A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.
19uncu yüzyıl Fransa'sında geçen film, sayfiyede yaşayan romantik Emma'nın, daha yüksek standartlı bir hayata geçme hayaliyle, donuk doktor Charles Bovary ile evlenmesini anlatıyor.Evlendikten sonra, evliliğinde aradığı tutkuyu ve heyecanı bulamayan Emma, Rodolphe adlı önemli bir toprak sahibi ve Leon adında bir hukuk öğrencisiyle aşk yaşamaya başlar. Ödeyemeyeceği miktarda borca giren Madame Bovary, büyük bir çıkmaza doğru sürüklenmektedir. Gustave Flaubert edebiyat dünyasında önemli bir yer edinmiş romanından uyarlanan film; cinsellik, aldatma ve feminizm üzerine birçok tartışmaya da yol açmıştır.
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.
Leon Uris’in aynı adlı eserinden uyarlanan 1969 yapımı film, soğuk savaş sırasında yaşanan casus hikâyelerini konu alır. Film, birbirinden farklı birçok kişinin öykülerinin kesiştiği yerdir. Zeki bir Fransız ajanı, sıhhi savaştaki karmaşıklaşmış politikalar içerisinde, 1962 Küba krizine yol açmış olayları gün yüzüne çıkarır. Daha sonrasında ise Fransa’ya geri dönerek uluslararası Rus casusluk çemberinden ayrılır.
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.