Four stories, snapshots taken from the lives of four people at Orly
airport. A young woman is heading back home to be reunited with
her husband when she meets and falls in love with another
man. A mother, accompanied by her teenage son, is on her
way to her ex-husband's funeral. A young couple flying off
on their dream holiday manage to lose sight of one another. And a
woman who just wants to be alone to read a farewell letter from her
lover...
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.