Berengere Dominguez

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux and they change apartments. Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning. The next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room and all evidence of her life has been deleted.

ソビエト連邦崩壊前のウクライナに生まれ、少年時代に家族とともにアメリカに渡ったユーリー・オルロフ。ニューヨークで両親が開店したレストランで働くユーリーはある時、ギャング同士の銃撃戦を目撃したことをきっかけに、弟のヴィタリーと２人で武器売買の事業を始める。危険と隣り合わせの裏社会で天性の才覚を発揮し、世界有数の武器商人へと成長していくユーリー。しかし、そんな彼にインターポールのバレンタイン刑事が迫ってゆく。

“池の底”という名の寄宿舎に赴任した音楽教師マチュー。さまざまな家庭の事情で集団生活をする子供たちに歌う喜びを教えるため、マチューは合唱団を結成する。幅広い年代におすすめの秀作。