The Making of A Summer’s Tale

An all night party in a building on the outskirts of Paris provides the setting of this provocative French meditation on life and waiting. As the title states, the film centers on seven main characters at the party. Each of them is privately waiting for something and all of them engage in conversations about the fundamental concerns of life, including love, sex, truth and responsibility. Among the seven are a pregnant woman waiting for her baby, a playboy, a gay man, and a young woman with poor taste in men. To make the film, director Francoise Etchegaray gave the actors a sense of who they were supposed to be and what they should do, placed them in a room, and let them improvise their dialog.

While preparing her next exhibition, Olivia, a young painter, tries to save her life with Simon from sinking, already cruelly tested by a first year of separation. During a trip to Majorca, she meets Alexander, an Irishman with whom she falls in love. When she returns to Paris, she chooses to leave Simon, without mentioning her romance with Alexander. But the two men meet during an exhibition.

A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.

Ninon, an overwhelmed wife and mother, decides to invite some of her former lovers to her birthday.

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to know Fabien.

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.

How to stay at your lover's side (who's married to another woman) all day long without anyone noticing...

A young woman gradually locks herself in her fear.

Françoise Etchegaray and Mary Stephen, who worked with Rohmer, talk about his Tales of four seasons.

The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her off with her father, despite the latter's already having a lover of his own.

The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.

Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.

Paula flees to Dunkirk to spend the end year celebrations. She is going to turn 50. She wanders around the city where she used to live, searching "men from her past".