After scuttling her career as a singer, Jewell Stone lives in Paris a job as a waitress. Marie, her grandmother and only family, who lives in Vermont, USA, arrives overnight to see her. But how to welcome her when Jewell tells her so long about her life, her work and her loves? From one letter to another, she has invented a career that works, a life with Paul, and even a girl, Ruby. But as an Italian proverb says, lies have short legs.
Monia Chokri
Jewell Stone
Jérémie Elkaïm
Paul
Fionnula Flanagan
Marie
Marthe Keller
Louise
Alex Descas
Juan
Magne-Håvard Brekke
Dimi
Géraldine Martineau
Henriette
Marc Citti
Gus
Cédric Martin
Client bar (uncredited)
After scuttling her career as a singer, Jewell Stone lives in Paris a job as a waitress. Marie, her grandmother and only family, who lives in Vermont, USA, arrives overnight to see her. But how to welcome her when Jewell tells her so long about her life, her work and her loves? From one letter to another, she has invented a career that works, a life with Paul, and even a girl, Ruby. But as an Italian proverb says, lies have short legs.
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects but when she realizes gangsters are looking for Victor she will put her life at risk to help him and save their family.
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.
วัยรุ่นที่อาศัยอยู่กับพี่สาวและพ่อแม่ในแมนฮัตตันในช่วงทศวรรษ 1990 ค้นพบว่าพ่อของเธอมีสัมพันธ์ชู้สาว
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
Wael, a former street child, makes a living from small scams with his adoptive mother and partner-in-crime Monique. When this unconventional duo swindles the wrong guy, Victor, an old acquaintance of Monique now in charge of a support organization for troubled teens, they have no choice but to become his interim secretary and educator in order to redeem themselves.
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
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.
Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
ลีโอกับแอนเจล่า รุสโซใช้ชีวิตคนชั้นกลางแบบเรียบง่ายในควีนส์ และรายล้อมไปด้วยครอบครัวชาวอเมริกันเชื้อสายอิตาลีที่เรื่องมากและชอบเอาแต่ใจ เมื่อลูกชายร่างโย่งและพูดไม่เก่งของพวกเขาประสบความสำเร็จในบาสเก็ตบอลระดับมัธยม และมีโอกาสมีชีวิตที่ไปได้ไกลกว่าความคาดหวัง ลีโอทำให้ครอบครัวของเขาปั่นป่วนเพื่อทำให้มันเกิดขึ้นจริง