Hail Mary

A man leaves his pregnant wife because he does not want to be a father, then he begins a relationship with another woman who loves someone else.

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.

An elderly painter whose son visits with his family on the weekends, is also surprised by a visit from his still-single daughter.

A Swiss sailor abandons his post during a stopover in Lisbon and takes up residence in a small hotel in the city.

Bruno is 14. When his grandmother dies, he returns to Bagnolet with his mother who is rarely there. At school he meets Jean-Roger, who introduces him to a group of delinquents.

Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

One morning Valerie has to tell her unemployed boyfriend Remi that she is pregnant. She has decided to keep the child, but they argue whether they should break up or not. That same day she starts work

Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone.

The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film abou

Four chapters based on the birth of a 'secret child', or a film, with chapter titles: "La séction Césarienne" (Caesarian section: a descriptive detail introducing the mother); "Le dernier guerrier" (t