Jean-Michel
Paulette realizes she has unfairly punished her daughter Linda. To make up for it, she promises to cook her a chicken with peppers, even though she cannot cook at all. But where to find a chicken on a strike day, when all the shops are closed?
Franck (Pierre Lottin), an all-time squatter, finds himself in a complicated trade-off: sell coke for his friend Malik (Yasmin Houicha) in exchange for a place to sleep. The problem is, Franck is no dealer, he even never took coke. Between his slip-ups, the meeting of a dealer, a real one (Clara Ponsot) and his colourful clients, the night is going to be long for our dealer wannabe. Very, very long...
Aplusbégalix (voice)
Могучие галлы издревле черпали силу в секретном напитке, который готовил великий старец. Но пришла беда, откуда не ждали - почтенный друид свалился с дерева и сломал обе ноги. Теперь Астериксу и Обеликсу предстоит отправиться в опасное путешествие, чтобы отыскать нового друида, достойного постичь рецепт тайного зелья.
Fifty-year-old Georges works in an abattoir. One day, one of his colleagues has a heart attack. For Georges, it is an electroshock: he must take his life back in hand.
Stéphane
Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. Stéphane, however, is desperate for Anne to stay and look after Frida, even against the old lady's will. In this conflict of strangers, Anne will find her own way…
Stage Director
Liébard
Экранизация романа Гюстава Флобера. Фелисите никак не может забыть свою первую любовь. Устроившись служанкой в дом недавно овдовевшей Матильды Обэн, живущей с двумя детьми, она с головой уходит в работу. Но время лечит совсем не так быстро, как того хотелось бы. Не в силах справиться со своей любовью, Фелисите изливает ее на детей Матильды и на своего племянника Виктора, не теряет веры, в то, что когда-нибудь найдет человека, который сможет принять и разделить ее чувства.
Daniel
Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely knocked off balance when he meets strikingly attractive and much younger businesswoman Marion. She seems distant and apparently otherwise involved but soon shows quiet signs of reciprocating his interest.
The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Philippe, a sailor, finishes a sailing race around the world, solo and nonstop. After this tour of the world, Philippe can no longer resume the rhythm of everyday life with his wife Lucie and son Vincent.
Gaboriau
39 years old Jacques Monot is tired from the same vacation he and his family have every year so he decides to buy a boat.
Alexandre
Two middle-aged friends meet a beautiful woman whom they set out to seduce. She invites them but only has eyes for one man: François Mitterrand.
Un homme du self
Фильм о жизни трех парижанок, работающих в салоне красоты, специализирующемся на массаже и макияже. Каждый пришедший сюда знает, что здесь можно не только привести себя в порядок, но и при желании излить душу, а плюс ко всевозможным кремам и эликсирам получить еще и капельку надежды. Впрочем, надежда и любовь так необходимы и тем, кто здесь работает. Анжела — женщина «за сорок», она уже не верит в любовь, и у нее есть на то причины. Саманта моложе ее и все еще ждет своего «принца». А юная и наивная Мари встречает свою судьбу в лице мужчины, который намного старше ее…
Avril
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Joueur de poker
25 year-old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings.