Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes.
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential...
The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and...
This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.
1915. Louis, aged 17, arrives on Reunion Island to find his father, Count Kerdiguen. He has built himself a new family with Salima, his native partner, and their daughter Sita. Between the white and native communities, tensions are increasingly mounting...
After abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between Yemen and Abyssinia as a shopkeeper, trader, explorer, and arms trafficker.
Nicole invites her husband's two brothers and their wives for their housewarming party. Except that she also asked the assistant of one of them, the mysterious Talia, to come. This does not seem to please the other guests.
A jealous classmate exposes the fact that Olympe has 2 gay parents. Feeling ostracized and humiliated, Olympe lashes out at her closeted mother. Life unravels so that the truth can set them free.
Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience something of a crisis in their lives. Olivier, a doctor before becoming wheelchair bound, faces a bleak future after the break up of two relationships. The fact...
Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and...
Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neither seems interested in the other. Still,...
A young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and corruption. Three days before her television appearance, her apartment is devastated by an explosion. Forced into exile, she goes to the countryside where she meets a particularly endearing person.
Fabien has been a manager for years. Overnight, this 40 year old man is unemployed. His wife Daniela pushes him to recover an apartment he had made available to his mother, Marie-Louise. But the woman is not at all ready to leave the apartment, especially not since she now has a new boyfriend,...
