Alain Boudet

A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with a client's wife.

In 1835, in Brittany, Camille Maupin —a mature, beautiful, and talented woman— is courted by the young Calyste. To preserve the purity of their love, Camille pushes him into the arms of another, younger woman, while she continues an old affair that makes him jealous. A moving portrait of a woman in the 19th century, adapted from Balzac’s novel of the same name.

Yves is a young man too lazy to work encrusted in a young girl he met on the street and no longer wants to leave the apartment she is sharing with one of her friends.

Hugo-Paul de Weydroos, forger who manages to mystify the most renowned experts, is an attractive man, not without talent but paranoid and megalomaniac. He lived a childhood in the Paris of the 1920s, upset by his love of drawing and painting thwarted by an abusive mother. Delivered to his own fantasies, the hero indulges in the most disordered introspection and will end up consuming himself to become the reincarnation of the one he is trying to copy: Hans Pauli Weyergans, painter of the 18th century.

In a frightening dream, Pauline, daughter of Felix the Roman governor, foresees the death of Polyeucte and cannot agree to let her husband leave the Palace. In love, Polyeucte leaves however on the advice of his Christian friend Néarque who encourages him to neglect the tears of his wife and urges him to be baptized...