Patrick Chesnais

The three "Unknown" are back in this movie where they wake up in a world where they really are unknown! They'll eventually find out that their career, films, sketches & songs do exist but from someone else!

To avoid facing her heavy past, a young woman with a borderline personality tries to seduce her strange neighbor. A singular love story between these two lonely and wounded souls is born, but will it be enough to save them from themselves?

The filmmaker sheds light on the history of the Red Star Football Club, founded by Jules Rimet in 1897, while several personalities share their experiences and testimonies.

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.

Paul Vidal is a country doctor in a small town. A husband and father, he seems to have all he needs to be happy. Yet he suffers a serious nervous breakdown, making him unable to practise.

Немолодой уже композитор когда-то считал себя удачным и состоявшимся человеком. Но сейчас у него творческий кризис. Не находя вдохновения, мужчина собирается покинуть дом и семью и перебраться в другое место, где ему никто не будет мешать. Композитор уезжает на отдаленный маленький островок в Бретани и заселяется в небольшом домике. К своему удивлению, композитор обнаруживает в этом пустынном домике старое пианино. Пока он налаживает расстроенный инструмент, неожиданно к нему начинают приходить люди, чтобы познакомиться с новым соседом или просто пообщаться. Он понимает, что и на небольшом острове ему не будет покоя от людей.

Everyone's favorite fun-loving Granny Aurore goes overboard while partying and has a little accident! She loses her memory and gets put in a nursing home. When her grandkids hear her mention a mysterious man named "Gerry", they put all seven of their heads together to figure out who he is: Aurore's first and only true love who just might turn out to be their long-lost grandfather, too! Hoping to trigger old memories that could snap her out of her amnesia, they join forces to sneak Aurore out of the nursing home and set out into the wilderness on a mission to find the legendary "Grandpa Gerry". But the adventure turns out to be a lot more than they bargained for!

A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother.

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.

Правдивая история французского преступника XIX века Эжена Франсуа Видока, который переходил из тюрьмы в тюрьму и менял профессию за профессией, пока не нашёл себя на полицейской службе. Он основал и возглавил первый в мире отдел национальной безопасности, где проработал двадцать лет. Выйдя в отставку, Видок стал частным детективом.

Сюжет повествует о немного сумасшедшей матери, которая имеет напряженные отношения с сыном.

Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.

GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend his principles. As a matter of fact, he was one of El Che’s last companions. It was somewhere over there, in Bolivia, in 1967. At least, that’s what he tells everyone...

Lauren, a lovely 29-year-old it-girl, tries to break into the world of fashion by skimming Parisian parties. Olivia, a 28-year-old psychologist, has two obsessions: to save the confectionery of her parents, and to find her ideal husband. At the age of 26, Salma, a fiery young history teacher, still lives with her mother in the suburbs. Their roads have no reason to cross - until the day when, on the death of their biological father that they never knew, they inherit together a splendid Parisian apartment. For these three sisters who have nothing in common, cohabitation will prove to be explosive, to say the least.

Молодая студентка была застрелена на пороге известной кондитерской. Ни оружия, ни подозреваемого, ничто в жизни и в прошлом жертвы не дает ни малейшей подсказки. Совершенное преступление? Параллельно комиссар Руссо продолжает расследовать исчезновение своего сына.

If Paris is the city of lovers, it is also that ... ex! Antoine does not dare to commit, Didier regrets his ex-wife, Father Laurent must celebrate the marriage of his ex, Julie, Serge is harassed by Lise, the ex of his girlfriend of the moment, while Greg consoles With the dog ... of his ex! So many characters whose lives will be telescoped in a joyful disorder and who could fall back in love! But of whom? Whether they obsessed us or loved to hate them, deep down, it is difficult to forget their ex!

After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pimpette turns out to be more responsible than the grown-ups who spend their time educating her.

An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble among the residents of a Paris upscale apartment block.

Девочка-подросток была найдена задушенной на берегу Сены. Комиссар Руссо передает это дело своему заместителю, Мариэлле Де Люка. Он хочет снова заняться поисками своего сына, исчезнувшего 5 лет назад. В это время убийца находит новых жертв...

Хозяйка маленького магазина выигрывает в лотерею 18 миллионов. Привыкшая жить скромно, но счастливо в кругу своей семьи и друзей, она не знает, как распорядиться этой суммой, и боится перемен к худшему. Но однажды судьба сама решает за нее…

Driss, carefree, smug and naive, lives off petty theft and minor racketeering. Until he meets Danny, an old crook who takes him under his wing and shows him the ropes. Through knowing him, young Driss will gradually lose his innocence.

По роману Гилды Пьерсанти "Синие катакомбы. Комиссар Руссо расследует загадочное убийство Максимилиана Мюллера, известного современного художника, чью голову нашли в парижских катакомбах. Позже в его студии обнаружили обезглавленное тело обнаженной женщины. Тайна еще более сгущается, когда следующей ночью в людном месте находят отрезанную голову третьей жертвы. Что это? Серийный убийца? Средневековый ритуал? Или чья-то страшная месть? Лишь один человек, кажется, знает ключ к разгадке – Лидия, жена художника…

Charles and Pierrot are inseparable. When Charles takes early retirement, it seems the world is their oyster. They can spend even more time together. Their motto is simple: "Make the most of life and have fun!». They fill their days with abundant imagination, under the tender and sometimes worried gaze of the women in their lives…

Кто сказал, что уход на пенсию — это начало конца, а не новое начало? Каролина делает совсем не то, чего от неё ждут: заводит любовника, получает новые впечатления, нарушает установленные правила и, в конечном счёте, вновь становится хозяйкой своей жизни и переживает вторую молодость.

Несмотря на всю свою славу 60-летний художник Таилландье бросает рисовать. В депрессии он решает покинуть свой дом, безо всякой цели и ничего не говоря родным. Во время его странствий происходит странная встреча с предоставленной самой себе девушкой-подростком Мэрилу, от которой отказалась её мать. Сведённым судьбой потерявшейся девушке и мужчине в конце своего жизненного пути предстоит долгая совместная дорога вместе с тем, чтобы найти душевный покой и обрести новый смысл в своей жизни.

Мы не можем выбирать ни своих родителей, ни детей… Пол де Марсеул, владелец престижной винодельни в Сент-Эмильоне имеет сына Мартина, который работает в семейном поместье. Однако Пол, требовательный и страстный винодел, вовсе не одобряет идею того, чтобы его сын в один прекрасный день стал его преемником. Он мечтает о самом талантливом, трудолюбивом и харизматичном сыне, который бы соответствовал всем его фантазиям как отца. Прибытие сына менеджера Филиппа полностью меняет жизнь поместья. В нем Пол видит своего идеального сына, о котором столько мечтал. Начинается сложная игра с четырьмя участниками: двумя детьми и двумя родителями, в котором по меньшей мере одному из них совершенно нечего терять.

Рассказ об одном легендарном ресторане, владелец которого является настоящим гуру ресторанного бизнеса.

Несколько отчаянных искателей приключений объединяется, чтобы купить золотодобывающую шахту в Гайане. Когда рискованная сделка срывается, героям приходится спешно скрываться на вертолете, который терпит крушение в непролазных джунглях. С собой у путешественников 600 килограммов золота. Вскоре эта ноша становится слишком тяжелой…Вскоре инстинкт выживания берет верх над жаждой богатства, но никто не хочет оставаться в дураках. И вот уже золотая лихорадка превращает бывших товарищей в смертных врагов….

Romantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move forward.

A young director will make his first film, about the deportation of Jews during World War II. With a diva in the lead role.

Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a business: out of a bankruptcy to get into another, her sister Alice madonnas obsessively paints sad. Annabelle, a nurse in an intensive care unit, tries desperately to save his family pronosticándole the future. When Alice meets by chance Jacques, a lonely police pessimistic explode all family neurosis.

События в фильме происходят в течение двух дней — 21 июня одного и года и через год в этот же день. Главная героиня собирает на ужин друзей, знакомых, коллег по работе. В итоге собираются 4 пары и двое одиноких. Они ужинают, общаются, знакомятся. А потом показывают 21 июня следующего года, что с ними произошло, какие изменения в отношениях в паре, что нового случилось в жизни.

A family’s secret, it’s a time bomb ! Despite their fundamentally opposite characters, Albert and Gédéon, former participants of the May 1968 protest movement, share the same house since the disappearance of the woman of Albert. When Claire, the Albert’s daughter, come back to home, secrets of their past « Flower Power » reappear …

Dans les années 70 Bruno Caprice a connu un succès éphémère avec "Quand tu t'en vas", son premier et unique 45 tours. Aujourd'hui oublié, il gagne sa vie comme réceptionniste dans un grand hôtel parisien. Mais un coup de fil inattendu va changer le cours de sa vie...

Начало 20-го века. Мэр французской деревушки Эмиль Гарсин мечтает проложить на живописных альпийских просторах железную дорогу и построить там горнолыжный курорт. Но его корыстным и амбициозным планам мешают полоумный горец Джузеппе и стая диких волков, приводящих в ужас жителей окрестностей. И только юная Анжель готова пойти на все, чтобы спасти этих красивых и отважных зверей…

A comedian kidnaps a singer and keeps him in his apartment.

Жан-Доминик Боби, редактор журнала Elle France, в 1995 году в возрасте 43 лет перенес инсульт, в результате которого он был полностью парализован. Подмигивая оставшимся не парализованным левым глазом, когда сидящий рядом человек называл нужную букву, Жан-Доминик рассказал все о своем внутреннем мире, начиная с психологической пытки из-за того, что ты заперт внутри собственного тела, и заканчивая воображаемыми историями о мирах, которые он посещал лишь в своих мечтах.

У богатого бизнесмен Жан-Пьер Менар есть все: успешный бизнес, привлекательная жена Одиль, очаровательная 16-летняя дочь, шикарная квартира и дорогущая машина с шофером Ришаром. Но богатые тоже плачут, что правда, то правда: вот уже несколько лет Одиль и Жан-Пьер спят в разных спальнях, отчего супруг чувствует себя очень одиноким. От отчаяния он идет за советом к своему шоферу. Однако и у Ришара не все гладко в жизни… Девушка, с которой они живут, Каролина, вдруг вбивает себе в голову, что ей предначертано небесами стать писательницей. И вот уже полгода она днями напролет изводит бумагу. А бедняга Ришар тем временем позабыт-позаброшен. Обиженные мужчины понимают друг друга с полуслова: «Все они одинаковые! Им только наши деньги нужны!», — делают они вывод относительно своих сбившихся с пути истинного «половин».

Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may well drop him. So Paul thinks he's got to invent something.

Laurent loves Camille but he can’t bring himself to marry her. Then he meets Elodie and discovers what love really is – not the mild cozy affection he has for Camille but a cataclysmic, thunderous all-consuming earthquake of the soul. The only problem is that Elodie is the girlfriend of Laurent’s best friend, François...

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...

Micha, 38 years old, Russian, spends his days in the Bois de Vincennes, talking to himself. Charles, 20 years old, works for a real estate agency and is given a camera to film apartments. Not knowing how to use it, he practices one weekend and of course, he falls on Micha. Charles' camera becomes an audience for Micha's rantings, which finally finds a docile and amused spectator.

The complicated life of a wannabe actress who meets an older writer in the midst of a crisis.

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.

Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.

Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.

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.

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.

Ideally, a love story should last for life… But this is often not the case. Does this indicate that men and women are meant to fall in love several times over? Why do people tire of each other? What events lead to a break-up? If they could be identified, could we then eradicate them? Four stories delve, by way of personal accounts and illustration, into relationships that went astray before they should have. Men and women of different ages and social conditions recount their stories. Four couples, four break-ups, four attempts at an explanation – combined with the ambitious aim to amuse!

Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a house painter.

Mikael, Skip and P'tit Louis are planning a big job. In his car, Michael pulls out his hair by making P'tit Louis repeat the insults that he will have to utter to Perron's secretary. Perron (Miki Manojlovic) is the producer they have come to bully for ignoring their script seven times in a row. The three guys have a grudge against the entire film industry. What they are looking for is a minimum of interest in their plot, a deign to read their script. So they take the producer and his daughter hostage, then demand a TV crew to make their demands known.

Jean and Sylvia left France with a stolen diamond to start a new life in South America. They land in Lima to live their passion. But the diamond is not easy to sell. They meet a French couple and hope to sell them the stolen diamond.

Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and whiny. The latter falls in love with her. The game is going to be difficult.

Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and whiny. The latter falls in love with her. The game is going to be difficult.

Comedy drama about an apathetic writer whose only interest is in his psychiatrist's watch which may have belonged to John F. Kennedy at the time of his assassination in 1963.

Это биографическая история о любви двух литературных гениев Франции XIX века: свободолюбивой романистки Жорж Санд и страстного поэта-вольнодумца Альфреда де Мюссэ

The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.

The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.

After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva begins to consider ways that she could take active steps to get some action going in that area. Unfortunately, none of the men she currently knows are interested in going to bed with her, including her business partner, who just might be sexually attracted to trees but certainly isn't to her. That being the case, it is particularly galling that he gets jealous at the very notion of her having sex with business clients. Eva discusses these issues (and a great deal more) with her similarly forty-ish gal-pals.

The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of the unidentified bodies. But here is a landscaper claims that his wife has also disappeared.

Страстная, исполненная тайн история любви… Лелуш собирает в своей картине необычных героев: цыгана по имени Исус, мечтающего стать тореадором и попадающего в тюрьму; девушку Марию, потерявшую работу и познавшую чудо перерождения, и красавицу Одону, которую настойчиво преследует парижский полицейский. Все они ищут любви и лучшей жизни, переживают потери и личные драмы. В современные события вплетены библейские сюжеты и история средних веков, где герои принимали самое непосредственное участие. Они встречались в прошлых жизнях, а сейчас они лишь ищут друг друга, чтобы любить и быть вместе с теми, кто живет рядом уже тысячи лет. Эта картина - об обыкновенной жизни, которая является самой загадочной и самой удивительной сказкой, которую люди не хотят видеть. Рассказать содержание этого прекрасного фильма невозможно, его нужно увидеть собственными глазами.

To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means "a mess," and a mess is just what the happily divorced Martin gets into when he and his ex-wife Brigitte, the mother of his children, rekindle their long-dormant relationship and announce that they intend to move back in together. Not only do the children find this whole thing confusing, but the husband's and the wife's lovers are equally befuddled. Add to that the need for Martin to meet Brigitte's lover and vice-versa, and you have the beginnings of a mess. When it begins to seem to Brigitte's former lover that he has offended the Muslims with a book he translated and he is slated for death, the whole thing grows yet more complicated. In this comedy, this list only scratches the surface of the messes these people must confront.

A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client.

Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion.

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.

Robert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers, he decided to run for office. His campaign in support of animal rights gives him a lead in the opinion polls - which worries the main political parties. Since his past is unassailable, his political opponents decide to give the job of getting rid of him to a bizarre couple - a professional killer called Jean and a high-class call girl named Clara. The pair has to ruin him with scandal and then eliminate him for good. Jean's first attempt at his task is a failure: instead of a killer he ends up looking like Cavaillon's savior and friend. Clara is forced to play the role of the killer's tender wife, because their victim sees them as a kindly pair not interested in using him for his position like everyone else. Between one bungled assassination attempt and the next, the three are enmeshed in an intense relationship in which their roles all change.

Что происходит, если не хватает одного часа? Мы опаздываем на самолет, упускаем сделку, так и не встречаемся с женщиной своей мечты. К тому же за окном полнолуние: отношения натянуты, а плохое настроение распространяется как эпидемия. Жизнь теряет яркость, судьбы больше не пересекаются в нужных местах. Секунда может изменить жизнь. представляете, что может произойти за час!

Nathalie Monnier is 14, her parents are splitting up, and what's worse, their apartment is going to be put up for sale. Just about everything in her life is about to be shattered. So it makes a bit of sense that she is receptive to the possibility of selling her soul for the chance to keep all this from happening. Just as her parents are (of course) getting back together, she wins the lottery and is able to buy their old apartment.

The life of a twelve-year-old living with her mother is disrupted by the arrival of a very young man at home. While her feelings become confused and the dramas burst, the girl will try to find in his entourage someone able to listen and understand it, before the worst happens.

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in...

Молодая женщина Констанс, читающая роман «Чтица», идентифицирует себя с его героиней Мари, которая, оставшись без работы, нанимается чтицей к разным людям, в каждом случае принимая особые условия чтения-игры. Они диктуются как запросами слушателей, так и произведениями, избранными для чтения – книгами Льюиса Кэррола, Ги де Мопассана, Владимира Ленина, Маргарет Дюрас, наконец, маркиза де Сада. Констанс, все более погружающаяся в чтение романа и превращающаяся в Мари, не может уже различить границу между вымыслом и реальностью…

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women.

Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.

This drama about a barmaid caught up in events beyond her control is the first film directed by Juliet Berto, and was also based on her own concept for the story. The barmaid, played by Berto, has been trying to take care of Bobby, a teenage drug pusher who is in over his head. Before she can put him back on track and get him out of the drug underworld, the young man is killed while being chased by a narcotics agent. Depressed by his death but not derailed, she finds herself trying to help out a gay user who depended on Bobby for his supply of drugs. She decides to procure some drugs for the desperate addict, and is trapped in the bathroom of a bar - with the drugs - when narcotics agents burst upon the scene. Her boyfriend rushes to help her but is killed by an agent who shoots first and thinks later. The barmaid does not face a very optimistic future as the narc arrests her - but releases a parish minister who had been helping her find a source for the drugs.

When her mother dies, a teenage girl decides to find her long-absent sailor father. Together with her five-year-old brother, she begins a long and dangerous quest, which will finally be rewarded.

The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.

A journalist very attached to freedom of information conflicts with the management of his channel.

В Париже, за несколько дней до взрыва в мае 1968 года, Энн, ученица средней школы, яростно спорит со своей матерью, прежде чем сбежать из дома, решив отправиться в кибуц в компании своего парня Фредерика. . Однако последний не проявляет особого энтузиазма по поводу проекта, поэтому Энн решается отправиться в одиночку, автостопом.

Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.

Неназванная секретная служба устанавливает слежку за французским дипломатом Домиником Офаля. В поисках слабых сторон дипломата, группа экспертов секретной службы окружает его паутиной слежки. Постепенно формируется досье на месье Офаля, числящегося в списках потенциальной агентуры под номером 51.

Жан-Артюр Бонавантюр работает клерком в турагентстве. Однажды ему вместе с коллегой по работе Дюпорье приходит в голову гениальная мысль: а что если предложить туристам отдых-экстрим? Группу высаживают на необитаемый остров, дикая природа, ни еды, ни крова над головой, ничего. «Робинзон, позаботься о себе сам!» Гендиректор турагентства идею поддерживает, но на свою беду назначает Ришара руководителем первой группы. А Ришар во главе группы - угроза для туристов, сравнимая с крокодилами и анакондами, вместе взятыми.

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noiret), a no-good insurance con-artist, poses for many years as Francois' friend, but tragedy ensues when Albert comes between the lovers, and Francois and Albert resort to physical violence to settle their differences.