The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
1968 Mayısında gerçekleşen Paris öğrenci olaylarının amacına ulaşamamasının ardından, hayal kırıklığı içindeki bir kuşağın umutsuzluğunu ve yeniden şekillenen cinsiyetler arası ilişkileri, ağırlıklı olarak ana karakterin monologları ve çevresindekilerle girdiği diyaloglar üzerinden anlatır. Baş karakter Alexandre, son derece egoist, pozcu ve soğuk, yirmili yaşlarının sonlarında bir gençtir. Kendisinden yaşça büyük, butik sahibi Marie ile yaşar. İşsiz ve parasızdır. Zamanının çoğunu elinde bir kitap , Paris sokak ve kafelerinde kız peşinde dolaşarak geçirir. Aşık olduğunu ve evlenmek istediğini açıkladığı eski sevgilisi Gilberte’in başkasıyla evleneceğini öğrenen Alexandre, aynı gün, bir kafede gördüğü genç Polonyalı hemşire Veronika ile bir ilişkiye başlar.
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. An undisputed classic of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating is a delightful movie about the spiritual journey of a pair of young women, told with a playful approach to the cinematic form. A masterpiece of cinematic creativity, Rivette, the same mind behind 1969’s L’amour fou, effortlessly draws the viewer into the whimsical world of the titular protagonists.
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he’s meeting with the intriguing Dominique while on his quest for an unpublished manuscript.
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.