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Screen adaptation of the play Marivo. Sylvia, incapable of loving affairs, should, according to her father’s plan, marry at all costs. It is for this purpose that Father invites Dorant to spend a relaxing weekend in Switzerland. To find out his true nature, Sylvia decides to change into a maid's costume. Dorant, also in doubt about the future bride, comes up with a similar plan! Gentlemen become servants, servants become gentlemen ...
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Alex, a quiet forty-something, leads an ordinary life until new neighbours move in. The husband is Alex’s perfect lookalike… except for one thing: he has hair. Alex sinks into a growing paranoia as he becomes preoccupied with this more charismatic, brilliant and accomplished mysterious double.

Baptiste, a talented imitator, is unable to make a living from his art. One day, he is approached by Pierre Chozène, a famous but discreet novelist, constantly disturbed by incessant calls from his publisher, his daughter, his ex-wife... Pierre, who needs peace and quiet to write his most ambitious text, then suggests that Baptiste become his 'answering machine' by pretending to be him on the phone... Little by little, Baptiste doesn't just imitate the writer: he develops his character!