A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.
Roger's wife
프랑스 한 시골 마을에서 축제가 열린다. 집배원 프랑수아는 축제를 위해 만들어진 영화관에서 미국의 발달된 우편 시스템에 관한 다큐멘터리를 보고 자신도 미국식으로 편지를 배달하려고 한다. 하지만 자전거 한 대만을 가지고, 미국의 거대한 우편 시스템을 따라잡을 수는 없는 노릇. 이때부터 프랑수아의 좌충우돌 우편 배달기가 코믹하게 전개된다. 미국화로 대표되는 현대화와 프랑스의 전통적인 가치 속에서 고민하는 프랑스인들의 고뇌를 담은 영화. 타티는 컬러과 컬러의 두 버전으로 촬영했지만, 흑백 버전으로 개봉되었다 후에, 자크 타티의 딸 소피 타티쉐프의 노력으로 컬러 버전으로 복원되어 소개되기도 했다. 자크 타티는 자신이 주연과 감독을 맡은 이 영화로, 베니스 영화제 황금사자상 후보에까지 올라 감독으로서의 자신의 존재를 알렸다.
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”
Simone Michaud
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.
Two-sided painting of the German occupation in France: the acts of heroism of the maquis are opposed to the villainies of the profiteers and the drafts, all treated in the manner of the imagery of Épinal.
Cécile
Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she occupies with her aunt, is not taken seriously by the police until she the day she is found murdered.
Geneviève Baudu, la fille de Baudu
The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu (Michel Simon) faces stiff competition when a department store moves in across the street, the first of its kind in 1860s Paris. On top of the stresses associated with the rival retailer, Baudu’s niece and two nephews take up residence with him after recently being orphaned. The niece, Denise Baudu (Blanchette Brunoy), sees the writing on the wall for her uncle’s business so she takes a job as a shop girl with his competitor and despite her success the decision does not register well with the family.
Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.
