François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighbourhood. François insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods...
Agathe Villanova is a feminist and recent entrant to the political scene. She returns to her childhood home in the South of France to spend ten days helping her sister Florence sort out their mother’s affairs following her death a year earlier.
Agathe Villanova is a feminist and recent entrant to the political scene. She returns to her childhood home in the South of France to spend ten days helping her sister Florence sort out their mother’s affairs following her death a year earlier.
A married woman works in a brothel by day to satisfy her masochistic desires and satisfies her respectable husband by night.
Junon learns that she has leukaemia, and that chemotherapy will not work. Her only hope is to find a bone marrow donor amongst the members of her family. Her children and grandchildren are all tested. Paul, Elizabeth’s son, the oldest of the grandchildren and a tortured adolescent, allows himself to become overwhelmed by anguish.
Down winding country lanes and behind rural backwaters, Raymond Depardon has spent 20 years making friends with a dying breed of farmers who are defiantly old school, treating newcomers and women with equal suspicion. With a warm irreverent eye Depardon presents a rural community and the legacies that bind them to land and family.
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