A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier
Paris in spring. While the weather goes bonkers, a handful of women meet, argue, make up and love one another: an authoritarian business woman and her timid assistant; an overwhelmed mother and her lesbian babysitter; a sentimental lawyer and her hysterical sister; a gynecologist and her terrified sister; a bus conductor and an almost incendiary Russian – all are united by laughter and tears.
1970s in French Riviera. Leaving behind her unsuccessful marriage, Agnes Le Roux comes back to her mother, the host of the Palais de la Mediterranee casino in Nice. Meanwhile, Cote d'-Azur goes through tough time because of back-room "casino war", property redistribution among criminal groupings, which escalates as it was tensions in family. With the casino losing money and mob rivals closing in, Agnes' mother Renee doesn't want Agnes' stake to go outside the family. But nor does she have the liquid cash to buy her daughter out. Next, Renee increasingly turns for advice to ambitious lawyer Maurice Agnelet, who helps maneuver the old-guard administration out and install Renee as board president. Unexpectedly, Agnes falls in love that carries into smithereens her fragile world by powerful explosion of outstanding passion. The man she fell in love with is not free in his own desires. Suddenly, her mysterious disappearance in the heat of these events rises a lot of questions, but does not provide any answers...
Life seems perfect for John Brennan (Russell Crowe) until his wife, Lara (Elizabeth Banks), is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son Luke (Ty Simpkins) and teaching at community college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Brian Dennehy, Lennie James
Directed by Paul Haggis
Script: Paul Haggis