Frédérique Ruchaud

Vincent and Olivier have an intense, rocky relationship: Vincent evades tenderness, just as he does desire, forcing the couple to hunt for a third partner to participate in their sexual games. Olivier has a background in the theater. He believes in, but is preoccupied by their relationship; he wants to free Vincent from the ghosts haunting him. But Vincent is locked into the past. His father, a pilot, was killed in a plane accident. Vincent’s job is a strange, uncommon one that plunges him deep into contemplation from which no one can make him budge: he deciphers plane disaster recordings. Vincent’s unconscious repression is so powerful that he hasn’t even recognized the link between his father’s death and his work. It will take the stormy encounter with Olivier for Vincent to obtain his ‘black box.’ Indeed, the two young men come to life through their connection with each other, a connection which shatters the framework of typical love stories.

에밀 졸라의 소설을 영화화했다. 프랑스 제2제정 시대. 젊은 실업자 에티엔느 랑티에(레노드 분)는 광부가 되면서 지옥같은 노동자의 삶에 발을 들여놓는다. 프랑스 북부에서 그는 가난과 알콜중독, 난잡한 성생활, 샤발같이 음탕하거나 투생 마유같이 너그러운 사람들 등 버림받아 고통에 빠진 인간성을 발견한다. 그는 사회주의 운동에 나서지만 광산 책임자로부터 찍히게 된다. 봉급이 깍이자, 대대적인 파업이 일어나고 광부들에게 굶주림과 죽음이 다가온다. 이런 속에서도 에티엔느와 카트린느(주디스 헨리 분)의 사랑은 아름답게 빛난다. 파업은 군대에 의해 진압되지만 에티엔느는 그 모든 피가 헛되지 않았다는 희망을 가슴에 담고 다시 떠난다.

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.

France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)

Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only one horse, so, by way of distinguishing them from each other, the proprietor of four horses was called "Great Claus," and he who owned but one horse was known as "Little Claus"...

This Civil War anthology adapts three Ambrose Bierce stories "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga" and "The Mockingbird."