A young Antillean couple relocates to metropolitan France, confronting everyday racism and straining to preserve their identity. As they settle into an unwelcoming environment, they wrestle with alienation, belonging, and the trauma of cultural displacement.
A young Antillean couple relocates to metropolitan France, confronting everyday racism and straining to preserve their identity. As they settle into an unwelcoming environment, they wrestle with alienation, belonging, and the trauma of cultural displacement.
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.
ชีวิตของซาเวียร์ต้องกลับตาลปัตร เมื่อเว็นดี้ ภรรยาของเขาบอกว่าจะย้ายไปอยู่นิวยอร์คพร้อมพาลูกๆของพวกเขาไปด้วย 2-3 เดือนต่อมา เขาจึงบินข้ามฟ้าตามไปเพราะทนไม่ได้ที่ต้องเห็นลูกโตไปโดยไม่มีเขา จากความเป็นพ่อไปจนถึงการได้สัมผัสกับคู่รักเลสเบี้ยน การต้องแต่งงานกับสาวจีนอเมริกันเพื่อให้ได้กรีนการ์ด การที่ถ่านไฟเก่าปะทุอีกครั้งเมื่อเธอเดินทางมาเยี่ยม ซาเวียร์กับโลกของเขาดูจะวุ่นวายซับซ้อนเสียเหลือเกิน
ศิลปินที่โศกเศร้าจากการสูญเสียสามีซึ่งเป็นนักเขียนชื่อดัง มุ่งหน้าสู่ปารีสพร้อมเพื่อนซี้อีก 2 คน ในการเดินทางที่จะเผยความลับอันยุ่งเหยิงและความจริงที่ยากจะทำใจ
Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with Jacques, a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions involving picturesque sights, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance - reawakening Anne's senses and giving her a new lust for life.
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but has no joy or passion to give her. When she falls for a handsome Arab youth a tragedy unfolds.
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.