Jean-Marie Duprez

« Vous devez au Trésor public la somme de 1 991 753 euros... Et vous n'avez pour tout bien que le château de Neuville, une bicoque décrépite que vous habitez avec votre nombreuse famille ». Le comte Charles-Valérand d'Arbac de Neuville, son épouse Solange, née Poitou Castilla de la Taupinière, ainsi que leurs ascendants et descendants en ligne plus ou moins directe vont tenter l'impossible (à l'exception notable du travail) pour préserver leur château en ruine, symbole d'une existence fragile et néanmoins tenace... Commence alors un voyage initiatique, identitaire et loufoque au centre de la vraie vie... Un banquier aux nerfs fragiles, un huissier aristophobe, des nobles parvenus, des cousins radins, des transports très communs...

Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a painting which his father left him, along with the advice: "If you ever need to sell the painting, do so in France, where it's worth a fortune." But Michel discovers that his father's tumultuous and secret past comes along with the valuable painting. Meanwhile, Clara, a middle age Spanish-Argentine mother gets a strange present from a now dying childhood friend in Buenos Aires. It's a roll of Super 8 film which brings back very strong, and emotionally charged memories from the 1970s and before.

Dans un même compartiment de train six hommes se racontent les déboires sentimentaux qu'ils ont connu dans le passé.

En 1919, dans son château situé dans la forêt des Ardennes, le comte Forbek propose à ses invités une expérience qui doit les conduire à un état de bonheur permanent. Le prix à payer est un enfermement total, l'oubli du passé et une rééducation des sens, en sélectionnant tout ce qui est harmonieux. Mais l'amour-passion incarné par Fanny Ardant fait exploser ce modèle. En 1982, le même château est devenu un collège expérimental. Un colloque de chercheurs s'y réunit pour préciser les méthodes et moyens d'une éducation de l'imagination. Au même moment, trois enfants s'inventent un conte moyenâgeux, dans lequel un prince vaillant triomphe d'un tyran pour le bonheur de son peuple (source Wikipedia)

Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a painting which his father left him, along with the advice: "If you ever need to sell the painting, do so in France, where it's worth a fortune." But Michel discovers that his father's tumultuous and secret past comes along with the valuable painting. Meanwhile, Clara, a middle age Spanish-Argentine mother gets a strange present from a now dying childhood friend in Buenos Aires. It's a roll of Super 8 film which brings back very strong, and emotionally charged memories from the 1970s and before.

Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a painting which his father left him, along with the advice: "If you ever need to sell the painting, do so in France, where it's worth a fortune." But Michel discovers that his father's tumultuous and secret past comes along with the valuable painting. Meanwhile, Clara, a middle age Spanish-Argentine mother gets a strange present from a now dying childhood friend in Buenos Aires. It's a roll of Super 8 film which brings back very strong, and emotionally charged memories from the 1970s and before.

Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a painting which his father left him, along with the advice: "If you ever need to sell the painting, do so in France, where it's worth a fortune." But Michel discovers that his father's tumultuous and secret past comes along with the valuable painting. Meanwhile, Clara, a middle age Spanish-Argentine mother gets a strange present from a now dying childhood friend in Buenos Aires. It's a roll of Super 8 film which brings back very strong, and emotionally charged memories from the 1970s and before.