Laure
To celebrate Yves’ 50th birthday, his friends plan to take him to the sunny paradise of Paros in Greece. But due to a cancelled flight, the holiday will take place in a far less glamorous and much rainier destination: Yves’ family home in Brittany. During the vacation, their bonds are challenged by Antoine’s constant complaining, Yves’ pride, Baptiste’s superstition and Laurent’s jealousy of Jean-Mich’s perfect life and family. On top of that, Antoine’s supposedly harmless joke – offering Yves a DNA ancestry test – has unforeseen consequences…
Laure
Pelo seu aniversário de 50 anos, Antoine recebeu um presente bem original: um infarto! A partir de agora, ele terá que se cuidar. O problema é que Antoine sempre cuidou de tudo: da saúde, da alimentação, da família, de não magoar os amigos e concordar com tudo. Mesmo assim, ele aceita encarar um novo regime e, na tentativa de mudar de vida, acabará mudando a dos outros também.
La mère
"To invent a wife when you're single, and you want to seduce a young woman who claims to be attracted only to married men, you still have to lie. To make your new conquest believe that you live in the superb duplex that you keep during the holidays, you must always lie. For Serge, this cascade of lies will lead to new catastrophic fabrications, but also reveal astonishing truths. His professional and sentimental life will be turned upside down, dragging his best friends into its whirlwind. The only certainty of this story, is that WITHOUT LIE, nothing would have happened. "
17, rue Bleue is an autobiographical drama about an Algerian immigrant's self-destruction in Paris. In it, director Chad Chenouga recounts how his mother, Adda, came to France as an illegal alien, hoping to escape the haunting secrets of her native land, and seeking a new life of wealth. When Adda falls in love with her employer, a wealthy Parisian named Merlin, she believes her fortune is within reach. But troubles begin when Merlin suddenly dies, leaving behind no clear will. Adda, believing in the Algerian superstition that a beauty mark on her son's hand signifies great wealth to come, throws herself into a losing court battle to win Merlin's estate. As legal defeats mount up, Adda turns to drugs, driving away friends and family members, until she's left with only her son, Chad. When he turns 16, his mother dies from her many years of drug abuse.
Elsa
No titulo inglês (Happenstance) resulta melhor essa ideia de coincidencia aleatória de acontecimentos que provocam determinado resultado. Comparado a Run Lola Run (Tom Tukwer) e Efeito Borboleta (Eric Bress e J. Mackye Gruber), na linha da teoria do caos ou efeito borboleta, desenvolvida por Edward Lorenz, na verdade, se trata de uma secular constatação da oriental filosofia Taoista... Audrey Tautou, aqui, um ano antes de Amélie. Faudel, é, principalmente, um popular cantor da segunda geração da emigração argelina em França, e já nascido neste país (com exemplo postado no Projeto Chernobyl, de que deixarei link)... Em Paris, um secretário de igreja, nascido em 1977, escuta seu horóscopo no caminho do trabalho: hoje deve encontrar o grande amor de sua vida, mas terá de ser paciente. Antes que o dia termine, 20 vidas se cruzam em um caminho imprevisível e fatalmente ligado, mostrando que pequenas mudanças podem afetar as histórias de muitas pessoas...
