François and Isa have been living side by side for years. François strums fruitlessly on his piano and makes half-hearted attempts to build a wall cabinet. He is equally clumsy in his relationship with Isa: his attempts to get closer to her come to nothing. Desperate, François thinks his wife has a lover and wants to leave him. But behind her cool mask, Isa has been hiding a painful secret for years...
Bernard Campan
François
Karin Viard
Isabelle
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Xavier
Olivier Rabourdin
Pierre
François and Isa have been living side by side for years. François strums fruitlessly on his piano and makes half-hearted attempts to build a wall cabinet. He is equally clumsy in his relationship with Isa: his attempts to get closer to her come to nothing. Desperate, François thinks his wife has a lover and wants to leave him. But behind her cool mask, Isa has been hiding a painful secret for years...
Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s life significantly alters their dynamic.
Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
1985. Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris in a middle-class family, between a distant older brother and parents in constant conflict. Although he is no longer a child and not yet an adult, the film follows his reflections and doubts about identity, friendship, family, and his questions about religion, desire, and love.
Maria, who's not as young as she used to be and who helps people older than her, is living from hand to mouth. She can't quite accept her precarious situation and steals a few euros here and there from all those lovely people she looks after with such devotion, and who adore her for it… But after an accusation of abuse of a vulnerable person, Maria winds up in police custody.
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Mathias and Philippe, two old friends, embark on a bicycle journey that Mathias’s son made before his tragic death. The two men ride through the ordeals with tenderness, humor and emotion.