Irène
César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to get out of his financial disaster, he agrees to a deal: he pretends to be the husband of his sister's girlfriend Kim so she can legally adopt a little girl from Thailand. Caesar believes this to be a great idea and is looking forward to his trip to Thailand. After all, he is going to be able to mix business with pleasure--so he thinks. He didn't expect the local police, the Chinese Triads and the director of the orphanage to chip in, who want to make sure that little Mai is going to end up in a nice family.
La boulangère
Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va diviser les deux amis : Brahim revendique son identité algérienne, Mouloud fustige son refus de la France, pays qui les a vu grandir.
Moustache
After raising her daughter, one would think that Julie's life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission in Pondicherry, India to teach her skills to Indians. She can only do this if she gets her high-school diploma, something she neglected to do earlier. The idea of this new post motivates her to rectify her youthful omission, and she goes back to school in Montparnasse. Just before classes are to start, her current boyfriend's condescending ways prove too much for her, and she breaks up with him, reacting to that by getting drunk. Thus, when she has to take the subway to school on the first day, being unfamiliar with the route and somewhat the worse for wear, she gets lost. Fortunately, she meets an elderly man, a retired musician for the Paris Opera, who is headed for the very same destination. The two form a relationship of mutual encouragement and support.
Mélanie
It's New Year's Day. Antoine Garnier has decided to invite all his family and friends to dinner at his house the day after New Year's Eve. But the family being large, he is going to be overwhelmed since no less than 35 guests are expected.
Henriette Vétiver
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits
Suzanne
Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile.
Mrs. d'Herblay
Portuguese Mother
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
School warden
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services would like to recover at all costs.
Mrs Leblanc
파리로 전학 온 첫 날, 13살 소녀 빅(소피 마르소 분)은 새로운 친구들을 사귀며 즐거운 학교생활을 시작한다. 이제 막 이성에 눈을 뜨기 시작한 소녀들. 잘생긴 학교 선생님부터 학교 인기짱 남학생까지 그들의 이야기만으로도 시간가는 줄을 모른다. 13살 소녀, 첫사랑을 만나다! 어느 날 친구들의 초대로 가게 된 파티에서 잘생긴 친구 마튜(알렉산드르 스텔링 분)를 만나게 된다. 첫눈에 반한 그녀. 마튜는 디스코에 빠져있는 친구들 틈에서 빅에게 헤드폰을 씌워주며 둘만의 로맨틱한 시간을 만든다. 13살 그녀, 사랑이 어렵다! 사랑이 어려운 13살 소녀 빅, 그녀는 고민 끝에 친구처럼 지내는 할머니 푸펫트(故 데니즈 그레이 분)에게 사실을 고백하고 연애코치를 받는다. 첫사랑 그와의 짜릿한 밤을 위해 할머니와 작전을 짜고 드디어 감행하기에 이르는 데… 빛나고 아름다웠던 시절, 모든 것이 서툴지만 행복했던 이들의 사랑 이야기가 지금 시작된다.
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...
The Secretary
Charlie, a forty-something looking for a job, meets two twenty-something girls, Ghislaine and Josiane, who are similarly unemployed. All three decide to take to the road selling oilcloth to pay their way. The harmony reigns within the group until the arrival of Tony, a seller of miniature cathedrals.
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
Le cuisinière
1954년 프랑스 디종의 봄. 15살의 로랑은 ‘까뮈’를 읽고 자살을 논하고 ‘찰리 파커’의 신보에 열광하는 재즈광이다. 엄마인 ‘클라라’의 눈에는 여전히 예민하고 순수한 어린 아이일 뿐이지만 로랑은 변화의 길목에 서서 한껏 객기를 부리고 있다. 처음 맛 본 쌉싸름한 담배의 맛, 갖고 싶은 물건을 살짝 가방에 넣는 손의 떨림, 대책 없이 취해 무작정 훔쳐버린 여인의 입술 감촉, 이 모든 것이 로랑의 마음을 간질이며 두근거리게 하는 것들. 하고 싶은 모든 것이 금지되어 있는 로랑의 심장은 열로 달아오른다. 심장의 두근거림 속에서… 소년이 자란다. ‘Heart Murmur’(류마티스 성 열병)라는 병에 걸린 로랑은 아빠와 두 형들과 떨어져 엄마와 단 둘이 요양을 가게 된다. 온천 치료로 유명한 리조트로 향한 둘은 모자(母子) 사이가 아닌 친구 사이처럼 스스럼 없이 즐거운 시간을 보낸다. 평소 엄격하고 차가운 아빠 보다는 열정적이고 자유분방한 엄마와 각별한 관계이긴 했으나 로랑은 점점 더 복잡한 감정을 가지게 되고 리조트에서 파티가 벌어진 어느 날 둘 사이에 특별한 일이 벌어진다.
Thérèse
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cannot seem to tell the novel from reality, causing sleep troubles. (2) A man cannot escape the absurd ads he saw at the movie theater that day. (3) A polluted and construction ridden town keeps everybody on edge, sending one man to the doctor. (4) A hunter, a farmer and a couple on a picnic unknowingly cause continuous trouble one another.
