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Marcello, a 10-year-old orphan, lives with his uncle Franco in Milan. He earns pocket money by cleaning the windows of parked cars. One day, he sneaks into a tourist bus to steal and, trapped, is forced to...
Aug 1991
A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and that time stood still:her workers,circa 1920,do not receive any salary and ,like the peasants in the middle ages,have to bring their production to their landlady. But her progressive ideas come up against men still remembering WW1 and against her bourgeois peers.Her foreman ,first bewildered ,is finally won over by his boss' resilience and strength of character.For her own good,the young heiress is too ahead of her time though.
Jul 2013
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Summer 2019. Just graduated from Sciences Po, Madeleine leaves to prepare the orals of the ENA in Corsica with Antoine, her lover with whom she shares very left-wing political convictions. On a small deserted road, an unexpected encounter will seal their fate.
Mar 2023
Serge is a winner, he sells kitchen furniture like hot cakes. His son, Gérald, who has just lost his restaurant, applies for a job in his dad's firm. It's Gerald's wish but it's Serge's reality and you do not become a top salesman overnight.
May 2016
Léa is twenty years old, and works at the fish market in the supermarket on the corner. Tonight, Léa would like to go out for beers, smoke joints, and let off steam with good music. But that's not going to happen. Tonight, Léa is going to live for the first time.
Jan 2012
A man escorting Chinese clients meets a guy wearing a chicken outfit.
Oct 2014
The French-Italian border at the Montgenèvre pass. Daytime reality: tourism, capital invested to make the mountain profitable. At night: the fragile destiny of more than ten thousand men, women and children who, in four years, risked their lives to cross the border.
Jan 2023
A 20-year-old father obsessed with muscle cars must address his own guilt when he recklessly hits a young man on the freeway and flees the scene.
Aug 2012
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Dec 2013
Preuilly-sur-Claise, a small village in the south of Indre-et-Loire, March 2020. As in each of the 36,000 municipalities in France, the Preuillaciens will elect their new mayor. There are three on the starting line: Jean-Paul, the veteran, Patrick the outsider and Mathieu, the last minute guest. Fantastic and intrepid, this one intends to thwart all the forecasts. Especially since there is Guy on her list. An old politician.
Mar 2022
Féfé suffers a heartbreak for the first time. He is 65 years old.
Oct 2016