Marianne Groves
Nascimento : 1964-07-31, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marie
After a serious accident on a film shoot, Marc, an equestrian, loses all hope to mount back on. His insurance company instructs Florence to handle his case. This film is the story of their meeting.
Vasquez assistant
Vazquez, 60, owns a small French publishing house. His mother, a Spanish refugee, raised him in the memory of a father, hero of the resistance under Franquism. His daughter Lauriane, 30, has a complicated love life, but still lives with her father.
Eles têm 25 anos e se casam hoje. Eles têm 35 anos, estão juntos há 10 anos e se separam hoje. Eles têm 45 anos, estão separados há 10 anos e tentam se reconciliar hoje. Três casamentos. Três casais, durante um período de 24 horas, um tanto perturbados pelas dúvidas e crises de cada um. ‘Como é maravilhoso amar’, canta corajosamente o padre, celebrando o casamento, sendo que estatisticamente uma em cada três uniões termina em divórcio. Mas qual delas?.
Suzanne
François Pignon (Daniel Auteuil) é um homem que está divorciado há 2 anos, mas permanece apaixonado pela ex-mulher, que não quer mais falar com ele por considerá-lo chato. Seu filho também se mantém afastado por vontade própria e, para completar, Pignon está prestes a ser demitido. Deprimido com a vida, Pignon conhece seu novo vizinho, Belone (Michel Aumont), a quem conta sua atual situação. É quando Belone lhe propõe uma solução inusitada para salvar o emprego de Pignon: enviar ao seu chefe uma fotomontagem onde Pignon aparece com outros homens, o que faria assumir sua homossexualidade. De acordo com o plano de Belone, a empresa não demitirá mais Pignon por medo de que isto provoque o protesto da ala homossexual da sociedade, a quem os produtos da empresa também são voltados. Inicialmente relutante, já que não é homossexual, Pignon acaba aceitando o plano e vê sua vida modificar totalmente após as fotos se tornarem públicas.
La voisine d'en face
Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other...
Mathilde
Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.
Benjamin Ballon wants to be a filmmaker, and has devoted a large part of his life for the past few years to getting to the point of filming an independent movie. He has been encouraged by Carmen Maura (playing herself), an established star, who has agreed to appear in his first film, and it is her level-headedness, calmness, and general good sense that keeps the project moving along, despite Benjamin's inexperience and a very temperamental male lead. On one occasion when the male lead is hours late for a shoot, her calm is the only thing which keeps the crew from walking out. The title comes from Maura's habit of bringing homemade tortillas to meetings, and using them to get her way.
On a Saturday evening in Paris, Juliette, Héloïse and Marianne each get their first separate experience of "Parisian life".
La prostituée
It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and totalitarian regime. Women with children who want to divorce their husbands are not allowed to do so, all political parties have been outlawed, smoking is illegal and everyone must work. After a spat with her boyfriend, Carole (Laure Marsac) hails a taxi, not realizing that she has done so without any of the money or identification papers she needs. Her driver (Bruno Cremer) attempts to help her, but a variety of mishaps bring her to the attention of the police, who proceed to arrest her on made-up charges and a phoney HIV-positive result on tests given at the time of arrest.
Muriel
Martine tem 25 anos e acaba de se separar de François. Desesperada, persegue o ex-marido pela rua para obter uma última explicação mas, completamente alucinada, provoca um acidente que a conduz às urgências de um hospital psiquiátrico. Acometida por uma amnésia momentânea, decide ficar no hospital para se recompor. Durante esse tempo, desenvolve uma grande atividade: ocupar-se das vidas sentimentais dos outros. Cheia de energia e uma sufocante e desajeitada boa vontade, ela faz tudo o que pode para juntar pessoas que não exigem tanto…
Braduelle
The teacher Odile Langlois starts her new job in the elementary school of a small French town. She is elegant and mysterious - but most of all, she is very friendly to her new students, whose confidence she gains so quickly. On the contrary, however, Odile's unconventional, alternative way of teaching does not appeal to some colleagues and parents who do everything to get rid of the young teacher ...
Mado
In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is constantly on the lookout for a good Catholic man who shares her enthusiasm for sunrises. She even puts up posters on trees and walls advertising her interest. The townspeople make fun of her, but she isn't discouraged. Her best friend is Germaine (Isabelle Gelinas), a pretty girl whose moral standards are not as strict as Mado's. When a film director (Oleg Yankovsky) arrives in town, everyone is agog, but Mado is particularly keen to find out about him. However, it seems that he has his eye on Germaine, and he isn't really in her league anyhow.
A washerwoman
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.