艾斯米拉达（玛琳·奥哈拉 Maureen O'Hara 饰）是一位善良而又迷人的吉普赛女郎，巴黎圣母院的神父克洛德（托马斯·米切尔 Thomas Mitchell 饰）在内心里被她迷得神魂颠倒。卡西莫多（查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰）是教堂的撞钟人，他天生生得一副丑陋异常的容貌，没有人愿意多看他一眼。
神父指使卡西莫多将艾斯米拉达绑架至圣母院，计划却被上尉菲比斯（艾伦·马歇尔 Alan Marshal 饰）扰乱。菲比斯救了艾斯米拉达，得到了她的芳心，可是之后菲比斯遇袭，艾斯米拉达却站到了被告人的席位之上。按照法律艾斯米拉达即将被判处绞刑，然而却是卡西莫多救了她。前者将她藏到了圣母院中，渐渐的，艾斯米拉达在卡西莫多丑陋的外表之下看到了一颗真挚而又善良的心。
During a hot summer in Quebec’s countryside, a recently settled couple struggles. Marie (35), a sound artist in lack of inspiration doubts her relationship with her partner. The arrival of Noée (25), a young French traveler who mourns her father, will destabilise the status quo and trouble their neighbour Yan (30), a solitary farmer, by awakening new desires. In Montreal, Eva (15), a teenage Filipina who recently moved to Canada, tries to find new roots in the city. Since her arrival, she suffers from insomnia, often interrupted by strange dreams of her hometown in the Philippines. Jeanne (25) is having trouble finishing her thesis on the work of Marie, the artist in the countryside. As Eva tries to anchor herself, Jeanne plans to leave everything. The Splendour of Life is a sensual film that explores how we relate to each other in a changing world that transcends us - an invitation to live to the fullest.
In this episodic dramatic comedy Francella plays a whopping 16 different characters which “will confront conflicts reflecting the invisible pressure under which we live in a modern-day megalopolis,” said Cohn and Duprat. “The film presents a panorama of our ‘national being’ in a scathing and sarcastic but at the same time reflexive tone. Argentina is a country of immigrants, whose character is a sum of different origins and nationalities: Millions of Europeans came and mixed with Native Argentinians, creating a powerful and singular idiosyncrasy,” they added.
river’s Ed centers on a group of teens who steal their school’s driver’s ed car to go on a road trip to help a high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.
