Valérie Bonneton

In New Zealand, wealthy French businessman Charles Doumeng sees his world fall apart when he finds out he has an incurable disease. In his sixties, with no family or heirs and only a few weeks to live, he’s hit by a sudden resurgence of affection and decides to track down his sister in the west of France who he hasn’t seen for 50 years. In Mauprivez, a little village near Nantes, 35-year-old Corinne, a solicitor’s clerk with money problems, stumbles on the ad Charles has placed to find his sister with the promise of a vast reward. She sets out to seek the missing woman, but when her efforts are unsuccessful, she decides to create a bogus family with the help of those around her. The ruse works brilliantly. On the other side of the world, Charles is delighted to have found his rightful heirs. But life can be full of surprises and one good thing often leads to another. Charles learns he was given a mistaken diagnosis and is not sick at all! Overjoyed, he decides to come to France to meet his new family. And that’s where the problems begin...

Besotted teenagers Sullivan and Camille struggle with a painful push-pull dynamic, heightened by the young man’s decision to leave Paris and travel. Over the course of eight years, we watch Camille, initially devastated by her boyfriend’s departure, emerge with new passions and a sense of self.

Valentin D, an architect, hides his roots by claiming he's an orphan, too ashamed to admit he's the son of scrap metal merchants from northern France.

In a land where women are in power and men are domestics, a young man who longs to marry the 'Colonelle,' struggles to realize his dreams.

Family traditions are challenged by new attitudes in this restrained, exquisite film from Olivier Assayas: a filmmaker whose cinema covers a diverse range of genres and milieus, collectively transforming modern anxieties into engrossing drama. With the late Edith Scob, and a blonde-haired Binoche!

A photographer for an online medical dictionary with severe hypochondria and approaching his 40th birthday is mistaken for an activist war hero.