A Christmas Tale is a comedy-drama movie that revolves around a dysfunctional family as they come together during the Christmas season. The family faces various challenges and secrets which they must confront and overcome. Themes of banishment, family relationships, alcoholism, and disease intertwine with a mother-son relationship, debt, and a bone marrow transplant. The movie also features elements of a Christmas party, Christian mass, jogging, and watching TV. Family secrets, a letter, and a William Shakespeare quotation play a significant role in shaping the story. Set in France, the movie explores the complexities of relationships and features lesbian grandmother, strangers, and fireworks. Other elements include a barber, surgical operation, pianist, Christmas play, grave, dominoes, painting, and an art gallery. A fistfight, phonograph record, brother-sister relationship, photograph, and record player add further depth to the plot. The movie is set in Paris, France, and Roubaix-Flanders, and delves into themes of mental illness, nervous breakdown, and dysfunctional family dynamics.

My Golden Days is a movie set in the 1980s that follows the life of Paul Dédalus, a middle-aged anthropologist, reminiscing about his teenage years and the formative events that shaped his adult life. The story revolves around his relationship with Esther, an elusive and wild woman, and their tumultuous romance. As Paul reflects on his past, he grapples with themes of identity, obsession, and the fleeting nature of youth. The movie explores the complexities of love, the lasting impact of our actions, and the bittersweet nostalgia that comes with the passage of time.

My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument follows a university lecturer as he navigates his relationships, including a troubled romance and affairs, while also dealing with personal and professional challenges. The film explores themes of love, sex, and intellectual debate.

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.