Jacques Gamblin

This French coming of age story follows Benjamin, who is sure he's going to become a great doctor. But his first experience as junior doctor in his father's service, the Professor Barois, does not turn out the way he hoped. Benjamin will be brutally confronted with his own limitations, his fears, and those of his patients, families, doctors and staff.

In a little village in Brittany, a 10 year old girl is found assassinated. René, an artist by profession and the girl’s art teacher, is the last person to have seen her. He is immediately questioned by the police inspector in charge of the enquiry. In this little provincial village where everyone knows one another and where everyone regularly gathers at the ‘Bar des Amis’, René is increasingly destabilised by the suspicion placed upon him...

In a tense war-torn climate, on the eve of the Japanese surrender in 1945, Doctor Akagi, the local doctor of a seaside village on one of Japan's islands, takes a stand to save his professional integrity. He is concerned by the growing number of people coming down with hepatitis the main cause of death in an undernourished country. He bands together with his old buddies, a dissolute monk and a nihilistic morphine-addicted surgeon. They're all on the...

Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results – until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. Bound by common tragic family histories (the Algerian War and Holocaust under Vichy), the duo improbably falls in love....