Juliette Goublet
Paris in 1942. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of France will change their destiny. Upset at the idea of their only son marrying a Jewish woman, Jean Jausion's parents decide to keep young Annette Zelman away from them... and denounce her to the Gestapo. The machine was launched, but it was too late. Annette was deported to Auschwitz on June 22, 1942.
Magda
França, 1963. Anne é uma aluna jovem e brilhante com um futuro promissor pela frente. Mas quando engravida, vê desaparecer a oportunidade de terminar os estudos e escapar aos constrangimentos das suas origens sociais. Perante a aproximação dos últimos exames e a barriga crescendo, Anne resolve tomar medidas, ainda que tenha de enfrentar a vergonha, o sofrimento e se arrisque a ir para a prisão. Uma adaptação do romance homônimo de Annie Ernaux, que aborda a sua experiência com o aborto quando este ainda era ilegal na França nos anos 60. Leão de Ouro, de Melhor Filme, no Festival de Veneza 2021. Venceu o Cesar 2022 (o Oscar francês) de Atriz Mais Promissora (para Anamaria Vartolomei) e foi indicado a Melhor Filme, Direção e Roteiro Adaptado.
La secrétaire de Lamine
Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to close because of a lack of unemployed. The three colleagues then have the crazy idea of creating unemployment to save their job.
Grocer
O jovem negro Rafael Padilha nasceu em Cuba em 1868 e foi vendido quando ainda era criança. Anos depois ele consegue fugir e é encontrado nas docas por um palhaço que o coloca nas suas apresentações. Em seguida, Padilha passa a ser conhecido como Chocolat, tornando-se o primeiro artista circense negro na França, um grande sucesso no final do século XIX.
Solange
In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor and uprightness of Julie, a special educator rookie. He confesses he wants to make love to a woman before her degenerative disease definitely catch it. Then Julie goes after one of the prostitutes who work in caravans along the N7.
It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.
Gabrielle
This 1991 production by the Lyon National Opera presents a welcome opportunity to revel in a uniquely Gallic confection rarely seen outside France. It's also a chance to enjoy one of Offenbach's most inventive, melodic scores in which the starring musical role and many of the best tunes go to the orchestra, here conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce. This is no accident: the operetta was originally created for a company of actors who relied on pastiche and the composer's help to get them through their "numbers". Not so these singers, of course. As Metella, the languorous courtesan who is responsible for the unravelling debacle, Helene Delavault is in meltingly good voice for her show-stopping rondeau, "A minuit sonnant commence la fete". Her sparring suitors Gardefeu (Jean-Francois Sivadier) and, particularly, Bobinet (Jacques Verzier) combine marvellous visual comedy with fluid singing and there is some dazzling vocal work from the supporting cast. It's a long piece, but hugely enjoyable.