Lili and Simon are in love. They don't live together but are loving it. And then, here comes Abel, the fruit of their love. And then, the mishaps of life which, someday, will call their way of life into question.
Ada is an eight-year-old girl living in a climate of ongoing tension between her parents. One evening, after a particularly heated argument, she witnesses her parents turn into Monsters. Ada will do everything she can to escape them.
In 1958, while revolution is rumbling in Beirut, three sisters spend their holidays in an isolated village of Lebanese mountains: rebellious Nada, romantic Eva, and the eldest Layla, a good woman, beloved by everyone. But the war threatens and the sudden entrance of two French summer vacationers leads Layla to revolt against patriarchal society.
Nine years ago, they lived a brief love affair. Now, a chance meeting has them reunite in a train station, in-between two journeys. He is arriving, she is leaving. They have eighty minutes to re-evaluate their lives, face to face with their truths, regrets and memories. This is their last chance.
In 1965, Monique Case, who claimed her moral freedom, was wrongly accused by misogynist cops. She will be saved from the guillotine by a shy and reserved examining magistrate who chooses to rebel against the machismo of the judicial hierarchy and of the time.
In 1965, Monique Case, who claimed her moral freedom, was wrongly accused by misogynist cops. She will be saved from the guillotine by a shy and reserved examining magistrate who chooses to rebel against the machismo of the judicial hierarchy and of the time.
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.