Claude Duneton

Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. The Internet site “L’âme-sœur” is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis...

At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but the girl carefully avoids this faraway figure, who is none other than her grandfather. Proud, rebellious, solitary, they represent two generations that are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by one another. Their lives will intertwine, as one seeks out her future and the other is tormented by his past.

Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.

정적만이 가득한 시골길, 가족들과 함께 피크닉을 가던 줄리는 예기치 않은 교통 사고로 유명한 작곡가인 남편 파트리스와 다섯 살 난 딸 안나를 잃는다. 한 순간 사랑했던 모든 것을 잃은 줄리는 가족과 함께 했던 공간과 흔적들, 심지어 남편이 쓰다만 곡까지 버리곤 모든 것을 뒤로한 채 떠난다. 타인과의 소통을 거부하고 세상과도 단절해 버린 채 고독한 나날들을 보내던 줄리는 어느 날 우연히, 남편의 동료이자 자신을 줄곧 사랑해 왔던 남자 올리비에가 남편의 유작을 완성시키려 한다는 사실과 남편에게 숨겨 둔 애인이 있었음을 알게 되는데...

Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.

쌍둥이처럼 똑같이 생긴 여자 아이 둘이 같은 날, 같은 시에 태어난다. 폴란드의 베로니카와 프랑스의 베로니크, 둘은 상대방의 감정과 경험을 어렴풋하게나마 공유하며 서로의 존재를 느낀다. 노래에 천부적인 소질이 있는 베로니카는 우연한 기회에 콘서트 독창자로 발탁되지만 공연 도중 갑자기 심장이 멎어 숨을 거둔다. 한편 베로니크는 남자친구와 사랑을 나누던 중 까닭 모를 상실감에 눈물을 흘린다. 아이들에게 음악을 가르치던 그녀는 어느 날 학교를 방문한 마리오네트 인형극을 보던 중 인형사 알렉상드르에게 강렬하게 이끌리는데....

Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.

In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for their gardens. These were actual people who were willing to live in squalid conditions and serve as something like museum exhibits for the amusement of the wealthy. This movie takes that notion and transfers it to 18th century France. In the story, an English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.

Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.