Marie-Pierre Meinzel

No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty political and financial affair, an art smuggling case that touches them merely for the fact that it may separate them, be it through death or exile.

Harry, homme d'affaires surmené, comble à coups de mimiques et d'admonestations le vide effrayant d'une vie désertée par la femme qu'il aimait et qui est partie en emmenant leurs deux fillettes. Un jour, Harry croise le chemin d'un jeune trisomique, Georges, qui a fui l'institut spécialisé où il vivait. Harry n'a tout d'abord qu'une idée: se débarrasser au plus tôt de l'encombrant personnage, qui réclame à tue-tête des chaussures neuves dans les magasins et qui risque la mort s'il mange du chocolat. Peu à peu, pourtant, dans l'âme desséchée d'Harry, se glisse une affection pour l'être simple et bon qui s'est accroché à ses basques et l'appelle «mon copain»... Double prix d'interprétation masculine du Festival de Cannes 1996 pour Daniel Auteuil et Pascal Duquenne