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В 1828 году поместье одной очаровательной маркизы превращается в место проведения шахматного турнира. Маркиза полагает, что эта игра — не просто передвигание фигур с места на место. Она наделяет шахматы мистическим смыслом и надеется, что со временем ее усадьба станет местом проведения мирового чемпионата по игре в шахматы. Главный приз первого турнира — любимая дочь маркизы: тот, кто победит, возьмет в жены прелестную девушку. Основных претендентов — двое: эксцентричный и непредсказуемый Макс и уравновешенный британец лорд Стоунтон…
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Julie is a young woman from Rose Hill who arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her older pen-friend Marcel. She feels unhappy until she meets Jean, a younger man. However, his father disagrees.
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The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production.
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The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an “established” journalist. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman who can understand love only in terms of life and death, an attitude that generally makes love appear dramatic, but at least burning and flickering, like the flame that glows in her heart.
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Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Algerian woman who lives in France and works in Switzerland, would like to be anywhere except where she is. Louis, born on a Swiss farm and trained as a clockmaker, would give anything to leave his mistress, Lucie, and move in with Mali.
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Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
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Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.
