Les Fées Productions

Maxine is an intern at a car workshop. She works hard toward full-time employment. The reality of the world of work grounds her in her reality: being a woman in a man's world.

A César award nominated short drama.

Ivan has an appointment with a psychologist for his first session.

Oscar Mongoût, a gourmet cannibal, burns with love for a neighbor in his building, the very vegetal Miss Carrot. But this passion seems destined to fail: she is vegetarian, while he has a severe case of vegetable phobia. Things take a drastic turn the evening she invites him to dinner.

Violaine, a twenty-year-old young woman, spends her time photographing people in secret. One morning, when leaving her home, she discovers her neighbor, half dead. This event is going to upset her and to incite her to come out of her solitude to discover who is this man that she has probably saved.

The annual general assembly of the co-owners : quarrels about nothing, the collapse of the management agency, that turns becomes absurd.

With L’inconsolable, Jean-Marie Straub continues the mise en scène of Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò, initiated in 1978 with Dalla nube alla resistenza and followed up in 2006, 2007 and 2008 with Quei loro incontri, Artemis’s Knee and Le streghe – femmes entre elles. L’inconsolable is a reflection on the myth of Orpheus.

Jules and Octave have been hiding in a cellar for the last eight years. Outside, women have taken control and reduced men to slavery.

What is it like to grow up with an absent Irakian father and an overbearing Jewish mother ? Tim, overwhelmed with the great upheavals of the world today, tries as best he can to find his place.