The end of the afternoon at the edge of a river, a concert near the water. The strange Rodolphe notices Alex, shy young man who has eyes only for Julia, Parisian on holidays. Rodolphe undertakes to help him, in his own way.
Intimacy and entertainment, melancholy and fury, modesty and drive, birth and disappearance. Four girls, four boys. Eight solitudes told with lyric and passion, between Earth and Cosmos, along the way towards their Metamorphoses.
Céline, 32, is expecting her first child. But Céline is not pregnant. In three months, it is Nadia, her wife, who will give birth to their daughter.
Photographer David Zimmerman rarely leaves home until friends bring him to a wild party. He becomes fixated on a mysterious woman and follows her. By dawn, his life transforms - he awakens in her body.
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
Luisa, a 40-year-old singer, is in a relationship with Julien, who is a guitarist and composer. They have been in a band together for many years. One day, her father, whom she hasn't seen since she was a teenager, comes to see her after a concert. He tells her that he is seriously ill. This encounter unsettles Luisa. She begins to see her life in a different light.
In the French countryside, wild boars ravaging crops spark an open war between farmers and members of a gentlemen’s hunting club, who feed the game between hunts. Brun, a bankrupt farmer, struggles to keep his farm afloat. When the club’s president pushes him to his limits, Brun shoots him and disappears. A year later, Fulda, a volatile police officer just transferred to the region, leads the investigation. Still struggling after a recent breakup, and as wild boars proliferate across the region, he is pushed to the brink of sanity.
Juliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly losing her mind. Buried memories and family secrets rise to the surface in this sweet, tender and sometimes extravagant family portrait.
Blanche refuses to let her mother sell the piano. This piano belonged to her sick sister. While her mother seems to act as if nothing happened, Blanche tries her best to keep Anna's memory alive.
Christian is forty years old. Alone, he tours Paris and its suburbs on foot in search of a job, but cannot find one. He gives up his search, but continued to walk aimlessly until he is exhausted.
"Royan la Rage" is the crossed portrait of a family facing his visceral need to desire. André, the father, has no more wishes. To feel free to be and to desire, he has to get rid of his money. Miss Canine, a financial domineering, snatched him from his daily hypocrisy. Doubts about his double life gradually contaminate his wife and his daughter. The newfound lucidity at a price. Behind the utopian world of the seaside resorts, it spreads like a virus and makes appearances disappear.
Photographer David Zimmerman rarely leaves home until friends bring him to a wild party. He becomes fixated on a mysterious woman and follows her. By dawn, his life transforms - he awakens in her body.
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Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.
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Sophie, 28, just found out she landed that job at a famous Parisian publisher. Her dream? Not exactly: she would rather see her own graphic work printed… When she tells her boyfriend Jean she is pregnant, everything explodes. They break up and she must return to waiting tables like her friend Julia, an aspiring actress. How can one survive in the city under such conditions?
In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Suspected by the police, he’s also chased by a mysterious organization, Le Parfum vert, that seems to have ordered the murder.
A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.
"I wanted to film me and my little brother, but we had a problem and we had to start over."
Thomas, thirty-five, has decided that he will not go outside again. He llives in a caravan in a hanger in the middle of metropolis and invites to his place his family, friends, and neighbours. He organizes parties.
A summer on an island of leisure in the Paris region. Land of Adventures, dredge and transgression for some, place of refuge and escape for the other. Its pay range to its hidden nooks, the exploration of a Kingdom of childhood, in resonance with the bustle of the world.
The day begins. Louis, 25, takes a cab to Roissy airport to welcome Lacey, who's arriving from New York.
