Isabelle Mergault

Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all, an imminent entry into the Académie Française. Except that Philippe suffers from terrible back pain that plagues his life. When he meets the incredible Martha, who picks him up after a car accident on the roads of Normandy, his vision of the world changes. With her gentle madness and her healing hands, this woman who seems so free is especially concerned with treating others, even if it means forgetting herself. Between these two characters that everything opposes, a surprising friendship is woven, with the opportunity for them to finally seize the best that life can offer them.

Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all, an imminent entry into the Académie Française. Except that Philippe suffers from terrible back pain that plagues his life. When he meets the incredible Martha, who picks him up after a car accident on the roads of Normandy, his vision of the world changes. With her gentle madness and her healing hands, this woman who seems so free is especially concerned with treating others, even if it means forgetting herself. Between these two characters that everything opposes, a surprising friendship is woven, with the opportunity for them to finally seize the best that life can offer them.

For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Pierre faces an unscrupulous culinary critic, who will offer him a dubious deal: to dismiss his historic chef in exchange for this famous star. Will the manager of the Grand Restaurant accept?

For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Pierre faces an unscrupulous culinary critic, who will offer him a dubious deal: to dismiss his historic chef in exchange for this famous star. Will the manager of the Grand Restaurant accept?

전직 레이싱 드라이버인 루악은 이제 운전 대신 차를 팔고 있다. 아들을 차 사고로 잃은 후 아들의 심장을 이식받은 젊은이를 찾아 나선 끝에 그가 만난 이는 내일이 없는 듯 살아가는 망나니 위고. 과연 둘은 가족이 될 수 있을까? 배우이자 감독인 제라르 쥐노가 연출과 주연을 맡은 가슴 따뜻한 온 가족을 위한 코미디. [제21회 부천국제판타스틱영화제]

산타는 은퇴하기를 원하지 않지만 규칙은 규칙인지라 그를 대신할 후계자를 찾아서 훈련시켜야 한다. 수백만명의 어린이들 중에 뽑히게 되는 산타의 후계자의 조건은 이름이 니콜라스(Nicolas)이고, 고아이며, 순수한 마음을 가지고 있어야 한다. 지구 반대편에 이러한 조건을 완벽하게 충족시키는 한 아이가 있으나, 자신감이 부족하고 고소공포증이 있어서 산타의 마음에 흡족한 후계자는 아니다. 과연 산타는 그를 대신할 후계자를 도와서 자신의 후계자로 잘 훈련시킬 것인가 ?

Condamné pour un crime qui n'était, selon lui, qu'un accident, Constant réussit à s'évader de la prison où il purge sa peine... Après une fuite aveugle, livré à tous les hasards, Constant finit par échouer dans un coin perdu, près des berges désertes d'un canal.... Se cachant sur une péniche à l'abandon, Constant tente de reprendre son souffle, accalmie de courte durée... Dès l'aube, Sylvia une pétillante jeune femme qui a reconnu l'homme traqué, lui propose un implacable marché : assassiner (puisqu'elle le pense être un tueur professionnel) Jeanne, sa mère adoptive sinon elle le dénonce à la police ! Piégé, Constant ne peut qu'accepter cette périlleuse " mission ". Mais bien loin de tuer Jeanne, Constant la sauve d'un suicide annoncé.

Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so easy in fact when she thinks twice. She does not get on with her husband any longer. She gets on his nerves and he does not attract her any longer. She feels good only when she jogs on the beach and ... when she is the arms of her lover, Leo. One day, Gilbert gets killed in a car accident. Good news, since she will be able to live with Leo. The trouble is her well-meaning family settle at her villa with a view to supporting the "poor widow" morally. Anne-Marie just cannot admit she is not distressed at all, especially to her son Christophe. She is now even more of a prisoner than when Gilbert was alive...

Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so easy in fact when she thinks twice. She does not get on with her husband any longer. She gets on his nerves and he does not attract her any longer. She feels good only when she jogs on the beach and ... when she is the arms of her lover, Leo. One day, Gilbert gets killed in a car accident. Good news, since she will be able to live with Leo. The trouble is her well-meaning family settle at her villa with a view to supporting the "poor widow" morally. Anne-Marie just cannot admit she is not distressed at all, especially to her son Christophe. She is now even more of a prisoner than when Gilbert was alive...

Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so easy in fact when she thinks twice. She does not get on with her husband any longer. She gets on his nerves and he does not attract her any longer. She feels good only when she jogs on the beach and ... when she is the arms of her lover, Leo. One day, Gilbert gets killed in a car accident. Good news, since she will be able to live with Leo. The trouble is her well-meaning family settle at her villa with a view to supporting the "poor widow" morally. Anne-Marie just cannot admit she is not distressed at all, especially to her son Christophe. She is now even more of a prisoner than when Gilbert was alive...

프랑스 남부의 시골에서 작은 농장을 운영하는 에메는 무뚝뚝하고 농사일 밖에 모르는 단순한 중년 남자다. 황당한 감전사로 아내를 잃은 에메는 바쁜 농장일과 쌓여 있는 집안일로 목하 고민 중이다. 농장일과 집안일에 힘겨워하던 그는 결국 새로운 파트너를 찾기 위해 결혼상담소를 찾아가고, 상담소장은 빠른 구인을 위해서는 루마니아가 최고라며 새로운 파트너를 찾기 위해 루마니아로의 원정을 권한다. 이웃들에게는 독일에 간다고 거짓말을 하고 루마니아 행 비행기를 탄 에메. 루마니아에서 만나는 여성들은 국제결혼으로 어려운 경제상황에서 벗어나기 위해 무조건 "미남이시네요"를 연발하고, 에메는 오히려 “당신은 못생겼다”고 말하는 솔직하고 착한 엘레나에게 호감을 갖게 된다. 프랑스로 함께 돌아온 두 남녀! 에메는 엘레나 덕분에 평화롭고 행복한 나날을 보내지만 순수하고 열정적인 그녀에게 다가서기엔 자신이 한없이 초라하게 느껴진다. 때문에 진정 자기를 아내로 맞아주었으면 하는 엘레나의 바램과는 달리 에메는 일정하게 거리를 두고 그녀를 대한다. 결국 서로에게 조금씩 마음을 열게 되는 두 사람. 하지만 엘레나는 에메에게 말하지 못한 비밀 때문에 괴로워하고, 에메는 아내로 맞이하기엔 엘레나가 너무 젊고 아름답다고 생각한다. 타지 프랑스 생활에서 절박한 외로움을 느끼는 엘레나를 위해 무언가를 해주어야 한다고 생각한 에메는 결국 그녀를 위해 중요한 결정을 내리게 된다. 과연 그 둘의 서로에 대한 착한 마음은 이루어질 수 있을까?

프랑스 남부의 시골에서 작은 농장을 운영하는 에메는 무뚝뚝하고 농사일 밖에 모르는 단순한 중년 남자다. 황당한 감전사로 아내를 잃은 에메는 바쁜 농장일과 쌓여 있는 집안일로 목하 고민 중이다. 농장일과 집안일에 힘겨워하던 그는 결국 새로운 파트너를 찾기 위해 결혼상담소를 찾아가고, 상담소장은 빠른 구인을 위해서는 루마니아가 최고라며 새로운 파트너를 찾기 위해 루마니아로의 원정을 권한다. 이웃들에게는 독일에 간다고 거짓말을 하고 루마니아 행 비행기를 탄 에메. 루마니아에서 만나는 여성들은 국제결혼으로 어려운 경제상황에서 벗어나기 위해 무조건 "미남이시네요"를 연발하고, 에메는 오히려 “당신은 못생겼다”고 말하는 솔직하고 착한 엘레나에게 호감을 갖게 된다. 프랑스로 함께 돌아온 두 남녀! 에메는 엘레나 덕분에 평화롭고 행복한 나날을 보내지만 순수하고 열정적인 그녀에게 다가서기엔 자신이 한없이 초라하게 느껴진다. 때문에 진정 자기를 아내로 맞아주었으면 하는 엘레나의 바램과는 달리 에메는 일정하게 거리를 두고 그녀를 대한다. 결국 서로에게 조금씩 마음을 열게 되는 두 사람. 하지만 엘레나는 에메에게 말하지 못한 비밀 때문에 괴로워하고, 에메는 아내로 맞이하기엔 엘레나가 너무 젊고 아름답다고 생각한다. 타지 프랑스 생활에서 절박한 외로움을 느끼는 엘레나를 위해 무언가를 해주어야 한다고 생각한 에메는 결국 그녀를 위해 중요한 결정을 내리게 된다. 과연 그 둘의 서로에 대한 착한 마음은 이루어질 수 있을까?

Actress Stéphanie Grumet is about to make her comeback after a six-year hiatus. Her husband, prominent film critic Pierre-Louis Saintaignan, promises her to write an objective review of her movie. Trouble ensues.

Yvon Rance, who runs a hair salon in Brittany, only wants his beloved teenaged daughter Laetita to be happy, something he believes she'll be able to achieve by completing high school and then following in her father's professional footsteps. When Laetita tells him that she has been cast in the latest movie by renowned director Stephane, he is initially unimpressed. He grudgingly relents when he learns that the money she will make for a couple months of work is twice what he makes in a year.

Yvon Rance, who runs a hair salon in Brittany, only wants his beloved teenaged daughter Laetita to be happy, something he believes she'll be able to achieve by completing high school and then following in her father's professional footsteps. When Laetita tells him that she has been cast in the latest movie by renowned director Stephane, he is initially unimpressed. He grudgingly relents when he learns that the money she will make for a couple months of work is twice what he makes in a year.

A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arrives, however, she learns that she is a victim to a hoax. Unable to return to France, Bernadette looks for work while staying with her close friend Shirley, an actress looking for her big break. Their friendship is challenged when Bernadette finds herself falling in love with Shirley's boyfriend.

Bernard is in the middle of a divorce. In the courthouse where he is awaiting the separation settlement, he runs across a childhood friend, Nicolas, who runs a dating service and is passing out flyers to soon-to-be divorcés. Bernard goes with his friend to his club, and gets roped into helping him find his soulmate.

When Éric and Marie go to meet their parents at the harbor for the holidays, the latter are victims of an overnight hit-and-run. Marie hides the truth from Éric, investigates the accident alone, and soon finds the presumed culprit.

The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.

Nightclub musician Sebastian, discovers one evening with surprise that he is supposedly the grandfather of a boy with the same name as him.

A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target of the hitman he hired.

Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as it has always done in life with strength, determination, and above all with humor. In his fight, it is supported by Ferdinand, his fiery lover and naive who is a journalist. In the hospital, treated by Prof. Tobman, deeply human doctor, she met a group of women, all living with the same bad but each following a different social environment. This group will become his new "family".

A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women.

Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the 'Blackies', the 'Arabs', the neo-nazis 'Justiciers' and some mean gays. Vincent (Daniel Auteuil) is the good cop coming from Marseilles where he was a gangster. He's a soft method guy but also kicks assses hard and throw lethal dialog lines when needed. With the precious help of 'l'Arbalète'* (Marisa Berenson**), a tox' prostitute ex-member of Vincent's former gang, he will try to put order in that mess. There's also a violent and racist cop (Marcel Bozzuffi), Algeria veteran with hard methods, whose role could be more than to protect and to serve.

Three generations, the Chic, the Bumpkin and the New confront in a bourgeois family in Paris.

After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and demand a piece of the action for themselves.

Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...

18세 우편배달부 쥘은 세계적인 프리마돈나 가수 신시아의 라이브 콘서트를 녹음하고 그녀의 무대의상을 훔친다. 이는 쥴의 디바 신시아에 대한 숭배의식이다. 그녀는 음반을 내지 않을 뿐만 아니라 자기의 노래를 녹음하지도 못하게 한다. 그녀의 음악회라면 세계 어느곳이든 달려가는 쥘은 마침내 그녀의 노래를 녹음하게 되나, 음반취입을 하지 않는 것을 원칙으로 하는 그녀를 쥘은 잘 알고 있기에, 자기만의 비밀로 간직하게 된다한편, 생 라자르 역에서 나디아라는 여인이 살해당하고, 현장에 세워져 있던 쥴의 우편배달용 오토바이에 나디아가 죽기전에 남긴 조직의 비밀이 녹음된 카세트 테입이 숨겨진다. 한편 경찰에서는 파리 매춘조직을 일망타진할 수 있는 증거가 담긴 나디아의 카세트 테입을 찾아내라는 엄명이 떨어진다. 음악회가 있었던 날 생 라쟈르 거리에서 우편을 취급하고 있던 쥘의 가방 속에 우연히 흘러들어가게 된 이 테입으로 인해서 쥘은 이 사건 속에 휘말리게 되는데......

Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that his assistant is in love with his wife. This one runs away with her daughter in law. So, Gaby's friends imagine a gambit to find them, at the moment where father and son enjoy pleasures of single life.

Two little criminals without major, dream of adventure and easy life. They agree to go to work in the Poitou as representatives of musical encyclopedias luxury. But their friend Valerie arrive from Paris and just changes their life.

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.