Guy Pion

A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.

Un vampire bourgeois, le Nosférat (Jack l'Eventreur), réforme la morale bourgeoise en réduisant ses contradictions puritaines. Il ouvre la porte de l'éducation répressive de la famille sur le fascisme...

Michel, fils d'écrivain paralysé, mari d'une Congolaise réfugiée et père d'un futur champion de tennis, est un inventeur belge erratique incompris de son employeur. A l'âge de 42 ans, il apprend qu'il a été adopté et qu'il est né clandestinement dans une grange au Québec, à Sainte-Cécile. Durant l'an 2000, Michel se rend à Sainte-Cécile, pour retrouver la trace de ses parents biologiques. Là-bas, il croise un homme au volant d'une voiture électrique hybride anachronique. Sur la route qui les ramène à Montréal, un accident changera leur vie ainsi que l'avenir de l'industrie automobile. Bienvenue dans le Congorama.

Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a man she's not very interested in. It's not at all irrelevant that her news beat includes stories on terrorism, the greenhouse effect, pollution and genetic engineering, because when her baby's due date comes and goes, she starts hearing from her infant from in the womb. It is telling her that it and many other babies are refusing to be born into such a horrible world. She learns that this is true, and that the children born through induced labor are dying.

Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way back home, they attempt to change trains in Paris but encounter surprising difficulties from the ticket authorities there. It seems that political changes have rendered their homeland nonexistent, and their passports are no good. Before long, they are stranded in Paris without passports, without a country, and soon even their luggage is stolen. Their fumbling efforts to straighten out the mess result in the French press getting into the act, labeling them as Russian spies. The Parisian expatriate community takes them into its bosom, and romance blooms between one of the lads and a Spanish hatmaker, before they finally achieve a (highly improbable) solution for their difficulties.