Au début de la Première Guerre mondiale, deux voisins de palier se retrouvent compagnons d’infortune. Confrontés à l’horreur des tranchées et à la peur de la mort, ils se rapprochent et se lient d’amitié. Mais ces vifs sentiments que la guerre a engendrés survivront-ils à un retour dans la monotonie quotidienne ?

Au début de la Première Guerre mondiale, deux voisins de palier se retrouvent compagnons d’infortune. Confrontés à l’horreur des tranchées et à la peur de la mort, ils se rapprochent et se lient d’amitié. Mais ces vifs sentiments que la guerre a engendrés survivront-ils à un retour dans la monotonie quotidienne ?

Two men on a camping trip bond when they suddenly discover they share the same dark secret. Official Selection Narrative Short - Austin Film Festival 2016

The story revolves around Iris who replies "They aren’t" to her osteopath when he asks her how things are going with her husband. This confession slips out, taking Iris by surprise, and rocking her like a brutal awakening: how long has it been since she made love? But everything is fine: Iris has a seemingly flawless husband, two wonderful daughters, a dental practice with a relentless stream of customers, a nice apartment in an area she loves, friends who understand her... And she’ll soon be 50. And then a stranger plants a seed in her head: "Take a lover". Iris open Pandora’s box and candidates emerge as if from nowhere – as if it were raining men.

Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.

In the last thirty years of the 2nd millenium, John Casablancas created the Elite modeling agency and invented the supermodels. If today names such as Naomi, Cindy, Linda, Kate or Claudia are in the POP culture, it is mostly his doing… He lived a life dreamt by many, surrounded by glamour and beauty. We asked him to tell us his story…

In the last thirty years of the 2nd millenium, John Casablancas created the Elite modeling agency and invented the supermodels. If today names such as Naomi, Cindy, Linda, Kate or Claudia are in the POP culture, it is mostly his doing… He lived a life dreamt by many, surrounded by glamour and beauty. We asked him to tell us his story…