The party organized to celebrate her seventieth birthday gives Aurore, a widow, the opportunity to gather the whole family: the first son Jean-Pierre, the writer primigravida Juliette, who is working on the book which gives the name to the film and collection of stories it is based on, the rebellious photographer Margaux, and Mathieux. Their lives are all at a turning point due to the choices one of them has made.
Je voudrais que quelqu’un m’attende quelque is a group film following the crucial stages of the life of the four protagonists, which are the same as in everybody’s lives.
Loyal to Gavalda’s book, the story Viard
tells through images is crossed by a recurring dualism: birth/death, first/last, and beginning/end.

Franco Rampazzo is a businessman in the building sector who decides, together with his loyal surveyor Gianni Colombo, to invest in the business of old age. In particular, they want to turn huge, abandoned hotels into
luxury nursing homes for rich pensioners coming
from all over the world. It is a true
‘paradise without god’ and death, a business unexpectedly attracting richer and more powerful men who had no qualms about trampling on small entrepreneurs and their projects.
It is a harsh and painful story taking inspiration from the novel with the same title
by Romolo Bugaro and it deals with the progressive aging of the population in Western countries and the collapse in the building sector, which is going to kickstart the ensuing and inevitable precipitation of the event, exactly like in a game of dominos.

The biography of Guido Crepax, a well-known Italian comics artist who reached success in the 1960s and died in 2003, could have begun from the artistic life of his father, who was principal cellist at the Scala Theatre, or from his success as a graphic designer, which earned him the Palme d’Or for advertising. Cercando Valentina, on the contrary,
presents him through his best known character, Valentina, who was initially given only a secondary role to then become, in the years that followed, a true icon
of mystery, seduction, imagination
and eroticism. She reminded of Louise Brooks, only sketched through captivating details, by breaking down the drawing and focusing on a detail which then becomes revealing of a state of mind. By observing his creature (Valentina), it becomes
possible to unveil dreams and obsessions of Crepax, her ‘creator’.