a algunos.
Mme Landais
El profesor Henry Laborit explica una teoría sobre el comportamiento humano por medio del estudio de tres historias que acontecen paralelamente: René (Gérard Depardieu), empleado en una industria textil, debe afrontar la posibilidad de ser despedido. Janine (Nicole García) es una actriz que, al descubrir que la mujer de su amante está gravemente enferma, decide que él debe estar a su lado en esos momentos. Jean (Roger Pierre) es un polifacético escritor y político que debe tomar una decisión que implica renunciar a su carrera.
Madame Guillaume
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.
Un cuarentón en paro se va a la aventura al sur de Francia, donde conocerá a una joven actriz.
Tras nueve años sin estrenar una película, Varda vuelve con un film feminista que narra la histora de dos amigas de vidas diferentes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Robert, alias Pierrot, es un huérfano que, tras escapar del reformatorio a los trece años, ha sido criado como un hijo por Felicia y León, jefe de una banda que se ha quedado paralítico al ser arrojado desde un tercer piso por sus rivales. En 1945, en plena postguerra, cuando la economía es un desastre y la propia policía se reorganiza a duras penas, Pierrot reúne a un grupo de amigos para organizar una banda. (FILMAFFINITY)
A mother
This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the resistance is simply a continuation of their prior activities. After the war, some of them continue to have a "resistance" mind-set. One of the stories concerns a love relationship between a Polish boy and a French girl who are thrown together because of their war efforts. After the war, they get together and reminisce.
The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
La mère de Rosette
Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.
La logeuse de Colin
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
Grocer (uncredited)
Marceau Léonetti, un oficial de policía enérgico y competente, arresta al hijo de un famoso abogado, que conducía bajo los efectos del alcohol. Pocos meses después, el abogado acusa falsamente al policía de ser un violento incompetente, como venganza por haber arrestado a su hijo. Como castigo, el policía es destinado a una pequeña comisaría de barrio, donde tendrá a una bella novata como compañera. Pronto, sus superiores tendrán que recurrir a él para que resuelva un complicado asunto .
Pierrette Dufour
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.
Soeur Saint-Jean
En el siglo XVIII Suzanne Simonin -Anna Karina- es obligada por su familia a entrar en el convento de Longchamp, donde la superiora De Moni -Micheline Presle- la convence para que tome los hábitos, pero a la muerte de ésta debe soportar la férrea disciplina de la Madre Sainte-Christine -Francine Bergé- y su afirmación de que está endemoniada.
Client of the Café de la Marine (uncredited)
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the rare kindness of strangers.
