Karin Viard

The Oscar®-winning* film CODA was a remake of this movie about a family whose members are deaf - except for the teenaged daughter who follows her dream of being a singer.

Myriam and Paul, are your typical pair of bourgeois Parisian parents of two young children, toddler Adam, and five-year-old Mila, who is taking up all of Myriam's time. When Myriam decides to go back to work despite her husband's initial reluctance, the couple starts looking for a nanny. After a very selective process, they finally find the perfect candidate, Louise, a poised 40-year old woman who is an instant hit with both kids and parents.

In a futuristic society where meat is a rare commodity, a delicatessen serves up its customers as a nutritious replacement.

After losing her job at the local factory, single mother France enrolls in a housekeeper training program and lands a job cleaning the Paris apartment of wealthy power broker Steve. When Alban, Steve's 3-year-old son, arrives on the doorstep to stay with his dad, Steve soon realizes he might need more than a cleaner. France realizes she might now have the perfect opportunity for payback against the man who almost single-handedly shut down the factory...

A housebound `trophy housewife' (or 'potiche') steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action.

While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross...