The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Mon oncle d'Amérique

Ретроспектива Алена Рене

Institute France

Французский институт

Big hall

My American Uncle

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

Hiroshima mon amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

L'année dernière à Marienbad

Last Year at Marienbad

A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.

Stavisky...

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband. In the present day, the castle is being used as an alternative school and, in the summer holidays, for an educational conference. At the conference, the American Nora Winkle bets Claudine that the ernest public school teacher Elisabeth Rousseau will be enticed into the bed of Robert Dufresne, even though the principal speaker, Walter Guarini, is obviously interested in Elisabeth. Meanwhile, the children staying at the castle over the holidays invent their own medieval tale about freeing prisoners from the dungeons.<br>