Martin Provost

Paulette Van Der Beck e seu marido dirigem a escola de limpeza de Bitche na Alsácia há muitos anos. Sua missão é treinar adolescentes para se tornarem donas de casa perfeitas no momento em que se espera que as mulheres sejam subservientes ao marido. Após a morte repentina de seu marido, Paulette descobre que a escola está à beira da falência e tem que assumir suas responsabilidades. Mas enquanto os preparativos estão em andamento para o melhor programa de TV da competição doméstica, ela e suas animadas alunas começam a questionar suas crenças enquanto os protestos de maio de 1968 em todo o país transformam a sociedade ao seu redor.

Paulette Van Der Beck e seu marido dirigem a escola de limpeza de Bitche na Alsácia há muitos anos. Sua missão é treinar adolescentes para se tornarem donas de casa perfeitas no momento em que se espera que as mulheres sejam subservientes ao marido. Após a morte repentina de seu marido, Paulette descobre que a escola está à beira da falência e tem que assumir suas responsabilidades. Mas enquanto os preparativos estão em andamento para o melhor programa de TV da competição doméstica, ela e suas animadas alunas começam a questionar suas crenças enquanto os protestos de maio de 1968 em todo o país transformam a sociedade ao seu redor.

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.

Claire (Catherine Frot) exerce sua profissão de parteira com muita paixão. Ela é conhecida por ser uma mulher séria e prudente, além de bastante solitária. Sua vida se transforma com a aparição inesperada de Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), uma antiga amante de seu pai, em busca de ajuda para problemas pessoais. Claire hesita em ajudá-la a princípio, mas logo apoia a mulher extravagante, e descobre um modo de vida muito diferente do seu.

Claire (Catherine Frot) exerce sua profissão de parteira com muita paixão. Ela é conhecida por ser uma mulher séria e prudente, além de bastante solitária. Sua vida se transforma com a aparição inesperada de Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), uma antiga amante de seu pai, em busca de ajuda para problemas pessoais. Claire hesita em ajudá-la a princípio, mas logo apoia a mulher extravagante, e descobre um modo de vida muito diferente do seu.

No início dos anos XX, a escritora Violette Leduc (Emmanuelle Devos) encontra a filósofa Simone de Beauvoir (Sandrine Kiberlain). Nasce entre as duas uma intensa amizade que dura toda a vida, ao mesmo tempo que Simone encoraja Violette a escrever mais, expondo as suas dúvidas e medos, abordando todos os detalhes da intimidade feminina.

No início dos anos XX, a escritora Violette Leduc (Emmanuelle Devos) encontra a filósofa Simone de Beauvoir (Sandrine Kiberlain). Nasce entre as duas uma intensa amizade que dura toda a vida, ao mesmo tempo que Simone encoraja Violette a escrever mais, expondo as suas dúvidas e medos, abordando todos os detalhes da intimidade feminina.

After murdering her abusive husband, a woman on the run develops a friendship with another widow.

After murdering her abusive husband, a woman on the run develops a friendship with another widow.

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.

The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her mother.

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.

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.

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no matter how twisted or odd that way must be.

Narrator falls in love with a beautiful girl. Unfortunately she isn’t alone: five guys follow her every time no matter where she goes – to work, in park or in bed.

Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...

In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes a best seller. She also tries to capture the love of this 40-year old publisher. When he drops her for her older sister, should she seek revenge or recapture? In subplots, she gets along badly with her sister and her father, and she encourages her mother's affair with dad's sister. Axel has problems too besides the determined Sibylle: he must come to terms with the drowning death of his mother years ago.

Pierre Bonnard would not be the painter everyone knows without the enigmatic Marthe who occupies more than a third of his work. Maria Boursin, alias Marthe de Méligny, posed as a ruined Italian aristocrat the day they fell madly in love with each other. Little did she know that she would become the pillar of a gigantic work, now considered one of the most important of the early 20th century.

Pierre Bonnard would not be the painter everyone knows without the enigmatic Marthe who occupies more than a third of his work. Maria Boursin, alias Marthe de Méligny, posed as a ruined Italian aristocrat the day they fell madly in love with each other. Little did she know that she would become the pillar of a gigantic work, now considered one of the most important of the early 20th century.