Daniel Barrau

Is there a mathematical formula for love without death? The film 'Rites of Love and Math' is a sprawling allegory about Truth and Beauty, Love and Death, Mathematics and Tattoo, set on the stage of Japanese Noh theater.

The beautiful Awa, from a poor background, decides to marry for money rather than love and ends up with the much older Karim. While married, she continues to love the much younger Bouba. On the happy occasion of Awa’s birthday, a macabre plan is to be set in motion.

A dwarf born into an intolerant village meets a farmer who teaches her about love, friendship and sacrifice.

Patrick, a young Frenchman in his thirties, has been working for a year in a small village in Burkina Faso. He has a relationship for a few months with a 25-year-old village girl, Kaya, who becomes pregnant. When their daughter Martine is born, Patrick flees with her to Europe. The shock of this loss makes Kaya mute. Seven years later, Patrick returns to the village to maintain the boreholes he had built. He arrives with his daughter Martine. The villagers welcome him with reservation. Patrick learns that Kaya has gone silent. Unfortunately, not being able to stay too long in the village, Patrick entrusts Martine to Kaya for a few hours. Discovering her daughter's poor upbringing, Kaya decides to run away into the night with Martine...

This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese dependency off the coast of Africa, to go to Luxembourg and search for his father. Far from his home village and unfamiliar with the large city, the young black man forms an unlikely friendship with a down-and-out white policeman whose only consolation in life is found at the bottom of a bottle. Their developing companionship forms the main focus of this movie directed by Pol Cruchten.

Eugene, an idealistic young African farmer and musician, decides to leave his village and family momentarily to try out his luck in the city. He makes new friends there, who accompany him on his musical career. He also meets up with Kassi, a childhood friend who has become a prostitute, with whom a new, closer friendship begins. However, when she dies from AIDS, Eugene is confronted by the harsh reality that his spontaneity and innocence blocked out and decides to put his singing talents and fame as a singer to the service of fighting the disease of AIDS. Once back home in his village, the reunion with his wife and children make him realize that life and hope are more powerful than anything else.

Foued is a little schemer from Barbes, who doesn't listen enough to his two accomplices of always, Philippe and Pierrot. He prefers to follow the idea of Manu, a young woman who wants to use her three "pigeons" by carrying out a heist intended to avenge her father. Demasked then adopted, it is four pigeons who will go up to Paris to carry out the business.

A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s, when the glass pyramid was added to the classic buildings. From the preservation rooms through the frame and painting retouches by experts, to the personnel instruction on how to be efficient in protecting the collections, and look nice to the visitors. (Written on IMDB by Artemis-9)

Farid, a teenager of Algerian descent, spends his free time hanging out with the wrong crowds in the suburbs south of Paris while maintaining a secret relationship with illustrator Jean. Both Jean and Farid are unsure about the future of their relationship - Farid wants Jean to move to Algiers with him, but Jean doesn't want to continue being Farid's secret. But when Farid becomes embroiled in a police matter, both his passionate private life and conservative family life hurtle towards one another, with explosive results.

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.