Bernard Lorain

울면서 가는 곳, 프랑스 최북단 ‘슈티’?! 매일 바쁜 도시, 지긋지긋한 직장생활, 우울증에 걸린 아내… 우체국장 ‘필립’은 사랑하는 가족을 위해 따뜻하고 여유로운 남부 프랑스로 전근을 계획한다. 하지만, 그가 발령받은 곳은 프랑스 최북단, 일명 ‘슈티’라 불리는 시골 ‘베르그’ 혹독한 추위와 알코올에 중독된 사람들, 알아듣지 못할 방언 때문에 모두가 꺼리는 곳이다. 결국, 기러기 가장이 되기로 결심한 '필립'은 홀로 끔찍한 슈티로 향하는데… 일상에 지친 당신, ‘슈티’에 오신 것을 환영합니다! 마침내 슈티에 도착한 '필립' 생각보다 화창한 날씨와 낮술을 즐기는 여유로운 사람들, 유쾌하고 따뜻한 마을 분위기와 독특하지만 정감있는 방언까지... '필립'은 처음의 날 선 자세가 무색하게 슈티 생활에 재미를 느끼기 시작한다. 이제 남은 일은 슈티에 대한 아내의 오해를 풀어주는 것인데... 지금! 낮술처럼 유쾌한 행복이 시작된다! '슈티(Ch'tis)'란? 프랑스 북부 지역과 그 곳에 사는 사람들, 그들이 사용하는 사투리 등을 통칭하는 단어이다. 특히 이 지역의 언어는 '슈티 프랑스어(Ch'tis-French)' 사전이 존재할 정도로 프랑스 표준어와 많은 차이가 있다.

2차 세계대전 직후 프랑스 작은 기숙사 학교. 토요일마다 하염없이 아빠를 기다리는 전쟁고아 페피노, 엄마의 관심을 끌기 위해 말썽을 일으키는 모항주. 돌아갈 곳 없이 쓸쓸한 여름방학을 보내는 아이들의 학교에 미완성의 악보를 든 마티유가 임시직 교사로 부임해온다. 마티유는 강한 체벌로 다스리는 교장에 맞서 아이들의 닫힌 마음을 열기 위해 포기했던 음악을 작곡하고, 노래를 가르친다. 점차 아이들의 하모니가 교내에 울려 퍼지면서, 모항주는 놀라운 음악적 재능을 드러내고, 페피노는 마음의 보금자리를 교문 밖에서 마티유 옆 교탁으로 옮기게 된다. 하지만,문제소년 몽당의 전학으로 기숙학교는 예기치 못한 사건의 소용돌이에 휘말리게 되는데......

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?

Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It seems that he has dallied with a book-dealer (her nemesis) who ultimately does not propose as much of a threat to the disillusioned saleswoman as a certain actress. Along with these three are several other females who interact with the main protagonists. Set up more in the manner of a stage play with changing scenes and acts.

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.

In this routine drama, two men (a crass Brit and a slow Frenchman) decide to evade the war in 1917, but their flight on a stolen boat goes awry and they end up on the coast of France, close to the fighting they wanted to leave behind. Once on shore, they make the acquaintance of a like-minded young widow who begins an affair with both men (she just wants to have a child by each) -- but their unusually idyllic existence is threatened with imminent tragedy as the French army advances ever closer.

Although there are women in the lives of the three main protagonists -- a middle-aged architect, his construction designer, and a journalist -- the women are not as crucial to the men's search for an identity as the title might suggest. When the three men run into a former professor of the architect and designer, they are inspired by his fanfare and expansive nature. Still in search of solutions to their particular problems, the men head out to visit the professor and get to the bottom of their own issues. Unfortunately, the professor turns out to be more "loco" than otherwise, and the three men watch their hopes burst like a popped balloon -- it seems like their ability to assess human character should now be added to their list of problem spots.

Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.

The friends who attended the same boarding school meet and take turns telling their recent romantic experiences. These turn out to be as varied as they are crisp, from the initiation of a student by a teacher to the misunderstanding in the company of a lord, through the false English but true seducer, the swimmer obsessed with his physical condition and, obviously, love in a group (Le Chat Qui Fume).

1930. Adelaide is fed up with Paris and founds a 'retreat' for her women friends in a Breton port. They live well and take their pleasure seriously, until the attractive sailor Thomas arrives and nothing is ever the same again.