Catherine Frot

Follows the unlikely friendship between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and the estranged, free-spirited mistress of her late father.

Perpetually happy Odette thinks she owes her sense of optimism to her favorite writer, a closet curmudgeon, and sets out to personally thank him.

In the local cottage hospital in Carhaix, Brittany, the peaceful maternity unit has few births to deal with. Mathilde, a midwife, Firmine, a pediatric nurse, and Louise, owner of the Carhaix bowling alley team up to stop the unit closing.

A web of secrets, suspicions, and desires ensnares the inhabitants of an insular French village in this tantalizing comic thriller from ever-audacious auteur Alain Guiraudie. Returning to his rural hometown to attend the funeral of the mentor he loved, enigmatic, sexually fluid drifter Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) stirs up long-simmering feelings of lust, jealousy, and rage among those he left behind—including the dead man’s widow (Catherine Frot), her hot-tempered son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), and a curiously protective local priest (Jacques Develay) with whom Jérémie forges a twisted bond. Amid the evocatively earthy milieu, Guiraudie constructs a slippery, continuously surprising moral universe where love and hatred, eroticism and violence, spiritual grace and mortal sin, are intimately entwined.

Wealthy publisher Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte), faces his greatest social challenge in this classic French comedy of errors. He is supposed to find a "guest" (who must be an idiot), to bring to a dinner sponsored by his friends,who are wealthy and obnoxious yuppies engaged in a never ending game of oneupmanship. He is sure to win the prize when he invites Francois Pignon (Jacques Villeret), a lowly finance ministry accountant who reproduces famous monuments, with matchsticks. Little does Pierre realise that Francois is a giant among idiots who will have systematically destroyed half his life - quite innocently - before entrees even reach the table...