Late August, Early September

A trés French ensemble piece about the waning bohemian years of a group of young Parisian intellectuals resisting the inevitable bourgeois future. All are plagued by unrealized creativity and unfulfilling romantic lives. Inventive, tempermental designer Anne (Virginie Ledoyen), who has a yen for kinky sex, toils at a dull clothing firm and she falls in love with would-be writer Gabriel (Mathieu Amalric), a staid man-boy who'll never satisfy her. Gabriel is trying to break up with Jenny (Jeanne Balibar), who's also floundering professionally. The fact that their dying mentor Adrien (Francois Cluzet), an impenetrable, vaguely acclaimed writer, is struggling fin...