Stéphane Brizé

At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?

After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.

Philippe is a successful executive in an industrial conglomerate, however the pressures of work have lead to him separating from his wife. As he struggles with the demands of his bosses, he must now decide what is important in life.

A fragmented account of the life of Jeanne as she sets out on the path of adult life and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman's life in the 19th-century.

Mathieu lives in Paris, Alice in a small balnearic town. They have a short affair, and then each one follows their own path. To wash his melancholy, Mathieu goes to a thalasso, where by chance he finds Alice.

Alain Evrard, a trucker who has just finished serving a prison sentence, is forced to temporarily move back to his mother Yvette's house. This forced co-habitation causes all the violence of their past relationship to re-emerge. O...