A dream list of international directors were invited by producer Claudie Ossard to each make a short film reflectingsome of the character and emotion conjured up by a particular district in the heart of Paris. The result is an inspiring love letter to a city and its inhabitants filled with magical moments from Sylvain Chomet’s delightful meander with a renegade mime (Little Britain’s Paul Putner) to the reunion of Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara in a neighbourhood cafe to Steve Buscemi’s experiences as a hapless American tourist. This is definitely a “date” film, with appropriate humour, romance, and a sense of loss.

What should one do with an unexpected inheritance of 50,000 Euro? This is the question preoccupying Franssou (played by the sparky Isabelle Carré), who has suddenly been blessed with this windfall. Should she save the money, invest it, or buy something expensive with it? But all of those ideas are far too petty minded for Franssou. Much better to spend it trying out a different kind of life, a life free from financial constraints in which she can simply live for the moment. This is the first thing that occurs to the teacher from the country.
She sets off for the Côte d´Azur and checks into the best hotel in town – the Carlton. A hotel with four stars! Things couldn‘t be better, she thinks. Then she meets Stéphane (José Garcia in mercurial mode and on a charm offensive). He is young and has plans. Stéphane‘s primary interest is in money. Especially other people‘s money. This charming scoundrel‘s attention is immediately drawn to Franssou. Yet the young woman, who clearly possesses the innate ease and confidence of the upper classes, is by no means as guileless as Stéphane had hoped. She sees through his game – even before he has a chance to make his opening gambit.
No wonder that he and Franssou throw in their lot together. The couple meet a third character (the dry and droll François Cluzet). Once a racing driver, he now has plenty of time on his hands – and a past in which things did not always run as smoothly as he is wont to pretend.
Christian Vincent’s comedy is about money, morals and love, as well as all kinds of complications in this particular force field. These are subjects that, ever since the films of Ernst Lubitsch, have always been the stuff of real comedy.

A true-life tale of two innocent and well-meaning 19-year-old women who are driven by a series of untoward events to commit murder, was inspired by an unrealised project of the late French veteran Maurice Pialat, to whose memory it is dedicated.
It explores the idea of beautiful but sexually ripe and independent-minded young women clashing with the stifling norms of the bourgeoisie.
Rejected by their parents, they run off. Their paths cross when they meet up in a psychiatric hospital from which they soon escape. With no money, they ask for help, in vain, from people they know including friends, ex-boyfriends, and neighbours.
Their encounters become more and more dangerous on the roadside, confronted with abuse which perhaps inevitably ends in extreme violence.
This is the sixth feature by Patrick Grandperret who was an assistant to Pialat on Passe ton bac d'abord (1979) and Loulou (1980). Grandperret directed notably Mona et moi (1989 – Prix Jean Vigo) and L’enfant lion (1993).