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Les vacances de Clémence (2008)
Character: Bernard
In Saint-Nazaire in 1967, a hotbed of workers' struggles, Clémence, 26, is married to a young worker, Gérard. Like many women of her generation, she does not work and takes care of her two children. But she longs for a different life while Gérard confuses the happiness of his family with the acquisition of household appliances. Trained by an old friend, Agnès, in family planning meetings, Clémence will meet a young philosophy teacher, Jérôme. For him, she will abandon her husband and her children, and try to live the utopia of a life of total freedom. Blinded by his pain, a stranger to his wife's questioning, Gérard will have to become aware of the upheavals that will overwhelm society a few months later. Life will never be the same again.
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Le diable est dans les détails (2016)
Character: Docteur Tardieu
Set in mid-19th-century France, this short follows Alexina, a trainee school teacher in a young girl’s convent, who suffers unbearable pains. After examination by a doctor who questions Alexina’s gender and subsequently decides that masculinity prevails, Alexina works to find their own path forward.
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Air comprimé (2019)
Character: N/A
Vincent, who lacks control over his pupils, his a maths teacher in a high school. One day, he and his wife Hélène, who is five months pregnant, are the target of a hidden paintball shooter. Although not injured, they are traumatized. While Hélène decides to forget the attack, Vincent becomes convinced that the shooter is one of his young students.
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Le Sens de l'Orientation (2012)
Character: Elliot
Traveling through the Landes region, Martin, 40, helps his friend Eliott, 30, find a church. The two friends take advantage of this joyful escape from everyday life to reflect on their condition as men and their love lives, punctuated by schoolboy jokes. But the journey becomes a path to redemption for Martin, who, haunted by a broken masculinity and a lie, must confront the man he truly is.
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Mademoiselle Drot (2010)
Character: Lucien Wallabrègues
In 1938 a young woman French woman, Benedicte Drot, is having a child and is not married. The child is placed in a religious orphanage, and when her family throws her out she's obliged to work as a governess for family Treives. She is at first horrified when she discovers that the family is Jewish, but when madame Treives is arrested by the the French militia, when leaving the free zone to join her husband in Paris, Benedicte decides to take care of the Familys newborn son and the house they left behind.
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Diane a les épaules (2017)
Character: Thomas
Diane doesn't hesitate for a moment when her best friends, Thomas and Jacques, ask her to be their surrogate mother. It is in these hardly ideal circumstances that she becomes infatuated with Fabrizio.
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Un amour à taire (2005)
Character: Rudy
A young Jewish girl, Sara, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe.
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