Irène Ismaïloff

Vanessa Springora tells how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. She explains how she was the victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary and psychic. But beyond her individual story, she also questions the excesses of an era, and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity.

An evening in a Parisian building where we discover nine situations that each evoke a hot topic of society: health crisis, feminist struggles, transhumanism, Islam, identity movements (non-exhaustive list!)... Without any judgment but with humor, sometimes burlesque, sometimes grating, and the whole sprinkled with a good dose of emotion. And all these colorful characters will be reunited in a flamboyant finale.

After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed. Powerless, he has to support the daily visits of doctors,nurse and hospital staff then his closes including his brother Herve. Visits after visits, funny or touching, Pierre starts to reconsider some people and reexamine his environment. And after all, his stay becomes a second chance ...

Xavier e Brigitte, um casal de criadores de gado na Normandia, veem sua vida tranquila perturbada quando Brigitte conhece Stan, um jovem atraente de Paris. Quando ela decide encontrá-lo secretamente em Paris, nada corre como planejado.

Juliet reads in her horoscope that a childhood sweetheart could reappear.

Santa is dead and many believe they are guilty. But what really happened?

Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...

Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive and bond with each other.

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...