In the Quercy region of France, Marie-Paule Nadal inherits her father's old farm property. But times are hard and the land is not very profitable. Unscrupulous neighbors are looking for any means to recover these 30 hectares: marry Marie-Paule, offer her a meager profit... But Marie-Paule's heart is set on Pierre, a farmer to whom everything succeeds. But neither of them wants to abandon the land of their ancestors...
Gilberte
Michel left Marseilles to Italy when he was twenty years old. Courageous and active, he has succeeded in the construction industry. Thirty years later, his return to Marseilles, for his aunt's burial will abruptly change the life of all of his family, who was first fascinated by his social success. He is regarded as the son who made it like wonder. Michel is the only one who has emigrated. They have all remained in the home country ("le pays") and their social status has hardly changed: workmen, small employees, craftsmen, all living in a modest framework.
The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
Mére de Lucien
2차 세계대전 중인 1944년 프랑스. 시골 청년 ‘라콤 루시앙’(피에르 블레이즈)은 아버지가 감옥에 들어간 사이 어머니가 다른 남자와 살게 되어 고향집에 머물 수 없게 되었다. 그리고 지하운동을 주도하는 학교 선생님에게 지하단원이 되고 싶다고 하지만 그것도 거절당한다. 루시앙은 우연히 한 호텔에서 독일의 경찰 일을 해주는 프랑스인들과 친해지는데 무심코 고향 학교 선생님을 밀고하게 되어 독일 경찰이 되어 버리고 점차로 권력의 맛에 길들여지게 된다. 어느 날 경찰 동료가 ‘알베르 오른’이란 유태인 재단사가 숨어사는 곳에 루시앙을 데려가 양복을 맞춰주는데 루시앙은 오른의 딸 ‘프랑스’를 사랑하게 된다. 오른은 프랑스와의 문제로 루시앙을 만나러 호텔에 갔다가 유태인을 혐오하는 독일 경찰에게 잡혀 어디론가 보내진다. 한편 연합군의 반격으로 독일군은 수세에 몰리고 레지스탕스의 공격으로 루시앙의 동료 경찰들은 몰살당한다. 독일군인과 함께 유태인 검거에 나선 루시앙은 독일군인을 살해하고 프랑스와 프랑스의 할머니를 데리고 어디론가 도망치려고 한다.
Madame Pascal
For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only will he be separated from his faithful companion, but he is well aware too that the arenas of Arles mean death for Ulysse. Being unable to stand such injustice, Antonin runs away from the farm in the company of Ulysse. Together, they go through the Lubéron, the Baux de Provence, the Alpilles, the Crau and the Vaccarès. Yet, their journey is no pleasure cruise, specially when it comes to crossing National Road 7. After a visit to Marcellin, an old friend of his, Antonin sets off again with Ulysse, this time towards the Rhône River.
