Lucien Plazanet

At 22, Céline receives several shocks: her father dies and she learns she was adopted; she rejects her inheritance, so her fiancé jilts her. (imdb)

13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a fantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. (imdb)

Agnes leaves school and moves in a council flat with her friend Florence. She takes a job as an office clerk. Quickly, she faces the violence of life in suburbs, suicides, assaults, harassment, and the indifference of his neighbors and colleagues

In HLM commuter Peter is convinced that his wife loves him, while the latter is believed to be a great diva. From his side, Franck, rocker at heart tries to escape as much as is possible in this family breakdown. Only Natalie, the youngest, seems to have his head on his shoulders. (Premiere.fr)

The peregrinations of a group of boys and girls from Paris. Two girls swap the capital for the countryside near Montpellier. One of the girls hesitates between dream world and reality. La croisée des chemins marks the start of a significant oeuvre and is a film in which reality and dream are mixed. Jean-Claude Brisseau shot this film on Super8 in 1975 (Letterboxd).