Clotilde de Bayser

Written in 1760, Carlo Goldoni’s comedy has never been performed at the Comédie-Française, perhaps overshadowed by the famousHoliday Trilogy. A satire of the Venetian merchant class, embodied by narrow-minded, complaining and intolerant men whose mistrust of the fairer sex borders on the absurd, The Boors perfectly illustrates Goldoni’s theatre, a “theatre of life with a real content, characters observed in reality, and a natural expression.” Thus, a theatre in which the man Voltaire described as “nature’s son and painter” scrutinises his contemporaries, their relationships and their social behaviour. His work served to entertain while providing posterity with an acute testimony of the morals of his time. Indeed, Jean-Louis Benoit warns against reducing the author to a simple “photographer of reality”.

Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience something of a crisis in their lives. Olivier, a doctor before becoming wheelchair bound, faces a bleak future after the break up of two relationships. The fact that Rémi and his wife Estelle are unable to have children puts an increasing strain on their marriage. And Pascale, a filmmaker, is on the point of leaving her husband to pursue an affair with an opportunistic career politician.

The poet Jean Sénac is also a radio presenter. A Pied-noir, he opted to stay in Algeria after the country achieved independence in 1962. Ten years later he is monitored by the police of the present regime. His poems have a large public following and his radio show is a great success, especially with the young. The poet allies himself with two students, aspiring playwrights Hamid and Belkacem, to fight for the freedom and culture of Algerian youth.

Antoine Rivière, a highly-reputed psychoanalyst, is visited by a new patient, Edouard Berg. When Berg claims to have killed his own wife, the doctor suspects he is a compulsive liar. How could he know that he has been caught in a trap and it's already too late for escape?

Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.

The film is a wonderfully accurate portrayal of the three stories: The stories are tied together with original dialogue and scenes by Martha / Anne / Freda / Judith (Valérie Stroh) and René Feret which follow a Golden Notebook/Anna Wulf theme: she is "writing" the stories and has a boyfriend named Paul who is a psychiatrist. A Man and Two Women: Anne, a young woman, a slightly bohemian painter: "in love" with her newborn, she abandons her husband while Isabelle, her best friend, attracted by to him and becomes little by little her rival. Each Other:Fréda finds her brother every morning in the secret of her bedroom,they leave themselves and incestuous effective becomes the only possible relationship for both. Our Friend Judith: Judith, a cold and warm intellectual, secret and complex - Beautiful, Judith is careful not to show it, she knows interment and that is enough. Intelligent, she does not bend to the rules of fashion nor seduction.

A death in the family. Patrick dies and his three sisters gather at their parents' home in Normandy. Anne, the oldest, is steady, married with two children, showing little emotion. Isabelle, who's cut herself off from her family for eight years, returns from Paris. Claude, Patrick's twin and still a student, grieves for her other half. Along with their parents, each must face family grievances first before they can grieve together for Patrick. Then comes the revelation of how he died, and new feelings come to the fore. Can a death help a family to heal, coax an aging mother back to sanity, bring a couple into each other's arms, and enable two sisters to grow?

Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.

가냘프고 볼품없는 16세 소녀 쟈닌느(Janine Castang: 샤를로뜨 갱스부르 분)는 가출한 어머니 때문에 이모집에 얹혀 산다. 어머니에 대한 그리움은 어린 쟈닌느에게 큰 상처가 되었고, 그것을 메우기 위해 그녀는 도둑질을 한다. 또 환상의 세계를 그리며 영화를 보러 다닌다. 도둑질이 발각된 쟈닌느는 가출해서 부자집의 하녀가 되고, 영화관에서 만난 미셸(Michel Davenne: 디디에 베지스 분)과 관계를 갖는다. 그는 쟈닌느에게 비서 교육을 받아 좋은 직장을 찾으라고 권유한다. 쟈닌느는 다시 학교에 다니기 시작하지만, 도벽은 그치지를 않는다. 하루는 학교에 든 강도 라울(Raoul: 시몬 디 라 브로세 분)과 급속도로 친해지고, 쟈닌느는 주인집에서 금품을 훔쳐 그와 함께 도망간다. 그러나 쟈닌느는 수류탄 사건으로 소년원에 끌려가고 탈옥을 하고 만다. 라울의 아이를 가졌지만 그는 찾을 수도 없고, 이모의 집에서도 문전박대를 당한다. 영화관에 간 그녀는 베트남으로 떠나는 지원군의 모습을 담은 뉴스에서 라울을 발견한다. 아기를 낳을 것을 결심한 쟈닌느는 이제 정말 어른의 세계에 뛰어든다.

This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story) about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert. Wallowing in maudlin sentimentality, this feature fails to live up to the promise of its probable inspiration, Fame (1980), and was not well-received at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. However, as a medium for instructing director Francis Girod's actual students at the Paris Conservatory about the art and perils of filmmaking, it was undoubtedly a good deal more successful.

꽁스땅스는 책 읽기를 좋아하는 여자이다. 어느날 연인에게 책을 읽어주는 것으로 시작된다. 제명은 '책 읽어 주는 여자'. 그녀가 차츰 소설의 세계로 빠져 들면서 어느덧 책의 주인공 마리가 되는데. 마리가 신문을 낸 '젊은 여성이 댁에서 책을 읽어드립니다.'라는 광고를 보고 다섯명의 신청자가 의뢰를 한. 첫번째 의뢰인은 반신불수의 미소년 에릭으로 '머리카락'을 읽어준다. 두번째는 이기심 많은 장군의 미망인에게 '전쟁과 평화'를, 세번째는 일중독에 걸려있는 사장에게 마그리뜨 뒤라스의 '연인'을 읽어준다. 집지키는 6살 소녀에게는 '이상한 나라의 앨리스'를 읽어주고, 속물스러운 노파의 서재에서는 '소돔의 120일'을 읽는 동안 상대의 에로틱한 요구에 시달리기도 하는데...