Clarisse, la mère de Lili
Marseille, July 1905. Nearly a teenager, Marcel Pagnol embarks in his last summer vacation before high school and returns, at last, to his beloved hills in Provence. What begins as a summer of boyhood adventures becomes one of the first loves, and unearthed secrets.
Femme danse africaine
A man in his mid 30's reevaluates his life and priorities after he met someone from his past.
La serveuse du restaurant
A modern remake of Renoir's classic film. Aix-en-Provence, a spring night. Christian Lespinglet, an over-indebted gallery owner, rescues a homeless man, Boudu, from the waters of a canal who was trying to drown himself. Heroic to his detriment, he brings him home, for a few hours only... The incongruous arrival of Boudu will act like a mad dog in the game of skittles that is Christian's life...
Betty
強引な捜査が災いしてとうとう謹慎処分を言い渡されてしまった問題刑事ユベール。そんな折り、彼が唯一愛した女性ミコの急死が伝えられる。19年ぶりに日本を訪れたユベールは、そこで弁護士から遺産相続人が20歳になるまでの後見人に指定されていることを告げられる。その相続人とは、あと2日で20歳を迎える、ミコのひとり娘ユミで、彼女はユベールの実の娘でもあったのだ。しかも、ユミに残された遺産は2億ドル。ミコの死因には不審な点があり、周囲には怪しげな男たちの影。突然の事態に父親と名乗り出ることもできないまま、二人は行動を共にする。
Tina
In this French drama, a teenager falls into a life of crime, little realizing the consequences. S. is a moody young man who loses his job at a bakery, and decides to throw in his lot with a group of thieves about the same age as himself. S. and his cronies are strictly small-timers, pulling off second-rate break-ins for an older crime boss, but his willingness to do what he's told helps him rise up the ladder to bigger and more lucrative jobs. However, S. lacks the maturity or experience to deal with the risks, and after a few disastrous mistakes, he finds his fortunes sinking far faster than they rose.
Soeurette
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
