, 1h50 Directed byCosta-Gavras OriginFrance GenresComedy ThemesPolitique, Films about suicide ActorsAndré Dussollier, Pierre Arditi, Jiří Menzel, Anna Romantowska, Maurice Bénichou, Henryk Bista Rating60% Barbara et Henri organisent une fête à laquelle sont conviés d'anciens camarades signataires de pétitions. Parmi les invités se trouve Stan, l'ex-mari de Barbara, émigré polonais comme elle. Stan fuit vite l'ennui de cette fête d'anciens combattants et se réfugie dans la chambre de bonne délabrée de ses hôtes. En voulant changer une ampoule grillée, il provoque une véritable catastrophe et ses amis, alertés par le bruit, le retrouvent à terre entortillé dans les fils électriques. Tous croient à une tentative de suicide...
, 1h25 Directed byÉric Caravaca OriginFrance GenresDrama ThemesFilms about families ActorsÉric Caravaca, Julie Depardieu, Vincent Rottiers, Maurice Bénichou, Nathalie Richard, Maurice Garrel Rating59% Après la mort de son frère, Richard, Thomas retourne dans le village de leur enfance, afin d'organiser ses funérailles et de vendre la maison dans laquelle ils ont grandi ensemble. Il retrouve des relations passées et fait la connaissance d'une famille qui a partagé la vie de son frère alors que Thomas avait coupé le contact avec lui.
, 2h Directed byAlain Resnais OriginFrance GenresDrama, Comedy-drama, Romance ThemesThéâtre, Films based on plays ActorsSabine Azéma, Lambert Wilson, André Dussollier, Pierre Arditi, Laura Morante, Isabelle Carré Rating69% In contemporary Paris, six characters individually confront their emotional solitude as their lives intertwine. Dan (Lambert Wilson) is unemployed after being sacked from the army and spends his time drinking in a bar and telling his troubles to the longsuffering barman Lionel (Pierre Arditi). Dan's relationship with Nicole (Laura Morante) is disintegrating and through a newspaper advertisement he meets Gaëlle (Isabelle Carré), an attractive but insecure young woman who lives with her older brother Thierry (André Dussollier). Thierry is an estate agent who has been trying to find a new apartment for Nicole and Dan. He works with Charlotte (Sabine Azéma), a middle-aged spinster and an ardent Christian, who lends him a video of an evangelical TV programme to give him inspiration. At the end of the video, Thierry discovers some unerased footage of erotic dancing by a woman he suspects to be Charlotte, and, taking this as an invitation, one day he tries to force her to kiss him in their office. Charlotte in her spare time works as a carer, and is assigned to look after the bed-ridden and foul-mouthed Arthur (the voice of Claude Rich) in the evenings so that his dutiful son, who is Lionel the barman, can go to work. After enduring repeated vicious tantrums from Arthur, Charlotte one evening dons a leather porno outfit and silences him with a striptease performance, before resuming her usual pious demeanour. Arthur is hospitalised next day. Gaëlle witnesses a farewell meeting between Dan and Nicole, and interpreting it as a betrayal by Dan, she flees back home to her brother. Lionel and Nicole both pack up to begin new lives. Dan resumes his place at the bar.
, 2h20 Directed byAlain Resnais OriginFrance GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance ThemesThéâtre, Films based on plays ActorsPierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Peter Hudson Rating73% "Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.