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The French female pioneer of immersion journalism, Maryse Choisy, who infiltrated in 1928 the prostitution underworld of Paris. Posing as a chambermaid, a lesbian bar dancer and more, she wrote a very successful and scandalous book about that avant-garde experience, and changed her mind about this world and these women's difficult condition.
Léo and Kaspard, a young couple, live in Nanterre. Léo is fed up with Kaspar's reproaches and takes to social networks to make their love story public. Their breakup marks Léo's departure for Berlin, a city where he hopes to be reborn through contact with an alternative milieu. But the city's real estate speculation pushes Leo to the margins. Years later, Kaspar's biological daughter, raised by a couple of women, recalls this love story on a theater stage.
A film director returns to his childhood home in provincial France with his brother and his girlfriend and discovers isolation to be an artistic curative.
Happy and accomplished, Ellias becomes the new artistic director of a famous French Haute Couture house. When he learns that his father, whom he has not seen for many years, has just died of a heart attack, Ellias goes to Quebec to settle the estate. The young creator will discover that he has inherited much worse than his father's fragile heart.
"Since childhood, I've had the good fortune of going through two mini depressions of happiness, and I'm serenely awaiting the third. This alone is enough for me to believe in a certain beauty to life and to have the pleasure of attempting to film it in all its forms (trees, animals, gods, humans...) and to do so when love is intense. The filmmaker has lost a part of innocence. It's so difficult to spot it around you, so difficult not to lose it during a film shoot. I'm grateful to those who you look at on screen. To stand up to time, I've a tactic, which is to dig into my stock of emotions and old images. Not so as to find what will never come back, but to discover the signs of spring in winter. This allows me to begin another day with an easy, light step." (Alain Cavalier)
Lisa, a single woman, decides to take a chance on love again by catapulting her life from Paris to Los Angeles. Her children flew the coop and her famous, yet absent mother just passed, so Lisa needs a big change. She reunites with her best friend Luka, who found success in America but is struggling to find his own prince charming. Luka embarks on a mission to give Lisa a fresh start by creating a profile for her on a dating website.
The final episode of Alain Cavalier’s video diary. “Le Filmeur” traces his life since “Pater”: the approach of death and the beauty of life —both human and animal— intertwine with the filmmaker’s doubts and contradictions as he encounters others.