Neighbor
A recluse painter’s careful routine is shaken up when a mysterious young woman knocks on his door. An encounter that will confront him with his past.
Père Gallo
One morning, Louise, 45, is suddenly unable to step out of her car. Sweats, anxieties, palpitations... she is having an inexplicable panic attack. She is tetanized and simply cannot set foot outside.
René
Lulu loves football and going to Bauer - Red Star’s legendary home ground - has been her passion for decades. But the recent break-up with her husband René is distracting her from enjoying it today. On the last day of the season they end up sitting side by side in their usual seats watching the match together. Lulu is caught between the excitement of the match and her relationship troubles. Will the match end in a victory?
André
A grandfather kindles a relationship with his dying granddaughter through art.
Monsieur B
44세 조르주, 자신의 전재산으로 꿈꾸던 100% 사슴가죽 재킷을 사고 덤으로 받은 캠코더로 영화감독 행세를 한다. 이 세상에서 유일하게 재킷을 입은 사람으로 남기 위해 그는 다른 사람들의 재킷을 없앨 계획을 세우는데…
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.
Dédé
시몽은 신경쇠약의 공장노동자다. 어린시절 부주의한 장난으로 처참한 부상을 입은 여동생 에스뗄을 간병하며 죄의식과 좌절을 나날을 보내던 시몽에게 단 하나의 희망은 저 우주에서 초월자가 내려와 그들을 구원해 주는 것. 시몽은 ‘그 날’을 준비하는데…
Léo
누구보다 자유로운 삶을 즐기던 사진가 파스. 우연히 여행지에서 만난 전직 종군기자 세자르와 깊은 사랑에 빠지고 곧 아이도 생긴다. 아직 마음의 준비가 안 된 파스에게 엄마가 되는 일은 불러오는 배와 달리 공허하다. 답답한 현실을 견디지 못한 파스는 결국 잃어버린 자신을 찾아 떠난다. 몇 달 후, 세자르는 예멘에 파스가 있다는 소식을 듣고 그녀를 찾아 나서는데…
Socrate
Guillaume and his friends have planned to attend the biggest electronic music festical to celebrate their passing school… but Guillaume has to take the test once again and has to go over everything over the weekend.
Mr Pascal
French seniors enroll in summer camp.
André Berthet
Kwabéna 's arrival into Enguerrand family, that the little boy takes for his biological father, will lead the whole family to many adventures and reunify them like never before.
Jacob
The Hoffmann's are a famous couple of photographers. They are called to Berlin to shoot a significant commissioned series, but this work will not proceed as planned.
Michel
Le gouverneur de Sakhaline
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is improving and Anton Chekhov gets the Pushkin prices and admiration of Tolstoy. But when one of his brothers died of tuberculosis, Anton saw it as a personal failure and wants to escape his fame and his love.
Le Maire
Akim is a young uneducated Tunisian born with the gift of healing. Confronted by an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company who seeks to profit from his gift, Akim realizes that his unique blood chemistry can either be used as a weapon of mass destruction or to help save his people from a global pandemic.
Clop-clop
Joaquim is a musician, but it doesn't enable him to earn a living. He has another talent, which offers him an opportunity to change his existence: working with his brother in the very closed circle of traders. To celebrate this new path, he goes out... and encounters Zoé, a young violinist. The spend the rest of the night together, talking and singing. He finds himself obliged to make a choice: ensure his future, or live his passion and this blossoming love. But is any of this real?
Hegel's printer
A road-movie through time and space revisiting relationships between Europe and Africa.
Emile
After completing her PHD thesis on The Unknown Soldier, Adele returns to her rural hometown to look after her grandfather. Like a modern-day Antigone, her grandfather is a rebellious writer who has secretly kept the remains of a soldier from World War I buried at the bottom of their garden.
Tonton Roger
애초에 각자의 길을 향해 헤어진 부부 ‘알랭’과 ‘발레리’ - 서로를 싫어하다 못해 증오하던 둘은 하나뿐인 외동딸의 결혼식이 열리는 그리스로 향하는 비행기에서 반갑지 않은 재회를 한다. 아는 척도 하기 싫지만 아이슬란드의 화산 폭발로 인해 항공기 운항이 마비되자, 울며 겨자 먹기로 함께 그리스로 향하는 위험한 동행을 시작하는데…
Michel
Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: "I am not dead"
Patient
Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.
Jo, Lou's father
Anti, gravedigger and obstinate shy, discovers that his girlfriend is cheating on him with his boss. Unable to express his anger, he packs his bags and sets off, determined to rebuild his life. Unfortunately, his journey takes him in situations more and more catastrophic, until having to dig his own grave in the middle of the forest. The providential arrival of a jogger changes the game. A new game begins.
Claude Monet
Jeannot
낭만파 파리지앵 마리옹(줄리 델피)과 재기발랄 뉴요커 밍구스(크리스 락)가 만끽하는 '이보다 좋을 수 없는' 뉴욕 로맨스에 난데없이 적신호! 귀엽지만 사고뭉치 아빠, 자유로운 영혼의 여동생, 여기에 마리옹의 전 남친이나 지금은 여동생의 남친인 통제 불능 마뉘까지. 어딘가 심상치 않은 이들의 등장에 마리옹과 밍구스의 로맨스가 뒤흔들리는데...
Tonton Hubert
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a crazy weekend full of revelations, love and song.
Raymond
When the mother they have never known dies, three half brothers aged 8, 15 and 17 respectively, who were all brought up in different ways, meet for the very first time. They spend the long summer holidays with Nonna, their grandmother, and start sharing secrets and rabbits, polenta and mean tricks, adventures and first time experiences, together. At last their once solitary lives take a new direction.
Pierre
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...
Jeannot
파리에 온 커플! 미국 男 잭(아담 골드버그)과 프랑스 女 매리온(줄리 델피). 고향에 돌아와 편안한 여자와 달리 낯선 도시 파리가 적응되지 않는 남자. 설상가상으로 가는 곳마다 마주치는 그녀의 옛 남자친구들로 그는 괴롭기만 하다. 결국, 남자는 그녀의 과거가 온통 의심스럽고 여자는 과거에 집착해 질투하고 투덜대는 그를 이해하지 못하며 둘의 갈등은 깊어만 가는데..
Man at Grill
비엔나에서의 꿈 같은 하루 이후 9년이 지나, 파리에서 다시 마주한 제시와 셀린느. 비엔나의 특별한 추억을 소재로 쓴 베스트셀러의 유럽 홍보 투어 중인 작가 제시는 파리의 서점 구석에 서 있는 셀린느를 발견한다. 그가 뉴욕행 비행기에 오르기까지 남은 시간은 한 시간 남짓. 서로 같지만 다른 기억을 간직해 온 두 사람 사이에는 묘한 기류가 감돈다. 그들은 파리의 골목과 카페와 센강의 유람선, 셀린느의 아파트를 돌아다니며 빈곤과 환경오염, 종교, 세계의 절망과 희망, 섹스와 결혼을 이야기한다. 그렇게 그 간의 진심을 서로에게 털어놓는 사이, 해는 저물고 또 다시 헤어짐의 순간이 다가오는데...
M. Maréchal
Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.
Edouard
A satirical examination of the transformation of a French investment bank into a Hollywood power broker, Le Sens des Affaires begins with a lowly bank clerk's embezzlement of $104 million francs (about $14 million dollars) to finance his screen adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters. The clerk, Gerard Dutillard, funnels bank funds into three fictional affiliates in a way that makes the bank's president, Jean-Francois de Roquemorel, legally responsible. Financial ruin seems a distinct possibility, but Dutillard has worked out a plan to make the system work in his favor, and soon enough his banking superiors are doing their best to salvage his film and make it marketable, prompting actual investors to fuel the production with cash.
Le collègue
Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Paris - New York plane and will sit next to wealthy men. Their task is to seduce the rich and pull them out of money. But the fraudsters do not suspect that Comissaire Bayard and his young assistant are closely watching them...
Le client de la pharmacie
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...
Baron de Guéret
1770년대 말의 프랑스. 곤궁한 소작인들의 삶을 걱정하는 지방귀족 말라부아는 늪지대의 불결한 환경 때문에 전염병이 퍼져 소작인들의 삶이 더욱 피폐해지자 늪지를 메우기로 하고, 궁의 도움을 얻기 위해 베르사유 궁으로 간다. 하지만 관리들이 한낱 촌뜨기 남작의 청을 들어줄 리 만무하다. 말라부아는 좌절하지만, 곧 그는 타고난 재치와 세련된 화법으로 사교계의 관심을 받는다.
Harry
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
Maître Sarrazin - le notaire
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.
Assad
Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.
Roger, l'employeur de Ronald
A teenager, Ronald, unintentionally causes the death of a young girl on a beach. So that the police do not find him, his mother locks him in a cubicle, under the stairs of the house. On her death, the house was rented to an English family.
Georges Izambard
The tragic life of 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, as told by characters that knew him.
Donecker
앙트완은 12살의 소년. 그에게는 남들이 모르는 즐거움이 있는데 그것은 바로 매혹적인 셰퍼부인이 운영하는 이발소에 가는 일이다. 그녀의 향기와 말투에 반한 앙트완은 머리카락이 길어지기가 무섭게 그녀에게 달려가곤 했다. 어느 날, 저녁 식사도중 아버지가 앙트완에게 진로에 대해 묻자 그는 서슴없이 미용사의 남편이 되겠다고 말한다. 그로부터 40년 후, 미용사의 남편이 될 꿈을 간직한 채 살아가던 앙트완은 우연히 마틸드를 만나게 된다. 그녀는 주인이 은퇴하면서 물려준 이발소의 주인이었고 아주 매력적인 여성이었다. '신념이 있다면 무엇이든지 할 수 있다'는 아버지의 말씀을 되뇌이며 앙트완은 그녀에게 끈질기게 청혼했고, 우여곡절 끝에 결국 그녀는 승낙한다. 미용사의 남편이 되겠다고 하자 아버지는 심장마비로 돌아가셨고 어머니는 앙트완과 인연을 끊겠다고 선언한다. 그러나 앙트완에게 그런것은 안중에도 없었다. 그렇게 결혼한 둘은 십년 동안 단 한차례 사소한 일로 다투었을 뿐 서로를 극진히 사랑하며 함께 살아간다. (그 한차례 다툼도 앙트완에겐 심장마비를 일으킬 수 있을 정도의 큰 사건이었다.) 그러던 어느 폭풍우가 몰아치던 날 둘은 사랑을 나누었고, 마틸드는 폭풍우 속으로 사라진 후 다시는 돌아오지 않았다. 그것이 앙트완이 마틸드를 본 마지막이었던 것이다. 오직 한통의 편지만 남긴 채. '사랑하는 이여, 먼저 떠납니다. 사랑을 남기고 가려구요. 아니 불행이 오기전에 떠나렵니다. 우리의 숨결과 당신의 체취, 모습, 입맞춤까지 당신이 선물한 내 인생의 절정에서 떠납니다. 언제나 당신만을 사랑했습니다. 당신이 날 잊지 못하도록 지금 떠납니다'
Roger, permanent syndical
Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.
Le marin
Lulu is released from prison. Determined to fulfill her dream, find her kids, those of her best friend who remained locked up and go very far. The former inmate will do everything to carry out the "heist" that will get her the money.
Octave and Alice are in love. Theo, rejected by Alice, whom he also loves, works as an informer for a hospital that sells women's wombs. He makes Alice fall and Octave will not be able to get the young woman out of her situation. But he still loves Alice and will continue to sing for her.
L'oncle
When Éric and Marie go to meet their parents at the harbor for the holidays, the latter are victims of an overnight hit-and-run. Marie hides the truth from Éric, investigates the accident alone, and soon finds the presumed culprit.
Baker
A bakery employee gives shelter to a young female addicted to drugs.
Driver Red Dog
Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one who knows what really lies under Mortez's appearance of a playful don Juan. When the program is canceled, Rivetot delays telling Mortez as long as possible... Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.
le patron du restaurant
The French intelligence service want to use a double agent to eliminate a terrorist groupe. To do this, the captain Duroc will give to the traitor a car filled with explosives. But the whole thing is a double trap. One of the officer of the Service, Leroy, has plan a dreadful blow to discredit his new director. He had chosen Duroc because is not supposed to be an intelligent agent.
Jean
An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies.
"November Moon" is a timeless and compelling love story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France. On the brink of war and in the face of escalating anti-Jewish activity, November has fled her native Germany for the relative safety of Paris. There, she meets and falls in love with Ferial, a fiercely patriotic young French woman. Amid a series of life-changing wartime events, they are challenged by their extraordinary circumstances to realize their truest selves and to live - or die - by those choices.
Le médecin légiste
Police Inspector Staniland is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara, the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth.
Pelletier
The story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.
N°357
Reel 36 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
Short film part of Paris Vu Par... 20 Years After
(segment 2)
제작 20주년을 기념하여 기획된 프로젝트. 역시 프랑스를 대표하는 감독들이 대거 참여하여 파리를 배경으로 자신만의 색깔을 뽐낸다. 배고픔과 추위만 해결되면 웃을 수 있는 사랑스러운 소녀들의 이야기부터 사랑의 기쁨과 상실을 통해 살아가는 사람들, 과거에 얽매여 사는 연인들의 이야기까지 갖가지 삶이 교차하는 파리의 공간적 매력을 농밀하게 잡아낸 단편들로 구성되어 있다.
Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an old book of recipes in the trash, they discover a passion for French cuisine and decide to participate in a televised cooking competition.
Jean-Christophe
Ali, an Algerian crane operator, takes with philosophy the bullying suffered by immigrants like him. His existence changes radically the day he wins the lottery.
Boileau
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
(segment "La semaine sanglante")
Neighbour
폴란드 출신의 사무원인 트렐코프스키는 투신자살을 해 죽은 여자가 살았던 파리의 허름한 아파트에 입주를 한다. 별로 친절하지 않은 이웃과 트렐코프스키 사이에 충돌이 자주 일어나고 그는 자신이 느끼는 감정의 심각성을 인지하며 자신이 이로 인한 정신적 압박감으로 인해 자살을 하게 될지도 모른다고 믿게 되는데...
(uncredited)
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...