Alain Térouanne

An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.

Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.

プラスティック工場のオーナー社長（J＝P・ゾラ）の超モダンな邸宅をその息子（A・ベクール）は全く気に入っておらず、度々、伯父さんの住む下町を訪ねる。両親は息子を取られたようで面白くなく、独身の伯父さんに嫁を押しつけるべくパーティを催すが、これを無意識に彼がぶち壊しにしてしまうのは言わずもがな。社長は兄に社会性を備えさせようと自分の工場に雇うが、ここでも失敗ばかりの彼は奇妙なパイプを大量生産してしまう。呆れた社長はこの暢気な兄貴を地方支店に転任させることにしたが、これにも飄然と応じて伯父さんは懐かしの町を去って行くのだった……。