Séverine
여성들만이 사는 행성에서 한 모녀가 전설적인 용병을 찾아 떠난다. 모녀는 야생의 풍경을 배회하며 사냥꾼을, 퇴폐적인 예술가를, 그리고 안드로이드를 만난다. (제26회 부산국제영화제)
Mother of the bride
At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !
Self
On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Guillaume Gouix and Alexandra Stewart read some extracts of Bernard Bastide's new biography Bernadette Lafont, une vie de cinéma, including some original letters written by Bernadette. The event was filmed by Gérard Courant and aired as an episode of Carnets filmés, In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont.
Self
Nina
Valentin is a young gay painter who lives in the imaginary world of his paintings. When he finds his grandmother Nina, a Polish Jewish émigré whith whom he feels very close, he confesses his lack of inspiration and loneliness. During these few days together in a psychedelic Paris, Valentin expresses more and more the need to know the past Nina always tried to hide …
Sylvia
In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
Maya Dawn Lewis
With money running low, nine New Yorkers forgo their annual Christmas in Aspen and head to Pennsylvania for a murder-mystery weekend.
La mère de Julia
Julia is suffering from a terminal illness. While in hospital she encounters Marine and, taking advantage of the young woman's precarious financial situation, makes her an offer. In exchange for a weekly 1000 euro payment, Marine will accompany Julia to her death. An exclusive and singular relationship forms between the two women.
Emma
젊은 지휘자 안드레아는 벨렌과 연인사이다. 어느 날 벨렌은 이별의 영상편지만을 남기고 떠난다. 실연의 아픔과 상실감에 괴로워 하던 안드레아 앞에 파비아나가 나타나고 안드레아의 여자친구 벨렌이 실종상태인걸 알면서도 안드레아와 교제를 시작한다. 그러는 와중 벨렌으로 추정되는 시체가 발견되는데...
Madeleine
In order not to be thrown from his big Parisian apartment by his sister, the idiosyncratic pensioner Joseph takes the 20-year-old farmer's daughter Marilyn with him. She wants to complete an apprenticeship as a make-up artist in the capital, preferably for horror films. An unequal pair, which soon finds attraction as well as rejection.
Joanna
Gabrielle, a pleasant woman in her sixties, learns that she is about to be evicted from her second-hand shop...
Self
In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff discuss the making of The Fire Within.
Bruno's mother
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape. Bruno can never have children .He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne, his beloved wife. Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out. It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents. A mediocre man who has lost all pride. Though now everything appears hazy in his memory. Like a river that flows peacefully, showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below. But at times those currents can return to the surface. Without warning.
Edna
William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.
Mrs. Boscovan
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Miss Phillipe
Joshua, in his thirties, has just learned that his file has been classified “child of X” : in other words, the identity of his parents remains unknown to this very day. He thereupon decides to designate his parents himself and sets out to “conquer” his unknown mother and father.
Female Client
Eight-year-old Judith was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the rocks. She makes her way back to Paris with her friend Nora, and the two of them do what they can to survive.
Gabrielle Chassagne
Amanda
장과 마리아는 프랑스의 해변으로 둘만의 여름 휴가를 떠난다. 일상에서 벗어나 모처럼만에 여유를 즐기는 것도 잠시 수영하러 다녀오겠다던 남편 장은 끝내 돌아오지 않는다. 그 휴가는 단지 악몽일 뿐이었을까? 다시 일상으로 돌아온 마리아의 곁에는 여전히 장이 있다. 그와 한 침대를 쓰고 아침을 함께 먹으며, 그를 위해 넥타이를 선물하는 마리. 하지만 문득 문득 그녀는 자신의 삶에서 무언가가 잘못 되어 있음을 느낀다. 정지된 남편의 신용카드, 유부녀인 그녀에게 남자를 소개 시켜주려는 친구들, 게다가 시어머니는 장이 그녀에게 만족하지 못해 떠나버린거라고 하신다. 도대체 세상이 어떻게 돌아가는 걸까? 이렇게 가까이에서 장의 손길을 느끼는데 다른 사람들에겐 그가 보이지 않다니.
Tante Lou
Married to a younger woman, Jacob sinks into jealousy, alcohol and violence.
Self - Narrator (voice)
A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Hilda
An elderly man wants to exit earth in a state of unity with all creatures. To that end, he hires a quartet of manservants to plug his facial orifices with their fingers.
Self
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
Elena
Catherine Legris
Immortal Xavier St. Cloud has mortals shoot his Immortal opponents so he can take their heads. Joe tells Duncan about the killings to warn him, and soon St. Cloud and his henchmen show up at the dojo. Duncan discovers the supposedly-dead Horton is working with St. Cloud, and Joe knew that Horton was alive. Meanwhile, an army intelligence officer named Renee Delaney gets involved while she is investigating one of the men working with St. Cloud.
Jane Clayton
Domino
The owner of Black Angel is shot by Mamba, a killer in the pay of the Chinese mafia. The victim's daughter, who witnessed the murder and knows she is threatened, refuses to collaborate with the police and prefers to call on an old friend of her father's, Lemmy Caution, but is this man, who lives on an island paradise, still old enough to play the vigilante?
Cécile
Suzanne
프랑스의 한 병원에 근무하고 있는 미국인 정신과 의사 이야기. 그녀가 요양원을 빠져나온 후 살인에 대한 진실과 놀라운 사실이 밝혀지는데.
Mrs. Cornfield
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.
Edie
흉부외과 의사인 리차드 워커 박사(해리슨 포드 분)는 20년전 파리에서 자신의 아내(베티 버클리 분)를 처음 만나 사랑에 빠져 결혼했다. 의학회의 참석차 다시 파리를 찾아 호텔에서 샤워를 하는데 아내가 이상한 전화를 받고 사라진다. 샤워 후 아내가 없어진 것을 알게된 워커는 아내를 찾아나서지만 찾을 수 없고 경찰과 호텔 지배인을 만나보지만 별 소득이 없다. 호텔로 다시 돌아온 워커는 자신의 방이 엉망이 된것을 보고 놀란다. 그는 방안에 떨어져 있는 성냥갑을 찾아내고 그 위에 적힌 나이트 클럽을 찾아가 미쉘(엠마뉴엘 세이그너 분)이라는 여자를 만나 아내가 없어진 이유가 바뀐 가방 때문임을 알게 된다. 워커가 바뀐 가방을 찾아오면서 국제적인 산업스파이 조직에 쫓기게 되는데.
Mrs. Sharon
Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first, Tricky has Christopher Tracy talked into romancing her for her money, but in getting to know her, Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers, and Tricky tells about the plan.
Héléna
Héléna Werner leads a reclusive and deserted life. Alone, as if withdrawn from the world in her apartment of refined luxury. She places an ad for a private secretary, a "handyman" who would take her away from the daily grind. As soon as he starts working, Milo adopts an intriguing behavior. From the start, he takes everything in hand and the doors of the apartment close on them both.
Aglaé
Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.
Madeleine
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Liane
Three friends begin to work the rent collectors. Fee collection goes with a lot of comic episodes...
Julie Hoffman
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
Alexandra
Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her
Narrator (English version) (voice)
한 여성이 친구에게 받은 편지들을 읽으며 이야기한다. 그녀의 친구 프리랜서 카메라맨인 샌도르 크리스나는 취재활동을 위해 전 세계를 두루 돌아다닌다. 그는 특히 '생존의 두 극단'인 일본과 아프리카에 관심이 많다. 그는 취재 현장에서 그때마다 자신의 느낌과 소감을, 그리고 당혹감과 혼란스러움을 기록하여 여자친구에게 편지를 보내곤 한다. 그의 괴짜 일본인 친구는 기억을 담은 이미지들을 합성하고 뭉개버림으로써 그의 고민에 모종의 해답을 제공한다. 한 영화감독이 이러한 상황을 영화로 만든다. 그는 인물들과 그들의 관계를 보여주기보다, 편지들, 논평들, 모아진 이미지들, 만들어진 이미지들, 빌려온 이미지들을 뒤섞어, 반복된 주제와 대위법 등을 사용해 작곡의 형식으로 형상화해내고, 이를 통해 허구적 기억이 탄생하게 된다.
이 영화는 기억에 관한 영화이다. 인류의 모든 형태의 희망을 창출해냈던 '태양'이 사라지는 순간, 그 심연에 놓인 한 남자가 인류의 역사를 바라보는 개인적인 이야기를 담은 영화이다.
Alexandrine
Wife of first victim (uncredited)
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...
Une femme sculpteur
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
Madre di Francesca
Giovanni is a young man who has been used by a catholic publishing house to advertise, with his face, a publication by installments concerning Jesus life. Francesca is a mysterious girl he met on the street and who's being sought by the police. They leave together, but will their troubles catch up with them ?
Clara
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!
Mme Claude
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny.
Diane
Jean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random. Taken as a jaguar by a rich man, he finds himself invited to his villa in Saint Tropez and discovers a luxurious, idle and decadent universe. A tasty TV movie, written and directed by Michel Polac, with a very young Fabrice Luchini.
Alexandra
제 2차 세계대전부터 1960년에 이르기까지 프랑스, 소련, 독일, 미국의 네 음악가 가족의 이야기. 유태인 강제수용소에서 살아남은 유태인 바이올리니스트와 무명의 여가수, 나치에 부역한 댓가를 치르는 피아니스트와 자유를 갈망하며 망명을 시도하는 무용수, 그리고 그 2세들의 이야기가 프랑스의 반전 콘서트을 무대로 펼쳐진다.
Eudora
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
Magda
In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.
Sam O'Donnell
An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.
Barbara Grey
A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.
Mimi Oliveri
A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
Sandra
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with cancer, she tries to hide the truth. But Marat doesn't take time to know.
Paula
Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
Théo Casarès
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Dorothée
세이슈 섬에 정착한 엠마뉴엘은 여전히 자유 분방한 성생활을 즐기며 행복하게 산다. 이해심 많은 남편과 뜻을 함께 하는 이웃들, 그녀에게는 더 바랄 것이 없다. 그러나 오랜 자유 성생활이 그녀의 이상에 맞는 것인지에 대한 회의가 생기기 시작한다. 그럴 즈음, 촬영 장소를 물색하기 위해 온 영화감독 그레고리를 만난다. 그와의 관계에서 엠마뉴엘은 육체적인 쾌락 이상의 무언가를 느낀다. 그것을 보통 사람들은 사랑이라고 부른다는 것을 알았을 때 그녀는 지금까지의 생활이 무의미해짐을 깨닫고 충격을 받는다. 그러나 오랜 생각 끝에 새로 발견한 가치를 따라 그레고리를 찾아서 파리행 비행기에 오른다...
Mrs. Joan Blake (segment "Quebec Province 1975")
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
Delphine
Julie asks Jean-Luc Farlot, authorized signatory of a big European bank to help her disguise a murder as an accident.
Alexandra
A wealthy French promoter based in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but trapped in her strict education.
Sister Lily
남자와 여자 사이에 전쟁이 일어난다. 소녀는 이런 현실로부터 도망쳐, 결국 이상한 유니 콘이 어떤 가족과 함께 사는 곳으로 가게 된다. 그 곳에서 소녀는 언니와 오빠를 비롯한 많은 아이들과, 무슨 일이 있어도 자기 침대를 떠나지 않고 라디오 옆에 붙어살며 세상과 소통하는 나이든 할머니와 함께 지내게 되는데...논쟁적인 이슈를 즐겨왔던 루이 말의 SF 판타지인 은 현대사회와 매스미디어, 그리고 소통에 대한 알레고리로 가득 차있는 우화다.
Barbara Lawrence
A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.
Rita
An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.
Hélène
A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
Stacey
프랑스 니스에 자리한 라 빅토린느 스튜디오에서는 영화감독 페랑(프랑수아 트뤼포 자신)이 '파멜라를 찾아서'를 촬영중이다. 시아버지와 아들의 약혼녀가 그만 불륜의 사랑에 빠지자 아들이 아버지를 눈오는 저녁에 총으로 쏴 죽인다는 내용의 비극이다. 배우들과 스태프들이 모여들고, 할리우드에서 스타 쥴리(재클린 비셋 분)가 비행기를 타고 와 합류한다. 감독 페랑은 한편의 영화를 만들기 위해 수단 방법을 가리지 않는다. 연민도 없고, 자비도 없다. 밤마다 영화관에 붙어있는 오슨 웰즈의 스틸 사진을 훔치는 꿈에 시달리며, 매일 전쟁터에 나서는 기분으로 현장에 나간다고 독백한다. 쥴리는 정신병을 앓는 도중 유부남을 가로챈 노이로제 환자이며, 상대역 주연인 알퐁스(장 피에르 레오 분)는 세상에 사랑밖에 없으며 여자는 신비한 존재라고 떠벌리고 다니다가 실연당한다. 시아버지 역의 알렉상드르(장 피에르 오몽 분)은 영화에서 은퇴할 생각을 하다가 교통사고로 죽고, 시어머니 역의 세브린느(발렌티나 코르테스 분)는 왕년의 인기에 연연하며 알코올중독에 빠져 있다. 페랑 감독은 촬영일수를 단축해가며 악전고투 끝에 영화를 완성하고, 한여름을 함께 보낸 이들은 서로 다른 영화를 찍기 위해 뿔뿔이 흩어진다.
La paysanne
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
Feodora
A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.
(uncredited)
A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.
Alexandra
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
Jean's Wife
Thriller centered round the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Alexandra
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends up in a jail full of political prisoners for whose freedom he had been working. Eventually he manages to escape but only one would follow him. The others preferred to stay and testify before the court.
Stephanie
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.
Nicholas is a conscience-stricken international news photographer. Revolted by what he has seen in wars in Africa and Indochina, he leaves his job and his girlfriend to do sports coverage. While covering a rugby match between the French and Irish teams in Ireland, he runs into an ex-American girlfriend, and their affair begins again. As she is very down-to-earth, she helps him begin to sort things out.
Marisa Love
A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, satisfied with the results of the test, rewards her with murder, just as she is about to flee to Naples with her new lover. Her ex-husband and a private detective track the killer behind it all to a remote hideaway to unravel the solution.
Frances
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
Arabelle
Celestine
Dressed only with a muff, Eva - naked as God created her - reaches the conference room of the big bank to expose Terbanks' capitalists and bankers and to protest against capitalism and exploitation. But the naked woman from the "Red October" community slapped the wrong man and pursued tangible own interests in the form of inherited shares ...
Marina
A young medical student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
Caroline
An indecisive young woman with an abnormal devotion to her father can't decide on which of her two boyfriends she should end her relationship with.
Self
Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
Eve Michelli
A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.
Liz
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
Isis
Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.
Mlle Becker
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Hélène
In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend's tomb. In Ajaccio, he meets Helene, who she rescues from her kidnappers, who take advantage of her "charms" in a house of ill reputation. They hide then somewhere in the mountains, where they are pursued by the Corsican mobsters...
Michelle Craig
The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.
Nancy
Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.
Frida (segment "Il vittimista")
An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
Jenny
A former comic is on the run from the mob.
Lucy
Dakota, 1880. In Silver Springs, with the help of hired thugs, a lawyer tries to take over the town by sabotage, theft and brutal murders. The arrival in town of a new undercover sheriff hinder their plans.
(voice)
A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl. The story follows his problems adjusting to their sociological standards and customs where family units are comprised of sexual groups of eight people.
Laura
A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland.
Rektorengattin
Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.
Solange
고통스러운 삶을 술로 달래며 살아가던 30대 남자 알랭은 알코올 중독을 치료하기 위해 베르사유의 한 병원에 입원한다. 미국에 있는 알랭의 아내는 그의 상태가 호전되었는지를 알아보고자 친구를 병원으로 보낸다. 친구는 알랭의 겉모습만을 보고 그가 좋아졌다고 믿고, 알랭의 주치의 또한 그가 퇴원해도 좋다는 결정을 내린다. 파리로 돌아온 알랭은 오랜만에 친구들을 만나 저녁 모임에 초대를 받는데… 천재 재즈 뮤지션 에릭 사티의 음악이 영상과 완벽하게 어울려 영화의 어두운 분위기를 더욱 돋보이게 하는 작품.
Anna, la fille de couverture
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
Juanita
Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Berlin.
Elisabetta
An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her is as tyrannical as more overt superior colonialist dogma. Based on a novel by Enrico Emmanuele.
Alexandra (segment "Il nuovo mondo")
한 남자가 비행기에서 만난 스튜어디스에게 병적으로 빠져드는데, 정작 여자는 그의 지나친 관심에 거부감을 느낀다. 결국 그녀는 남자를 떼어놓기 위해 스스로의 외양을 정숙해 보이던 것에서 단정치 못하고 방탕한 모습으로 바꾼다. 이에 충격을 받은 남자는 자신이 예전에 촬영한 그녀의 모습을 벽에 영사시켜 놓고 그것을 바라보며 애타게 울부짖는다.
Prinzessin
Françoise
A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.
Hélène
Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One.
Belle
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered. Despite Stéphane's innocence, the evidence points to him, and he learns that Belle harbored romantic feelings for him. Suspicions mount against him; even Christine thinks he is the culprit. Stéphane's sanity begins to crumble, and he lashes out in unprecedented ways.
Jacqueline
A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?
Jordana Ben Canaan
1947년. 제2차 대전 종전 후의 혼란이 온 세계를 흔들고 그런 사이에 억압받던 민족들이 오랜 질곡을 벗어나 새로운 나라를 세우기 시작하였다. 이 무렵 조국없는 민족이라 손가락질 받으며 박해를 받던 유태인에게도 그들의 오랜 꿈을 실현시킬 수 있는 기회가 오게 되었다. 그러나 이스라엘 건국을 정면에서 반대하는 아랍 여러 나라의 동향에 신경을 쓰는 영국은 키프러스 섬에 수용소를 설치하고 팔레스타인을 향해 몰려드는 유태인의 발을 일단 이곳에 묶어 놓는다. 어느날 키프러스 섬에 알리라는 한 사나이가 어둠을 타고 상륙해 유태인 수용소에 잠입한다. 그는 전 영국군 장교로 유태인 지하조직의 간부이다. 알리는 영국군 유태인 이동증명서를 위조하고 여객선 '엑소더스호'를 항구에 대기시킨 다음 백주에 당당히 2800여명의 동포를 탈출시키기 위해 이 배에 승선케 한다. 뒤늦게 이 사실을 안 영국군은 황급히 엑소더스호에 정선 명령을 내리고 그러자 액소더스의 모든 유태인들은 알리의 지도아래 전원 단식 투쟁을 한다. 이러기를 100시간, 마침내 영국군은 들끊는 세계 여론에 무릎을 꿇고 정선 명령을 취소한다. 전 유태인의 희망과 꿈을 싣고 조상의 땅 팔레스타인을 향해 힘차게 출발하는 '액소더스 호' 그리고...
Véra
Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapier is a newspaper reporter, and one day finds his friend Porte - surrounded by the police after a car theft, and an accidental killing of a police officer. He helps him escape, and provides shelter with the complicity of his girlfriend Vera. Later, Frapier will have doubts about Vera's love, and lives a passionate night with beautiful Arabelle. However, he finds himself playing a game of life and death both with Vera, and Porte. It will end in sadness for one, and death for another.
Lori
After the Banton family rob a store is a small village and kill the local police constable, Tarzan captures one of them, Coy Banton. He decides to return him to the authorities so that the dead policeman's family will benefit from the $5000 reward. The head of the clan, Abel Banton and his two sons have no intention of letting Tarzan deliver Coy and burn the river boat they were to use. Several of the passengers are now stranded forcing Tarzan to take them along on a trek through the jungle. Abel Banton trails them intent not only getting his son back but getting rid of Tarzan.
Alexandra
Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
Séraphine
Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age. However Robert, who had been living with Fifine in an open relationship, arrives and impersonates Jean-Paul. Robert falls for Fifine's cousin Miléna while Fifine has designs on Miguel. In the meantime, the butler César is focusing his lecherous intentions on Prudence, the maid he had just hired.
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