Kuster Beaton

Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.

September 1940. Henri Marre arrives alone in Vichy as the authoritarian regime settles in. Broke, estranged from his family, and carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut (Our Salvation), the 49-year-old is determined to secure what he believes is his rightful place in the new administration. In his writing, Henri sets out his patriotic convictions and his engineer’s methodology: efficiency above all. Claiming he wants to help save France after defeat, he does whatever is required to remain useful, serving the machinery of the new order with increasing skill. But he may be pursuing something more urgent: escape from his own ruin

A mentally ill young woman finds love with an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.