Le père d'Élisa
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
Cassin
The story of Léopold Salvat, a retired general practitioner from Montmartre, is bored since he no longer works. An armed attack on a gas station near his home wakes him up.
Georges Clemenceau
Joseph
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.
Renzo
Belgium, 1980. On the banks of the Meuse river, against the background of a steel-producing city, factories close down one after another and lay off workers. One of those made redundant is Fabrice, who, at thirty-five, is proud of his trade, rendered mythical by fire and steel, but feels he has become useless. His wife, Céline, tries to renew his interest in life. Despite a few moments of rediscovered happiness, Fabrice remains trapped in his confusion and one day disappears. Céline, her intense love leading the way, goes looking for him and eventually finds him. Once again, she tries to save him from himself. Can love resuscitate a languishing man? That is Céline's wager.
Père Vinca (as Gilles Lagay)
Based on French writer Colette's 1923 novel, Le Blé en herbe focuses on the changing relationship between childhood friends Vinca and Phillipe. Both are on the verge of adulthood and beginning to recognize romantic feelings for one another when Phillipe meets a lascivious, wealthy older woman named Madam Dellaray. He is torn between his innocent but restricting affection for Vinca and satisfaction of his impatient lust for the new and mature world Madam Dellaray offers.
프랑스의 남서부 도시 보르도에 흘러 들어온 쥴리엣은 미장원에서 머리 감기는 일을 하게 된다. 이곳에 들렀다가 쥴리엣에게 반한 베르제룽은 대학병원에서 명성을 떨치는 황혼에 접어든 노의사이다. 쥴리엣은 베르제롱이 제공한 안락한 집에서 풍요로운 삶을 누리며 만족한 생활을 하는데 어느날 기르던 강아지가 죽자 병원으로 달려간다. 베루제롱을 만나지 못한 쥴리엣은 대신 토트렐을 만난다. 토트렐은 베르제롱의 신임을 받는 장래가 촉망되는 인턴으로 쥴리엣과는 보르도로 오는 기차를 함께 타고 온 인연이 있는 사이다. 서로 끌린 이들은 강아지를 묻어주고 호텔 방으로 가 뜨거운 사랑을 나누는데 이 사실이 토트렐을 시기하는 동료에 의해 베르 제롱에게 알려진다. 두 사람은 베르 제롱을 피해 두 사람만의 보금자리를 꾸민다. 행복한 시간이 흐르고 이후 다시 헤어지게 된다. 토트렐은 약혼녀와 결혼을 하게 되고, 줄리엣은 불치의 병에 걸린다.