Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.

1988 film directed by Claire Denis

Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One evening, he meets Elsa at a party and are immediately attracted to each other. Fifteen days later, they happen to meet again and the mutual attraction turns into infatuation. But his love for his wife and Elsa's rule about not dating married men prevents them from taking the next step. Instead, they fantasize about each other, and soon the fantasies mingle with the reality.

2009 French drama film by Xavier Giannoli

1986 film by Bertrand Tavernier

1994 film by Claude Chabrol

2010 film by Guillaume Canet

2020 film directed by Sydney Sibilia

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?

加布里埃（马修·阿马立克 Mathieu Amalric 饰）是一名在出版社工作的编辑，近日里，他对自己的工作产生了强烈的质疑。曾经，加布里埃是一名自由职业者，可以随心所欲的创作自己喜爱的作品，如今，他被局限在狭窄的办公室之中，无比怀念曾经自由的生活，可又下定不了辞职的决心。
在感情生活里，加布里埃也是这样的犹豫不决。他十分想念前女友珍妮（珍妮·巴利巴尔 Jeanne Balibar 饰）的成熟和性感，却又放不下现任女友安娜（维吉妮·拉朵嫣 Virginie Ledoyen 饰）的年轻和单纯。亚德（弗朗索瓦·克鲁塞 François Cluzet 饰）是加布里埃的好友，他的死讯让加布里埃开始重新思考起什么才是他生命中真正重要的东西。

1988 French drama film

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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