Maximilien
A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, whom she has known to be less smooth in the past, Miss Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.
Unable to meet all the demands of his job and family anymore, Mathieu feels he's in a mid-life crisis and hurriedly leaves for the forest. His relatives are left by themselves, faced with his sudden departure and their choices.
In 2011, the arrival of Uber in France has created a lot of jobs, especially for young people from council estate. But then, a lot of became disillusioned. Price drop, uberization of work, a lot of work hours not even sufficient to pay bills... Karim, 37 years old and a pending divorce, drives a passenger car. To pay his car, a black sedan where he sleeps, he gets a 25 000 euros debt to an unscrupulous man. His nightmares are full of worries and accidents. Today is the due date, his creditor claim his money, which Karim doesn't have. He has seven days to repay the loan.
Pépé
Thomas, a frustrated reporter who works for a local newspaper in North of France, is assigned to write a portrait of alternative musician and recent mayoral candidate Usé. After the interview, the two men happen upon the inanimate body of a man lying in a desolate alley. To their surprise, the man – Jojo – rises before them like a zombie. He appears to be fine, but has lost his memory. Some clues lead them to Jojo’s little sister Marilou. Through a series of unexpected events, the newfound friends forge bonds and embark upon a surreal journey.
Maximilien
Vincent Verner is a former cop who was fired from the police force for refusing to turn a blind eye to an investigation involving a powerful man. A young prosecutor comes to get him to join a new group in charge of investigating "delicate" cases, those that no one dares to summon: men and women of power, politics, finance, the media, the star system, lobbies, consortiums, and the bosses of large companies. Verner, a maverick with an aversion to lying, will apply his own methods.
Le taulier
Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion with his family.
When their father dies, Louise, Fabien, and Estelle feel helpless as they confront the task of taking care of their schizophrenic brother Jacques. For Louise, the experience will be life-changing.
Alain
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ...
Roger
Os Morel são uma família francesa em que os filhos, dois adolescentes e uma criança, fazem a vida negra aos pais. Certo dia, acordam e estão todos trocados: o pai no corpo do filho, o irmão no corpo da irmã, a irmã no corpo da mãe, etc. É o início de uma enorme confusão que é o mote para esta comédia à francesa de Jean-Patrick Benes, que começou como argumentista nos anos 1990 e se estreou na realização em 1997.
Julia's father
Sophie tem 28 anos. Ela gostaria de ser cartunista, mas isso seria muito mais fácil se ela tivesse cursado uma escola de artes. Ela também gostaria de encontrar o amor, mas isso também seria muito mais fácil se ele lhe saltasse aos olhos. Ela multiplica experiências amorosas e profissionais. Leva muitos golpes duros e dá alguns: isso faz parte do aprendizado. Não lhe sai da cabeça Daniel Johnston, que insiste que o verdadeiro amor acaba por chegar.
Dr Lint
Quando a cabeleireira Suze Trappet, de 43 anos, descobre que está gravemente doente, ela decide procurar uma criança que foi forçada a abandonar quando tinha apenas 15 anos. Em sua louca jornada burocrática, ela se cruza com JB, de 50 anos – um velho no meio de um esgotamento, e o Sr. Blin, um arquivista cego com tendência a exagerar no entusiasmo. O improvável trio partiu em uma jornada hilariante e pungente pela cidade em busca do filho há muito perdido de Suze.
Le voisin pointilleux
Três vizinhos descobrem que são vítimas das novas tecnologias e das redes sociais. Marie é alvo de chantagem devido a um vídeo de conteúdo sexual, Bertrand vê a filha ser objeto de bullying na escola, enquanto Christine, motorista, mostra-se insatisfeita ao constatar que as avaliações feitas pelos seus clientes não melhoram. Juntos declaram guerra aos gigantes da Internet.
Charles
Charles’s solitude in a big city. Days come and go with no one to talk to. In a church, on a rainy day, he stumbles upon a stranger: A woman in despair after a funeral. Charles comforts her. He has just found himself a new activity: To bring comfort to people in mourning. He feels useful again. Another man’s sorrow is the key to his new existence.
Gérard
Chef
Fabienne é a estrela do cinema francês. Ela decidiu contar ao mundo a história de sua vida e publicar suas memórias. Seu livro será lançado sob o título “Verdade”, mas não corresponde à realidade, segundo algumas pessoas próximas a ela. É o que diz a filha de uma atriz que mora nos Estados Unidos e trabalha como roteirista. Ela foi até a mãe com o marido e o filho e leu um livro, não encontrando nela uma única palavra verdadeira sobre si mesma. Mas a opinião da filha não afeta muito a decisão de Fabienne. A estrela é absorvida na preparação para um novo papel, no qual a imagem de sua família real é estranhamente encarnada. O amor e a ternura estão ocultos por trás das declarações ardentes e enganosas.
Michel
The house is at 9 bis, Old Landerneau Road, at the top of the Donegal. No, the owner won't be doing the viewings, because he is no longer there, but there is someone who knows the place very well.
Ricoeur
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly completes his studies of political science, nothing will go for his cousin Charles of Chazelle.
Yvon, the father
Père de Sandrine
A wife finds out her husband has a mistress. She decides to propose her to share her life with her husband, alternating every two weeks.
Maurice
Samuel is sensitive. Samuel is lonely. Samuel only lives for hardcore punk music and horror movies. Samuel suffers from being misunderstood. Samuel often recalls his ex-girlfriend, Eva. Samuel, in painful moments, also speaks to the Devil.
Franck Belrive
Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion Island, where his debut film has been selected. Unfortunately, the day before they're due to leave, Ulysses learns that his film has been removed from the program. Afraid of disappointing Clotilde, he hides the truth and flies with her to Réunion, determined to do everything in his power to get his film back in the official selection and, at the same time, win the favors of the young woman, who dreams of becoming an actress. But Ulysses must cope with internal rivalries and struggles behind the scenes if he wants love and cinema to triumph.
The man who waits
A man's hypochondriacal relationship with his mother.
Monsieur Abramovitch
Este vai ser um inverno muito duro e o governo francês exige que os cidadãos mais ricos acolham em suas casas as pessoas que não têm onde morar. Neste inverno a convivência será uma loucura inimaginável do início ao fim!
The Mole (voice)
Leo é um menino de 11 anos que não está tendo uma infância fácil. Internado no hospital, ele descobre que tem o poder de levitar sem ser visto ou tocado, enquanto seu corpo físico permanece imóvel
Pierre Friedmann
Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in which he requested that his other son, Pierre, who hasn't been heard from for two years, spread his ashes in Poland. His father's preference comes as a rude shock for Julien, and it opens a chasm inside him, slowly bringing to light an unspeakable secret.
Blaise
The astronomer
Maybe the 1960s, maybe the future. Seven astronauts wake up in a spaceship, not knowing where they have come from nor where they are heading. As the ship operates by itself, they have ample time to meditate, rather scientifically, on matter, life and the universe.
Patrick
Fred, célebre colunista gastronômico parisiense, arrogante e introvertido, volta a Lyon para encontrar a mãe que fugiu do lar para idosos. É um retorno que se impôs a ele, associado à humilhação profissional, mas que se revelará rico em reviravoltas, encontros e o levará, progressivamente, a se questionar sobre o seu comportamento face aos outros...
Bibi
Henri, de origem italiana, e sua mulher Rita são os donos de um pequeno restaurante chamado "La Cantina". Após a súbita morte de Rita, Henri fica desamparado e recebe a ajuda da filha, Laetitia, para cuidar do negócio familiar. A dupla descobre uma nova vida com a chegada de Rosette, uma deficiente mental que sonha com amor, sexualidade e normalidade.
Jacky
Milou is a football addict. His life is dedicated to his local team: Le Standard de Liège. Milou has no limit when it comes to his football club. But, when he meets Martine, he will soon find good reasons to start his football therapy..
Avec la participation de
Le psy
Angélique é professora de maternal. Ela adora as crianças dos outros e também as do seu namorado, Damien, que está se divorciando. É quando ela descobre que desenvolveu uma alergia muito rara: alergia a crianças!
Arthur
Em um voo de Nova York a Paris, Antoine senta-se justamente ao lado da ex-namorada com quem teve um rompimento desagradável há três anos. Agora, eles vão reviver os altos e baixos da relação que tiveram.
M. Mardi
When their beloved Polish immigrant mother passes away, the sisters Emma (Kiberlain) and Rosemonde (Devos), and their brother, Charles (Berry), are obliged to deal with the personal and physical aftereffects, which include the cozy, old fashioned flat where she lived on the movie’s titular street (located in the heart of Paris’ chic 2nd arrondissement).
Le patron de café
It is in a small popular district that the pot of the Eurogagnant, 124 million euros, is won - But who is the lucky winner?
Le SDF
Self
Lobatch
Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge...
Jean-Marie
After having broken up with his girlfriend and left his job, Simon has come back to his small hometown in the countryside, where he meets up again with his old friend Julien. The two thirty-year-old, unemployed and idle men decide to reinvest in an old dream from their teenage years: hitting the road for an adventurous journey. They buy a huge motor-home, but the trip is delayed by various troubles, and they decide to start their journey right where they are. Through this first motionless stage of their trip, Simon and Julien are confronted with themselves and what they wanted to run away from.
One night Louise is being stalked and harassed by a lover who thinks she's the woman of his life.
Le père
Philippe is a singer and in the existence of a singer, there are times when everything accelerates especially when a crazy groupie, neglected parents, a lunar ornithologist and a tough childhood friend strive to complicate the life... How to get out ?
Agent pôle emploi
The neighbor
le Père de Chloé
Jack ganha uma viagem para Paris, depois de ser abandonado por sua namorada. No desembarque, ele perde sua mala, que vai parar nas mãos de Chloe. Ela, ao abrir a mala, fica encantada e sonha conhecer o dono da bagagem perdida.
Arnaqueur
The arrival in France of the first generation of Algerian immigrants. In the early sixties, Kader, soon joined by his wife Myriam, tries to build a new life on French soil. Like many other couples, they soon find themselves torn between the dream of returning to their homeland and that of prospering in a land that is not always welcoming.
Le Principal
A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama.
Maurice
A comedian kidnaps a singer and keeps him in his apartment.
Pignac
Nicolas
State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
The city is quiet, it is night, a shadow hovers over the city. In Saint-Denis, it is the beginning of spring and everything is agitated around Aton. The young man's life is turned upside down by the arrival of his father, his university exams, and especially by the appearance of a mysterious young woman, Nina. The shadow is always there, it prowls around Aton's building: it has found its prey. This is the beginning of a journey through the night, of a magical quest, from which the young man will not emerge unscathed.
Le professeur de physique de Marion
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d’état is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Writer
Monsieur Gonzalés
Writer
A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that reminds him of his own work as his own.
M. Bartel
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège when his van breaks down. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog then leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
Monsieur Guibal
Three disparate people meet in a bizarre skiing accident: an alcoholic doctor who has just been left by his wife, a beautiful but directionless woman, and the bumbling Algerian man who caused the accident. They become fond of each other, and of liquor.
Le journaliste Béthune
An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.
Robert
Os irmãos Marc, Christophe e Olivier vivem com o pai, recém-viúvo, lidando cada um deles com suas frustações. Marc volta as dívidas com traficantes, planeja uma vingança e aguarda o irmão mais velho, Christophe, sair da cadeia para ajudá-lo. Olivier, o mais sensível dos três, lida com a questão da sua descoberta: a de que ama um jovem de origem africana, lutador de capoeira.
Christophe volta regenerado e disposto a começar a trabalhar em uma fábrica, lutando contra o seu passado. Marc, arriscando-se cada vez mais, entra no perigoso submundo das drogas. E Olivier encontra em Hichman uma história de paixão.
Paul
Sophie and Olivier are a couple leading a straightforward life. They’re bakers in Paris and their lives are regulated by the constraints of their job. Sophie gets the feeling that her husband is no longer really interested in her. They then read a personal ad pinned to their bakery’s notice board and get in touch with Paul and Colette, a rather strange couple who want to sell their holiday home. They buy the house – without even taking a look at it first – little knowing that it’s located in a nudist colony.
M Lescuyer
French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride), who is grieving over the death of her own child. As the two women work together, they soon develop a supportive and fam
Maître Kermarec
Patrick Lechat learns that his father, the famous writer Jo Lechat, whom he never knew, has just died leaving a colossal fortune. "Good thing!" Patrick Lechat and his family are currently in a very bad situation.
M. Loiret
Three siblings lose both their parents after a terrible accident, after which their lives are forever changed. Vincent, the middle child, has to assume a lot of responsibility, not the least of which is his younger sister Alice. He must also give up his architecture course in order to work for his uncle's construction firm. The two adjust, and their life goes pretty well before it is again turned upside down when their older brother Thomas, who had been in Brazil for a couple of years, returns and upsets the current order.
Pierre 1
With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Désiré gets his due punishment when Manu, his girlfriend, kicks him out of home. At a loss, he finds refuge with Alex, a young actor. He is soon joined by Eduardo, an Italian producer, dumped like him by his wife. While Désiré tries to rebuild himself, the three men decide to write a film script that will be the basis of a vehicle for Alex.
Un légiste en grève
In the lead up to the presidential elections five candidates turn up from out of nowhere. Then, as the days go by, they are eliminated one by one, each meeting with a violent death, until one is left to become president.
l'inspecteur Alain Castang
After a car accident, Jean Mardet ends the agony of his wife with a rock. Mardet then keeps killing because he believes that God himself has entrusted a mission to him: kill the unfortunate souls.
Ifergan
Ils sont cinq tueurs. Francis, le chef, Louis le parano, Victor, l'accro aux series tele, M'sieur, fan de tamagochi et Marchand, dont la femme est la seule certitude. Elle le croit representant en chaussures. Jusqu'au jour ou elle decouvre la verite. Une discussion plus qu'orageuse suit, au cours de laquelle il lui balance un coup de poing d'une telle force qu'elle tombe dans le coma. Marchand est effondre. Il acquiert la conviction que, s'il se rachete, elle se reveillera. Il decide non seulement de raccrocher mais encore de sauver ses hypothetiques victimes.
The king
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.
Francis France
The Soeur brothers would like to work in the film making business. They wrote a complex story that doesn't make any sense, and nobody wants to produce it. They're willing to do anything in order to make their film come to life.
Pierre
Laurent's fate is to be a soccer superstar. But he happens to fall in love with a Fabienne, 40. He is only 18, and his career is about to fall apart...
Le petit garçon
Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period
Le boucher
Mlle Lara has trouble with men, so for her birthday she plans something special in pursuit of a wonderful love.
Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, history, independents, majors. Between fiction and documentary, between laughter and seriousness, a "jazz" portrait.
acteur
A former schoolteacher turned film distributor, Jean-Pierre Jackson made his directorial debut with this French comedy about two losers. When alimony payments catch up with Felix (Philippe Chevaillier), his furniture is seized. After a decade-long marriage, Raoul (Regis Laspales) leaves his wife. The two team for a job with Le Gai Vendangeur (The Jolly Vintner) as sales reps, but they score zero while tooling around Brittany in a silly station wagon decorated with an immense wine bottle atop the vehicle's roof. However, when they're joined by friendly, sexy Eliane (Cecile Bois), sales surge. The wine pours, and so does the money. Life is sweet, but it all turns sour when an affair begins between Felix and Eliane, much to Raoul's regret.
An unemployed man from the Antilles is implanted with a synthetic embryo by an unscrupulous professor -- and becomes pregnant.
Pierre Yves
24 hours in a man's life who became famous. He returns in his childhood's city after 30 years of absence
Robert Chatillon
Betty e Victor são um casal de vigaristas. A vítima da vez é Maurice, tesoureiro de uma empresa multinacional que recebe a responsabilidade de retirar 5 milhões de francos da Suíça. Betty está convencida de que ele planeja roubar o dinheiro. De que lado ela está? De Victor, Maurice ou dela própria?
Writer
American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been cheating on him. His French pal Jean and a young woman, Vita, step in with a scheme to get back at Sophia, a character who is never seen during the entire film. Included is a parody of the Russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter (1978).
Jean
American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been cheating on him. His French pal Jean and a young woman, Vita, step in with a scheme to get back at Sophia, a character who is never seen during the entire film. Included is a parody of the Russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter (1978).
Moskowitz
After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she tells her sad story to hard-drinking Moskowitz, a middle-aged cop who secretly desires her. His unrequited love leads to tragedy. Meanwhile, Lea continues living with Francis, but also shacks up with Luc while trying to avoid the jealous cop.
The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really let himself go. Though a successful writer, and supposedly working on a book about 'regret,' he is barely functioning. He can't sleep at night. During the day he is easily distracted, irresponsible and moody. He also ignores his patient live-in lover Aliette who has stuck by him for 10 years. As he mopes through another day, he gets into several awkward occasions. One of his students, Florence tells him off in a café. A young woman, Catherine hears this and afterward introduces herself as a fan. Later he decides to find her address and visit her apartment. There Abel meets Catherine's roommate Aurore and the former's jealous boyfriend Bruno for a tense scene. He is returning home when Abel encounters his brother's former lover Olga and this creates more awkwardness.
Writer
A misanthropic Parisian street punk learns some difficult lessons after being captured for assaulting and robbing a man in this interesting French drama. This has not been the first time young Denis Lavant has been in trouble, and this time the judge sentences him to the Coral, an experimental open community founded in 1975 by Claude Sigala, in the wilderness of the Camargue. There he encounters a group of inmates just as neurotic and messed up as he is.
Jo
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.
Part of ARTE's series "The high school years".
Jonavisky
Stephen, um comerciante internacional, rastreia sua ex-esposa Patricia em algum remanso da Amazônia. Ele precisa do consentimento dela para o divórcio, para que ele possa se casar com Charlotte. Infelizmente, ele descobre um filho que ele não sabia que tinha - Mimi-Siku. O jovem rapaz da selva anseia por ver Paris, então Stephen relutantemente concorda em levá-lo de volta para casa com ele por alguns dias. Como o Mimi-Siku reagirá à vida na grande metrópole?
Le prof de philo
This French drama takes a gentle poke at the youthful ideologies of the post-hippy 70's. Fabio and Alain are teenagers with widely differing backgrounds and philosophies. Fabio is a rebellious Stalin quoting, left-winger from a lower middle-class family. He dreams of being a rock star even though he can't play a note. Alain, a soft-spoken boy from a middle-class family prefers to quote Plato. Alain is attracted to Fabio's enthusiastic talk on political activism. When the local press accuses them of terrorism after they toss a rock through a window they are initially delighted. Their delight is short-lived when they realize that may be blamed for some of the real terrorism the town has been experiencing.
Le père de Christine
Gilles e Christine são dois adolescentes apaixonados e mal compreendidos pelos pais, nessa narrativa sobre amadurecimento, alienação, destruição e identidade. A revolta contra as famílias e a sociedade pode obrigá-los a se distanciarem. Quando os pais de Christine querem interná-la à força, o casal decide fugir.
Screenplay
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…
Mr. Jacquet
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…
Writer
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.
Writer
In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses of the word. He and his buddies Bruno and Hercule think they have the solution to their pocketbook woes. The body of St. Bernadette has been miraculously preserved from decay and is a central object of pilgrimage in the shrine where it is kept. Why not steal that and hold it for ransom? The criminal gang is well able to pull this coup off and are soon in possession of one perfectly preserved corpse and a very fancy coffin. It's too bad for them that the church seems to have a limitless supply of these and doesn't want the one they stole back. Bemused, the lads set the coffin adrift on the river, only to be followed by it as they drive back upriver. In the course of carrying out their criminal designs, these lovable lugs encounter a variety of eccentric characters.
le curé
Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood," referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman's brother. In the past, a bizarre necrophiliac situation led to Simon experiencing his only sense of what it might be to truly love someone.
Policeman
Mona is the girlfriend of Pierre, who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France. Their hero is the singer "Johnny Valentine " who, seeing that Mona is being neglected, decides to make her his own.
Writer
Roger, a chip seller on a Cote d’Azur beach, divides his life between his wife, a painter with a flair for originality whose work is unrecognized, and his mistress Bébé, a beautician on vacation. But his encounter with a third woman, a picaresque singer with whom he falls madly in love, will be accompanied by numerous adventures.
Writer
In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one’s mature years — this series of mood swings and sequences focuses on two grown men. Francois (Jean Francois Stevenin, the director) and Leo (Yves Alonso) are old friends, and at one point they decide to go out and search for one of their childhood buddies, the brunt of several of their practical jokes. In true form, the men opt for playing yet another practical joke on their friend, but their plans backfire when his wife Helene (Carole Bouquet) comes into the picture instead. Her presence forces them to reconsider their shenanigans in a new light.