Dedicated to Nicole Brenez, "La loi X - La nuit en permanence" includes a performative reading by Lionel Soukaz of his article "La Nuit en permanence", published in the french newspaper Libération, in August 9th, 1979.
Dedicated to Nicole Brenez, "La loi X - La nuit en permanence" includes a performative reading by Lionel Soukaz of his article "La Nuit en permanence", published in the french newspaper Libération, in August 9th, 1979.
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.
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.
เมอร์ฟีย์เป็นชาวอเมริกันที่อาศัยอยู่ในปารีสและมีความสัมพันธ์ทางเพศและอารมณ์ที่เข้มข้นกับอิเล็กตราซึ่งไม่มั่นคง ทั้งคู่ไม่รู้ว่าความสัมพันธ์นี้จะส่งผลร้ายแรงต่อความสัมพันธ์ จึงเชิญเพื่อนบ้านคนสวยมานอนบนเตียงด้วยกัน
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows her and learns about her. This eventually disrupts their relationship.
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
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.