Serge Riaboukine

For the first time, Marie spends her holidays alone with her kids, without her husband. One evening, she is seduced by a strange and fascinating young man, who slowly set a trap for her. Then the night turns into a nightmare...

The love story between Jean, a great French writer and his/her young mistress Marie Louise, ends during a long break from which each emerges willy-nilly, until fate puts them face to face with one another. In one version of the film, the main couple is made up of a man and a woman, in the other version, two women.

Poor Bastards is a sketch film, written by twelve authors. Mirror or projection, poor bastards have fun with everyday facts and do not tell a story, but stories. Through these short and bitter stories, are revealed all the cracks of the human race, which, in a movement of globalization and neoliberalism more and more assertive, can lead the ordinary man to be a monster of cowardice, cruelty, indifference or hypocrisy. Poor bastards from an odd angle, transcribe reality provocatively or not, always with the same ambition: to react.

Twenty-five years after the assassination of her son Olivier in 1977, Nicole Parmentier asks for a meeting with Eric Gaubert who has just served his sentence for these acts.

Does one ever know who they’re living with? Lancelot’s life is thrown upside-down when he learns of the death of his wife. As he’s trying to cope with grief, he will have to confront the revelations made about his wife’s past.

상류층 출신의 카레이서 베네딕트를 만난 지노는 첫눈에 사랑에 빠져 열정적이고, 조건 없는, 격렬한 사랑을 한다. 지노는 잘생기고, 털털하고, 평범해 보이는 남자지만 베네딕트에게 털어놓을 수 없는 비밀이 있다. 자신과 주변 사람의 목숨을 모두 위험에 빠트릴 수 있는 그런 비밀. 과연 베네딕트와 지노는 과거를 뒤로하고 미래로 나아갈 수 있을까?

To finish his script, Jonas is ordered by his producer to work with a talented Parisian scriptwriter, whose arrival at his home effects his life in unimaginable ways.

A man's hypochondriacal relationship with his mother.

Ernest Krakenkrick and Bachir Bouzouk are about to become pilots in the French army. But after the bad consequences of a test undertaken with the centrifuge, they are forced to give up their dream. They are eventually given the position of baggage handler at Orly-West Airport in Paris. But one night, there is a hostage-taking in the airport and the "Moustachious", a group of terrorists, take hold of the control tower.

Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...

Young couple recently married. Soon a child comes. Perfect happiness. For their honeymoon, Emma and David chose a house in the forest. But the escapade turns to drama: attacked by a masked man, Emma escapes to death. For the police, no doubt, David is the No. 1 suspect: his strange refusal to cooperate, his unexplained absence at the time of the facts, the testimony of a neighbor, the fortune he would inherit ... Doubt interferes in the spirit of Emma. Does she really know the man she married?

Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop them, they decide to leave on tour to Los Angeles with its ashes. The day before the departure, a serviceman with a moustache appears as the lover of their friend. Their journey takes an at least unexpected tour ...

A French real estate developer prepares an old Romanian thermal resort for renovation. A Roman fresco in a crypt delays the project, so he tries to burn it down. But he locks himself in a courtyard by mistake. He stays trapped for days, the neighborhood being deserted. He tries communicating with the few remaining residents and changes from a civilized being to a beast, until finding new perspectives. Will he leave the courtyard, or not?

Arnaud Marescot has a penchant to steal small objects. When his compulsive fixation targets Emilie, and he thinks he's in control over her, it's already too late to realize he's fallen into a deadly trap.

Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He wakes up in the middle of a field without any memory at all of how he got there. Even stranger is the ugly scar on his back. But what really drives him out of his mind is that the stitches from the operation are still fresh. Has he become the victim of on organ theft? Is he missing a kidney? Pastor starts to put everything in Question; being a father, a husband, a salesman... The only thing he wants is to find out what has happened to him and nothing and nobody will stop him.

For some time the village was just sentenced to silence and dust. Not a soul out there, not even a noise. However this evening, something is moving again.

After a fifteen-year exile, Thomas come back home to bury his father, a Republican fighter thrown in jail by Franco's regime who died without ever regaining his freedom.

The overexcited night of a young pinched painter and a crazy comedienne. In the impossibility to end up alone, Laetitia and Thomas cross every situation between drama and lightness, until a violent event marks their meeting of a strange complicity.

An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.

불량 경찰 빈센트는 자신의 파트너 마누엘과 함께 돈을 노리고 마르시아노가 이끄는 거대한 범죄 조직의 마약을 탈취한다. 그러나 그 과정에서 빈센트의 얼굴이 노출되고 마르시아노는 빈센트의 아들을 납치, 마약과 아들을 교환하자는 제안을 한다. 빈센트는 아들을 구하기 위해 하는 수 없이 마르시아노의 제안을 승낙하고 접선을 시도한다. 그러나 빈센트의 사정을 모르는 열혈 여형사 비날리는 빈센트가 마르시아노와 마약 거래를 하고 있다고 의심, 빈센트 몰래 마약을 빼돌리면서 모든 계획이 무너지기 시작하는데…!

악명 높은 범죄조직 ‘올 블랙’! 그들이 벌인 현금 수송차 강탈 사건에서 장관의 아들이 숨지는 사건이 발생하고, 장관은 강력반 형사 다미코(이자벨 아자니)에게 그들을 모두 잡아들이라는 명령을 내린다. 다미코는 ‘올 블랙’을 체포하기 위한 특별작전을 구상하는데 그것은 바로 교도소에 수감중인 마누엘 마카로프(에릭 칸토나)를 이용하여 범인들을 잡는 것. 그러나 새 신분을 주겠다는 제안에도 불구하고 마누엘은 강력하게 거부한다. 이에 다미코는 교도소에 있는 그를 강제로 빼돌리고, 갑자기 탈옥범이 된 마누엘은 어쩔 수 없이 경찰의 스파이가 되는데… 범죄조직을 소탕하기 위한 경찰과 범죄자의 위험한 작전이 시작된다!

Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?

Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?

March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fueled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless. Two weeks earlier. Simon, a 16 year-old teenager, has not shown up for class. Blood stains are found in a class-room. Run-away, kidnap, suicide, murder? A few days later, Laetitia, a student from the same class goes missing without her parents knowing where she has gone. A young girl with no dark background or connection to Simon. The next day, Jean-Baptiste, a third student, also disappears. Rumors start to spread. The psychosis begins...

Marguerite Jeanne Japy was born in Beaucourt, France to a family of fortune. She married French painter Adolphe Steinheil in July 1890. Steinheil did not enjoy much artistic success but made a good living painting society portraits and restoring church windows.In 1897 Marguerite became the mistress of French President Félix Faure .

A woman sends her lover to prison accusing him of raping her daughter. Fifteen years later, as he returns to prove his innocence, she is found dead.

믿었던 부모님한테 발등 찍혔다? 내 이름은 니콜라, 순탄하기만 하던 열 살 내 인생을 위협하는 무지막지한 일이 생겼습니다. 갑자기 아빠가 엄마한테 엄청 잘해주는 게 아니겠어요! 바람 잘날 없던 엄마, 아빠가 갑자기 다정하다는 건 곧 동생이 생긴다는 증거고, 그럼 이제 귀찮아진 나를 숲에 버릴게 분명해요! OTL.. 얼마 전에 동생이 생겨서 첫째인 자긴 버려질지 모른다고 했던 친구가 정말로 학교에 나오질 않았거든요!! 동생 따윈 필요 없어! 먹보대장, 우유빛깔도련님, 밉상범생, 동네파이터, 깨방정, 전교꼴찌, 파파보이, 그리고 나까지 8명의 친구들이 모여서 대책위원회를 조직하고 아부작전을 펼쳤지만, 하는 일마다 모두 빵꾸똥꾸~ 이러다간 동생이 안 생겨도 버려지게 생겼지 뭐에요. 귀여운 오해, 엉뚱한 공상 8인의 악동들이 펼치는 유쾌한 반란~ 이젠 최후의 방법 밖에 없습니다. 그것은 바로, 무시무시한 갱단에게 부탁해서 동생을 납치해달라고 하는 것! 곧바로 행동개시~ 롸잇 나우!!

15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lead a criminal investigation into her bloody past.

Shirley and Dino arrive in Paris to take over a cabaret inherited from their uncle. On the verge of bankruptcy, the establishment is coveted by local hoodlums, ready to do anything to get rid of the new owners. But this is without counting on the inventiveness, innocence and tenacity of Shirley and Dino... who have one week to save their Cabaret Paradis.

Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...

40대의 마이클은 그의 일생에 있어 무의미한 생활을 한다. 때마침 찾아온 기타 레슨 초보자를 위한 광고를 보고 그는 기타를 배우기로 마음먹는다.

A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their meeting purely coincidence?

In the summer of 1938, in the heart of Indochina, a French colony, Pierre Balsan hear the latest news about conquering Czechoslovakia after Hitler invaded Austria. World War II will bring even more problems for Pierre Balsan, nicknamed Tiger, who will be charged with the murder of his wife.

In 1917, the old rivalry between a prosecutor and a judge resurfaces during a police investigation into the murder of a child.

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.

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...

스무 살의 뚱뚱한 아가씨 롤리타는 언제나 세상에 불만 투성이다. 외모 때문에 어딜 가나 찬밥신세, 자기밖에 모르는 아버지는 자신에게 아무 관심도 애정도 없다. 그나마 유명한 작가인 에티엔 카사드를 아버지로 둔 덕에 자신이 인간관계를 유지하며 살수 있다고 생각하지만, 늘 자신을 이용하려는 사람들의 호의와 친절을 의심한다. 우울한 롤리타에게 유일한 즐거움은 성악 연습. 곧 있으면 교회에서 공연도 가지게 될 그녀는 아마추어로 노래를 부르지만, 꽤나 열심이다. 어느 날, 롤리타의 음악 선생인 실비아는 롤리타가 유명한 에티엔 카사드의 딸이라는 것을 알게 된다. 에티엔의 도움으로 신인작가인 남편 피에르가 성공할 수 있다고 믿게된 그녀는 부푼 희망을 안고 롤리타에게 다가간다. 그러나 점점 드러나는 폭군 같은 에티엔의 본모습과 남편의 비굴하고 우유부단한 처세술이 거슬리기 시작하는데.. 어느덧 에티엔의 도움으로 피에르는 유명세를 타기 시작하고, 롤리타는 공연을 앞두고 아버지에게 자신의 자랑스러운 모습을 보여줄 기대에 부풀게 된다. 과연 자기밖에 모르는 에티엔이 이들과 함께 행복해할 수 있을까..?

In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of ridicule, but she has a talent for music and is determined to fulfil her ambition to play in the school jazz band.

뤽 베송 제작군단의 미스테리 리얼 액션 | 이천년을 간직한 비밀이 깨어난다! | 7개의 봉인... 7명의 천사들... 예수의 12제자를 죽여라! 유서 깊은 수도원, 벽에 걸린 그리스도상에서 피가 흘러나오는 괴기한 사건이 일어난다. 사건을 맡아 파리에서 파견된 니먼 형사(장 르노 분)는 벽 뒤에 묻혀있는 사체와 의문의 암호를 발견한다. 마약반 신참형사 레다 형사 (브누와 마지멜 분)는 상처 입은 한 남자를 병원으로 데려가 치료를 받게 하던 중 검은 옷을 입은 수도승의 공격을 받게 된다. 도저히 인간이라고 믿어지지 않는 괴력의 수도승, 총으로도 잡을 수 없었던 레다 형사는 남자의 병실에서 니먼 형사와 마주치고 그들은 두 사건의 연관성을 직감하게 된다. 이제 이 둘은 전대미문의 미스터리를 간직한 사건의 소용돌이에 휘말리게 되는데....

안나와 그녀의 가족들은 시골집에 도착해서 그들의 집이 낯선 사람들에게 이미 점거당한 사실을 발견한다. 그리고 그녀의 남편을 죽게 만든 이 대치 상황은 고통스러움을 배우는 학습 과정의 시작일 뿐이다. 폭력적이고 설명되어질 수 없는 사건들은 이 세계 어느 곳에서나 일어나고 있다. 어느 것도 지금과 똑같지 않을 뿐이다.

A mayor wants to get rid of homeless people who blacken his Christmas.

스페인의 항구 마을 비고. 실직한 부두 노동자 다섯 명이 모여 있다. 즐거울 것 하나 없는 일상에서 유머를 잃지 않는 산타. 아내와의 갈등을 키워가고 있는 호세. 환상의 세계에 사는 러시아 이민자 세르게이. 자기의 곤궁한 처지를 숨기고 살아가는 아마도르. 다섯 명 중에서 유일하게 취업을 위해 노력하는 리노. 동네 술집에서 시간이나 죽이는 그들. 하지만 지루하고 때로는 견디기 힘든 삶의 무게로 짓눌리는 그들에게도, 일터로 향하던 햇빛 찬란한 월요일의 꿈만은 놓을 수 없는 희망이다!

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.

Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the loss of his mother has sucked the joie de vivre out of him; his best friend Alice knows it although their platonic relationship is more about him supporting her in bad relationship choices than anything else. When he sees a beautiful woman called Olga in a bookstore, Julien is smitten and sets about to set up someway of impressing her and winning her affection.

A Fleury-Mérogis, un match de foot a lieu dans la cour de prison. Tibor Kovacs, un jeune Hongrois, fait des prodiges avec le ballon. Véritable virtuose du football, il rêve de jouer en équipe de France. Pour Manu, son compagnon de cellule, Tibor est un cadeau du ciel. A la veille de leur sortie de prison, les deux compères décident d'unir leurs destins : Tibor deviendra le plus grand joueur du mon

Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex girlfriend reappears, asking for help, announcing him that she had a girl from him 9 years ago.

이 영화에서는 두 남자의 숙명을 이야기 한다. 영화 감독 보조인 쟝 드베브르는 프랑스 영화들을 제작하는 독일 영화사 콘티넨탈에서 일을 하게 되며, 그곳에서 항독 운동자의 은밀한 활동들을 위장하기 위한 방법들을 찾아 낸다. 시나리오 작가이며 시인인 쟝 오렌슈는 독일이 제안하는 모든 일들을 거절 하며 단지 펜과 글로써 독일에 저항한다. (제2회 서울 프랑스 영화제 소개)

Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer championship the very same night!

Eric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking that he has a date set up with beautiful executive Marie-Joelle (who in reality hates his guts), Ramzy stays at work late while Eric hangs around with him. As a result, the pair witness a gang of terrorists seize the tower and take its late-night occupants (including Marie- Joelle) hostage. Knowing that only they can save the day, Eric and Ramzy swing into action.

Bruno, a bus driver, lives in a problem estate. One day, a group of young people stab him. Since this moment, Bruno spends his time in a meeting point of extreme right-wing people. His only goal is to find the youngs who did that to him, even if he looses everything.

Corruption threatens to move into a heretofore idyllic village in this comedy-drama. Hector St. Rose is the mayor of a seaside community in the Antilles Islands, a French-controlled territory in the West Indies. Hector has long been determined not to sacrifice the well-being of his constituents in order to make the village more attractive to tourists, which has made him popular with his citizens, but not so much so with outside developers.

Alain runs Le Detour, a small cafe in Paris where Antoine works. Antoine is reunited with his sister Marie when she's released from prison; they are very close, perhaps abnormally so, but she's not aware that Antoine has fallen into cahoots with Stephane, who works as a waiter at another cafe. Damien, a local businessman, is pressuring Alain to expand Le Detour, and cut his nephew Xavier in for a percentage as a manager. While Alain waffles on Damien's proposal, Xavier offers Antoine a chance to make some money under the table by delivering some drugs to a cadre of dealers. Antoine makes the drop and picks up the payment, but runs off with the money rather than bringing it back to Xavier, which proves to have tragic consequences for Antoine and his friends.

Three very different adolescent girls team up to take revenge on men until one day it is no longer a game.

Françoise breaks up with Jacques after living with him for fifteen years. She's left alone with their three children, a lovely home, and her nursing job at a hospital. Françoise quickly refuses to assume responsibility for this new situation beyond her control. She starts going out, living by night… hanging out in new places, ready for chance encounters.

Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other...

After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follow. The adults see nothing, but struggle with all their might when tragedy strikes. Naturally, the two girls bear the brunt of the impact. The film is an homage to the distant and primitive world of childhood, which shapes each of us.

Hélène and Julien have been married for ten years and feel very close to each other. But a serious problem undermines their marriage: Julien has become impotent following an accident. Hélène bravely makes do, at least until she meets Antoine, a handsome young man with whom she falls passionately in love. Will the couple she forms with Julien survive?

When she lands up in the middle of nowhere, Séréna, a rather thoughtless young woman, is supposed to marry Hubert, a country squire she came into contact with through the classifieds in "Le Chasseur Français", a magazine for hunters. But she gets to know Roland, a bachelor farmer who develops an instant burning passion for her. Prepared to do anything for her, he goes as far as to holdup banks to secure the good life she longs for. Although she confesses (wrongly) that she suffers from AIDS, he is in no way discouraged. Séréna accepts to marry Roland but on her wedding night she balks at taking the "midnight exam". She runs away and meets Antoine, a married writer, who hides her in the attic of his house, without his wife knowing it.

Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.

Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together

Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. They band together during their teenage years. This film discusses their first meeting and what happens afterward.

When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.

In this French drama, an urban professional gives up his fast-track life in favor of the quiet of country life. Benoit now lives as a toymaker who sells games at his chic Paris art gallery. The film opens with young Lila as she is being released from prison. Immediately, she sets out to see her sister in Brionne, a tiny Normandy town. As soon as he sees her, the rather quiet Benoit falls in love. Eventually, the emotionally scarred young woman falls in love with him too. Soon they move in together, and Lila gets to meet his ne'er-do-well friends. The couple are very happy for a while, but when Benoit's gallery goes belly-up, he begins acting strangely, leaving Lila feeling very unsure. Eventually she leaves him. Benoit then struggles to cope with his depression; after many drunken nights, a lost dog helps him find the peace he has been searching for.

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.

Into the solitary life of middle-aged hitman, Victor Meynard, come two people: Antoine, a youth who becomes Victor's apprentice, and Renée, a bold thief Victor's been hired to kill because she cheated a mobster. When circumstances prevent Victor from killing her, the gangster sends two more teams to do it (and to dispatch Victor and Antoine). Victor decides to help Renée, and the unlikely trio ends up at his house with his temperamental mother; there, as they hide out, Victor's attraction to Renée grows, she discovers his vocation and fears he's going to kill her, and an ultimate showdown with their hunters is inevitable.

In this disturbing drama, based on a novel by "San Antonio" (Frédéric Dard), Léon (Serge Riaboukine) has a wife who is as near to being dead as she can be and still be among the living, and she has been in this state for some time. He is also the worshipful secretary for an overbearing actor/director, Boris (Jean-Pierre Mocky), a man for whom he will do just about anything. However, his need to care for his wife interferes with performing unlimited services for his adored boss, and it is for that reason that he kills her. For a while, his blissful servitude knows no bounds, but his wife's sister smells a rat, and soon his cozy, masochistic relationship with Boris is endangered. Boris, meanwhile, has a quite lovely wife whom he ignores in favor of humiliating her by openly seducing other women.

An adaptation of Denis Diderot's novel "Jacques le Fataliste".

There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.

A tow truck driver becomes the impresario, then the singer of a new rock band.

Jean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor. Julie, scathing and capricious, provokes Henri and Jean.