

A 40-year-old father of two, still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can’t bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.Read More »


A 40-year-old father of two, still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can’t bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.Read More »


Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
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Five years after their adventures in Barcelona in The Spanish Apartment, many of the exuberant flatmates are reunited, including Xavier who is soon thirty and struggles as a writer. He commutes to London for a job co-writing TV with Wendy and ghostwrites an autobiography for a model in Paris.Read More »
Tells the story of a young woman’s relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.Read More »

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Colin has a very pleasant life: he is rich, he loves the food his cook makes (Nicolas), he loves his pianocktail (contraction of piano and cocktail, a word invented by Vian) and his friend Chick. One day while having lunch with Chick, Chick tells him that he met a girl named Alise with whom he has a common passion: the writer Jean-Sol Partre (an spoonerism of Jean-Paul Sartre who was Boris Vian´s friend). Colin meets Chloe at a party Chick invited him to. They fall in love, marry, but Chloe becomes ill during their honeymoon. As time passes, Chloe’s condition deteriorates while the relationship between Chick and Alise turns sour …Read More »


The unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.Read More »