Yves Lavandier

At age 17, Eglantine is troubled by a number of things. Her argumentative parents comprise an absentee and philandering father and an overprotective, occasionally alcoholic mother. Her boyfriend Sébastien is a couple of years older; he's ready, but she isn't. Frequent furtive visits to her therapist help her to see that these issues are not 'problems', but 'difficulties', which she has the strength to overcome.

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An archeologist sets up a trap with a scorpion, then calls up a fellow worker and pretends he is in great danger. Before dying, he has to know the truth about a certain affair.

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Jean-Pierre, a French jerk living in New York, is in desperate need of money. His friend Barry, a wealthy American, is coming to dinner. But is Jean Pierre any match for Barry since he proposes a bet? Because if Jean-Pierre wins, he gets the money. If he loses, Barry sleeps and has sex with Jean-Pierre's wife.

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A student is mistaken for a Mr. Brown and runs away. But the chasers are everywhere.

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Maxwell is a yesman to his wife until, one day, one last straw breaks the camel's back. Maxwell decides to get rid of Darling. But he is not much of an action man.

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In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.

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