First Desires

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law st

Three stories of never-ending love.

Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.

In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.

A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.

A young girl remembers her impossible love for a melancholic boy.

An erratic young woman's family desperately tries to prevent her increasingly erotic ways.

A renowned violinist's descent into alcoholism costs him his marriage and career. After a fateful encounter, a kindred spirit guides his path to sobriety and redemption.

Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Chr

It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...