1972. Gilles and Christine are attractive, sexually active teenagers from unstable homes. When they do some shop-lifting together she is arrested, but he gets away. She escapes from a mental institution and meets him at an abandoned house in the country, where a large group of rebellious teenagers are having a wild, all-night party. As the party is winding down, Gilles and C...
Gilbert has been released by a psychiatric hospital, but he is clearly completely mad. He spreads chaos and violence and the only thing he aims to is to reach the ocean. Suzanne falls in love with him and the passion between the two generates even more confusion. Nothing can impede Gilbert to reach the ocean.
Paris. Jean Fournier, a young bank employee, is encouraged by his friend Caron to take an interest in gambling. After winning money in a game of roulette, he decides to vacation in Nice, where he falls in love with Jackie Demestre, an inveterate player. They start to gamble together and win lots of money. Jeanne Moreau, with her platinum blond hair, superbly embodies the un...
During a scorching hot summer, a man prepares an erotic animated film. More than once, he gives a conspiratorial look at the camera that is filming him. A story develops, parallel to the story he is telling.
In occasion of the third centenary of the city of Rochefort, a fair is coming to the town square. The twin sisters Delphine and Solange Garnier won't miss the chance to find the man of their dreams. The twins' mother, Yvonne, owns a café in the center of town, and pines for a fiancé she left impulsively ten years before in order to focus on her work in the café. A well made...
Françoise Barnier works as a cleaning lady in a slaughtery house. With her low pay she can't afford to buy meat for her daughters and all her extra job enquiries are refused. Christmas time is close and without knowing how, she steals some meat for 1500 francs. She can't explain why she did that to the police officers who arrested her. The film follows her journey through th...
Alexandre, a young and idle man, lives in Paris with Marie, with whom he has an open relationship. He doesn't have any job, and he is quite proud of being a layabout. One day, while Marie is in London, he invites Veronika, a girl he was dating, to move to his place. When Marie comes back home, she seems indifferent to Alexandre's affair and the three start an unconventional ...
Mouchette is fourteen years old and lives in an isolated rural French village with her alcoholic father, her bedridden mother and an infant brother. Perennially mocked and humiliated by her classmates and adults, Mouchette is raped by a poacher she had helped. Based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos, Mouchette is a tale of misery and cruelty that doesn't leav...
December 1995. France is paralysed by the transportation strikes. Nadia, a young woman, survives on her limited unemployment benefits. She has been a mother for the last six months, raising Christopher all on her own. One day, while watching the news about the rail-road strike at the Austerlitz station, she thinks she sees her child's father and decides to find him. That nig...
One day, when he was only a child, the director found in his grandparents' house an incomplete series of postcards with pictures of his family's village. These six postcards showed the events that took place in that small village, near the Spanish border, when the Republicans, escaping from the Francoist Spain, arrived to France at the end of Spanish war, in 1939. Twenty yea...
