La mère de famille
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?
Madame Lacaze
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job, no qualifications, no prospects. Michel soon realises that the only way he is going to get another job is by first passing his baccalaureate. So, he goes back to school, with his friend Gérard, who is in the same position. Naturally, Michel’s son is not at all pleased to find himself in the same class as his dad...
Edith
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d’état is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Nestor's Mother
第二次大戦下のパリ。不実の罪の刑罰として前線に送られた、子供と動物をこよなく愛す無垢な男、アベル。すぐ捕虜となるが、その純朴さが上官に気に入られ、幼年学校に雇われる。そして未来のナチス兵士となる少年をスカウトして廻る事に生き甲斐を感じていくのだった。
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.
Mère Roler
文豪・フロベールの原作をイザベル・ユペール主演で映画化した文芸大作。往診に来た医師シャルル・ボヴァリーを一瞬にして虜にした美女エマは、やがて彼と結婚。だが平凡な毎日に飽きた彼女は姦通を重ね、身を滅ぼしていく。
The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.
Maité
A woman becomes trapped in the middle of a feud between two men while attempting to free her younger brother from a life of petty crime.
Suzan
In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ensues, and through happenstance, the murderer and the boy's mother form an alliance. All this takes place in four days during which the boy has his first communion, his separated parents face each other amidst grandmother's hopes they'll reunite, the grandfather just wants to go fishing, the school's chaplain complains about the boy's behavior, and the convicts' shared girlfriend comes, gun in hand, to help them escape to Tangier. The mother's surprising decisions complete the story.
