Céline Samie

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”.

Charles Chinaski is a guy with many problems and feels responsible for most of them: women, alcohol, his hostility towards certain groups of people. One day, he decides to consult the first doctor he comes across.

Paul may be a successful psychoanalyst but he fails to realize that his own marriage to Carla is failing. One of his patients, Raphaël, confides in him that he is in love with a married woman. In the course of the discussion, Paul understands that the woman in question is his own wife, Carla. Rather than end the consultation, Paul decides to manipulate his patient in an attempt to win back his wife. But Raphaël is not as stupid as he looks...

파리 근교 노동자들의 마을 블루로드에 살고 있는 모모와 이브라힘. 모모는 아버지와 단 둘이 살고 있지만, 다정한 부자 관계와는 거리가 멀다. 모모의 집 근처 가게 주인인 이브라힘은 그런 모모에게 다정하게 대해주고, 두 사람은 삶과 인간에 대한 다양한 생각을 나누며 서로에게 진정한 아버지와 아들이 되어간다.

청각장애인 비서 칼라는 감옥에서 갓 나온 폴을 우연히 만난다. 폴은 아무것도 할 수 없는 무능력하지만 술수에 능한 사람이고, 반면에 칼라는 정직하게 자신의 일에 최선을 다하는 성실한 사람. 바텐더로 일하게 된 폴은 어느 날 마피아 조직의 음모를 눈치채게 되고, 칼라에게 멀리서 망원경을 통해 무슨 이야기가 오고 가는지를 살펴보기를 부탁한다. 그러면서 폴과 칼라는 서로에게 빠져들게 되고, 사건의 소용돌이 속으로 걷잡을 수 없이 빨려 들게 된다.

셰인과 준은 파리로 신혼여행 온 미국인 부부. 서로 사랑하는 평범한 부부처럼 보이지만 셰인은 말못할 고민을 안고 있다. 그는 과거 레오 박사의 극단적인 리비도 실험 결과, 상대를 물어뜯어 죽이는 살인 섹스를 하는 이상한 병을 얻은 것이다. 그 때문에 그는 사랑하는 부인과의 잠자리를 계속 피하며 레오 박사를 애타게 찾고 있다. 한편 레오가 보호중인 코어 역시 셰인과 같은 병에 걸려 엽기적인 살인 행각을 계속하지만, 병을 치료할 방법은 묘연한데.

Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer.

Adrien does not see eye to eye with his patrician father about much. It is 1912, and the old man still believes in the old rules which strait-jacket "men of class." He believes that the elite have the right to conquer where they can, that they should refrain from publicizing their improprieties, and he is rabidly pro-military. Adrian, kicked out of his military school for his own improprieties (and hiding that from his father), is naturally drawn to Vicky a beautiful divorced woman and friend of the family who is staying at their mansion. The family tutor, a man of ordinary background (with some ideas which seem radical in this household) is similarly smitten. On the basis of their shared attraction, the two men form a friendship. Meanwhile, the object of their affection finds it diverting to toy with them.

The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother Cyprien (Robin Renucci), who is an early pioneer in medical anatomy (he dissected corpses and made drawings of what he found in them), have fallen in love with the same woman, Marianne (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), a laundress. This attraction has not escaped the notice of Salmon d'Anglas (Sami Frey), a conniving nobleman, who has his heart set on getting revenge on Jean-Honore (Joachim de Almeida) for refusing his patronage and becoming the darling of the French court.

In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness...

The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.