Myriem Roussel

Céramique and Louis are a carefree and charming young couple. But soon the whims of love appear. They have to face up to it.

パリの小さなレストラン、小マルギュリー亭は閉店することになった。シェフのイポリットは妻のジョゼフィーヌと共に、最後の晩餐会を準備する。招待客は、息子で作家のバルナベ、その妻マリア、それと若い仲間たち。夫妻は1960年、このレストランを始めた頃のことを回想する。客たちもまた、このレストランでの思い出を語り始める……。

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.

4 young people are long time friends. They have a dinner together, which will turn into a mess when they play a game which consists in writing a vow on a little piece of paper to be put into a bottle: they love each other, but they are not able to transcend their loneliness and their selfishness.

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased father had invested a lot of money in a factory located in a remote village, and he has come to evaluate that investment. He gets some clues to the real situation in the town when the man driving his coach refuses to go any further and leaves him on a section of road which is practically paved with abandoned crutches. After a short trek, he meets up with the local dignitary who is to show him around, and he meets a priest and an artist. The priest gives a further clue to the events taking place in the village when he indicates that he's completely exasperated with the endless miracles that seem to be taking place. From that point onward, amazing coincidences, visions and miracles take place in great numbers.

The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown misdialing woman, he starts a restless search ...

The young noble Don Monza is caught and thrown out by the nun Virginia de Leva when she catches him flirting with one of her nun sisters across the stone wall between their gardens. He hears the rumor that she'd have an affair with her trustee - so he kills him in a set-up duel and aims to take his place. Against her initial resistance, Monza manages to win her heart - and to get into her bed. This doesn't stay a secret for long, but Monza, now in love, does everything to keep it going.

Ned, a petty criminal, falls into the trap laid by Frank, a sadistic cop who, after having beaten him, takes him home. But Frank's wife Lily helps Ned escape and they fall in love.

Hugo is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea, a sculptor. Bereft of inspiration for a follow-up, Hugo returns years later to rekindle the flame of romance and creativity. Lea soundly rejects him, and her student Prudence feels a burning hatred for the man who deserted the teacher she admires.

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

ゴダール版“カルメン”の映画化で彼自身も精神衰弱気味のカルメンの伯父役として登場している。物語は銀行強盗団の一人カルメンと、彼女を追っていた警察官との禁断の愛を描く。なおこの年“カルメン”の映画化が頻発したのは原作者ビゼーの著作権が切れたため。(allcinema)

Notes on the inception and making of Hail Mary.

スイスらしき村のスタジオで、ポーランド人監督のジェルジーやハンガリー出身のプロデューサー・ラズロらの撮影スタッフは、「パッション」という作品をビデオ撮影していた。その作品は、レンブラントやドラクロワの名画を、俳優たちに様々な扮装をさせたり裸でカメラの前で静止させたりして再現するというもの。だが、監督が光の具合に不満を露わにしてNGを連発したり、予算超過で製作中止の危機に陥っていた。ジェルジーは工場従業員のイザベルとホテルの女主人ハンナの間で揺れながら作品を完成させようと模索するが…。