Laurent Machuel

When Lili, 26 years old, poor, single mother of three, is wrongly accused of abuse and the social services take away her children, she collapses. But this is without counting on the luminous meeting of other women. With them, Lili fights to rebuild her family.

Gentle is a film set in modern-day South Vietnam and based on the short story 'A Gentle Creature' by the Russian novelist Dostoevsky.

“달리고 싶어요” 몸은 굳었지만 언제나 ‘도전’을 꿈꾸는 소년 줄리안. 또래 아이들처럼 달리고 싶었던 그는 아버지 폴에게 철인 3종 경기에 출전할 것을 제안한다. 하지만 가족을 포함한 모든 이들은 그의 무모한 도전을 허락하지 않고, 철인 3종 경기 위원회마저 장애인이라는 이유로 출전을 허가하지 않는다. 수영 3.8km, 자전거 180km, 마라톤42km… “우리에겐 정말 불가능일까요?” 꿈을 포기할 수 없었던 줄리안은 철인 경기 위원회에 직접 찾아가 일반인 철인 3종 경기에 출전할 수 있는 기회를 얻게 되고, 그의 강한 의지에 모든 이들의 마음이 움직이기 시작한다. 그리고… 세계 최강의 철인들 틈에서 줄리안과 폴의 아름다운 도전이 시작되는데…

Alice, an obsessed Woody Allen fan, meets Pierre in a night-club and falls in love with him. But when Pierre sees Alice's sister Hélène, things start to get complicated.

프랑스 최고 마피아 보스의 아들이지만 평범하게 살고 싶은 ‘안톤’. 조직 생활 청산을 결심한 ‘안톤’은 마지막으로 아버지의 뜻에 따라 막대한 현금 탈취 작전에 착수한다. 거액의 현금을 지키려는 경찰. 그리고 사랑하는 여자 ‘엘로디’를 제거하려는 아버지의 수하들. 그 모두의 눈을 피해 돈도, 사랑도 훔쳐내야 하는 ‘안톤’의 숨 막히는 추격전이 지금 시작된다.

Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman.

Jonas (Clément Sibony), a 23-year-old dad attempts to carry out an important Jewish tradition: burying the foreskin of his newly circumcised son. The forgetful father only has a few hours to complete the task... but have a group of hit men on his trail won't help matters much.

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.

A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.

When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their visit to Paris, the exuberent, well-meaning youth immediately offers his own abode. His classmates cheer and he feels happy until he broaches the subject with his parents. Daniel, the boy's father is delighted by his son's humanitarianism, but still says no. Not wanting to lose face at school, Tonin decides to take the visitor anyway and just keep him hidden for the next few weeks. This family-oriented French comedy follows his efforts to keep his new African guest, Moussa, a secret.

네 개의 에피소드로 구성된 영화는 20년간 집을 떠났던 한 남자의 귀향에 관한 에피소드로 시작하여, 두 번째는 유명한 소르본 대학의 인류학 교수가 하루 아침에 거지가 된 이야기, 세 번째는 젊은 커플을 돌봐주는 하인의 이야기, 네 번째는 거짓말로 인해 엄청난 덫에 걸리게 되는 한 비지니스맨의 이야기로 끝을 맺는다.

A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls in love with him. But there is also Gregoire's circle, his disturbing neighbour, his maybe crazy grandmother Diane, his former teacher Hugo. And this is mixed up with Sebastien's attempts to seduce Claire then her mother Anne. And also Claire's psychiatrist.