Producer
China, década de 1980. Min, uma jovem órfã, viaja para estudar com um botanista de renome. Misterioso e autoritário, esse homem vive em uma ilha, transformada por ele em um enorme jardim. Ele vive com sua filha, An, que é obrigada a partilhar a existência solitária e distante do pai. Quando Min chega ao local, An a recebe com alegria e esperança. Rapidamente, as duas ficam inseparáveis e vêem sua relação evoluir para uma atração perturbadora, sensual e proibida. Incapazes de se separar, An e Min armam um plano perigoso para continuar habitando o mesmo teto.
Producer
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Producer
Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It seems that he has dallied with a book-dealer (her nemesis) who ultimately does not propose as much of a threat to the disillusioned saleswoman as a certain actress. Along with these three are several other females who interact with the main protagonists. Set up more in the manner of a stage play with changing scenes and acts.
Producer
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
Producer
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.
Associate Producer
Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
Associate Producer
Kevin mata um idoso por piedade pois via que o velho sofria e assim desejava. No entanto, no tribunal, Claude, o implacável advogado de acusação quer que o júri mande Kevin para a cadeia. O acusado, porém, é inocentado e vê a mulher de Claude se apaixonar por ele. Quem narra este episódio é Clive, velho escritor à beira da morte que, em seu aniversário, recebe a visita dos filhos. Alain Resnais utiliza-se, mais uma vez, de dispositivos oníricos e psicanalíticos para contar uma estória.
