Several times president of the Council, at the end of the 1930s Pierre Laval became one of Marshal Pétain's strongmen, a loyal collaborator for the Germans. Rounding-up Jews, forced labour, tracking the French resistance..., he served Hitler faithfully to the end. When France was liberated, he was tried, condemned, shot.
Pierre
Elise Lafontaine has a secret routine. Every morning and evening for many years, she has been waving at the express train that passes her house. One fateful day, she finds a letter from the train conductor in her garden and her lonely life is turned upside down. She engages in a promising correspondence through poetic and thoughtful letters where the two anonymous writers share their worlds with each other. But Elise’s fairytale is cut short when the train line permanently detours for a shorter route to Paris. Not willing to do without her daily delight, Elise prompts a daring escape from her comfort zone and sets out to find the train conductor.
Mathias
Mathias and Alex have a meeting at dawn in a car park in the countryside.These two men know each other well but everything seems to separate them. Nevertheless, a secret unites them. This year again, nothing can divert them from what they have come to carry out. What will be revealed to us of their mysterious and unpredictable enterprise?
Serge
Serge, a young math teacher at an inner city high school, tries to get his students to solve an equation but is disturbed by a phone call. Smart aleck Karima is no whiz at math but comes up with a solution.
Marc
François Mitterrand
The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.
François
Officially declared missing in 1945, Gaston Boissac suddenly comes back at 70 years old in his home village.
Technicien 3
Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opération de communication. En partenariat avec le Centre spatial français, un grand jeu est organisé. "Le ticket pour l'espace", un jeu à gratter, va permettre à deux civils de séjourner dans la station orbitale européenne.
Le jeune homme
Sound Director
A teen party gone out of control provides the focus of this drama which explores the transitions of youth in a transitional time set in the post-disco, pre-punk, early 1980's. Ariane, a teenager, is rebelling against her father and her boyfriend Pierre. She decides to hold a small party. The party is crashed by a large crowd of rude outsiders who proceed to destroy her home. Afterward, Ariane must face her obsessive neatness.
Simon
Главный герой фильма, некогда бывший полковником в Аргентине, ныне богатый эмигрант, живущий в Париже с любимой, но бесплодной женой. Чтобы как-то компенсировать это, он кормит и одевает беспризорных детей, воспитывая их в своём особняке как своих собственных. Но однажды в приют полковника приводят весьма привлекательную девушку, которая становится предметом всеобщих романтических воздыханий.