Jacques Penot Movies

In 1929, Mr. Messier, owner of a small print shop in a village in Quebec became a widower, he lives with his two children, Rachel, 9 years old, and Gaëtan, 7 years old. In this closed universe and in the absence of their mother, a great complicity is established between the children.

To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.

Adolescents or young adults, Franck, Christine and the others meet, bond, leave each other. But the drama lurks.

In this melodrama, a woman whose husband has begun seeing a wholly unsuitable woman runs away and attempts to support her son and herself by doing construction work. Many years later, after the death of his mother, the boy makes his father's acquaintance once again.

A mother, depressed since the birth of her twin daughters, sinks into alcoholism, but her eldest son decides to do everything to save his family.

A bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize her dream and go to the city. The second, Joelle, wants to leave town for the countryside.