Filmen inleds med en Miss World-tävling. Den (o)lyckliga vinnaren Miss Kanada får äran att gifta sig med världens rikaste man; en amerikansk oljemogul, så rik att han låtit förädla sin penis med guld. Hon blir bortförd av en svart kroppsbyggare varpå hon träffar en mexikansk rockstjärna i Paris. Till sist hamnar hon i ett kollektiv med österrikiska sodomiter och självförnedrare. En vansinnig och absurdistisk satir om tabun och sexuell frigörelse.
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
Céline och Julie finner en väg in i en parallell värld, där ett melodram utspelar sig i en herrgård. En nya vågen-klassiker som experimenterar med uppstyckade tidslinjer.
Romantisk komedi om tre män och tre kvinnor vars liv sammanflätas pga en pjäs.
Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.
A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.
After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a journey from which he does not think he will return. His meeting with Daphne makes the escape through Tartary even crazier.
An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.