Michel Cénet

Caroline, a professional horse driver, learns she has breast cancer. Avoiding dealing with it, she runs off to Switserland for a championship. Her husband, Julien, is a judge who has just given a young criminal, Pierre, leave for the day. On her way to Switserland, Caroline meets Pierre and brings him along as her horse groom. When Julien finds out about the cancer, he follows his wife to Switserland

Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial Algeria. Angele, an Algerian colonist with impeccably French origins, has fallen in love with Said, the assistant in her brother-in-law's bakery shop. Said is conscious of his Arab origins and traditions, and Angele has her work cut out for her if she wants to persuade him to marry her. Once she does, all hell breaks loose, as neither her European-origin peers nor Said's conservative Arab family approve of the union. When word of the proposed marriage gets out, strikes, violence and murder quickly follow, ruining not only Angele's life, but the lives of those around her. Her brother-in-law Paco, meanwhile, has been doggedly trying to get along and raise his family in an increasingly chaotic and difficult situation.

When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his business. When efforts to buy the property are fruitless, the mechanic incites the townsfolk against the strange trio.

Shipwrecked for 13 years on an island lost in the heart of the ocean, the passengers and crew of a freighter, reorganized community, suffer the tyranny of Orn, their former captain became a guru and despot.

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off their feed, from the producers down to the lowest gofer.

Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out on him, he clings to the young couple like ivy. However he soons becomes a dead weight and Rose-Marie threatens to leave if Charlie doesn't choose between her and Max.

Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution. From within homes to out on the streets, the young woman gradually discovers a world of decay and violence.

아무도 없는 파리의 거리와 공원, 그리고 텅빈 방의 이미지 위로 남자(브누아 자코)와 여자(마르그리트 뒤라스)의 나레이션이 흐른다. 파리의 남녀들이 독일 점령군이 설치했던 비밀 전화선을 이용해 사랑의 말을 나누는 가운데 시간은 멈춘 듯 느껴지고 무의미해 보이던 이미지에는 점차 정서가 깃들기 시작한다.

On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.

Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.

내성적인 성격의 도서관 사서 줄리는 공원 벤치에서 마술에 대한 책을 읽고 있다. 나이트 클럽의 마술사 셀린느는 그녀의 곁을 지나가다가 여러 가지 물건을 떨어뜨린다. 줄리는 그것들을 되돌려 주려고 쫓아가지만 셀린느는 줄리가 자신을 추격한다고 생각해 계속 달아난다. 이 사건을 계기로 줄리와 셀린느는 친한 친구 사이로 발전한다.

클래식 음악과 실존주의 철학을 신봉하는 인텔리 알렉상드르는 직업도 없이 애인인 마리에게 빌붙어 살고 있다. 어느 날 그는 옛 연인 질베르트에게 청혼하지만 거절당한다. 그는 카페에서 우연히 만난 베로니카와 사랑에 빠지고, 마리와 베로니카는 서로를 질투하게 된다.