Jean-Michel Portal

Intertwined stories of six friends searching for happy lives. Julie is released from hospital after a suicide attempt... (imdb)

This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last." (imdb)

A former corsican detective tells his biographer about a murder he witnessed and how this put his life in danger.

An old man teaches a young man to live in the forest and to understand the wild world. (imdb)

Forty-year-old François has everything he needs to be happy: a family, work, friends... But a tragic event to do with his business puts into question the principles that rule his life. Will François be able to rouse himself and refuse to accept what he now considers intolerable? (marion-cotillard.org)