Les Amants du Flore

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

A young Jewish girl, Sara, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe.

The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.

แรงที่สุด อื้อฉาวที่สุดและมีคนเดินออกจากโรงมากที่สุดเรื่องหนึ่งในประวัติศาสตร์ของการฉายหนังในเทศกาลภาพยนตร์เมืองคานส์ ภาพยนตร์เริ่มขึ้นเมื่อชายหนุ่มสองคนออกมาจากคลับเฉพาะชาวเกย์ แหล่งอโคจรที่เต็มไปด้วย คาวโลกีย์ และน้ำกาม ชายคนหนึ่งชื่อ มาร์คุส ถูกหามออกมาในสภาพไร้เรี่ยวแรง ชายอีกคนชือ ปิแอร์ ออกมาจากคลับในสภาพที่ดูสิ้นหวังกับชีวิต เขาทั้งคู่ขึ้นรถพยาบาล และถูกควบคุมตัวโดยเจ้าหน้าที่ตำรวจ ทำไม? และเพราะอะไร? ปริศนาทั้งหมดจะถูกเปิดเผยทีละนิดๆ จนถึงตอนจบ อันเป็นจุดเริ่มต้นของเรื่องราวโศกนาฏกรรมที่ได้เปลี่ยนชีวิตของมาร์คัสและคนที่เขารักไปตลอดกาล...

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.

Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.