Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the unemployed layabout Loulou, whose charms include focusing his energy into sex.
Every year Bruno, a disheartened cattle breeder, attends the Paris Agricultural Show. This year, his father Jean joins him: he wants to finally win the competition with their bull Nabucodonosor and convince Bruno to take over the family farm.
Bernard Coudray is a happily married man living in the village of Grenoble. His life is knocked askew when Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard move in next door, and Mathilde proves to be Bernard's long-ago lover. The couple slides into an affair, as apparently their previous relationship ended without a firm resolution.
A young woman gives up her bright future as a cellist for the love of a man. A man who has a contract to uphold and no time for love... We each love in our own way and in our own time. France / Portugal 2013
The film "Rasputin" chronicles the last two years of Rasputin's controversial life from 1914-1916, focusing on his close relationship with Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, when he won the royal couple's confidences by treating their haemophiliac son Alexei.
Two brothers who are complete opposites: one is a salesman in a chain store, while the other fancies himself the oldest punk-with-a-dog in Europe... But the twists of modern life will reunite them, putting them both on the street.
The French filmmaker Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
Nobody knows Auguste Maquet, and yet everybody knows "The Three Musketeers", Everybody knows Alexandre Dumas who wrote the swashbuckling masterpiece but who knows that Maquet is his co-writer? Nobody does, as his name does not appear on the cover.
In a French bourgeois province in 1977, Suzanne is the submissive wife of rich industrialist Robert Pujol, who runs his umbrella factory with an iron hand and turns out to be just as nasty and tyrannical with his workers as he is with his mistress, children and “trophy” wife.
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Édith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them.
