Mathieu Verhaeghe

Royal Palace Theatre, Paris . February 17th 1673, the King’s theatre group is playing « Le Malade Imaginaire » when Moliere started spitting blood, but he takes the decision to keep playing until the end. During his agony, he let enter in the theatre all the elements and ghost who made his life. Starting a fight to preserve his dignity, he plan to transfigure his death in a last laugh instrument.

A French journalist meets Salvador Dali several times for a documentary project.

Marcelo, 50 years old, has dedicated his life to teaching philosophy at the Public University and suddenly his mentor and boss, Professor Caselli, dies. Disoriented in this new landscape, Marcelo assumes that he will inherit the position left vacant by his mentor. What he doesn't expect is that Rafael Sujarchuk, a charismatic and pedantic philosopher trained in the best European universities, also covets the position. Between his multiple jobs as a philosophy professor in the local slums, at the university and privately with an 80-year-old millionaire, he must also prepare to run for office against this strong opponent who seems to have everyone on his side. Marcelo's clumsy efforts don't seem to be enough to get the job, but is that really what he wants?

The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois Charles Moufflet, disappear, who takes advantage of this tour to escape for good.

For Stella, it’s her final year. But she says she doesn’t care! That year, she discovers the famous Parisian club, the Bains Douches, 80’s and its crazy nights. Her friends are just studying, her father has left with another woman and her mother is depressed. And then there is André who dances like a God… That year will decide her whole life. She pretends not to think about it…

Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and even buy a ticket. It is with extraordinary luck that the beautiful young Ava happens to be sitting at the counter: a spark ignites and wedding bells begin ringing in the distance.

Sophie tem 28 anos. Ela gostaria de ser cartunista, mas isso seria muito mais fácil se ela tivesse cursado uma escola de artes. Ela também gostaria de encontrar o amor, mas isso também seria muito mais fácil se ele lhe saltasse aos olhos. Ela multiplica experiências amorosas e profissionais. Leva muitos golpes duros e dá alguns: isso faz parte do aprendizado. Não lhe sai da cabeça Daniel Johnston, que insiste que o verdadeiro amor acaba por chegar.

Quando Georges encontra uma fascinante jaqueta de camurça, sua vida muda completamente, de um dia para o outro. A vestimenta passa a ser sua principal obsessão e o leva até uma jornada de possessividade, ciúmes e comportamento psicótico. Quando menos percebe, Georges se tornou uma outra pessoa.

Police officers at a station must solve a murder case.

Aos 40 anos, o professor François Foucault leciona no renomado Liceu Henri IV, perto do Panthéon de Paris. Devido a uma série de eventos, ele é obrigado a aceitar a transferência de um ano para uma escola no subúrbio da cidade e teme que o pior possa acontecer.

Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?